tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47458986435102741062024-03-13T08:46:03.107+00:00Sallytangle…...Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.comBlogger486125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-75573799039581080822018-09-26T07:00:00.000+01:002018-09-26T07:00:10.829+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #238<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hello, hello and <i>hello</i>! Man alive it feels so strange to be sat here typing this little post to you actually on a Tuesday and not a) in a flurry of a rush or b) too early or c) too <i>late</i>. How ARE we all?! I hope i find you well. For once you find me well-rested and the best kind of happy and relaxed. That's <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">because</span> i have been off work since last Wednesday. In fact as you read this i'll be back at work after a GLORIOUS seven whole days off. I've slept an extra two hours each day {that alone does great things}, eaten my body weight in fresh figs {more about that later} and cycled and dog walked but also been rained on and been nibbled by puppy teeth a fair few times as well. I just wanted to balance out all of the smug 'i've had lots of sleep and don't look like a zombie' chit-chat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But less about zombies and more about the good stuff! Let's get on with this weeks #wonderfulwednesday!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Figs. Yep <i>pretty</i> much all i've eaten at every given <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">opportunity</span> the past seven days. In fact if you've got any fig-shaped recipes then hit me up friends! Current breakfast of choice is toasted sourdough spread with Pip and Nut's Maple Roasted Peanut Butter, sprinkled with toasted black sesame seeds an<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d</span> piled high with sticky sweet fresh figs: HEAVEN. Also have been loving them with the thickest cottage cheese, chopped walnuts and honey. Send me over your fig recipes noooowwwwwwww!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Meeting new pups. Since last week's puppy class {our second is tonight, Tuesday - i'm SO excited} we've been making a concious effort to make sure Ness meet as many dogs out and about with us as possible. We have had a few funny looks when we ask other dog walkers if we can come and say hello but most people have been so lovely! Ness however is such a wimp! She lies on her back and then hides behind us! After a few minutes she comes out of her shell and i think i'd far rather her be this way then barking or jumping at people! She's so sweet. Whenever she spots another dog she just wants to go and say hello, it's only when we get over that she goes all shy and quiet. Everyone keeps saying 'oh isn't she so sweet and gentle'. If only they knew the truth when she's at home running about like a lunatic....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Ness sharing my apple. She's <i>such </i>a fuss pot that pup and hardly bothers about most food. Bananas, apples, figs and natural yoghurt are her favourites though. If i eat an apple, she'll sit patiently at my feet and wait to nibble around the very end of the core and does the tiniest, gentle bites and closes her eyes. SO SWEET! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Those sunny Autumn days. I've learnt to appreciate them these past few days since i spent a large proportion of last week badly timing my bike rides and getting absolutely <i>drenched</i> on my travels. Being stuck on a bike in a torrential downpour is NOT the one! Since Saturday though it's been mostly sunny and glorious up here and it's made for some of the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">loveliest</span> laps of the park on two wheels, the prettiest golden hour evening dog walks and general 'ooh-ing' and 'aah-ing' at the light first and last thing. When Autumn has a good day there is nothing in the world more beautiful!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Time. I'm forever complaining i don't have enough of the stuff. This past few days i've made time. If i'm honest i've mostly made time for me. I've moved slower, i've rested and i've not felt guilty for sleeping in and for staying up late. I've just let myself <i>be</i>. We should all do more of this. It's the biggest 'Fixer' of all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Heating. With these gloriously sunny Autumn days have come chilly mornings and even chillier evenings! Lying in bed under the biggest cloud of a fluffy duvet, all snuggled up listening to the 'click, click, click' of the heating is strangely comforting somehow. And it makes tumbling out of bed a whole lot easier too.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Leaves rustling. I'd forgotten quite how much i loved that sound. I'd also forgotten quite how much i loved the fact that at this time of year, as the leaves start to crisp and curl and turn wonderful shades or rust and ochre and chocolate brown, that it's pretty much all you can hear from our bedroom in the morning. That and <i>sometimes</i> a few little puppy cries.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And i'm all done for another seven days! This list was easy-peasy and i could have gone on and on and on this week. But then some weeks are like that. I like to think that they balance out the sleepy, tired and sometimes un-motivated weeks where i have to really dig deep to find the littlest jewels of lovely. But do you know what?! There always are some.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Go, go forth and peek <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span 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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Writing this weeks #wonderfulwednesday on an actual Wednesday afternoon and it feels all kinds of wrong and upside down and inside out. <i>Almost</i> as bad as that time i had to start writing it on a Sunday evening because i knew i was going away and wouldn't have reliable internet. That felt worse. Cheating almost. At least now there's <i>been</i> part of the week and we're sitting with our feet dangling into the weekend - well sort of. Truth is this week has just <i>gone</i>: Vanished, <i>va-moose</i>. POOF! And i knew i had Ness' first puppy class last night but i didn't expect it to reduce me to the blubbering wreck that it did on the way home and quite frankly after it i was only fit for spiced lentil soup and then tea, chocolate and hazelnut cookies and the warm hug that is Bake Off. Don't fret, it wasn't bad. I was proud<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and hormonal in <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">equal measure!</span></span>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Cripes</i> i haven't even asked how you are?! Fill me in! But while you do...shall we list....?!?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Taking my own lunch. I got really into this before we got Ness: <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>chopping</b></span> up carrot sticks and creating tubs of snacks and all kinds of delcious-ness to take with me to work each day so that i didn't spend a small <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fortune</span> on my lunch each day. Then we got Ness and it all went out of the window in favour of spending my mornings with her and then making <i>her</i> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">delicious</span> snacks to take to work with the Mr. BUT I'M BACK! This week i took extra delicious spinach tortilla wraps filled with hummus, sprouted seeds, mixed leaves, toasted seeds {ALL OF THE SEEDS}, pickled red cabbage and a great big dollop of lime pickle 'cos that's my current favourite 'thing.' I didn't do any veg chopping BUT i did take along my own snacks from the cupboard. But then i probably <i>did</i> defeat all of that by ordering a mustard satin <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">headband</span> from H&M that has been out of stock for <i>weeks</i> and i've been lusting after for what feels like forever. S'all about balance i guess....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Puppy class. I mean i'm trying to not make each #wonderfulwednesday post about Ness but this week was her f<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ir</span>st puppy class and i've been SO nervous. We haven<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'</span>t avoided other dogs but we <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">haven't</span> naturally encountered many <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and</span> if we have it's only been in passing so i just didn't know what to expect! There w<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as</span> only us, a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">P</span>atterdale terrier, a little jack russell and a baby boxer dog in our class and Ness was so good! She was timid and shy to start with but once she got into it she was so gentle and calm and lovely with the other puppies! She sat when we told her to and came right back to her name too. And when it was her turn to be off her lead and to say hello to everyone she kept coming back to us and sitting at our feet every so often and looking up as if to say 'Mum is this ok?'. I AM SO PROUD OF HER!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Being a team. Now we've got that little chocolate bean it just feels like we're a little family almost. I mean i never <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">really</span> felt like anything was <i>missing</i> exactly, but somehow a little gap has been filled that i didn't know i needed filled! And when we got out on our little walks together - <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even-though</span> she tries to eat every last thing imaginable {dandelion clocks - yes the fluffy white dandelion heads...yuk - are her current favourite} and walks in zig-zags and wants to say hello to everyone and anything she can see - i love it. I love her inquisitive nature and how brave she is and how she just takes everything in her stride. And i love how she sits in between us on the sofa chewing her favourite toy {usually for a couple of minutes before she tries to chew one of us}. She's the sweetest little bear!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Waiting. I'm a terror....actually WAIT: I <i>used</i> to be a terror for really thinking i needed something and would dive straight in and buy it and most of the time either return it or never ever use or wear it. But over the last few months i've bought less and really thought about what i wanted and what i needed. Whenever i pick up something or get distracted by something the first thing i ask myself is: What does is do better than something else in your wardrobe that you already have?' And you know what? Nine times out of ten i think and i realise i already have something that ticks that box. Or if i don't think i have i wait. And i think. And then i wait a bit more. And if i forget about it altogether then i never really wanted it that much in the first place. Or if i look forward to going to get it and get really excited then i know i'm going to love it and use it as much as i can and that there is place for it. I'm by no means perfect but i do feel like i'm getting there.