Wonderful Wednesday #181

 {Genius sweetpea-growing right there!}
Hey hello-a and how do you do?!  I'm feeling like i have BAGS of energy and that i'm full of beans lately and i'm putting it solely down to having two days off together at the end of last week.  Not only that, instead of hurrying and rushing and sort of nearly running myself ragged on those two days.  I took it extra   s-l-o-w  and you know what?!  I think i needed it and that i really should learn to listen to my body a little bit more.  Far too often we're made to feel bad for being a little bit lazy when actually from time to time, it can be just what we need.  I feel like i've approached this week with extra steam power and felt all the more motivated because of it.  Or maybe it could be thought of ten whole days in a row off work from Friday...?!  Sorry..i couldn't not mention that.  

Either way, let's celebrate the extra super powers with a pretty lovely list of happy, #wonderfulwednesday style of course!

1.  I'm always harping on about looking forward to things and the fine line between that and wishing the time away.  It really is a balance i'm yet to really master fully! There's nothing wrong with looking forward a bit though, right?!  Especially when it's because one of your very best friends in the whole wide world returns from Australia to visit this week and you haven't seen each other in just about two whole years!!!  I am BEYOND excited to be reunited with one of my partners in crime!

2.  Beetroot hummus.  Piled high on flippin' everything but particularly on top of an actual beetroot and lentil vegetable burger and served with an almighty salad of the loveliest most sweetest tomatoes from the window sill, peashoots and toasted sunflower seeds.  Could be one of my favourite concoctions to date!

3.  Cinnamon in porridge. Ok i'm sorry but YES i went there.  Okay so i know it's August too but it's been really mostly torrential rain up north since Sunday evening AND i thought i was coming down with a cold on Monday evening and so on Tuesday morning i thought SOD IT.  I'm going in with the creamy, warming and spicy-type porridge and i don't care who blinkin' knows it!  I made my usual porridge but instead of my usual mashed banana; i added one grated apple {skin and all!}, and half a teaspoon of cinnamon.  Then i topped it with pumpkin seeds and a great big table-spoon of Pip and Nut's Cinnamon and Cashew Nut Butter.  I'm not even sorry.  Infact i might even eat it all week.  For medicinal purposes you understand....

4.  Pinterest.  Because i love nothing more than losing myself on there for a little while when i'm on my lunch at work or have a spare hour or so on an evening. There's something about an impending change in the season that makes it such an inspiration.  Even if it's just looking back at my own boards.  Is there anything better?!

5.   Slug-shaped victories.  Not sure if i mentioned on here last week {?!} - i do know i pretty much ranted about it to every customer i served at work and had a bit of moan about it on Twitter!  My poor baby sweetpea plants that i have nurtured, and talked to and watered each and every day got ferociously nibbled by slugs at the end of last week. I was so sad!  They're just about to flower and are one of my faaaaaavourite Summer flowers in the whole wide world and they looked so sad and sorry for themselves!  After a few recommendations {and about a million inches of rain interspersed with bouts of glorious sunshine} they are fighting back and have grown SO MUCH.  Hurrah!  Sorry slugs, i know you've got a job to do and all of that BUT if you could stick to the bigger plants and flowers and lave the baby ones alone that would be grand.  Thanks.  


6.  Fringe games.  I love my fringe.  In fact when i pin it back to wash my face or shower and catch myself in the mirror i look so unlike me!  I think i've had a fringe since i was ten.  Oh well apart from a brief notion to 'grow it out' aged nine and also around the time when it was fashionable to wear those really thick padded headbands that had your name written on? I used to have to push it right back with one of those and even then, bits would creep back through and get into my eyes.  I think i only lasted a little while and had to beg my mum to cut it back in. This week i trimmed my fringe for the billionth time and it is really straight and even and lovely and even when the rest of me is a total MESS, it somehow stays neat and lovely.  Hurrah for fringes!  


7.  *whispers*  A new dress.  But not just ANY dress:  A LIBERTY printed dress.    I had a big clear out and had to say goodbye to some of my favourites that i had worn until they were quite literally falling apart and i've been on the look out for some replacementsTransitional ones, the kind that i can happily scamper about in now with tan sandals and a cardigan and then that i can layer up with opaques, brogues or boots and a woollen coat when it gets cooler.  I mean i don't mind skirts and tops and jeans and tops but well; i'm always much happier in a dress.  I accidentally fell in love with a green Liberty printed one which came this morning {Tuesday} and that i almost daren't open incase it's too beautiful and isn't really practical somehow..?!  I just fell in love with the print and thought: 'I'll make it work i will, I WILL!!!'.  And now i can't quite remember if it'll be okay for what i want.  I'm going to save opening it until my day off on Thursday...I'm quite enjoying the excitement.....


8.   Clouds.  I often think if i could be any one random thing, it would be a professional cloud-watcher.  Not even the meteorological technical kind that studied the weather.  No, no just someone that found really pretty ones and took photos of them, for a living.  There's been some beautiful clouds around these parts lately; what with all of the erratic weather.  I take photos and photos and photos galore and it's only when my phone memory tells me that it's full that i realise quite how much i photograph clouds.  Oh, clouds and crumpets in equal measure actually.  Think that's what i might call my autobiography:  'Clouds and Crumpets' what do you think?!?




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And just like that, another week has whooshed right on by.  Who can believe we're heading for September - between you and I i'm really rather excited as i can't help but still think of September as a new start month; even if i'm not at school or university anymore.  Plus i'm feeling ready for a new season too.  Anyway, enough getting too far ahead!  Remember to pop yourself right on over to Jo, Helen, Michelle, Sarah, Kate, Cat, Sam, El , Kerri's, and Peta's blogs so you can catch up on their weeks and fill your boots with another happy fix.  Remember to join in yourself online with the tag #wonderfulwednesday and share what's been making your week so flippin' lovely!

 
Have a beautiful rest of week!