The beast is back! in The View from the Terrace

After a week of spring like weather we are back to winter. The overnight snowfall was as heavy as that of earlier this month, though the consistency is different, and it does seem to be already melting a little. I don’t think, though, that we will be going to our accoustic club in Abergavenny this evening. Low temperatures are forcast and we may not be able to get the car back up the lane. I daren’t risk having to walk up if it is icy, I have enough health problems without adding a broken bone to the list! Our cats are both curled up inside, although our neighbour’s black one was out enjoying the snow.

There are lots of birds at the feeders. Among the usual tits, sparrows and robins today I spotted a pied wagtail.

I have been having a bad time with the migraines lately, nearly every day for just over a week. Tony has suggested I try CBD oil. He says that a friend of his used it for a few weeks and was able to give up all of his other meds for Crohns Disease. I have been reading a book by a man called John Sarno whose theory is that chronic pain is often cause by repressed emotion, mainly rage. Someone told me about this book and when I read the reviews there were people who said they had improved or even got better just by reading it! It seemed worth a try and I do think there is a lot of rage in me from childhood when my mother always tried to make me fulfill her dreams rather than my own, and then I married a man who can’t cope with emotion because of his Aspergers and who can’t understand I have different needs from him. Reading the book doesn’t seem to have helped the migraines, though and, anway, I don’t think these emotions were repressed because I was aware of them, although reading this has brought it more to the surface.

Mother’s Day, last Sunday was nice. Tony bought me a pretty rose for the garden and a box of truffles, Chris arrived with a pot plant, an anthurium and a big box of chocolates and Cat sent a lovely bunch of flowers including some yellow roses which she knows are my favourites. They arrived in a cardboard box which Suki has claimed as her new home.

Hubby even bought a lovely chocolate cake for tea. I will have to be careful with all of those treats. I am making the chocolates last, just one or two a day.

I actually got out into the garden earlier this week. I made a start on the rose pruning and made Hubby clear the mess he made by the fence at the bottom. He actually planted a privet hedge there many years ago made from cuttings he brought from his mother’s garden, the house he grew up in. Wouldn’t you think that might be rather special to him? but he just started throwing garden rubbish over the hedge to the railway embankment and a lot of it fell on this hedge and ruined it. I was sick of looking at a pile of rotting down rubbish at the bottom of our garden so I made him clear it and a little bit of that hedge is still alive. He says he is going to nurture it back to health. I will keep you posted on that one! There is a big gap where Storm Eleanor brought down a tree and I hope to plant a cherry blossom there soon if only the weather will let me.

It was lovely to have that bit of spring. The crocuses are out, well they were, and the daffodils were just beginning to stand up after the last snow and begin to bloom. Now they will all be lying down again. I hope spring returns again soon.