WildFlowerWeek - Harebell

Due to having a lot of pressures on my time, I’m still terribly behind with posting in my blipfoto journal - thank you so much to those who have commented on my sparse and irregular entries and incomplete backblips. I have photos for all the missing days, but have been sadly lacking in long enough opportunities to do the write-ups.

I went along to do some more churchyard tidying and maintenance with the fabric team this morning. I handed over two brass plaques I had collected from being engraved for Mike the verger to put up on the memorial wall. Unfortunately, the holes the engraver had drilled in the plaques were too small so I’m going to have to take them back to the jewellers and get them to sort it. If I had known how fiddly and time consuming the plaque work was going to be I would never have volunteered to take it over.

Home for lunch, I somehow managed to finish reading the novel in time for the Tiptree book club meeting this evening. ‘The Beekeeper of Aleppo’ is the story of a husband and wife fleeing the Assad regime in Syria in 2016. We were all a bit luke-warm about it and felt the writer had missed an opportunity to tell the tale really compellingly. I found the writing style rather bland and lacking in depth, which in turn made me feel a bit remote from the couple in the book despite the very difficult events they endure on their journey through Turkey and Greece. We all agreed that the ending was rather abrupt too. Not the worst book I’ve read, but far from the best.

Many thanks to Miranda1008 for hosting the WildFlowerWeek challenge. We have a few patches of Harebells growing in the St Luke’s churchyard over by some of the oldest graves. I love how delicate the stems and bell-like petals are, so pretty.