Whats going on

Tulips snapped at Norfolk Lavender last year

The latest news from the Barrow Burrow in bullet point form because I feel too crap to write at length but want to post:

• Became a Great Auntie yesterday - an 8lb boy born to Lucy, my brother's daughter, and Ben, her partner.
• I didn't get shortlisted for the Pratchett Prize last week.  But I'm cool with that.  I'll write some more about why soon.
• Very bad weekend energy-wise, but I'm cool with that too.
• Pat is grumpy because Spurs just lost.
• Pat is also grumpy because he is trying to lose a stone in four weeks before the cricket season starts.
• Therefore we are on a low carb diet.  My tummy is much happier as a result.
• Ducklings on the pond out back, this year's first.
• Frogs in the pond out back, doing lots of 'cuddling'.
• Not so consistent with the mindfulness meditation so far, but what I am doing managing to do is really helping.
• Have declared April a Self Care Month.
• Am saving for a new laptop, and feeling like I am committing an act of extreme betrayal, because I love this one so much, knackered tho it is.
• My name is Rebecca and I am a chocolate addict.
• The garden is starting to look green again, and Pat mowed the lawn, despite the duck glowering at us from her nest under the hedge.
• My counsellor/guru thinks I should write erotic fiction.
• Toying with starting a new blog about my fixation with notebooks, journals, planners, filofaxes and  all kinds of stationary.  Trying to think of a funky name (leave your ideas in the comments section below!)

Happy April everybody!  Spring is here!