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Chai tea before bed. i mean i love it all year round but the howling gales of this week...the darker evenings and the grey light....well i've been craving spiced cardamom and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cinnamon</span> chai each evening. Last night we curled up and dunked hazelnut and chocolate cookies into milky chai whist watching The Great British Bake Off {that pup was out for the count after all of her friend-making} and i'm convinced i slept better because of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Kissing Ness' ears. Sorry! Favourite thing ever. And even more special as you can only really get away with it first thing in the morning or last thing at night when you pop her out in the garden before tucking her up! Otherwise there's a distinct possibility you'll lose your nose altogether....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Crumpets. But not <i>just </i>crumpets: Seedy sourdough crumpets spread with Pip and Nut's Maple Peanut Butter and topped with sticky sliced figs and toasted black sesame seeds. SO GOOD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And we're all done and dusted, ticked off and happy listed for another seven days would you believe it?!!? 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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-79301806752075391462018-09-12T07:00:00.000+01:002018-09-12T07:00:05.159+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #236<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hello! How do you do? I'm calling this 'the thirty minute edition' since as that's the only physical time i have to write this weeks post on Tuesday evening in amongst general life admin, a hyper 'wants to play with and eat everything' puppy and the time to actually make and eat food. Oh and The Great British Bake Off. But hopefully you wont begrudge me that one luxury?! Will you....?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week has gone before it's barely started. I'm in Edinburgh <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tomorrow</span> - locked up in a hotel doing a presentation that i feel very under-prepared for <i>despite</i> feeling like i have spent forever preparing. Oh the irony. Wish me luck! But for now we better get our skates on because i'm already ten minutes in......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Cold nights. A bitter sweet one <i>because</i> with them come the sure-fire looming of <i>really cold nights</i>!!! BU<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T</span> there is something comforting about blankets, lamplight, lighting 'spiced anythings' candles and sleeping all bundled up in pyjamas and a great big cloud of a duvet. I hope i haven't peaked too soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Porridge. I write this like i ever <i>stopped</i> eating it for breakfast over Spring and Summer. I most certainly did not BUT this week i've been enjoying adding cinnamon, cardamom and hedgerow blackberries AND drizzling it with local honey. There's nothing more worth getting out of bed for as far as i'm concerned. It's <i>the</i> only reason.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Puppy cuddles. An actual rarity. This gal just wants to go, go GO at a million miles an hour and is still finding her way quite a lot of the time with those puppy teeth! BUT if you get her first thing on a morning or last thing at night - the sweet spot is usually right before we got to bed and have to wake her up to pop her in the garden - she is THE sweetest most cuddly floppy little chocolate bean and i just <i>hope</i> she'll be like that a lot more as she gets bigger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Tea. Steamy hot tea drunk a lot more hurriedly than ever used to be AND usually with one eye on a puppy in the garden who wants to eat ALL of the 'Everythings' and the other on where the nearest poo bag might be.....How times have changed. There's something quite nice about hot tea drunk in the garden in your pyjamas as the sun rises....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Challenging oneself. Even if i wouldn't have actively volunteered to do a presentation at work and have sort of been rail-roaded into it, it <i>has</i> been rather nice doing something outside of my comfort zone and re-remembering skills i only really used last when i was a uni and THAT <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wa</span>s far too long ago to admit to now. As for how the standing up infront of people will go....well i guess i'll let you know....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And i'm DONE! Short and sweet this week and tip-tapping out as fast as my little fingers will let me! I hope you don't mind...?! I'm mere seconds away from that oven timer going off and i can hear that puppy dog scampering about downstairs!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But go! Go and fill your hearts with more wonderful and more <i>Wednesday</i> and skip right on over to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , 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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-44343156507793046852018-09-05T07:00:00.000+01:002018-09-05T07:00:06.402+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #235<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>{</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">Dipping my toes into autumn...and very happy about it! Hello September!</span></span></span><b>}</b></span></span> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm BACK! This week has been a blur of working six whole days in a row and of busy-ness, and actually having to stop for a second a wonder if i'd missed this weeks post altogether! Phew. Am i allowed to be secretly glad that since as it's now September i can legitimately add 'Autumn' as a label to my post since as i don't mind telling you i've been itching to for too long to admit to. How are you?! Tell me about your week and what's been good and great and damn right wonderful. The start of a new season is the <i>perfect</i> time to notice the littler lovelier things and to be grateful for them, don't you think?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. That <i>light</i>. Here we are only <i>just</i> into September and this is already the <i>second </i>time i'm wittering to you all about The Light. Who knew a season could make such a difference but i've most <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">definitely</span> felt the flip of the autumnal switch these past couple of weeks which makes any kind of sunlight just more.....<i>magical. </i>It's the way it casts a glow, creates a shadow and even the shades of sunlight and sunset have more warmth and golden-<i>ness</i>. It's also the most fleeting kind of a light: The 'blink and you really <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WILL</span> miss it' and the kind that if you're lucky enough to be caught in, you really owe it to yourself <i>and</i> the light to just stop and <i>be</i>. I'm keeping so much crossed that this autumn is bathed in all of the golden glow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Morning routines. You know me and my routines! Well haven't they been tipped all kinds of upside down and inside out since the arrival of Miss Ness!?! Turns out it's taken its time but we've found our new ones and the morning one is now my favourite. I get up at 6am make me a cup of tea and that little bear her breakfast and then we have a bit of garden time {me with a hot mug of Lady Grey and her with....well usually a rope tied to a ball!} and then we have a little cuddle on the sofa with a rope toy to chew and then i tuck her back up in her crate whilst i get sorted and the Mr gets up. She'll usually have a little sleep and then sit and watch me eat my porridge. It's the sweetest company!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Firsts. It feels like there's been a lot of puppy 'firsts' this week: First time meeting a proper real life other dog that wasn't in the vets {a frenchie who wanted to snuffle and snort all over her which she wasn't so keen on and mostly had a little bit of a cry! And then a border terrier in the park today which she gave a little nose kiss too but then mostly wanted to hide behind my legs!} and then first walks! This has been the big one: She's been so good and minus wanting to eat a fair few leaves and sticks and be a bit...all over the place - she's been really good and is loving a little adventure! It feels like she's got lots bigger this week too! Where does the time go?!? Where is my teeny tiny 'couldn't <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">get on the sofa' puppy?!?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Cool misty mornings. The kind where there's dew on the grass, the air feels a <i>little </i>bit damp and you can just<i> smell </i>autumn. The<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y'<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">re</span></span> my favourite. They're just made for hot tea and porridge; for cardigans over pyjamas and for slippers. And that's making my whole heart full and happy right now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Hugs. Not to be sniffed at and something that isn't mentioned enough or rated highly enough either! I've worked for six days in a row and <i>sometimes</i> a great big hug at the end of those few days is all it takes. That and the promise of two days off together. And maybe a puppy snuggle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Nuts and chocolate. I've really been craving chocolate this week - i think it could be the tiredness of the six days in a row at work. Somehow i've been fine all week but the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tiredness</span> only really hit me on Monday in one great big t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ired-al wave</span>. See<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> what i did there!?! </span>I've 'fixed' it the last couple of nights with hot tea, brazil nuts and few squares of my favourite Green and Black almond milk chocolate. Sometimes you've just got to listen to your body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Being met from work by the Mr and that crazy little spaniel by surprise on Tuesday. It was the first time i'd seen her out in the great big wide world on her big girl lead and i <i>almost</i> had a lump in my throat!</span></div>
