It feels very much like we’re in a holding
pattern right now. It’s too cold to sow all but the most urgent of seeds (tomatoes,
sweet peas), too wet to weed and mulch the ground. Yet it’s a bit too, you
know, March to be sitting around in sweat pants and binge-watching The West
Wing (again).
Even our lazy cats are starting to recognise
that it’s March, meaning they get up from in front of the stove to venture
outside for 30 seconds and drag in an unsuspecting bird. (Homicide count from
yesterday: two robins. Attempted homicide count today: one robin, but it’s
still early.) Then they go back to sleep for the next five hours. Cats are
bastards, really. But then they do something hilarious like squeezing their giant
five-kilo bodies into something that’s clearly too small, and we point and
laugh and love them again.
So if this post feels a bit random, it’s a
good reflection of how the arse-end of winter feels to me. When the gardening
year gets into full swing, that’ll give me something obsessive to really get my
teeth into. But, until then, I’ll just impatiently ping from one random thought
to another. Is it spring? Let’s go to Sofia in the sunshine! Is it still
winter? Let’s go for a trek in the snow! How many hours of The West Wing is too
many? Fuck it, let’s WATCH IT ALL! Did I just hear a bird being murdered in the
bathroom? That sort of thing.
But if you’re worried that cabin fever is
setting in (as suggested by more than one commenter recently), fear not. This
winter has been a breeze compared to others. In fact, we’ve probably been out
and about more this winter than any other. We’ve been walking, swimming and
yoga-ing (is there a proper verb for yoga? There should be) all winter. So it’s
not been too hard on us.
A gloriously sunny and warm Sofia last Saturday. |
Walking up through our village. |
'Look at the snow in the distance!' we said. 'Glad it's gone from the village,' we said. Naturally, we got a fuck ton of snow the next week. |
Rocks. Blue sky. Just because. |
And when all else fails, I can always
obsess over cake…
This wonderful Nigella concoction is made up of layers of meringue, sponge cake, lemon curd and cream. It was as amazing as it looks. |