Glad Things #40

The fortieth week of gladness!

This week’s Glad Things have had a much later than usual beginning, as it’s already 9.15pm and I have no idea which particular Things are going to come out of my brain. I’ll (probably) keep it short and sweet because I’m already in my pyjamas, but it does feel like a bit of an achievement to find I’ve been keeping this up for forty whole weeks.

1.

Last Friday I met illustrator Lisa Hand for a coffee and it was lovely. Lisa spotted that I live in Lichfield through one of my Instagram posts and I’m so glad she suggested meeting up (I can lean towards burying myself in a paper-haystack).

2.

Percy is ONE. His birthday was on Saturday. He’s recently discovered snails and, like anything he’s picked up but suspects he should not have, he brings them to me, part-crunched, with a full-body wiggle of uncontainable glee. I love him. I wonder how I will love him when he’s old? Will I love him like I loved Glad, or will it be different?

Splendid / silly / snuggly Perce.

3.

We’ve had days of completely glorious sunshine and I can’t believe what a difference it makes. I even went about with bare legs on Tuesday afternoon. Bare legs and these lovely swan earrings I bought recently from Pooja Jeshang, because I can’t resist blue and white things (I think my mum’s love of Burleigh china is in my DNA) or indeed swans.

Somewhat windswept but sunny, on the way to my choir committee meeting.

It’s been a week bookended by new connections, as I had a first meet up with a few other local creatives today (all thanks to Bonnie who instigated the get together). And yesterday I bumped into a fellow Labrador-walker who told me he’d seen the photos I’d shared of my home (that post is still being flung out into the farther reaches of Instagram — a big hello if you have found your way here because of it!) and realised that I live in his grandmother’s old house! She was here before the studio had been added (it used to be the office for the garage down the lane) — it was lovely to hear she’d had a retriever too.

Goodnight from Percy and me,

Kate x