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-19054234928937254512018-08-29T07:00:00.000+01:002018-08-29T07:00:15.706+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #234<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh hello YOU. How the devil do you <i>do</i>?! How is it <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">N</span>ow?! Where have the past seven days even gone and HOW are we on the very brink of September no less?! It <i>could</i> be one of my favourite months you know: First berries: Blackberries, Elderberries and Hawthorn to name but a few. Dew on the grass, a nip in the air first and last thing and time to dig out my favourite tan chelsea boots to wear for the forseeable. Yes it's the end of such a wonderful summer BUT there's something about a new month and <i>especially</i> September because no month has 'new start' written all over it quite like this one does. I mean people can say what they want about January and 'New Year this, New Year <i>that</i>' but September is my fresh page for <i>always</i>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Losing track of the immaterial. I cant believe where lately has gone. I mean, <i>i even more can't believe where lately has gone</i>! Maybe {probably!} it's those two brown ears and little brown legs that have made lately seem one great big whirlwind of emotions BUT i know that each day lately my heart has felt full and i've dropped into the deepest sleep each and every night as soon as my head has hit the pillow. I haven't checked a 'New In' section on a website or spent money on anything that i or the puppy dog couldn't eat over the past few days and that feels sort of nice, you know!? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. That golden glow. Don't be surprised if that's not the last you read of that sentence on these here pages of the internet. The temperatures have dropped 'some' degrees this week - i for one am enjoying the cooler nights and a much crisper breeze tickling my cheeks last thing at night and first thing on a morning BUT what was extra, extra lovely was Tuesday morning's walk to work. I awoke at 6am to such a dark and dismally grey morning, and a little lurch in my tummy that only the loom of those dark Autumn mornings can bring and upon leaving the house an couple of hours later, was met with THE most golden glow and great big ball of orange in the sky. It cast the prettiest autumnal glow on each and everything it touched as i walked to work and it filled my little heart right up! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Sauerkraut and gherkins. Sandwiched in between torn up spinach, mustard, left over chicken breast and a little cherry tomato sliced. All pressed in between a flat bread and gobbled down for lunch for at least the past five days. Made up on the spot and a new all-time favourite!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Compote dreamin'. I neglected a handful of plums and now they're so over-ripe and soft that i daren<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'</span>t move them from the bowl on the windowsill that they're currently residing in. It's okay though. Tonight is Tuesday night, and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tomorrow</span> is Wednesday and i'm off all day. There is grand plans to make a spiced plum compote for stirring through creamy almond porridge and the thought of it alone is making me all kinds of hungry!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Those sweet sleeps. She's more of a micro-napper throughout the day that little Ness bear. We do little plays mixed in with little sleeps and that suits us just fine until she's big enough to go out on a lead. But come 9:30pm all she wants is to lie on her back, legs wide open and little paws crossed in her little bed in her crate and sleep, sleep sleep. She's so sleepy on an evening that i often have to lift her back up the back step after going to the toilet before bed because she quite often falls <i>up</i> it! But those star-shaped sleeps......we sit and watch her and just laugh so much! Little chocolate bean<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> you have our hearts well and truly!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Hummus spread thickly on toasted dark rye bread and dunked in tomato soup with a handful of toasted seeds. Easy-peasy and SO comforting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Hot chai tea before bed. It's <i>that</i> time. I bought a massive 'Smoked Vanilla' candle way back when and we light it most evenings after supper. I have a hot shower, throw on my pyjamas and we make chai tea and dunk shortbread in it. Maybe <i>that's</i> why i've been sleeping so soundly!</span><br />
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If you're a regular around these parts {or a #wonderfulwednesday writer!} you'll know the Helen from Roast Chicken and a Country Walk blog. She popped into work to say hi to me as she's up this way doing some work and it was SO lovely! And a little surreal! YAY TO THE INTER<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NET! And to #wonderfulwednsday s!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And it's all tick, tick, ticked off for another week of listing the best bits! Another seven days which have whooshed by within a blink! I swear to goodness that the year actually gets faster and faster once January and February are beyond us, don't you think?!</span></div>
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-73598158278096917702018-08-22T07:00:00.000+01:002018-08-22T14:32:13.853+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #233 <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well oh well oh <i>well</i> as if we're here again already?! I mean if you counted the amount of times i've said this now - well we'd be into the <i>squillions</i> BUT i really do mean it when i say these weeks rocket by with a blink of an eye!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Safe to say that they're <i>rocketting</i> by at even more of a pace since we got little miss Ness monster! I don't think i've had quite so many emotional highs and lows in my whole life as i have had in the past seven days! Sometimes i think that we've got this all sorted and we have a great day. And others, well you only have to look at the nibbles and munch marks on my hands and arms to know which one of us tastes the best! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Those snuffles. Puppy snuffles are the best. I mean in the whole of the day of Ness they make <i>uuuupppp</i> five percent of her day?! Yes the rest of the time she spends trying to eat any kind of labels on things i didn't even <i>know</i> had labels; trying to work out the 'puppy' in the patio doors and if she wants to play, biting my fingers....my hands, my ankles - heavens sometimes even my hip or my hair - just whatever is handy to be honest. BUT when she chills out and winds down - <i>usually</i> around 10pm - and just wants to be anywhere near you, on you or even just with a paw touching your hand while you stroke her little pink tummy - those little sighs and snuffles get me every time and suddenly the million bite and scratch marks all up my arms are worth it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Sleep. Let's just be honest here. We're counting ourselves VERY lucky over here that this little monster slept all of the way through the night from day three and also kind of hoping she stays that way! But us?! The first five nights hardly a wink. Do you know what sounds a lot like a puppy crying?! SEAGULLS. CROWS. SOMETIMES even a bus screeching to a halt. SOMETIMES i even dreamt i heard a puppy crying. Which at least makes sense unlike the Mr who had such a vivid dream that he couldn't sleep all about hiding in a bathroom from a lion {now tell me THAT isn't puppy related!} that he was awake most of the night one night last week. Finally we've settled down and into an evening routine AND i've also become one of <i>those</i> people who falls asleep as soon as their head hits the pillow. And early too. Amen for sleep and good skin. Even if my arms and ankles look like i've been through a shredder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Mint tea. Well always mint tea but i DO go through phases with the stuff. It's my go to 'calm-er down-er' when i'm feeling a bit frazzled or stressed! Often the first part of me that suffers in this instance is my tummy: All washing machine-y and unsettled. A couple of cups of mint tea and a little less caffeine-type tea is the ultimate 'Fixer.' Ps: Pukka 'Three Mint' tea is my favourite. OR Teapigs 'Mint and Liquorice.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Team work. Whether that's been at work or at home with the Mr tag-teaming that chaos-creator there's nothing better than feeling like you are part of a good team - having someone there to lean on, to pick up where you can't reach {whether that's armed with a poo bag or not!} and just someone who is totally on your page no matter what. It makes the achievable feel.....achievable {!!} and is also a real boost to everyone's morale. When something is hard work, emotionally, physically or mentally; a strong team can be your saving grace!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Humid hair. My <i>word</i>, we're at number five and we haven't even <i>mentioned</i> the weather!!! Who even am i anymore?! It's been pretty grim up North: Incessantly humid and sticky feeling with drizzly damp spells. Often-times this would mean i'd wash my hair more times than you can shake a stick at in an attempt to tame the frizzy flicks and twists and then step outside and two minutes later might as well have not really bothered! But when you've got a puppy you've got to make have a wee before bed OR you're so tired that you'd really rather sleep a bit longer WELL, yo - okay <i>I</i> have <i>sort</i> or learnt to love the flicks and fluff and added texture a little bit of 'mizzle' gives me. Have i gone entirely <i>mad</i>?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. The smell of rain. Have i told you that i recently learn that the word 'Petrichor' means the smell that comes from rain on a warm day?! So even though now is sort of damp and drizzly and throughly horrible, the sweet scent of rain has been really pretty lovely! Can we also put our hands and feet in the air if it's also nice to<i> hear</i> that muggy rain clattering down and battering the windows just as your dropping off to sleep?!? What's NOT great is having a dog who isn't all that keen on heavy rain. I mean she lives in Cumbria now. We might have to have some serious chats!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Ticking off jobs. Boring ones, but jobs still the same. Like hoovering {Ness also hates the hoover. Drills, hammering and any bass guitar-related noises at the Mr's works and she's fine. But hoover? Not so much.} and doing washing and making the bed. Can i be honest and tell you that everything totally fell by the way side last week after Ness' arrival?! But we're slowly learning about each other and our limits and <i>i'm</i> also learning that she doesn't need me 24/7! