<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/white-beddingmar17.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4305" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/white-beddingmar17-200x150.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>I think my natural state is melancholy but it's difficult to remain down when the sun is shining. On a Sunday without anything in the diary (and I do like to keep a full diary) what does one do. I couldn't avoid my domestic duties so I changed the bedding with some new white bedclothes. Jane loved colour but I like plain white so it's now my bed and white it is.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Lotus-cleanmar17.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4306" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Lotus-cleanmar17-200x150.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>I took the Lotus out for a spin (not literally) and called in on a U3A friend who hasn't been too well. Then off across the Wolds, zipping along with the sun blazing down but still a nip in the air.

After lunch I blew the cobwebs off my bike to see if I could still make the ten mile circuit that Jane and I used to do <a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/looking-up-the-drivemar17.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4303" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/looking-up-the-drivemar17-200x150.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>within an hour. Considering I haven't been out on it for over 5 months I was pleased with my performance although my legs were like jelly until I'd made a cup of Earl Grey, sat outside the front door and contemplated. I can only avoid thinking about "stuff" for so long but eventually I have to. Is contemplation good for the soul? I don't know.

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The Almond blossom is out and the tree that we planted together is doing really well.

And to round off the day I've invited the neighbours round for dinner. I enjoy days like these...