🙏 Sunday Reflection | 6th February 2022

Hello friends and a blessed Sunday to you all! 🙏 I hope this post finds you all well. A week of isolation and convalescing has slowly passed by for me and now it is time to reflect on what we’ve been doing, reading, and watching over that time.

Having tested positive for my second bout of Covid last weekend, I spent this week isolating in my bedroom, where I did lots of resting, drinking honey and lemon, coughing, eating chicken soup, taking hot baths, and I discovered the game Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp on my phone. 🍋

Thankfully, my symptoms weren’t too bad, no temperature or loss of taste/smell, but I did have some pretty awful coughing fits. On the whole it just felt like a really rotten cold. Today is my last day of isolation, and as I am now feeling a lot better and tested negative this morning, I hope I will be able to return to work tomorrow. 🤞

For most of the week, when I was feeling well enough, I was reading the utterly charming children’s classic, Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery (1909) on my Kindle. Whether bundled up in a blanket or soaking in a hot bath, it was wonderful to escape into more adventures with the imaginative and spirited Anne Shirley, as she starts working as a school teacher, makes new friends, helps bring up twins, and organises improving the town. 👩‍🦰

After I finished Anne of Avonlea on Thursday evening, I picked the chunky young-adult fantasy, Eldest by Christopher Paolini (2005) off of my bookshelf for a re-read. Eldest is the second book from Paolini’s bestselling The Inheritance Cycle series. I am looking forward to reacquainting myself with the next leg of Eragon and Saphira’s journey and training. 🐲

While on the backburner I still have the Christian non-fictions: Pray For Us by Meg Hunter-Kilmer (2021) and Celtic Daily Prayer: Book One by the Northumbria Community (2015), as well as my Holy Bible. I hope to get back to these very soon, as I am starting to feel a lot better now. ✝

Last weekend, I finished off the third and final series of the British fantasy television drama, A Discovery of Witches, based on Deborah Harkness’ All Souls Trilogy, that brought the series to an exciting and satisfying conclusion. A full review for this will be coming soon! 🧙‍♀️

Next, wanting an easy watch, I decided to try the British crime television drama, Wild Bill (2019), starring Rob Lowe as Chief Constable Bill Hixon, a widowed former US police chief, who moves from Miami to Boston, Lincolnshire to clean up this rural English county. Full series available on the ITV Hub and I thought it was an amusing comedy crime procedural watch. 🔍

I also watched three more episodes of series one of the classic, American sci-fi television drama, Star Trek. Something I have watched before but only in bits and pieces, so it is great to working my way through it properly. 

With my illness I have posted less then I would have liked in the last week, but I think completely understandable, as my head wasn’t really in the right place. I did managed to share my look back on my life, books, television, films, and posts of January in Sunday Reflection | My January 2022 Wrap-Up post.

Then I also shared my Unboxing My February Book Box from the Teatime Bookshop post, where I revealed the goodies I received in my vintage book box for this month. Please do check these out, if you haven’t already! 😊

(I have linked this post into the weekly meme, Sunday Post)

For now, that’s all folks! 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! 👋

What have you been doing, reading and watching? Please let me know in the comments below, or leave a link to your own Sunday post. I love to chat with you all!