Mellow Yellow

It feels much more like Autumn today than it did yesterday. The air is fresh and the weight of summer is distant. The fields on the mountainside are slowly changing in colour from lush green to pale yellow, the sky is blue and vibrant and October is fast approaching. I love this time of year; the calm before the storm with party season on the horizon. 98 days until Christmas and the countdown begins, bringing Halloween, Bonfire night and Harvest.

Thursday brought me a smile. I awoke refreshed and bouncy. My mind is much more clear today and the week's events are far behind me. I have had an urge to flee this valley all day and feel a road trip coming. Wednesday, I was invited to join a camera club. I love this idea. Finally, I have an 'excuse' to take pictures and with the colours in my surroundings, there could not be a better time to throw myself back into photography. It was Wayne's idea. Wayne is someone who has lived two streets away from me all of my life, but we did not get talking until I made a group on Facebook dedicated to the place that we live. He suggested that we have a weekly theme to base our photographs, and he will pass on all the information that he picks up from the photography course which he is attending. I am very excited and hope this is not a white elephant.

Kiss and the kittens are doing well. They are still cuddled up in MrT's dressing gown, no further than a foot away from me, wrapped in the warmth of their mother's fur. Occasionally, they squirm around and roll onto their backs. Still so weak and floppy, it is amusing seeing them wriggle back onto their bellies and swim through the fabric back towards the smell of milk. They are no bigger than an adult mouse and I could probably hold them all in one hand at once.

I visited my old comprehensive school again today to pick Zed up from play scheme. It still feels like home, even after ten years, and it is hard to believe that, come September, Zed will be attending that school. It has not changed. I felt like running through those corridors and dancing on the wooden benches like a school-girl. I miss those carefree days so much.

Well, I had better get started on that magazine article. Just 6 days lift until submission deadline and I still have not made a start.

Wish me luck.

Bye x

X-ray vision?

Today has been much better. I slept all night, slept all day and slept some more. It is now 2am and I am wide awake. My body clock is berserk right now.

I realised today that the article has to be submitted in less than one week, and still, I cannot even think of a title, let alone of completing it on time. I can always submit next month, but I am worried that if I postpone it again this time, I will postpone it forever. My heart is not in this at all. Maybe tomorrow...?

All day, I have had a 'Thursday' feeling, and when you think the weekend starts tomorrow, it is quite disheartening to discover it is not, and you have to re-live Thursday once again. I have no plans this weekend. I have no money to go anywhere or do anything interesting. After the two past great weekends, this one is really going to drag.

I have been reading other people's Blogs today. I wish I was interesting enough to write like those. I wish I could post photographs of discoveries on my wild adventures and have thousand of readers leaving comments. My favourite of the blogs that I read today was of a 'Bearded Man' who discovered he had a very rare eye condition which made his eyesight extraordinarily sharp. Why can't I have X-ray vision? Maybe then I could deliver something better than a Blog of how I slept all day...

Oh well. This is all I have for now. Will hopefully have more exciting news for you next time.

Until then, Hwyl! o/