A Few Different Revellings to Mend Spirits

 A friend on Instagram talked yesterday about daily revelling about good things. These are mine... 

This morning...a Hummingbird Hawkmoth...they are such a rare sight here. There was much excitement.

We have only seen them once before, when a pair visited our old garden on a late Summer evening in July 12 years ago. Below is the only shot we were happy with back then.

Yesterday, there were two Painted Lady butterflies visiting the same plants...Red and White Valerian. They came with the Dogwood, (which they are hiding), a gift from our dear friend Alpi, who was the founder of the Eco Shop in Cardigan

where we used to volunteer. He had set up the shop to pay for his passion...a community forest garden. He left a huge hole when he died in January 2020, but his legacy lives on, with both shop and garden flourishing, run by dedicated volunteers. 

He would have loved these visitors to his plants in our garden, and to us, it is him saying 'hi'.

On Tuesday, I had a tooth repaired, and was delighted, and so relieved when the amalgam was finally  replaced by a composite filling. It has been a bit of a saga since 2018, and I had nine months of mercury poisoning causing numness in toes and fingertips, muscle weakness and acute pain with every movement. 

I have started drinking Eidral (Ground Ivy) tea again, to help remove the heavy metal from my system...and my mind! It was weighing heavily there, and I feel so much lighter since Tuesday.

Yesterday, My Man and I went on a mini road trip, up the coast to Aberystwyth. We sat gazing out to sea, and he said he felt that every 'shhhh' of the waves was stitching him back together. YES.

We were so very moved, (me to tears), by the Knife Angel sculpture, which is visiting Aberystwyth, and were so glad that it coincided with our visit.