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It is so grey at the moment. Does the sun even exist anymore? 😫 Still, the crap weather means we can legitimately stay in at the weekend, watch films and read books and generally loaf about. That’s what I’m going to do anyway. . Also, the little olive tree on our deck has loads of olives on it, and we’ve just loaded up our feeders with sunflower hearts and fatballs, and are getting robins, blue tits, great tits, coal tits and chaffinches, as well as the blackbirds, dunnocks and pigeons that eat the ground feed. . We’ve got daffodils and crocuses not far off emerging, and the rose bush in our front garden is already budding. 🌹 . The sky isn’t blue, but we shouldn’t be either. 🤗

Bitter Orange by @writerclairefuller 🍊 . This book is so creepy. It is beautiful and mesmerising, and then this undercurrent of insidious, sinister wrongness slowly settles over you while you’re reading. . It is so atmospheric - I was in the midst of a hazy summer, sometimes glorious, sometimes claustrophobic. It is about grief, loneliness, toxic relationships and how things are not always as they seem: beauty is often a mask, distracting you from what’s underneath. Oh, and it was so sad! 😭 . Clever, compelling and creepy. A brilliant book. 📖♥️

I have had a spectacularly lazy Sunday reading, watching old Sherlock Holmes - and finishing series 2 of Sex Education, which is BEYOND brilliant and I’m gutted it’s over - and eating cake. 🍰 . My current read is Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller. I loved Swimming Lessons, and this equally good but very different - so beautifully written and intriguing, and paints a picture of a dizzily hot, lazy summer so well that I forgot it was frosty enough outside for me to go skidding on the deck when I went outside. 🥶 . What have you been reading this Sunday? 📖

Oh the joy of January sunshine and finding a happy patch of snowdrops on the verge in Walsingham. 🌱 . We tried to go for a walk at Titchwell Nature Reserve but it was soooooo cold. 🥶 . My thumbs had gone numb within about five minutes, and the bright sunshine was basically laughing at us because it had no heat at all. It was beautiful though. 🌞

Page proofs for The Cornish Cream Tea Summer landed yesterday, so that’s what I will be spending my day doing. What are you doing while you count down to the weekend?

It is properly miserable in Norwich today, grey and cold and spitting with rain - a coffee with cream in sort of day. ☕️ . I just got overexcited because I looked out of the living room window and thought I could see a frog hopping about in a puddle at the edge of the road. I put my shoes on and rushed outside, and it was a leaf. 😒 . I am going to hide from the weather and my stupidity inside a book. 📖

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