five

5 books I’ve read recently

• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
• La’s Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith

5 miniature moments I don’t want to forget
(there are many but I’ll start with these)

• with Andy, lying on our backs on the grass in London’s Canary Wharf, watching the clouds pass over the sky scrapers
• my nephew Sam, then 2 now 3, turning and seeing me, plunging towards me and thudding into me with breathtaking (literally) hug
• holding my other Josh (now 8 then nearly new) for the first time – and him dissolving into baby giggles, resulting in me being known as ‘funny auntie Lucy’ for some time afterwards
• the feel of a duckling nestling into my hand
• rowing with my brother on the Norfolk Broads in the half light of dusk

5 little things I’m rather fond of

• eating Yoghurt coated banana chips
• coloured buttons (not the edible sort!)
• drinking cups of tea – I am English, after all
• birthday cards
• guinea pigs – wheenk! wheenk!

5 lovely things I wasn’t expecting

• meeting Andy and all that followed
• finding so many ‘kindred spirits’ on my life journey
• discovering I am a writer after all – and always will be
• the hedgehogs in our garden
• finding God in the dark – right there, in it with me (I didn’t expect it at the time – the discovery affected me acutely).