The evening light catching the Silver Birch on the pavement outside my lounge. There are a lot of these trees around me and they're looking delicately beautiful with their new leaves just unfurling.

I haven't done much today, I'm resting before tomorrow's walk and Sunday's climbing, so I've been to Tesco and... that's about it apart from cooking a batch of that old family favourite - mince, onions, carrots and peas. I added some lentils and sweetcorn and used chicken stock from the freezer and it'll feed three of us next weekend. 

I enjoyed a video chat with my daughter, who is a bit better than yesterday but still feeling slightly sick, and Josh who is now well enough to be asking for food. I didn't see Thomas, the 3 year old, as he was much better and with his grandad (Papa) two doors down.

My sister Nicky is thankfully feeling a little better today on her covid journey. I think it was her worst nightmare, but she's pulling through :-)

Today the news from the Ukraine is worse than ever, horrific, unimaginable... how and when can the monster that is Putin be stopped.