Sitting on the Sofa on a Sunny Sunday Evening
Those of you that follow me on Twitter & Facebook may have seen an update of mine on Saturday evening about hanging a tea cosy to the wall with blu tack and about how it looked awesome. Well here it is. Hanging on with four bits of blu tack. Clearly the blu tack won’t be staying but the tea cosy will. I’m going to mount it, frame it and hang it properly but I wanted to see how it looked up there.
I say it’s a tea cosy but I tried it over a whole range of teapots and either it fitted badly or flopped over the top. If you know that it is in fact another item entirely then do let me know. I’ll still be hanging it on the wall but at least I’ll know what it is!
This wasn’t the only picture I took yesterday evening. I sat there for about fifteen minutes and snapped away. I’m reading a fantastic book on jamming and preserving right now and looked up from my book to see the most lovely sunshine coming in through the back door. Evening sunshine is so different to the bright and unrelenting quality of daytime sunshine. It represents the end of a day that has been earned.
As I sat there, book open by my knees, I saw……
Daisies picked from the garden, in a carafe, sun shining on them. I’d changed their water that afternoon so they were feeling fresh.
Then I zoomed out and caught Robert’s beer bottle getting warm and a kitchen chair. The chair had been there for most of the day. Various bottoms had sat down on it and it remained a warm place to sit in. Not because of all the bottoms but because it had been in the sun all day. I sat there myself a few moments later to catch the last few rays while I had my tea.
I looked over to my right and saw the picture we have hanging as you come in to the kitchen from the entrance hall. It’s good to have this in the kitchen especially when something goes wrong. No longer do I throw spoilt brownies at the wall, I simply intone this mantra.
The walls are grateful.
Robert is experimenting with different loaves of bread. This was the third one that he had taken from the oven that day. They were good. I had many slices piled high with butter in the name of research. I don’t agree with some of the things that one of Robert’s bread book keeps saying so the husband and I had a little tussle about that yesterday. I was told by Robert that I don’t know everything and Robert was told by me that I do.
The sun also fell on the counter top. It warmed the baskets of fruit and veg and gave a little extra life to roses in a jam jar. I have planted several rose this year and some of them have been stressed out. When I see them getting stressed I take them off the bush and bring them inside to a receptacle no fancier than a jam jar. The roses do a good job of adding class to the jar and the jars do a good job of keeping the roses humble. A Fred & Ginger arrangement!
These two are both Jubilee Celebration by David Austin. I’m creating a hedge of roses out the front and have mixed up this variety with several Claire Austins to give a pale white and pink edge to the garden. The scent given from this variety is unimaginably fruity. I’m not kidding, it smells like you’ve just walked into Cyber Candy and died. Wonderful and I can’t wait for next year when they are felling stronger and more settled.
So that was yesterday evening, about fifteen minutes of it anyway. It also marked the end of one of the first ‘normal’ weekends we’ve had since moving in. Nothing was SUPER URGENT. All boxes are now unpacked and the piles of ‘stuff’ waiting to be sorted have long been put away.
Now we get on with the business of ‘living’ in it!
See you tomorrow with a recipe that I have dreams about. I’ll give you a clue….
*slurp*
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