Time is Marching on

Here we are in March already. Hopefully some of those March winds will dry up the ground a little because my hens are not happy hens at the moment. The runs are just waterlogged and the poor little things are just paddling. Ducks are happy with their feet in water but hens are not. We have put down what wood chips we have and all the leaves that we had gathered up in the autumn in an effort to have their feet up out of the water as much as we can but it is not working because there has just been Too Much Rain.

We have been to a funeral today for a work colleague who taught history for 50 (!) years at the school we worked at. He was a lovely chap and I remember him fondly. There were about 400+ people at the funeral so you can tell that he touched a lot of lives.

I think we have reached the age now where we go to more funerals than we used to. I was thinking last year that I need to have a couple of "funeral-going" outfits so that I don't wear the same thing to every funeral. With church and being in the worship group, we are often called upon to provide music for funerals. So every time I go into a charity shop, I have got my eye open for something funereal as well as everyday stuff. So far I have one outfit of trousers, top and soft jacket with a second top to ring the changes a little bit. Another jacket type thing would be good so I need to keep looking.