Amaryllis

I can't let the year go without a blip of our 40-something-year-old amaryllis. It came to our house with The Late M-I-L.

This morning we had a trip round town, a bit of shopping and some stuff dropped of at a charity shop.

This afternoon it was the village's Social Club talk. Today a lady brought slides of Orkney taken during the 35 years she lived there. I've never been to Orkney but I would love to visit the jewellers in Kirkwall that I used to buy from when I had the shop. I've put her craftwork and some memerobilia in Extras. The colours fitted so well with my amaryllis.

What puts me off this trip would be the rough crossing where the Atlantic Ocean meets the North Sea. I don't fancy flying and I'd want the car with me.