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Mindset. I wanted to write 'mental health' there but i am opening a great big cavernous expanse of a subject there and one which maybe there is a better place for discussion about it than in a #wonderfulwednesday blog post. BUT all i wanted to say was that since getting this little monster, i can't remember the last time i worried about something silly, immaterial even. I can't remember the last time i spent anytime i felt stressed about something silly i had no control over or worried what somebody else thought about something silly that didn't really matter. I've been wholeheartedly focussed on that little thing and making sure that she and the Mr are okay and that's it. I've spent most lunchtimes in the pet shop, or googling hints and tips to help train her and then any extra time appreciating those cuddles or <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">W</span>hatsapping the Mr at work to ask how she is. And i just feel less.......stressed about the small stuff and like i have an instant better perspective on things. Is that odd?!?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Aaandddd</i> it's all over for another week. I'm not honestly sure how i've gotten the time to write this week's post. SORRY it's late - #inter<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">netproblems. </span>If i'm entirely honest i have just worked the past six days in a row and had to double check what day it was this morning because i was convinced i'd missed Wednesday altogether BUT HERE WE ARE! and BETTER LATE THAN NEVER! I mean as hit publish, i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'ve said good<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bye to two t-shirts that the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> monster as sunk her teeth into and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'special kind of distressed for me', dropped her in her water bowl {only from <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a little height} and we've had three puppy time-outs for sharp <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">teeth and not being nice BUT i got this post up and out and figu<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">red out how to fire the 4G from my phone over to this Mac. Aint technolo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gy AMAZING?!? As you were....</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></div>
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-37689029693507912062018-08-15T07:00:00.000+01:002018-08-15T07:00:06.809+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #232<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">{</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">#wondefulwednesday-ers meet Ness</span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">!}</span></b></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WELL hello, hello there and how do you do!? I had a moment then where i couldn't remember writing last week's post and <i>then</i> i remembered that our internet broke and i Instagram-attempted it {which if you commented on said instagram post, thanks so much i honestly thought it might end up being a terrible idea but i had some SUCH lovely comments!} and then posted a little somethin'-somethin' on the Thursday instead. Did you catch IT?! Drama, drama, <i>drama</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SO incase you didn't know or don't follow me over on Instagram <i>orrr</i> Twitter, we got a little puppy on Sunday afternoon. I'm going to try my very best to not write or refer every single last point back to said puppy but i'm not sure how that one's going to go! Do let me know if you want more....or less ?! But in short she's a nine week old chocolate Sprocker called Ness. Or Nessy bear, Messy bear or most recently Sock Ness. She's settled in SO well and is picking everything up SO quickly. She's also the most affectionate little bean and will pretty much fall sleep on anyone that stands still long enough. She does <i>sometimes</i> forget she can't bite you <i>aswell</i> as her toys when she's having a mad ten minute frenzy. She also LOVES plastic bottles {not ideal....but they do go in the recycling afterwards...}, her stuffed carrot and her pink rubber ball. She hates her collar with a passion but we're working on that....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There! #nessspam over...<i>ish</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Ness. {errr...what was i saying?!} Alter ego: 'Loch Ness" {i mean i knew there was a reason we'd named her Ness....}. How to turn your world upside down in one easy step: Get a puppy! I joked on Twitter that i don't know how people with children AND puppies cope - i mean how do you even leave the house?! To say we're only two days in, or three when you read this, she's been SO good and brought us so much joy in such a short space of time. She's proving so clever and so intuitive and seems to pick everything up so fast: including anything she can get her puppy teeth into when you're not looking! She's only waking us once in the night and going straight to the toilet outside and then settling back in her crate downstairs without <i>too</i> much fuss. I shan't harp on - maybe everyone here doesn't want to read 'Ten million reasons why Ness is the best' instead of a normal #wonderfulwednesday-<i>Ness</i>{see what i did there?! Mwhahahaaaa}. Needless to say we love her A LOT and she's sort of filled a little gap that we didn't know we needed to filling. I'm not ashamed to say i filled up when i first met her *cough*. SHE'S SO SMALL. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. A little bit of a rest. By that i mean a few days off work. Well i <i>say</i> a rest. That was until 48 hours ago. Now i'm actually just a totally <i>different </i>kind of exhausted! But before that it was SO nice to rest, potter and just catch up with myself a little. I say it over and over and over so many times but i need to NOT run on empty as often as i sometimes let myself. I need to learn to say no and also that sometimes i don't have to do everything myself! I'm working on it i promise....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Peanut butter. Scratch that any kind of nut butter will do. I've been sort of a little bit off my food since we got little miss Ness - i think i'm just worrying about her - stupidly. She's given me no reason to and has been so very good with us, but i guess it's just upset things a little. I <i>know</i>. Afterall i am Little Miss Routine! I think once i get back to work and she starts off her little adventure going to work with the Mr each day i'll be fine. I just keep forgetting to eat. WHO AM I?! SO peanut butter has been my savour. Sweet, savoury, give me it always and everyday. I'm not used to being house-bound and keep forgetting to pick up food {again, WHO AM I?!} and any kind of nut butter has been swooping to the rescue on the regular.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. A little bit of stretching in a time of.....disruption. Made me feel a million times better whilst equally making me want to fall asleep! Trying to make sure that little Miss knows that she wont have our un-divided attention 24/7 when i want to hold her and cuddle her and let her sleep on me always is hard. Trying to just do what i'd usually do at home and not fuss around her too much. I'm pretty soon i'll soon be stretching on a yoga mat in the living room with a dog fighting to join in......but we'll see!</span></div>
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-55786039847541335482018-08-09T07:00:00.000+01:002018-08-09T07:00:03.466+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #231<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No the world has indeed NOT gone mad, it is I, here with a 'oops i missed the Wednesday part of #wonderfulwednesday but feel all kinds of back to front <i>not</i> writing to you so here we are' kind of a post instead. Confused? I can wholeheartedly sympathise 'cos if i'm honest i haven't really got a clue what day it is this week or even where last week ended and this one begun. BUT there is light! As you read this at 7am {if you're a keen bean} i'll be getting ready for my 'Friday' {AKA last day at work before five whole days off which i am MORE than a little ready for!} and 'end of the week.' Yes, yes i know: A Wednesday without a #wonderfulwednesday which is actually going up on a <i>Thursday</i> which to me is <i>actually </i>a Friday. If i'm befuddled i'm bringing you all down with me....</span></span></span></div>
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approximately eighty million times on this little corner BUT I’m a
chocolate gal through and through all of the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there’s a dessert to be picked,
know that I will always pick the chocolate one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there’s a flavour to be picked, know that, that
flavour for me will always be chocolate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there is or was any kind of comfort dish in the whole
and entire world for me….you guessed it:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will in some form or another be chocolatey. SO it
will come as no surprise to you that shooting right to the top of this
utterly exhausted gals ‘Tired Fixing Things to Eat’ list {catchy, no?} is
none other than a ruddy great bowl of chocolate flavoured porridge!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the very best bit is that I have
found….honed if you will; a way to make this chocolatey addiction pretty
much 99% good for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
just by always using raw cacao powder {jam packed with so many vitamins
and minerals and a great source of protein SO excellent breakfast fuel}
and a natural sweetner if I need one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always make my chocolate porridge with raw cacao,
Innocent Hazelnut milk and the ripest, most spottily-sweet banana I can
lay my hands on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh and a
great big teaspoon of coconut oil stirred through and topped with hemp seeds,
flax seeds and chai seeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ultimate ‘Fixer.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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summer sales this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
surprisingly because unlike every other year, this year summer has
been….well just that: Summery!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>BUT surprisingly I have sent most things back for one reason or
another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except one
ridiculously reasonably priced blouse from Topshop:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>100% cotton, wafty, huge and
voluminous {but in a way that I can knot or tuck into high waisted jeans}
AND a dusky Rose pink too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Better than all of those things, it cost £8!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say I have been living
in the thing for the last week which actually is the sign of a very good
