New Year's Day. I woke early, intended to start the New Year with a walk. I needed to use up some fruit from the fridge, so made raspberry muffins, an apple and raspberry crumble and apple gingerbread whilst I had a little energy. Then I hit a brick wall. Slept for an hour and have gone considerably downhill ever since. Peak flow taken a wallop too, and I am off to the GP tomorrow, as despite no sinus pain, I clearly have an infection (and probably have since Christmas).
I have been watching archaeology programmes, and will share this lovely red flint with you. In one of the programmes I was watching this afternoon, Prof. Alice Roberts said that to find a Neolothic site was challenging. Well, this flint came from the beach at Brightlingsea, Essex. We were sat looking for pretty stones, and Gabby came across this flint - and there were some others too, but this the only red one. To find flints on a pebbly beach is quite something! It is a red silex and would have been very sought after because of its unique colour and properties. It can be found on the Isle of Heligoland - in other words, it comes from Doggerland, which was once the land bridge between Britain and Europe. To sit down, right where flints had been worked anything up to 10,000 years ago, and to find flint debitage was nothing short of miraculous! Gabby had been asking for this flint so she could frame it.It brought back memories of them hunting for flints when we were walking across the field track to West Kennet long barrow, and they found them too! They had keen eyes, my kids.
I don't know what I shall be eating for tea - nothing that needs much cooking, of that I am certain. I have no appetite. I may just have a bowl of soup.
