Peace & Quiet has been a hard theme for me – I relish it and hate it in about equal measure.  Peace (I think) is very different to Quiet.  Peace is something that you can be at (with yourself, with others, in a place) whereas Quiet is very much indicating that things are not noisy, bustling and, on occasion, normal (whatever that is…!).  Quiet children often indicate mischief is in progress – for those of you who haven’t experienced this, believe me, it’s rarely a good sign during waking hours…

My photo for this week is a bit of everyday life.  I’ve struggled to find a picture that epitomises the theme because although you can create an image that says this is all quiet and peaceful, in my heart I’ll know what’s going on behind it.  A sleeping animal at the zoo usually has a whole load of people pointing at it saying, very loudly “oh, it’s asleep”.  So I took my camera to work.  My office was quiet yesterday (ie just me in it) and I don’t like it like that – however, I do get to look out over London from our 12th floor ‘suite’ (ha!) as the kettle boils…

This is Sainsbury’s carpark in Edgware.

Quiet due to lack of shoppers and cars, peaceful in the early morning sun as the light falls on the trees.