Star-spangled Monday

Woke up at 5:30 to a spangly migraine, luckily I fell back to sleep and eventually got out of bed at nine thirty-ish. A not too busy day. I looked at the proofs of the little Snow pamphlet by Palo and I, sent by Mark at Hedgehog press, and made a few tweaks to punctuation in one of the poems. He's done a lovely job, and it looks beautiful. Palo's pictures are lovely too. 

The wordle answer today was Sally, and we had a new neighbour called Sally call around for coffee with Lorriane this morning. She seemed nice, and she and Lorraine chatted lots. After a delicious soup, made with a kenny farm celeriac Lorraine got to work in the garden, emoving a stubborn root where we want our wildlife pond to be.

Lorraine and I also mooched about in my study, slowly gaining control of my new space. Loving it. Seem to be doing everything at half speed though, possibly because of the migraine this morning. Spoke to Anton today, who had a week off to decompress and then has had to plunge back into running loads of events. Exhausting. I don't know when we'll see each other. 

Spoke to Mum. Her pal Jana left today to fly back to Czechia having kindly flown over to spend time with her.  They'd gone on a huge walk this morning. Mum did well -- but was tired afterwards. Toby called this evening. He and the Romster doing okay despite lots being in mid air... Between countries, apartments, jobs and so on.