My blog ain't real - apparently.

I read yesterday on Twitter that a 'real' blogger needs to blog at least once a week, otherwise it is not a blog.  Oh dear.  The fact that I only blog once a month - if that - and hardly ever make that weekly target probably means that this applies to me.  Okay, I'll admit it.  I'm pretty darn useless at it.   The fact that I also talk about the weather in most of my blogs is another matter to consider.  Note to self: -  must try harder.

The truth is - blogging is hard work.  But then so is writing.  It's like pulling teeth at times - and especially at the moment.  I'm some 30,000 words into my second novel - A Baby for the Barrister - and it's not flowing well, believe me. I'm filling in the gaps - trying to expand my story - and it's hurting my brain.

But that aside, as I sit and write this on the 29 March 2016 it's snowing.  Yes, snowing. The problem is that, later today, DH and eldest son need to travel over to the airport  to collect my son's girlfriend who's been visiting her family in Lithuania.  News filtering through from the Baltic States is that it's been unseasonably warm over there this Easter.  So warm - in fact - that on Easter Sunday they had a barbecue!  My youngest son also works in Manchester so with all this going on this morning, I start to worry if he has got to work safely.  Just had a text back - what snow?  Maybe it was just our little pocket of Lancashire that got it.

I shouldn't be surprised at waking up to a white-over scene, as a freezing cold Easter used to be the norm when I was a young girl.  Many a time we would skip off to the Easter funfair dressed in our thermals.  We didn't stay long as I recall.  And the price of the rides probably had something to do with it too.

But this snow won't last for ever - will it?  And Spring is in the air for definite.  When out on a walk last week I took the photograph of this beautiful bud  that was about to burst forth into the world.


The other snap below was taken last year on the 18 April - so a few weeks further on - but what a fantastic sight it was in our garden.

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter.

Until next time.

Kim xx