This is my farewell blog. I think I have been writing it, firstly, as Crumbs on the Aga and then Ditchling Daze, altogether for about ten years. But the gaps are getting longer and I find that I am becoming more and more repetitive as my life is largely a round of appointments at the Eye Hospital, visits to outpatients, going to the chiropodist, the dentist, the hearing aid place or driving other old folk from Dumbrells Court for the same sorts of things. Otherwise sitting on the sofa watching the squirrels. Well, that is not really true as I do go out every day. This morning it is my music group when I inexpertly play my cello with four other musicians, tomorrow is the choir and improv group in the evening, on Wednesdays I work in the Charity shop and Thursdays, it is the Nibbles and Scribbles writing group, and Quakering on Sundays, quite apart from seeing my lovely family from near and far.
I hope some of my followers may read daughter Josie`s blog, Plot Partners. She writes about her allotment and also her writing life and it is a good read.
I do love Tracey Emin`s Art Installation in St Pancras station. Big pink letters saying: I Want My Time With You. That is what we all want and need: time to be with friends and family, time to do interesting and creative things with other people.
( I much prefer it to her Unmade Bed.)
The following is something we sang at the Choir a few weeks ago, a sort of Goodbye Blessing:
May the long time sun shine upon you
May all love surround you
and the pure light within you
Guide your way on.