The month started with a celebration of my Mum’s 75th birthday - 3 generations enjoying a 3 layer chocolate brownie cake (made by Dad). Giving a total of 368 years or an average of 46.
Swans featured strongly. The highest number I reached on my daily count while walking along the river was 71. (No need to start booking me up for a counsellor – I promise this is the only thing I count daily!!) Non mating swans congregate in spring and summer and my local river is one of their congregation points.
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Also enjoyed seeing 15 men dance as swans in the Mathew Bourne version of Swan Lake – totally fabulous, fully of energy and recognisably swan like.
Went to 3 events in the Science Festival for a total of 9 hours. At one event I made 4 items using 4 different techniques.
Crocheted 1 sausage dog (Fran) using 14 different colours – one advantage of making a multi coloured animal is that all the wool ends from the colour change are inside and so do not have to be individually sewn in. Also crocheted a pink blanket segment for a charity blanket.
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Enjoyed the doubling of temperature 7C on 1st (45 F) and 18C (64 F) on 2nd last. Not so keen on the seemingly endless days of fog (didn’t keep a count – too busy counting swans!).
Saw the blooming of the 4th wave of spring bulbs in my garden (grape hyacinths – in the picture) and the start of the 5th – bluebells.
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Picked, cooked and ate 1 cauliflower from my garden
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Read 6 books on my kindle including an anthology of apocalypse short stories which I read in between the other books by Terry Pratchett, J K Rowling (being Robert Galbraith), Uyen Duong, David Crossland, and Chris Beckett.
Took 362 photos.
Joining Julie and our fellow Counts in a Month in Numbers.