Springing back to life

As the weather warms, buds pop, and leaves unfurl, so too does my mood.

On the hob - work in progress

Same as last month! Although, this Thursday I’ll be doing a workshop on ‘Writing Bad Guys’, so if you fancy it, come along to the Number One Writing Group at Rochdale Library and get your villain on!

Learning, always learning - CPD

Not much last month - to be honest, March passed in a blur. I’ve relearned KDENLIVE to never use it again after struggling to put a podcast together for my YouTube channel. (Oh yes, I’m back, see it here and ignore the weird slot where a frame should be that KDENLIVE randomly decided to NOT render. Grr.)

I’ve entered a couple of writing competitions because it’s been an age since I did this and I’m trying to get stuff out there again.

Filling the well - replenishing creativity

At the beginning of March, after a tumultuous, and scary, beginning of the year, my friend Gina treated us both to a spa day in Chester which was lovely. I’m not great at relaxing and resting but I’m trying to learn to be!

The River Dee and a comorant.

I went to see Pixies with the aforementioned ace friend Gina in mid-March. Sitting down at a gig is a thing now for this gently ageing rock chick!

Pixies at Manchester’s Albert Hall, they finished with Monkey Gone to Heaven which made me very happy.

I saw my friend Cazz a couple of times in March - we’ve been friends for longer than we care to remember (about 33 years). And we had ridiculous cocktails as well as a catch up.

Ostentatious cocktails at The Alchemist. The one on the right is called “French Kiss” and it was ridiculous, but very tasty.

It’s also been a month, now that I’m part-time, of making soup and delicious, nutritious meals from scratch.

And I think that’s it for this month’s update except that I’ll end with a photo I took while out at RSPB St Aidan’s yesterday - a squabble of birds but still a tranquil day out.

Permissive Footpath across the scrapes, reedbeds, and wetlands of RSPB St Aidan’s.