The Morning After The Night Before

Hello everyone,

Welcome to a miserable wet Sunday afternoon. We`ve had so much rain just lately that I`m surprised that we haven`t yet been washed away. Surely there can`t be much more left to fall on us.  It`s even more miserable because I DID`NT go out last night after all, I was just too tired and nauseated and I had to cancel at the eleventh hour and very disappointed I am too. I had got as far as the end of the road when I told Jim I just wasn`t able to go through with it and we turned back home again. I still made him go however as I wanted him to enjoy it even if I couldn`t.  And he did too, I hear I missed a great evening though I would secretly have felt better if it hadn`t...lol!  Oh well, it couldn`t be helped so I watched Dancing on Ice on TV then I watched two episodes of Waking The Dead which I really enjoyed, then it was to bed with my book and I was asleep by 11.30....Jim was home by 2.30 so I definitely made the right decision, I could never have stayed the course the way I feel at the moment. AND for good measure I have the beginnings of a cold and I`m coughing and sneezing already...huh...just what I need!

 Last night Danny and Slava had a night out with friends in Leicester Square, London. They went to a nightclub there and wer`n`t home until about 4 this morning. At the moment Dan is in bed nursing a king-sized hangover....I feel no sympathy as it was self-inflicted.  What a hard hearted mother I am...lol!

I actually felt a lot better this morning which was good because I had a basket of iron to tackle, though Jim DID iron his own t-shirts, all seven of them.  I`d rather have done the t-shirts and left the rest of the ironing to him...lol!  Have any of you seen that TV advert about the mushrooms, stilton cheese and Palma ham?  Well I decidied to have a go at making them and even if I say so myself they were delicious. For those of you who don`t know what I`m talking about you take a large mushroom, place a large slice of stilton cheese on the top, wrap it up in a slice of Parma ham, stick it in the oven and there you have it, a nice starter or a light lunch. Why not give it a try, it`s very tasty.

 The little chaffinch who has been visiting my garden brought along Mrs chaffinch today though she didn`t stay as long as he did because she didn`t seem to be quite as hungry.  Also I saw a goldfinch for the first time in my garden, or at least the first time I`ve seen one that is. Jim says it would be interesting if we had a video camera set up in the tree to see which birds visit and when.

 I think I just heard out son and heir stirring, or was it moaning?  I`m not too sure...lol!  Either way I have to get the dinner on now so I`m say farewell to you all.  Enjoy what`s left of your Suday and I hope to be back during the week. :o)

 

"The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances."

Atisha