buy already….</span></span></span>
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tea flavour and one which I usually reserve for Autumn since that is the
time of year when the cooler chills creep on in and I find myself often
feeling like I’m on the bring of catching a cold or the like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But since as there has been
somewhat of a chill and I am feeling a little sorry for myself, comfort
has been sought in a great big floral mug of my favourite berry-ey ‘sort
of hot Ribena-tasting” tea as soon as I get in from work after a little
ballet stretching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I
pick up a box I can always never ever resist picking up another flavour I
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sofa, a light blanket, a mug of something hot and resting your head on
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know it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just joking we can
all be a bit giddy and summery until at least the end of August.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact I’m not putting said rug
out until September.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that
weird?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me nothing say
cooler months than cosy sheepskin rugs whether that’s slung over the
bottom of our bed, across the back of the sofa or even actually on the
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">6.<span> </span>Candle light.<span>
</span>Not out of any dramatic power cut or any kind of romantic intent
either.<span> </span>Born purely from our own
laziness and the fact that the bulb has gone in the lamp in our living-room and
we keep forgetting to replace it.<span>
</span>Nobody wants the put The Big Light on {ho, ho, ho} so instead we’ve been
lighting more candles and curling up in cosy candlelight each evening and I’m
predictably thrilled about it as expected.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">7.<span> </span>YOU.<span> </span>And you
and you and YOU.<span> </span>Incase you didn't
see i wrote a mini #wonderfulwednesday type round-up over on Instagram
{www.instagram.com/sallytangle} if i'm honest, because it felt strange not
tip-tapping out a proper post in time for the mid-week.<span> </span>I was very un-prepared for quite how
well it was received and how WONDERFUL everyone's comments and messages have
been because of it.<span> </span>THANK
YOU.<span> </span>I mean i'm very tired and
easily made to cry this week but i am SO grateful for that little online
#wonderfulwednesday and beyond-type community that's sort of grown {?!} over
the past little while and i feel all kinds of lucky and happy because of
it.<span> </span>And especially extra special
thanks is going right out to those gals who join in each week too: Jo, Helen,
Michelle, Sarah, Kate, Cat, Sam, El , Kerri's, and Peta's and Ellie<span> </span>- you make each and every week brighter
and i mean that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If you made it this far you'll have realised that the text has got bigger. I'm sorry about that. Turns out Blogger hates me. Note to self: Never half-write your #wonderfulwednesday in Microsoft Word thinking that it'll save your sorry self a little time - It wont. And you'll still have mis-matched messy text and a bad head. </span></span></div>
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Have i mentioned it yet?!?!</span></span></div>
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-57192230383273785852018-08-01T07:00:00.000+01:002018-08-01T07:00:08.397+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #230 <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let us REJOICE! If only for the single fact that this #wonderfulwednesday post does<i> not </i>start with me telling you that i'm really flipping flopping <i>tired</i>. I'm not quite sure where this <i>fizz</i> and pockets of <i>beans</i> have come from but i'm holding tight! This week things have been getting done: crossed off, scored through and plans are being made. Who even <i>am </i>I?! I like this me. I'm not sure what the catch is or how it's come about. *whispers* "Maybe it's the weather." I mean i'm only <i>saying</i>.... AND IT'S THE FIRST OF AUGUST. There is some kind of crazy over-organised, 'a little bit control freak' inside of me that relishes the fact that this post goes up on the first of the month. *whispers again* "And the last month of Summer. tooooo-oooooo-oooo..." Don't hate me for that.....I mean it's not like i've said the A-word....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Tea. Tea, tea, <i>teeeeeeeeeaaaaa. </i>The official 'Fixer' of everything and everything. Always. I mean there's nothing better when you're feeling low, under the weather or just downright really flippin' <i>tired</i>. Tea has and always will be my 'numero uno.' I write this after the longest most tiring of days {this gal is MORE than ready for a Wednesday day off i can tell you <i>that</i>} with my favourite huge mug of Lady Grey next to me for company. I'm already half way through and i'm considering a second cup.....wild.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. A new desk. Maybe to inspire new things, new directions or even just fresh inspiration and ideas. Because nothing says 'Inspire Me' like a new corner to create in. Let's face it i mean it's only taken me almost two years to choose one. Things aren't looking so great for that badly needed bookshelf purchase are they?!? Now i just need to summon up the courage to give this blog layout some much needed TLC....Fancy telling me what you'd like to see more of on here?!?!? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. A welcome chill. Oh and the most horrendous rain i have seen in <i>months</i>. Praise be for the temperature dropping down a few degrees. I mean when it's here i'm all for it - that glorious 'bare feet on grass and icy 'Anything' in my hand' kind of a summer day BUT i was equally also more than a little 'here' for a cooler temperature and a notable chill in the air this week. I've slept better, <i>thought</i> better and generally <i>felt</i> better for a little 'let up' on the old heavy, humid weather. Now if we can kindly have one last burst of sunshine and warmth for the rest of August before i get my Au- <i>woah</i> i nearly said the 'A' word in almost-August then. <i>Phewwwwww</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. A new shower-gel. I mean there were times when i got my 'kicks' from a brand new outfit, shoes to match - heck sometimes even a bag aswell - and a night out drinking too many Mojitos and dancing until today became tomorrow. Now my fun comes in new soap flavours and harvesting my almost daily bunch of sweet-peas from the garden....oh and maybe a new mug from Anthropologie..... I DIGRESS. Times have <strike>aged</strike> changed. So i've fallen in LOVE with a brand called <a href="https://kindnatured.com/" target="_blank">Kind Natured</a>. They're stocked in Boots and all of their products are 99% natural, cruelty free and paraben and sulphate free to boot. AND THEIR SCENTS ARE AMAZING. In fact they're so amazing that i'm pretty much working my little way through the whole lot of them. I needed a new shower-gel and my current favourite scent is 'Sea Salt and Bergamot' {smells like summer in a bottle} but have just picked up their 'Amber and Pink Pepper' and as predicted, i love it even more than the Sea Salt and Bergamot. I genuinely love each product a little more than the last and have started to get excited when something runs out just because it means i can try something else....I use their body cream and shampoo and conditioner too and can vouch that IT'S ALL HEAVENLY. Go forth and indulge....And let us age {smelling beautfully!} altogether....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Sleeping <i>under</i> the duvet. Okay so we've chit-chatted about this before. But i'll forever be an 'under the duvet' gal and even if it's a million degrees you'll still find eighty-five percent of me under it. I can't sleep otherwise. SO imagine the joy if you will, of a fourteen degree evening and climbing under a cool cotton duvet, wearing a whisper of cotton pants and vest and wrapping yourself up like a big fluffy marshmallow and falling asleep with the cool breeze from an open window tickling your cheeks. Absolute and utter bliss and the best i've slept in <i>forever</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And another one bites the dust....<i>orrrrr</i> is done and dust-<i>ed</i> more to the point! Who can believe i'm at #wonderfulwednessday two-hundred and THIRTY. I think it could be the longest i've committed to anything! Well you know save for the Mr and my job BUT STILL. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Good day to you! I hope there has been much sunshine wherever you are but not enough that you feel frazzled to a crisp! Spare a thought for me when you drop by here since as i have a <i>serious</i> case of the back-to-work-blues! Ho-hum. I returned to work on Tuesday this week after a delightful seven days off and i feel like a completely different person because of it! I don't have much to show for it, save for maybe less under-eye-baggage and a much more <i>patient</i> and less-frazzled self and is it wrong to already be counting down the days until my next few days off?!? I must stop that at once! Forever wishing time away and looking forward to the next 'thing' and the next, and the next and the NEXT!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Time to hold my horses and list some jolly great stuff about right now...... Not the past, or the future - the Now.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. A garden. I cannot even <i>begin</i> to tell you quite how much pleasure our little patch of green has given me this year. Having spent most of my rented life in flats or shared houses with no garden spaces this was high, <i>high</i> up on why i wanted to move to this little house. Yes it's only a patch of grass with a small patio BUT it's amazing how much better i feel for starting the day and ending the day in there lately, due to all of this lovely weather. I'm slowly getting more confident with my green fingers and definitely want to try and grow some edible things next year and not just flowers BUT i'm convinced gardening has some health benefits. I feel infinetly better <i>tinkering </i>in the garden. And how many times have I raved on about line-dried washing?! Plus is there really anything better than bare feet on grass on a summer day!?!