A hair's breadth......

That's sometimes the difference between success and failure, win and lose, love and hate, life and death, disaster and mundane......the list could go on.

Today I think I realised how close disaster was to me last night.

I'm not a dramatic person but I have spent quite some time today counting my blessings after last night's events. IF I'd gone out.....IF I'd been asleep....IF I hadn't put that log on the fire.....IF the passers by hadn't stopped to tell me......

My house is over 130 years old and made of wood - tinder dry wood. It doesn't bear thinking about what could have happened had things been just a little different.

So today was spent in a bit of a daze (could be because of the lack of sleep I had last night!) and some time outside beginning my mammoth spring-time assault on the garden. It felt good to be out in the sunshine.

Yes, today was indeed a good day....