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

[nineveh_uk]

My local park also has fields underwater. We could really do with a couple of dry, and not frozen weeks!

Enjoy the new sofa, having a good one really makes a difference.

[sir_guinglain]

My mum's vaccination has led to delirium and unsteadiness on her feet, and insomnia; she's not slept in over 36 hours. I hope your dad doesn't suffer the same.

[mountainkiss]

I'm pretty sure you don't need to wait eighteen years before a new sofa ceases to be wanton extravagance.

[sfred]

Happy new sofa!

[mountainkiss]

I've seen snowdrops and crocuses on my walks in the last week.

[callmemadam]

My sofa is Victorian!

[cmcmck]

The Severn has stayed within bounds so far this time.

[antisoppist]

I bought a new sofa last spring because I was finally able to afford one of my own not the one a friend gave me that he refurbished from a skip. The latter was a lovely 1950s refurbishment project but it is small with wooden arms so now I have two sofas and one of them you can lie down on and is a cheering turquoise colour. It has been a great comfort this year.

[girlyswot]

My Facebook memories post this morning was of my new sofa arriving this time last year! My previous one lasted only 9 years. Part of the problem is that there isn't really any alternative comfortable seating here, and for a lot of that time I was also working from home, so it really does get a lot of use. I hope your new sofa lasts a long time and makes you as happy as mine still does!

[mrs_redboots]

We rather urgently need both new beds and new sofas - the last sofas we bought have not proved a good investment, although they are comfortable, but the seat cushions have gone funny. However, I expect they could be replaced if we knew where to go to get quotes. I had been going to buy new beds last summer, but it didn't happen. Maybe after lockdown?

Meanwhile, I hope the vaccination has gone well. My mother felt wiped out the day after she had hers, and I felt both sick and wiped out the day after I had mine - and my arm was sore for a week - but my husband only had a sore arm for a day or so and felt slightly "off" the evening of his vaccination. No other side-effects. There are times I hate him!