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Lime pickle. Usually something i'd only ever think of having with Indian food and <i>usually </i>something that would never cross my little <i>mind </i>to think to buy just as an every day condiment. I'm not even sure where the notion came from but all of a sudden here we are on jar number two in....ten days. I might need to reign it in somewhat. I've been having it on every thing you can imagine but here's my <i>favourite</i> few ways: Baked curried sweet potato and turmeric wedges {just wedges of sweet potato tossed in olive oil, turmeric, cinnamon and roasted curry powder and baked - HEAVEN} topped with the thickest, creamiest cottage cheese, nigella seeds and a great big dollop of lime pickle. A spinach tortilla wrap spread thickly with turmeric and yellow split pea hummus and filled with iceberg lettuce, cucumber, torn mint and coriander, toasted seeds and a great big dollop of lime pickle. Toasted sourdough topped with curried turmeric tofu or eggs and topped with nigella seeds, fresh coriander, sliced avocado aaaand you guessed it: Lime pickle. If you cut me open now i'd <i>mostly </i>be lime pickle. Anyone else not eat something for YEARS and then all of a sudden eat it all day every day until you're thoroughly exhausted from it and have tried every conceivable way to eat it in the whole wide world?!?!? Except most of the time these 'phases' don't stop, so much as just morph into a new obsession.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Dusky pink. IF somebody said to me, pick your favourite colour palette ever, i mean i'd really struggle because just like my dalliances, phases or downright <i>obessions</i> with foods; my love of colour can change with the wind just as much. One colour that rarely leaves whatever colour combo is inspiring me or making me happy as a clam lately, is a soft, dusky rose pink. I rarely find something it <i>doesn't </i>go with. It's <i>that</i> <i>colour </i>for me: It comforts me, makes me feel better and it's the one i gravitate to most at anytime of year. This summer has all been about rose pink, mustard and white for me. <i>Maaaaybe</i> with a hint of tan thrown in for good measure. Do you have a colour you're always drawn to no matter what?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Chocolate porridge. Yes i'm <i>that</i> gal: No matter the weather there will <i>forever </i>be two things at breakfast: Lady Grey tea and porridge. <i>Yes</i> the flavour combinations become influenced by the seasons: I've been adding coconut to it most days and fresh or frozen berries on top and often find i crave the fruitiness or zestiness of something fresher but it's <i>still</i> all about the porridge. <i>Sometimes </i>though, breakfast has got to be the comforting 'hug' of sweet, rich, <i>delciousness</i>. The sort of hug you don't get from fruity flavours or from a rosey coloured 'anything'. Sometimes the only thing for it is a bowl of rich, creamy chocolate, coconut and banana porridge and on my first day back at work on Tuesday, it was the invisible superhero cape i needed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Wavy hair. Because dontcha' always want what you definitely don't have?!? Naturally my hair could at best be described <i>aaassss</i>....'flicky.' It's not perfectly straight, but there's also really not enough wave to work with naturally either. Generally {and especially in this heat!} i'm a wash and leave it be kind of gal and only stick a hairdryer or heated appliance near my fringe {fringes are a different beast altogether!} BUT LATELY i've been wavin' it just a little bit. It's been nice to mix it up a bit, and i do find that oddly once my hair has been waved, it does last and needs very little else done with it bar a few spritzes of dry shampoo here and there. Sometimes a little change is a good thing....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Silence. There was a time when 'switching off' for me was playing music in my ears as loud as i could and running or cycling as fast as i could until i felt better. And there's nothing wrong with that. That worked then. But it doesn't now. Now doing that feels like....drowning out the 'hum' of life and the things that are bothering me, worrying me or causing me stress. Now calm comes in the form of total and complete silence. Of hearing nothing but the breeze tickling the grass as i wander home and the birds calling to each other as the sun slips into tomorrow. It's only in total peace and quiet that i can truly switch off and be still. Any kind of noise and i can't help the urge to do everything quicker, and usually end up in a bit of tizz. </span></div>
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-76498739183163725892018-07-18T07:00:00.000+01:002018-07-18T07:00:16.924+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #228<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well hellloooooo! How do you do and how has your week been? Catch me <i>up</i>! Mine has been long-feeling {and saying that as i type this to you on <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">{ONLY!}</span>a sunny Tuesday evening is not a great way to feel!}. That said, after working the last six days in a row i now have some much-needed time off! Quite often when you work most weekends and don't have the same one day off though the week each week you struggle to realise the end and the beginning of your working week. If it's super-duper busy {as mine has been lately} not stopping for long enough means you're left feeling a little bit sorry for yourself! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fear not! It's nothing that some fresh air, some one on one time with those two wheels and little bit of TLC wont fix I can be s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ur</span>e of that! I've been off only one day and i already feel better! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's get some happy listin' started shall we?!? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. A light shower. Now before we all get carried away i am most certainly not complaining about that glorious spell of sunshine an<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d</span> summer-feelin'-summer myself and most of the U.K has been enjoying BUT when i woke up this morning {Tuesday - the evening of the week i tip-tap this post out} the sky was heavy with rain clouds and the air smelt heavy, damp and delicious. I made a mug of tea and sat with the french doors open and watched a misty warm rain shower fall on the grateful parched grass and our endlessly thirsty plants and it was really quite lovely. Even though it continued to shower on and off all morning i threw on some jeans and a striped tee; scraped my hair back and took my bike out to run some errands all of the same. It wasn't a fierce, angry, 'let's get home quick before we get soaked' sort of rainfall. It was soft, misty, gentle and cool and calming. And the few laps of the park i did before my few jobs was much quieter than usual first thing too. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even of my hair was three times the size upon my <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">return</span> home..</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Multi-coloured tomatoes from the window-sill; cold-pressed olive oil and flakey sea salt. AKA Heaven. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. A new rug. I love a rug. Sad but true. I was actually sort of sad that our house only had wooden floors downstairs and not all of the way through when we moved in. I mean of course that kind of thing is changeable but the carpets are fairly new and there's nothing wr<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n</span></span>g with <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">them</span> and so it seems almost wasteful {?} to spend so much time and money on ripping it them all up...For now *wink wink*. But rugs! I love them because they can change a room so much, bring a colour scheme together and really add warmth, cosiness and comfort to a space. They're also a great way of breaking a b<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span>g space up or creating 'zones' within an open plan space. I digress. We've got a long, long hallway and I've been looking for a runner rug long enough and lovely enough since we moved in. This week i picked it up for £31 reduced from £95!!! Maybe i'll show you once it comes? It's berry red, inky blue and has a beautiful faded Moroccan print running all the way along it's length. Since as our hallway and front door is white i thought it would be the perfect pop of colour to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Rest. It's so easy to power through when you feel less than best. To not listen to the 'signs' and to push them back believing that you'll stop when you've done this, or that, or crossed off just one more thing off the list and before you know it you've got your head in a cupboard at work having a little cry. Sometimes taking time out and admitting that you haven't 'got this' isn't a sign of the defeat it can feel like at ALL. It's actually a sign that you're strong enough and brave enough to admit you can't do it all and that you're okay with that. Huge great and whopping love to anyone that sent over a lovely DM this/last week regarding my teary tweets and know that every single one of them meant the whole and entire world. Extra shout out to the ever beautiful Ruthie of <a href="https://cawligraphy.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">'Cawligraphy'</a> who sent me THE most beautiful post. There have been FAR too many tears since we were last here! Fear not, there's not much but rest and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">loveliness</span> on the agenda for the next few days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Water. I drink <i>gallons</i> of the stuff. I haven't always and if i'm honest if i'm feelin' a little less than best - whether that's just under the weather, tired or a little less than best - i often <i>want</i> to drink tea: My favourite mug, with my favourite citrussey, bergamot-y Lady Grey in. And i do. But know that it's mostly the gallons of water in between that make a difference. It's genuinely one of the things i really notice if i don't drink enough of the stuff. I feel tired, i can't concentrate; my skin looks dull, i struggle to sleep as soundly: I am generally just not my very best self. Lately has been so warm that i've been spiking that humble H2O with anythings and <i>everythings</i>: Half a lime juiced into ice-cold water with torn up mint leaves. 'On their way out strawberries' halved and frozen and dropped into water with some leftover basil leaves. Sometimes the juice of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">half</span> a lemon and some fresh sliced ginger for extra 'zing.' Sometimes {read most of the time} i've got an ice-cube tray on the go with one of these combos so i can have it on tap. Ho, ho do you see what i did there?! The lemon and ginger one is also great bobbed into an ice cube tray for the cooler weather: Half freshly boiled water, half cold water and drop one in and you have yourself a spicy lemon-y concoction! I always add a little raw honey for extra delicious-ness. Water?! Not so humble now hey?!! Ps: HOW have i written SO MANY WORDS ON WATER?!? I need to get out more.