A this and that kind of a day . . .

I was washing my face the other morning and doing an inspection, as you do as a woman. Peering into the mirror looking for anything untoward when all of a sudden I noticed it.  It was a hair, whisker, whatever you want to call it . . .  on the side of my face/chin and it had to have been about half an inch long.  I was in shock and horror for a few minutes.  First of all  . . . . wondering how long it had been there without me noticing it,  and then secondly  . . . and this is the thought that filled me with  real horror and dread . . .  how many people had noticed it before I did!

Finally . . .  why didn't somebody

tell me it was

there?

...

I suppose most people don't really want to be the bearer of bad tidings . . .  so they can be excused, and, well . . .  how can you ever really delicately tell a woman they have a hair the length of the mighty Mississippi growing out of the side of their face, without them wanting to avoid you for the rest of their lives???  You are all forgiven.  This getting old is not for sissies.  That's for sure.

 

We started watching Season 7 of Game of Thrones last night. We are watching it on Now TV.  I have to say the picture quality really was appalling, but we were just happy to be able to see it without having to subscribe to Sky television. Maybe it was just a bad night for streaming. It looks like it is going to be quite a cracker however.  I have a few favourite characters in the Game of Throne Series.  I like Danerys Targaryen, Jon Snow and Tyrion Lanister.  I think it is because they have all shown us that they have integrity throughout the serie, even when they are being forced to do things that they really don't want to do. Yes, it is a violent series.  Yes, there are plenty of cringe-worthy scenes and bad language, but it is a fascinating story and so we do enjoy watching it. I have not read the books it was based on.  I have a few questions in my mind about this first episode but I will not ask them here for fear of spoiling someone else's viewing.

My editor sent me the full draft of my book to show me how everything is falling into place with it.  The team are now working at setting it all in order and putting in the pictures, etc.  Its amazing to see the progress, and I was amazed to note that there are 723 pages in total.  Wow, I did not imagine that I had written that much because I basically wrote it in Word, one chapter at a time, sending them one chapter at a time, and the photos for each chapter as I wrote.  I had never seen it all pieced together.  I can't believe that this is finally going to happen.  It seems I have been waiting forever for this, and in all truth it has been a whole lifetime of waiting. I had the dream as a little girl to be a writer one day. I think all children aspire to do something great like that in their lifetime.  Here I am sitting more near the end of my life than the beginning and I am finally seeing that childhood dream come into fruition. Although in all truth anyone who blogs is a writer.  That is the wonder of the internet . . .  we all get to penn our thoughts and people get to read them.  Not sure if that is a good or a bad thing, but as a half glass full type of person, I will say good!

 

You've heard of Grumpy Cat, I am sure, well, this is the opposite of Grumy Cat.  This is Happy Cat, otherwise known as Sirius.  A cat who, with the wonders of nature, always seems to be smiling with a permanent grin.  

 

Siriusly.  (Yes, I did that on purpose.) He's always smiling. 

I was always a cat person. My whole life.  I grew up with cats and always had cats when my children were growing up.  Cats make great pets, as independant as they might be. Its really only since I moved over here that I have been allowed to totally embrace my love of dogs.  My ex would never let us have one.  We did have a Beagle when I was growing up.  Someone my mother worked with was moving and couldn't take the dog with them, so my mother took her for my brother because she thought it would be good for him.  Her name was Penny and I adored her.  She slept with me every night, taking up all the space in my bed.  There is a part of me that would still like to have a cat but then I think of wall paper being scratched and furniture destroyed and I change my mind.   There were two cats fighting in the back garden when I got up this morning. I hate that sound.  There are no screens on the windows over here so it would be impossible to have an indoor cat, and so we quite simply don't have a cat at all.  I am not sure Mitzie would tolerate one if we did.

 

Source Dinner with Julie

I have been thinking that I would like to try baking some bread from scratch today. I am not really a great bread baker, but there is a part of me that would like to master it, from scratch, with no breadmaker involvement.  It seems like it should be such a simple thing to do, but it is something which has always challenged me.  My ex husband used to make bread for the family every week when he was home.  Great big huge fluffy loaves of bread.  He was great at kneading. He would make the kitchen table dance across the kitchen floor when he was kneading the bread.  He would crank out 6 or 8 loaves at a time and it was beautiful bread. It would all get eaten.  If there is one thing that I miss about him, it would be his bread.  He was a wonderful bread baker.  I think the trick to good bread must be in the kneading.  We will see what I do.  I may or I may not.  I am craving raisin bread. But, good raisin bread.  I may just have to go to the store and buy some raisin bread.

Last night I went to make my evening snack of toast and

the loaf of whole wheat bread was covered

with big blue freckles.  High 

humidity and heat

had done their

worst.

...

I hate it 

when that happens because

it seems to taint everything breadwise

that is even remotely sitting close to it, and it had.

All of the bread smelled or tasted of mould and there was no saving it.

And so, due to a lack of funding, we may have to suffer through my making a loaf of bread from scratch, today. At least I have all of the ingredients to do that in house. Silver linings.

It was a beautifully gorgeously sunny and warm day yesterday.  I was able to hang the wash out of doors again and it came in all smelling of sunshine and the wind at the end of the day. I love it when that happens.  I still have a load of colours to do and I am hoping that today I will have a chance to hang that out.  I am looking forward to seeing and smelling all of my coloured t-shirts afterwards.  I'll be smelling all fresh and sunshiny for days! Greeaaaaaaaat!!  Although it is still quite hazy at the moment and could go either way.  Freaky flash flooding in Cornwall last night, almost scary, with thunderstorms and huge hailstones. 

 

The seaside village of Coverack was particularly affected by it. You just never know. We are very lucky in that we live in an area that is pretty high up. Even when the River Dee floods it doesn't affect us here in Blacon.  

 

And now I am wanting watermelon.  Which amazingly, somehow

never tastes as good these days as it did

when I was a child.

funny how

that goes

...

A thought to carry with you  . . . 

.° * 。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •
•。★★ 。* 。
° 。 ° ˛˚˛ * _Π_____*。*˚
˚ ˛ •˛•˚ */______/~＼。˚ ˚ ˛
˚ ˛ •˛• ˚ ｜ 田田 ｜門 ★
 *.˛.° ˛°. .I slept and dreamt that life was joy.

I awoke and saw that life was service.

I acted and behold,

service was joy . . . ~R. Tagore  .° * 。 • ˚ ˚ ˛ ˚ ˛ •

Spiritual Enlightenment

In The English Kitchen today  . . .  Summer Macaroni Salad with Crispy Garlic Breadcrumbs.  Delish!

Have a great Wednesday!  Don't forget as you spend your day . . .

═══════════ ღೋƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒღೋ ═══════════ ⊰✿░G░O░D⊰✿⊰L░O░V░E░S⊰✿⊰░Y░O░U░⊰✿
═══════════ ღೋƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒღೋ ═══════════

And I do too!