Smelling of roses

As predicted the sun came through the clouds just when I wanted it to ie. just after I'd finish my trek to and around the library and to an office I also needed to go to further up the hill behind it. Then I was able to do a little slomo trip to the seafront to enjoy an ice cream and a cup of tea on a seat away from the busiest and noisiest part of the melee. Hazy and cooler again now so quite content to be stuck to the sofa again...

My third thanks for the day is for the rather nice herbaceous border below our biggest supermarket opposite a older terrace there. You can park your car in front of sunflowers and hollyhocks peeping over the fence while you get your groceries, or if you're not driving you can walk past a colourful mixed display including rose bushes luxurious bloom. I rarely get close enough to a growing rose to smell it...so being able to dip my nose into the velvety petals was a wonderful treat! It inspired me to buy a couple of bunches of very un-floristy flowers from a great little independent greengrocer's in the town and a new vase to put them in as they were the wrong shape for my little or big ones and now I have a medium size one as well.

My fourth gratitude is for seeing Exmoor ponies and dancing deer and a real black adder (I'd not realised they actually existed!) and crickets and slow worms and toads! All these on a nature programme of course but it's lovely to see British wildlife anyhow...

And finally I'm grateful for feeling a little better than I did yesterday and a lot better than the wee small hours of this morning. Still can't summon up much of an appetite but as woman cannot live on ice cream alone I'm going to see if I can make some quick, easy and tasty food and eat it!

Raindrops on roses

*Scilly morning dewy view
*Crisp jacket spuds with butter fluff filling
*A new to me Come Dine With Me
*A text from my son
*Touching documentary about 16 yr old drag queen
*Tropicana Orange and Raspberry Juice

Some days...

There are days, aren't there, when it's much easier to find things to be sad about than glad, to moan about rather than celebrate?

I give thanks for the huge dragonfly at the station

...for the Buddleias along the track ...that I got a seat on the train to admire them!

...that to make up for not having the Lush beauty product I hate to be without (to save me from being too beastly)they gave me a free sample of something else

...that I have the energy to make a start on the jobs that the cleaner declined to do and can see my bed again to get into later on

and as an extra as these seem so half hearted to me...or maybe it's me that's half hearted...I give thanks that I've been able to find five things to feel gratitude for at all for there's been times today I've wondered if I could

Later...

Noon (ish)
Unless something my physical and mental state improves I can tell today is going to be one of those days when finding five things to be grateful for will be a challenge. So will make a start right now...pause while typing to enjoy the birds singing...um, so here we go...

1) Birdsong outside my window

2) sent FB message to the aforementioned Chris to say he had been mentioned in despatches and he sent one back saying ‘Bless You’. Heaven’s above, blessed in the morning and a hug to come in the afternoon (from the lovely Rachel) ...feel almost cherished!

Later... acupuncture, hug, a little light retail therapy and ready to chill, maybe nap but still waiting for nurse who didn’t make it this am so can’t relax. Must try not to be grumpy with her. Back to list...come on...what to be thankful for?

3) Little boy in blue on the beach with ball and black Labrador, so happy and absorbed, made me chuckle not just smile

4) Bunch of big orange lilies for £1.75 (would have bought them for even more but what a bargain eh?)

5) Becky’s ever cheery welcome at the Fountain, bless her too!

Nurse been...all patched up for another week. Chill time...woohoo!