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Rose. That smell, well between you and I, cliche or not cliche it's always had my heart. Not the old lady sort of a rose scent - the deep, heady, rose absolut type of a rose scent. I have an expensive rose body oil that i was kindly bought for Christmas last year and man alive do i wish i could bottle that exact rose scent. I've been adding it behind my ears and dotting it across my chest and wrists on these warm summer days and smelling it all of the time has been the bees knees. Somehow i just makes me feel <i>better</i>. Is that odd?!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Rescuing lavender. I discovered only last week that most of the fairly reasonably priced bedding plants you buy at garden centres {ie: for me the ones i buy when some of the plants i've grown from seed die a death in this hot, hot weather} don't actually have nectar, due to the way they are produced <i>en masse</i>. So in effect, it's <i>sort</i> of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">false</span> advertising to bees and butterflies and the like since it's bright and blousy blooms but no pollen! Most of the plants i have - including the crazy out of control sweet-peas that i think i Instagram Story each day, and the Hydrangea plant that is just coming into bloom and a few other wild flower mixes should be okay but the bedding plants i do have, have all of a sudden made me feel awful for the bees! On today's errands about town i spotted two big <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lavender</span> plants reduced <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">because</span> they were just looking a little neglected. Naturally i bought them both {because 'sorry for themselves' plants or reduced flowers in supermarkets are my kryptonite it seems} home balanced all of the way home {evenly!} across my handle bars and they are now sitting pretty on my patio after a little drink and some afternoon sun. Be right back, i'm just waiting for the bees......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Being outside. I'm forever happier outside instead of in - no matter the weather! Of <i>course </i>lately has been a little bit of holiday-shaped heaven - even if that outside time is my wander in the sun on my lunch hour for fifteen minutes; a leisurely 'take it all in' type of a scamper home after work or even sipping a cup of peppermint tea in the garden as the sunsets - it doesn't matter <i>when</i> or how i fit it in, it's just important that i do. Just like my harp-harping on about drinking that water; being outside in the fresh, clean air does me just as much good mentally and physically!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And i'm only <i>done </i>for another week of #wonderfulwednesday 'in and happy listin'! Life has felt a little....emotional and tiring and <i>hard</i> lately but i'm looking forward to slowing it right down and putting me first for a little bit. 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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See you in seven days you wonderful bunch! </span><br />
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-79740059828197447942018-07-11T07:00:00.000+01:002018-07-11T07:00:10.189+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #227<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who can believe we're knee-deep in July?! Who can also even believe that it's been pretty much solidly warm sunshine for what...over a month now?! I've become so accustomed to it that i'm a little bit worried what might happen to me when it finally decides to leave us! I genuinely can't believe how much more energy i've had, how much happier i've been and how much better i've eaten. I mean i think i eat a pretty balanced diet all of the same but i feel like i've been much more creative and innovative with what we've eaten for supper and i've really enjoyed cooking from scratch and preparing food a lot more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Am i the only one who's not yet bored of the heat?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think it's high-time we cartwheeled right into this weeks #wonderfulwednesday happy list... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Hummus. I mean i've always got love for this stuff. I go through at <i>least</i> one pot per week - heavens sometimes two. I'll put it on anything and everything and it's just an all-round great fridge staple. Lately i'm all about beetroot and mint or split yellow pea and turmeric. What's best about the stuff is come this kind of weather: The hot, sticky, no energy to even turn an oven on let alone a stove ring; well you can pretty much build a decent and filling meal or snack from hummus. Mid afternoon hunger pangs?! Chopped 'whatever veg you've got' and hummus - win win! And if you're in a bit of a supper quandary, i love adding hummus to a big plate of salad, leftover sweet potato wedges, roasted veg cous cous etc. We even use the stuff as a pizza base on pitta bread too. I have also been known to just eat it from a spoon, sat cross-legged on the kitchen floor! Sometimes hunger just comes out of nowhere...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Summer mornings. I just can't get enough. Buzz off with your 'it's too hot' summer weather moaning. I'm <i>useless </i>in the heat but that said i've just been making use of the cooler mornings and evenings and always making sure i have a cool shower before bed. But summer mornings are just heaven. I stand and drink a mug of tea on the patio first thing and just collect my thoughts for the day - even for just ten minutes. It totally makes a difference to my mind-set for the day. Then i sit and eat my breakfast at the table with the french doors open and the cool early morning breeze tickling my ankles and the birdsong my only company. It's a little bit lovely. I'm far too often sad to actually move and get ready and fear i could sit there and collect my thoughts for hours on end!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Sleeping only half under the duvet. Do you know what if it was a million degrees i'd still need some sort of duvet to snuggle up to or at least to be partially under! As much as i wish i could sleep under just a cotton sheet or on top of the duvet entirely, i just can't settle! Heaven is sleeping half in and half out. Just enough to feel an evening breeze from an open window dance across my bare skin whilst having enough of the cool cotton quilt to snuggle up to. I {weirdly!} have been sleeping really well in this weather! Just waking up quite a lot earlier. I am much more productive earlier on in the day though so i have just been going with it and getting up and just easing myself into the day a little more slowly and gently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Picking sweetpeas. I'm vowing to grow even more things next summer since this years flowers have turned out so well! Picking sweet-peas takes me <i>right </i>back to being little and i've been loving how much i can't keep up with the daily blooms creeping up our trellis in the garden and flowering overnight! I feel like i add a few more to the vase in the kitchen each morning before i give them a little watering. I also love how the smell fills our kitchen - and i especially notice it first thing in the morning. And on the odd day i miss picking the sweet-pea flowers that have opened, come early evening as the temperature cools, you can really smell the sweet scent in the garden. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Making my own lunch. I'm feeling proud and really enjoying the fact that i've got back into making my own lunch to take to work each day. I'm usually so easily swayed by an extra ten minutes in bed and not leaving myself enough time or being organised enough to gather up ingredients that inspire me to want to create something for my lunch. Also sometimes it feels like it's tricky enough to meal-plan suppers alone for two of us for seven days at a time, that often the thought of having to sort out lunches too can seem daunting! That extra time in the morning though - born from this sneaky spell of beautiful blue skies and sunshine though is doing wonders for my mornings! It's also quite meditative when i give myself the time to prepare my lunch and some snacks each morning. I'm determined to keep it up as the months go on and summer slips into autumn.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Actually wearing summer clothes without hesitation or a single shred of doubt. More than that, <i>buying </i>actual summer clothes to wear in this country and actually wearing them. I went full throttle last weekend and bought a broderie anglaise white cotton sundress and i have actually lived in it. When has this ever happened?! When have we ever trusted the weather as much in our whole lives?! Hurrah for bare legs every single day, for not taking any kind of cardigan or jumper {who remembers those things called coats?!} with you anywhere and not even giving it a second thought! If only you could depend on every single season. I mean i would two-hundred percent accept a long and cold winter like last years if i knew this was what i got come June. <i>Eeeeeasily.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>7. </i>New potatoes and tomatoes. Because there isn't a single time of year but right now - maybe even this very <i>second</i> - that both of those things taste like heaven on earth. Oh and maybe strawberries and raspberries two. I can take or leave tomatoes the rest of the year you know. I prefer to roast them and have them piled on sourdough toast. But come summer? I could eat a bowl of baby cherry tomatoes from the little porcelain dish on our kitchen window-sill. And new potatoes? Hells <i>bells</i> they are dreamy tossed in nothing but salty butter<i> </i>and fresh torn up mint. Hot or cold i'm not fussy. HURRAH FOR SUMMER FOOD!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hello<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, hello, <i>and </i>hello again there! How the bobbins <i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> you?! Tell me how has your week been...? If you are an eager beaver and read this early-doors on Wednesday morning i'll be getting myself ready for a th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">irteen hour shift at work. I am <i>absolutely</i> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dreading it and worrying myself silly that even-though i have so much time, that i just wont get everything <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">don't</span> that i need to in those thirteen hours. Crazy! And stress is no good for anyone - at my most-stressed i'm mostly just useless: My minds here and there and every<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">where it shouldn't be and it takes me a million ti<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mes longer to achieve anything b<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ecause my mind can<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'t and wont settle on just the one task! I'm already thinking of the next thing<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the next thing and the next thing after <i>that</i> and quite frankly it does nobody any good. So tonight {Tuesday} i'm going to take it easy<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: Have a long<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, cool lavendar-y shower and read my book and try and not think myself into an impossible dark little hole<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> where i am no <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">use to anyone! </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Melon. Melon, melon, MELON! I'll take whatever there is but my all-time favourite has to be watermelon. I've been living off the stuff: Storing chunks of it chopped up into tupperwares so it's easy-peasy to de-cant and transport to work with my lunch. I've been saving it until right at the end of the day and eating it on the walk home in the sunshine. