So it’s Friday again and time to write a blog post. This has been an extremely difficult week for me. My depression has been deep and dark on many days and I have been struggling to cope with life. I am on a lot of medications for my physical and mental issues, but I can’t seem to find any kind of equilibrium. Our NHS only gives six sessions of counselling, I think, and even these are weekly and only last 30 minutes! It’s just not enough and perhaps not even what I need and what would work for me.

My kind friends have supported me on Facebook, but family members are struggling to cope with me. Yesterday, I contacted a counsellor who I saw some years ago. He knows a lot of my past and the issues that I have to manage and so I am hoping that he will get back to me soon. I am also hoping that he is prepared to do sessions by telephone as I can’t travel to his town these days.

There have been some days when I have felt “normal” and have been able to do some useful tasks around our home. These always lift my mood as they give me a sense of achievement. Also, on one of the rare sunny days, I went out for a ten minute walk around the block. It was nice to get outside and do a short exploration of our new area. I love this time of year when you can see the flowers emerging after the cold and frost of winter. The snowdrops are such a cheerful sight and there were even some daffodils coming into flower. I love daffodils so much!

It is going to be interesting to watch our new garden through the next few weeks and months. It has obviously been carefully designed in the past, but there are some patches that are covered with weeds, so they will need some attention and probably replanting.

Illness prevented me from wearing my scarves during most of the week, but I did manage to tie my first ever Hermès 90cm silk, La Promenade de Platon on one day. With it I wore a lovely turquoise cotton twin set and navy cord trousers from Lands’ End. Not my best photo as I was not feeling brilliant!

I wish I had a better image of the whole scarf, but this one will have to do…

If any of you wish to see my Scarf of the Moment post about this lovely scarf design, the link is in the sidebar and also here.

Happy Weekend!

Love and best wishes,

Anne

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PS: I have made use of WordPress’ AI for the first time! I wasn’t entirely happy with my title for this post. It was very negative. So I looked at the AI’s suggestions, generated from the finished text. This one, with a bit of tweaking, was so much better. I don’t think I will make a habit of using AI for my writing, but this time it has given me a positive experience and I could definitely do with more of those! What do my readers think?