Pinpricks of brightness (38/365)

[white_hart]

It may be close to freezing with a bitter east wind making it feel much colder, but as I was sitting in my car waiting for my friend to go swimming today I spotted that the daffodils are up along the edge of the (currently flooded) park.



Also, my dad has now had his first vaccination, which is good news, though somehow I don't feel the huge surge of relief a lot of people have described feeling as their vulnerable people were vaccinated. Maybe because it's not COVID that is really curtailing his life, it's his general health? But it's still good news. My mother hasn't been vaccinated yet as she's not 70 until May.

And tomorrow our new sofa is arriving, as after about two years of saying "we really should get a new sofa" we finally gave in and ordered one. (Our old sofa is 18 years old, and has partly collapsed at one end; for the last couple of years we've been sitting in the even-older armchairs that we were given secondhand when we moved in together in 1999 but the armrests of both are now pretty much destroyed and have nails sticking out of them, so a new sofa really isn't just wanton extravagance.)

Comments

[caulkhead]

No! I put a throw over the old one (we have in fact had two) when it got really badly faded, which subsequently moved on to the 'new ' one, maybe that's sufficient?

[mountainkiss]

That would do it.

[perennialanna]

I can't picture either of your sofas at all. Perhaps you accidentally chose the ones with a chameleon circuit (not guaranteed against turmeric stains).