To recap – my blog isn’t always about conventionally beautiful things, more about things each day which have made me smile, made me happy, turned on the endorphins for whatever reason.
My first picture today, of the recycling  bins at the Eco Park where my choir meets every week, is one such thing. As I was taking the photo, another choir member asked, “Why, on earth, are you taking a photo of the bins?”  I was taking the photo because of the differently shaped holes for depositing the material to be recycled. It reminded me of the wooden box made for me by my Grandpa in 1946 into which I sorted wooden shapes. Our own children all played with it and in 2018 we took it to Barcelona for our Grandbaby twins, LiveWires 5 and 6, to play with. So, the most prosaic of things can stir a happy memory!

LiveWires playing with the sorting box

I saw the perfect cookbook, Recipes for Rogues, for our outdoorsy son-out-law a few weeks ago and ordered it for him. It arrived today and I am so delighted with it, I can’t wait for him to have it for his birthday so will be posting it on very soon.