That sounds like the Week from Hell, Woley,and it has obviously seared itself into your memory
Families can be uniquely awful, can't they? they know your weak points and can go for them - and think that you should be laughing along with the 'joke'😠
It's raining heavily here today, which is really annoying because yesterday was April in a jar - mild, sunny, buds and young leaves on trees - the perfect Spring day, reminding me of Laurie Lee's poem 'April Rise'
If ever I saw blessing in the air
I see it now this still early day
Where lemon-green the vaporous morning drips
Wet sunlight on the powder of my eye.
Blown bubble-film of blue, the sky wraps round
Weeds of warm light whose every root and rod
Splutters with soapy green, and all the world
Sweats with the bead of summer in its bud.
If ever I heard blessing it is there
Where birds in trees that shoals and shadows are
Splash with their hidden wings and drops of sound
Break on my ears their crests of throbbing air.
Pure in the haze the emerald sun dilates,
The lips of sparrows milk the mossy stones,
While white as water by the lake a girl
Swims her green hand among the gathered swans.
Now, as the almond burns its smoking wick,
Dropping small flames to light the candled grass;
Now, as my low blood scales its second chance,
If ever world was blessed, now it is.
Lovely. But today it's dismal and wet😒