Call the Midwife - Bring the Hankies

At last I am completely caught up on all nine seasons of Call the Midwife and I cried multiple times per episode. This show is more heart wrenching than Little House and Highway to Heaven combined. It has never had a bad episode in all these years and has only gotten better and better. 

(photos kidnapped from digitalspy - tvseriesfinale - mic - radiotimes - pinterest - thesun)

More from Grandad's Scrapbook

An Old Familiar Face

I hadn't seen Bishop since his bday on December 31st. He's not in to Skype/Google Duo/FaceTime so for the past few months we've communicated only via Instagram DMs and text. Saturday he called to say he had a surplus of vegan soup (actually he said that he made too much soup and there was merely an eighth of an inch left in his gigantic crock pot) and would I like a container full. Would I?! So I masked it up and met him outside his place today to chat for about a half hour on one of his breaks. We caught one another up on family members who hadn't been doing well, what we'll do together once we are both fully vaxed, as well as newly discovered albums like serpentwithfeet's DEACON and a-ha's Hunting High and Low. (I'm sure you can guess which album goes with which of us.) Then it was a selfie and a quick squeeze goodbye. I really hope his stupid county gets on the ball and schedules his first vax shot. The weather is getting better and we wanna picnic at Grounds for Sculpture and hit Princeton for records and books!

Easter 2021

Mama Rosie decided to host a super-spreader Easter event at her house and I sat it out. I wanna be extra careful until I'm fully vaxed. It wasn't technically a super-spreader event since it was only Mum, Xavier and his fam, who are in her "pod", plus Wayne and Dave. As for my day alone, I ate homemade pizza, watched Doctor Blake Mysteries seasons two through four and sent out texts of Happy Easter. My day kicked off to photos of the girls from Ashlee.

Next it was a bit of hilarity from one of my fave IG accounts. The comments had me in tears. Jeffrey's tagline is Come for the content, stay for the comments. It is SO true.

Then it was texting with Emily!!

And lastly, here's my only Easter decoration - a mason jar full of Belgian foil wrapped chocolate eggs!

(Apt Pupil art block by Amber Brown!)

More Silly Postcards

Here are some of my favouorite posties that I sent out in 2020 to keep people's spirits up during the worst of lockdown.

Brooches Under Glass

My pin/brooch collection is housed in a sweet little glass box that used to belong to Nana Irma. It always sat on display on a table (??) or maybe the windowsill (??) of the landing to the second floor of the house on Jericho. It used to have an arrangement of fake flowers and for some reason as a child I always loved the box. I'm assuming at some point Nana had asked if there was anything from the house that I wanted. I said this and a set of three nesting coloured glass plates that sat on a small side table and also that little side table. I got them all but this box she gave me right away. I was probably a teenager and so I tore out the garish fake flowers and cleaned it up to hold jewellery. Three decades later and it still serves that same purpose and I still love it.

(Stand-outs are the alligator, which was a gift from Nancy, my brother-from-another-mother Wayne's, mom. The pumpkin, the black kitty in the green hat, and bat are from grade school and that winkin' owl is glow-in-the-dark! Oh and the B stick pin was Aunt Berne's.)

Springtime Mix

Shirley Bassey - April in Paris

Scott Walker - It's Raining Today

Sarah Vaughan - It Might As Well Be Spring

The Carpenters - Rainy Days and Mondays

The Lumineers - Flowers in Your Hair

Teena Marie - You Make Love Like Springtime

Horace Silver - Cherry Blossom

Tony Bennett & Bill Evans - You Must Believe In Spring

Frank Sinatra - How About You?

Tori Amos - Spring Haze

Dear & the Headlights - Flowers for My Brain

Alpha - Rain

Nat King Cole - A Blossom Fell

Tom Waits - Flower's Grave

Amos Lee - Colors

Donovan - Catch the Wind

Greta Van Fleet - Flower Power

Owen Campbell - Sunshine Road

Cat Stevens - Into White

Avishai Cohen - Colors

Nirvana - In Bloom

Michel Legrand - Umbrellas of Cherbourg