Good afternoon Bloggets. I’m sitting outside in our back
garden. Today is really pleasantly hot. But in the shade where I am, my fair
skin isn’t burning. The trees are providing a gentle breeze but it’s so beautifully
hot. The fragrances of the roses and other sweet plants, shrubs and flowers are
amazing. But the sounds of the traffic aren’t good at all.
We have had two lovely weekends. Last weekend we had our
friends and my brother and sister in law visit, this weekend we had our friend
from my college days stay over.
It was so lovely to see her. We haven’t seen each other for
a year and a half but it’s always like we are so close that we are the same and
we pick up where we left off. That is when you know you have a true friend. We sat
outside when she came and drank some prosecco then they moved onto wine, I moved
on to tea… the weather was lovely. Then we came in and had our evening meal. It
was really nice. Had a late night a good sleep and early morning took us
outside again. We then took a taxi to one of my favourite pubs where we went
with our brother in law last week. We sat in their garden where my friend
described it to me. She said it was like an English country garden. Lots of
pretty shrubs, trees and loads of roses. It is huge. And then we went into the
restaurant it was a carvery so you serve yourself. Hub sat at the table, my
friend served our food and I just told her what we wanted or didn’t want, but
to be honest it was mainly what we did want. Hub had thick pork slices with
home made peppercorn sauce and the rest, we all had. Cauliflower cheese,
cabbage, green beans, Saige and onion, turnip, roast potatoes mash potato I had
vegetarian gravy and two huge Yorkshire puddings. They ar typical of English
Sunday lunch.
My friend is also a vegetarian and she had vegetarian pie
with her vegetables, I didn’t because no way I would have been able to eat all
that.
We didn’t have dessert but coffee. Oh, their coffee is
really tasty. We got back home then sadly our
friend left to head to London. I then made dinner for our son and we had a
lovely long chat and then his friend came and we chatted with him too for a
while.
I’ve had a quiet day today but out this week to friends for
coffee and lunch with another friend. My friends are like the busses. Nothing comes
along for ages then two turn up. Haha.
How has your weekend been? So many of my readers/Bloggets
are really lonely at weekends even during the week but weekends seem worse
because weekends are the time when we are supposed to be with family and
friends, right? Well, please don’t think you are alone, more people are alone
at weekends than with people and those who are with people a lot of them are
not with whom they want to be with. If you are like that, then take weekends
for yourself. Stuff the housework and stress, take a nice pampering bath and
order in your favourite food.
Don’t make your weekends the same as your week days. Do something
different for yourselves. There is nothing worse though than feeling alone.
My lap top wouldn’t work this morning, I thought noooooooo
as I have some writing to do just a little but still it needs to be written
sent off by post returned and if changes are to be made, I need to do them and
send back in time for the 22nd of this month.
Just thinking, negativity and pessimism are far too common
these days don’t you think? So, let’s try to cheer each other up!
Guys this is for you. A successful man is one who can build
a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him. If you tell
yourself that life is worth living, then you will help to create the fact. If happiness
seems to have forgotten you for a while, never forget about it. Today we are
where our thoughts have brought us, tomorrow we will be where our thoughts take
us. I have read that the way we start a day helps us to continue that day and a
positive start will give us a positive ending to the day, so we will sleep
better if we know we have achieved something that day or done something to make
us happy, it may mean you or we, change our habits. Even if it is to put the habits
we have in a different order. Mixing life up a bit…
A morning routine will give us the energy to carry on during
the day if we keep routines that require a little energy towards the end of the
day, we will be too tired to do them, not sleepy tired, but energetically
exhausted.
Sometimes we need to hear a quiet voice at the end of the
day which says. I will try again tomorrow. Not I failed today I can’t do it. When
we feel weak, as the weeks go on, we will look back on that time and like a
teabag, we never really realise how strong we are until we actually get into
hot water.
When your future is too terrifying to complain and your past
is too painful to think about, live for today. For now. for this moment.
What are you doing? How are you feeling? Is this your happy
place? My dear friend and Blogget as well as a guru, once said to me. Find a
place in your home a quiet place just for you. Go to that place when times get
tough. It’s good advice. Your own zone. It could be in the garden, in your conservatory,
your bedroom, on a balcony or even in a book or in your head you have managed to
push the rubbish all under covers and in drawers and find that space in your
mind. Where ever it is, it’s yours, to do what you want to think how you feel
and how you want to continue your thoughts, your day.
They say that all good things come to those who wait, hmm. Also,
what about all good things come to those who go out to get them?
If you ar going through hell, for goodness sake, don’t stand
still because you will burn. Keep going forward and you have to come to the
end. If you get to the end but find yourself in that dark place again, remember
last time you felt that way, you got out and saw the light, felt the sun and
rain and lived again. You will live again you will find your way out of the devil’s
dorm.
I love this quote but can’t remember who wrote it.
“Failure is the condiment that gives success it’s flavour!””
Happy birthday to you if it’s your birthday
today. Kirstein hope your day is wonderful.
Laters
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