“Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.” ― Matt Haig

 I've been spending far too much time in the hospital carpark, visiting a relative daily. It's an hour away from me so the stress and the exhaustion was really beginning to hit. I sort of had a moment of mental collapse on Sunday while trying to order food at a pub. I didn't want to eat anything on the menu and I sort of became mentally paralysed. Guessing that's some sort of transference. Anyway, I snapped out of it but when I next hit the carpark, which is costing so much money*, I decided I may as well have a little fun.

To adapt a Mother Teresa quote inner 'peace begins with a smile' and it did make me smile.

I know many of you will find this odd, but taking these photos, playing around with the framing, really put a spring in my step. It was a quick way to shake off the mental load. And as Jane Austen said "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." 

Do you find joy is strange things?

The car park shots made me think of Jeffrey Smart, an artist whose work I love. So there's a little nod to him in the last three.

*I hate that hospital carparks are some of the most expensive in the country. It's bad enough you have to visit people with cancer or have cancer but then you need to drain your bank account with each visit. There's something morally offensive about that. I know that's probably how they had to pay for the carpark to be built but there should be a better way....