staying in

Huge resistance to writing the blog today, self discipline's not my strong point and I'd rather curl up downstairs with a book or a little snooze. Either way I'm most grateful that I no longer have to walk to my Thursday job as the intermittent hail storms today are violent, electrical and cold.    Poor Jester hates them and insists on occupying the tiny space between kitchen and bathroom where it's dark and we fall over him. Bless him - I'm grateful for his company, he's a nutter but he has a Leo Moon so he's a lovin' boy and gets away with  far too much. He hasn't had much in the way of walks over the last week or two - his usual morning haunts along the sea front are still inaccessible to pedestrians owing to large pieces of the sea wall and path having collapsed and the green where he usually has a game of ball being more or less part of the beach for the moment.  We haven't minded much; Jester and I are happy enough to wait for something a bit less alarming.
    Having said all that, I'm grateful more than I can say to the Beloved, who has manfully gone off to work whenever it's been calm enough to stand upright.  In fact, thankyou to everyone who has struggled through the storms to keep life ticking over almost as normal.
  There have been one or two other moments of gladness from the past 24 hours.  The night sky when I went out just before bedtime last night, Jupiter blazing away up there right above the rooftops with Gemini clear as crystal and the almost Full Moon lighting up the night; Finding that the bunch of
 hazel catkins I brought from the allotment over a month ago when the hazel we have planted there had it's first little coppicing, has taken root in the jug and is opening perfect new leaves  ~ new baby hazels!  Bread, fresh from the oven ~  filling the house with warmth and smelling so nice; Clean sheets on the bed, roasties later, I'm so grateful for roasties...maybe tomorrow I'll come up with something more worthy but for today, the middle of February, roasties will do fine...