Yet Another Frost

Where The Hell Is Spring ?

    Again we wake to another frost here in the fens, fourth morning in the last five that the garden is covered in those tiny ice buds, not the weather I would expect for Spring. At least the veg garden is covered and protected so touch wood everything will be ok there and the garden birds seem to happy at the small amount of sun we are getting, the finches are busy feeding and what seems like every dove in Upwell is using this place for courting, at least they think it's spring.
   Is it me or does it seem quiet this last week or two, do you ever get spells when you think your the only person around, if I didn't know better I'd think I'd upset everybody or maybe I have ! One week you get lots of emails from friends, bead orders come in at a steady rate and everything feels ok, then it all stops and you wonder why, those friends are all too busy to chat, the bead sales slow down to a crawl and even spring can't be bothered to cheer you up with some nice warm weather, oh well I guess life is like that sometimes.
   Yet more ceramics to sort later today and lots more to list also, I have been asked if I'll be listing more orphan sets of ceramic beads and so some will be listed this evening, also I want to get a good amount of pendants made this week ready to do my first pit firing in my new pit in the garden, this perfect round hole sits there waiting to be used yet I haven't got enough hours to make everything at once, so now I have a good amount of glazed items to list I'll be working on the pit items.
   I'm really hoping the weather warms up soon as I have it in my head that I'll take two days off to sit throwing pots at my wheel in the garden, after watching the weather forecast I'm guessing it won't be for a week or two yet tho.
   Today I'm making focal beads on my torch, I need some to list on ebay, it means I get a few hours letting my flame go mad and that means one happy old bead maker, if only people knew how much pleasure a flame and some glass can produce.
   I felt really sorry for all those children returning to school this morning, I remember too well that feeling we all got waking up on the first day back after the holidays, some of the faces of those walking past our cottage this morning were far from happy but I'm sure they will soon get back into the hang of things, I know a friend of mine who teaches wasn't looking forward to today but I'm sure she will be enjoying seeing all those little angels already, that's one job I don't think I could handle, it takes a special kind of person to put up with some of the children they face each day.
   Well time I got back to my torch and I need to unload the ceramic kiln also ready to list more beads later tonight, enjoy your day.