Better days are coming.

It’s not just because the warmer weather is making the plants and bulbs start to bloom that everything’s looking rosier, is it? The prospect of lock-down easing is on the horizon and with that the return of some normality to our lives at last. Pondering on the opposite of “lock down” my mind went through a whole series of possibilities ; “lock-up” certainly doesn’t work; “unlock” might do, and then of course, there’s “release”. But whatever we decide to call it, it’s coming and we still have to be patient…easier for some than others, I know. We can start to think and plan for the heady days of meeting friends and family again. Food is always high on my agenda and, crazily you might think, we have a turkey in the freezer which wasn’t needed at Christmas. The lighter, longer days mean that travelling isn’t quite so arduous and give us more daylight hours to just be together and enjoy a meal. So it won’t be Christmas dinner, but with gifts still to be exchanged, this year Easter will be a multi-purpose celebration!