Home and home again

[layangabi]

Because I promised I would blog about black swans once we were settled:


There's an immense flock of them, about a hundred swans feeding everyday in the bay area. On a grey day, they look like capail uisce, something fey and very wild and not serene at all.

Briony and I spent a quiet morning in our new flat, after a weekend of entertaining family. My Mom had flown over for the weekend and we finally got to have her stay over and cook for her: roast chicken and vegetables, drunken pears with chocolate sauce. All of it Briony's doing (thank you dear heart). I think Mom adored it---adored the beach, adored the quiet, and the blue water just a five minute's walk away from our house. The neighborhood Briony and I live in is very different to the places we've chosen to stay it for most our adult lives.There are so many wild things outside: ibis and pelicans, egrets and seagulls diving for fish.

It's been a mad beginning to the year with the move. It feels good to have this.

Comments

[newredshoes]

Oh, that is lovely.

Always good to see you around, dear. ♥

[layangabi]

Esther! <3 Did I read Magpie and Whale correctly--that there will be more Imogen and a Half?

[newredshoes]

There is much more planned! Whether I can get my act together and produce it is another matter, but I keep giving myself little pushes. Someday -- I live in hope!