PROGRESS.

Yesterday my walk was slow and painful but the sun was shining and the sky was blue, which always does me good.

I love the contrast of last year's faded papery hydrangea flowers next to the new purple shoots.

This morning I saw the doctor and he changed my pain medication. The list of side effects is among the worst I've seen so far - I'm praying that I don't get any of them. This afternoon after only one tablet my walk was less painful. 

Yesterday as I was photographing moss on a corrugated roof a man came quite close behind me and said he was wondering what I was photographing. He said he could see on my camera screen that the moss looked like a landscape. The moss photos I took yesterday had sun flares and blotches on so I tried to get some better ones today - much easier as it was quite cloudy.

My Winter book has a proper cover now - a fluffy white knitted outside and paper-laminated organza inside front and back, with snowdrops on, tinted with gels pens and water-colour pencils.

There's a 15 minute demonstration of the paper lamination technique here by Claire Benn from Committed to Cloth if you'd like to know more about it.

Thank you very much for joining me.