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“When I used to work full time, when you girls were young, I’d try to take a snapshot of a special moment and save it in my head to make it last longer.” My mum was trying to cheer me up yesterday, as she detected my dreary mood. Our mini holiday to their place in Devon was at an end. I felt sulky and dark, like a teenager.
It’s been a weekend of snapshots. So many moments I’ve tried to savour and keep. But, as with everything, each one has slipped through my fingers like sand, leaving me with nothing but a delicious memory.
A trip to the beach, an Easter egg hunt, a (few) cold gin and tonics, a hot bath in a rolltop tub, a snooze on the sofa in the middle of the day, a book… these are the things I’m holding tight to as normal life resumes. These are the photographs in my head.
If I close my eyes hard enough, they’re right there before me.
Wow! That has to be the best Easter Egg Hunt instruction sheet I have ever seen, how fantastic. And quite the haul at the end of it too.
Looks like you all had a great time – it’ll be time for the next trip down there before you know it! x
FAR too much chocolate – but I expect it’ll be exactly the same next year!
Time really shows us no mercy. Thank goodness for beautiful memories. Lovely photographs to have in your head.
I’ll treasure them and look forward to the next time!
Absolutely stunning and evocative pictures. A picture paints a thousand words….cliched but true.
It really is. x
I guess most of us would be rather doing those things everyday rather than going to work. But that’s life and as long as we can hang onto those magic moments work passes pretty quickly.
Ah to be retired!
Or to be a toddler without a care in the world lapping up every fun experience in Devon. love ma x