Weird joy!

I feel as if I've had a lovely month but when I look back over January it looks a pretty awful thirty one days.   It started with a disgusting cold, meandered through problems with electricity. broadband, heating, and drains, veered off to the garden for a fallen fence then rapidly back indoors for a dead freezer and finished with a bruised face, the result of being attacked by the kitchen clock.  As I write all that it sounds like a catalogue of disasters.  I deserve sympathy.

But thank you very much, I don't need sympathy.  There has been so much joy!

The first snowdrops, primroses, and daffodils.  Wonderful soups and stews.  The kindness of someone saving a nearly new rollator for me.  Meals and coffees out with friends.  Joyful worship.  Trying a new craft (glass etching).  Great service from my landlord.  A ninetieth birthday party.

And through everything the kindness and support of others.  Truly I feel I can look back over a wonderful month.