... when I arrive home from work, walk up the path, and see bees from our hive spiralling up and over the back gate as they disappear on another foraging adventure.
...when I stand awhile and watch as bees from our hive plunge from the skies back towards their hive, their little back legs shining with pollen bags like over-filled thimbles.
...when I head to the front door and pause a while at the lavender shrub I planted last year, in full bloom now and peppered with (this afternoon) seven bumblebees and a honey bee, bouncing and feasting and having a high old pollen-gathering time.
...when I open the front door, and three cats are sitting on the mat, awaiting my arrival. With a ball for me to throw.
...when I go into the back garden, and the beans and tomatoes have grown another inch since this morning, and the hops have grown another foot since this morning, and the apple tree has put up many baby apples this year, far more than last.
...when I see the hens sitting side by side on their roosting bar, eyes half closed, feathers loose and puffed towards the sun.
...when I open the pent-house suite and find three eggs waiting - one speckled, one brown and one a pearlescent white, and I know exactly which hen laid which.
...when I check the lettuce I planted only four days ago, and see little specks of green emerging like emerald dots in a brown earth sky.
...when I glance at the newly planted bulb border, with shoots already several inches high, and think forward to the time when gladioli and iris jostle their colours for position.
...when I settle down with a cup of tea and remember, with a smile, of the magical time this afternoon when the Headteacher marched into my Year 8 class with an important visitor, just at the point when one of the students responded to my question of 'So why do you think the character we've just read about behaved like that?' with 'Because he's pissed off and he's a twat.'
...when it's all quiet now, no TV, a new book (or two) by my side, and a whole evening of companiable R and R ahead of me, with my hubbie at my side.
May you have moments this week that you just love too!
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