🙏 Sunday Reflection | 7th February 2021

(The surreal and misty sight that greeted me yesterday morning)

Hello everyone and a blessed Sunday to you all. I hope this post finds you all well. A cold, grey week has passed and now it is time to reflect on what we’ve been doing, reading and watching over that time.

In good news, it has been a quiet and steady time at work, with the only change being that two more pupils have joined our small group. So I have seven lads to look after now – It has become a bit of an endearing joke about me and my boys (and yes ‘boys’ is including the teacher) with my colleagues at school. 😊 However with the weather and continuing restrictions I haven’t been up to much outside of work, other than dropping off a bag of presents for my friend, her husband and their new baby girl. 👶

Of course my lack of social life has been good for my reading again. Over the last week or so I have been enjoying a re-read of the classic, chivalric-romance, Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, that chronicles the adventures of the Saxon knight, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe and his lady-love, Rowena; as Prince John schemes to take his brother, Richard the Lionheart’s throne. At 519 pages this is a long book, but I am also savouring taking my time with it. 🏰

I have also started dipping in and out of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places by Neil Oliver: his account of what makes these islands so special, told through the places that have witnessed the unfolding of our history. I have reached place number (5) Céide Fields, County Mayo.💂‍♂️

While on the small screen, after completing series two of the supernatural drama, A Discovery of Witches (review to come), I sped through Netflix’s disturbing but truly gripping crime-documentary, Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (2021), a candid look into the terrible crimes of Richard Ramirez. And keeping the murder-marathon going, I am now deeply engrossed in ITV’s true-crime mini-series, The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021): a drama starring Luke Evans as Detective Superintendent Steve Wilkins, as he reinvestigates two unsolved murder cases.

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For now, that’s all folks! Today will be a quiet day of reading, blogging, cooking (I have a new curry recipe I want to try out) and watching my church’s online service. I look forward to catching up with you all next Sunday. Where ever you are in the world, I hope you and your loved ones are well: staying healthy and happy. God bless and bye for now!👋🙏🙂

Now I’d love to hear from you: How you are? What you have been reading and watching? How has work and life been for you?

I have linked this post into the weekly meme, The Sunday Post hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer.