A quiet life

Life at Dove Cottage has been rather quiet lately. If during lockdown back in Spring, my creative juices were flowing and a surge of energy got me ticking off things on my to-do list one after the other, this gradually dwindled over Summer, until they both came to a grinding halt by late August. My batteries recharged after our week away, I had great expectations, but alas, the energy I'd saved up was soon consumed by the worries and uncertainties created by an alarmingly increasing infection rate. Back to square one, it seems. It doesn't really help that the weather hasn't been on its best behaviour either, with wet and windy days adding to the general doom and...