Looking On The Bright Side ....

[naomi24]

... the sun is shining, the trees and hedges are green, the flowers are in bloom, and the butterflies and birds are doing what butterflies and birds do best. Imagine how gloomy lockdown through the winter months would have been. Yep! All in all it's not as bad as it could have been. :o)

[iluvmargie]

Oh I don't know naomi, it would have been nice and cosy inside with the fire on and something nice cooking on the stove while the elements raged outside, but then again I am an autumn/winter type of gal! My friends think I'm mad.

[Mamyalynne]

Certainly isn't all bad - terrible for some I appreciate.

Nature is thriving, just been watching the ducks dabbling on the water and was lovely to hear an ice cream van across the way sprinkling some bright tune or other.

[bookbinder]

Things can only get better.

[iluvmargie]

Waiting for the cygnets to be born here. Mum swan has been on the nest for many weeks now and they still haven't come, hope they're ok. She had nine last year.

[naomi24]

Margie, I like cosy nights by the fire too - but I think we're lucky to have escaped months of days stuck indoors with the rain pelting against the windows and gales howling around the house.

Mamyalynne, Oh the merry tinkling of an ice cream van. Lovely!

[naomi24]

Margie, our cygnets were born last week. Beautiful - even if they are 'ugly duckings'. :o)

[bookbinder]

C'mon, folks, sing along!

[retrocop]

Hear Hear.We at least can laze in the Sun.Still get some wine if it is your want.Laugh yourf self silly at the inane drivel being posted by the three amigos and sleep safely at night in clean air with out fear of an air raid siren sending you down the Morrison or Anderson. Food aint rationed and although no theatres some people have the nous and tech to make their own entertainment. Life is not that bad if your careful. :-)

[Arksided]

Feel pity for vampires, it's too bloomin' hot and it burns my skin... I did make it back from the shop with double barreled Jaffa cakes for a quid. Result! Everything else was essential.... honest.

It is good to see folk enjoyng themselves in their gardens, I was even stopped briefly and asked how I were, a lovely lady who knows I live alone... and invited anytime if I want to chat, before any ideas she was in her garden with her children enjoying a paddling pool... before the impending hosepipe ban looming no doubt.

[Buenchico]

Hang on a minute though! I reckon that you've got it the wrong way round, Naomi!

If it's cold wet and horrid outside, I'll have no great desire to go out anywhere anyway, so 'lockdown' will make no difference to me at all. If it's a beautiful sunny day, and I can't go out anywhere, then lockdown's going to drive me round the twist!

(Yes, I admit it. Despite being in the 'sheltered' group, who's not meant to leave home for anything at all, I gave in and joined the crowds on Clacton seafront on Monday. It was just too nice a day to stay in!)

[retrocop]

Oh no.We don't need a hosepipe ban please.There has been too much drippig recently.Another precious commodity we mustn't waste. :-)

[Bobbisox1]

Absolutely Naomi, how awful it would of been with rain etc

[naomi24]

Good for you, Chris. I would love to walk by the sea - and I shall before much longer. :o)

[iluvmargie]

It's strange isn't it how cygnets are called 'ugly ducklings', I think they are quiet beautiful and I remember three of them last year riding along on their Mum's back and not seeing them at first, so that I thought they'd only had six and not nine! I'll go and have another look for them tomorrow.