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's a g</span>ame-changing tip for all you melon worshippers like me: Chop up your melon into bite-size chunks and freeze. When you take it out, pop a few chunks into a bowl and squeeze a wedge of lime over the top. Torn up mint leaves are optional 'cos we're getting a bit fancy-pants and carried away over here but OH MY it might go down in history as THE most refreshing thing ever! Word to the wise: It's ridiculo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">usly easy to almost eat an entire <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">watermelon this way also. Chopping it all up sort of means you also lose track. Don<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'t do that. Stomach ache is nobody's friend<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.....</span></span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Pea pesto. I mean WHERE have i BEEN?! Pesto is one of my <i>favourite</i> things in the whole wide WORLD. I don't know why i had never considered adding peas into the equation. This kind of pesto will CHANGE YOUR LIFE<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, or at lea<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">st your Summer. If you're all like me lately, it's all about what can i make that takes barely any heat or time to put together at all but that tastes <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">really rather ama<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">zing.</span></span></span></span> It's just cooked leftover peas {sometimes i also add in a few podded broad beans or edamame beans too if they're hanging aroun<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d causing trouble</span>} whizzed up with a garlic clove, a handful of spring onions, some olive oil, a great big handful of fresh mint and a little dried or fresh chilli and then salt and black pepper to taste. IT'S HEAVEN . Infact it's particularly yummy tossed through leftover baby new potatoes or spread thickly on top of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">toasted</span> sourdough with a few dollops of as <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">thick</span> as you can get cottage cheese and crumbled walnuts. I even used it spread on a tortilla wrap the other day. I then piled in some spinach and boiled eggs and rolled it all up and it was YUM. You are welcome m<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y friends</span>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Swallow-spying. It's sort of become my evening ritual. Have a shower and pop on my pyjamas. Then pop into the garden to water the plants and pick and any flowers or herbs i fancy. Then to just stand and watch the swallows swish, and swoop up, up, up and and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">away, dancing so gracefully along the</span> warm summer evening breeze. It's actually quite calming to watch!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Holiday weather. It's worth noting that i am not one of those people who can lie out in the sun star-shaped. My skin is so naturally milk-bottle white that it's nearly <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">translucent</span>. I'm a restless soul at heart and so sitting still at any point is tough for me. I like being on the go, <i>doing </i>things: Fizzing and whizzing about. Therefore i'm not <i>naturally </i>somebody who copes well in temperatures over, say 20 degrees. All of that said, lately is LOVELY. And despite all of the previous factors, i will NOT hear one single bad word said about the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">glorious</span> and consistent holiday-feeling 'Real Summer' type weather that we have been so blessed with up in 'Never Quite This Sunny Consistently Cumbria.' No i will <i>not</i>. I will spread on the factor 50 SPF like the pale gal that i am, i will cycle in the morning or after 6pm and i will drink more water than i know what to do with - even if it feels sometimes like i am more water than human - I will eat all of the icy melon, be creative with all of the seasonal fruit and vegetables and be really and truly grateful. Because i cannot actually remember a time when Summer has ever felt like this since i was at primary school. And that's <i>that</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Blusher. 'Cos it's <i>mostly </i>all i've been wearing on my face, save for some SPF and if i'm looking really tired, a few slicks of mascara. I used to <i>hate</i> not wearing make up a few years ago. I got so used to my face being one colour, one solid samey all over kind of a colour. And you know what? News flash: At any given time of year, {granted everyone's skin looks miles better after some serious vitamin D} nobody's skin tone is one shade all over! Now i've come to terms with that i spend more time {and money, but not lots} on my actual skin<i>care</i> rather than my makeup. A few laps of our dear sweet park and my walks to and from work in this lovely sunny weather mean that a little smudge of pink on my cheeks and i feel like i look like me. Hurrah for sun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Summer mornings and summer evenings. The two best parts of the day if you ask me although obviously the scales sway <i>ever so slightly </i>in favour of the AM vs the PM but i'll take either lately. Mornings for the early morning light, the sound of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chattering birds</span> and for flinging open our french doors and stretching with the cool morning air dancing around my sleepy body. And for breakfast in the garden, or tea in the garden - are you sensing a theme?! Summer evenings for cool lavendar-y showers with my favourite scented candle lit. For soft evening light and only fairylights to light the way. For slathering coconut body butter on damp sun-kissed skin after a shower and curling up on the sofa in cool cotton pyjamas with the french doors wide open the smell of early evening grass and l<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">iste<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ning to the sweet twit-twoos of swallows as they swoop and dip<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">along on the cool late ev<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ening bree<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ze. And for sleeping with damp coco<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nut-y hair and the window open as wide as it'll go. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Poetry. By <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">far <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">m<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y favourite</span></span> medium<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, to read anyway. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oddly enoug<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">h, despite being a lover of the written word and one for alw<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ays admirin<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g a long and beauti<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fully tangled sentence that i can get lost in, i've never tried to wr<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ite a poem. Maybe i <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">should give it a go! This week i've been reading through a few poems - the first time i have taken time to do this in <i>years. </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's really <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">affirmed my love for it and i think i mi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ght try and do a little more. Maybe i <i>will</i> even try and write a few verses. Hey, maybe one week i'll writ<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e a #wonderfulwednesday poem! I have c<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">onsidered a #wondefulwedne<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sday Vlog or podcast but find just fitting in this little corner a tough job some<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">times so wouldn'<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t want to prom<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ise something i couldn<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'t put my all into, you know?! BUT POETRY! Send me over your recomm<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">endations if you love it as much as me!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-56845414444343332552018-06-27T07:00:00.000+01:002018-06-27T07:00:12.432+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #225<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today at 7pm {Tuesday evening as i type, the time of the week i write my #wonderfulwednesday} it's 28 degrees. I can't ever remember a time in Cumbria it <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">has ever been</span> 28 degrees. Scratch that i can't ever remember a time in my <i>life</i> it was ever 28 degrees<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!</span> It's made my head do funny things! I feel as if it's<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>not <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">been</span> fully attached to my body all the live long day! Today will also forever be known as the day i wore the prettiest white cotton sundress and only noticed about ten minutes ago that you could see my underwear through it! You can also see the great big <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">splodge</span> of orange melon juice i dribbled down the front of it as i scampered out of work shovelling icy chunks of the stuff into my mouth because i was too hot and too impatient to wait any longer. I hope it comes out. Any tips if it doesn't?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scorching heat and melon gobbling aside it's been a busy but a-okay sort of a week. Productivity {or at least the <i>feeling</i> of it has been resumed}, jobs have been done and things ticked off too. But with that and The Heat {i wonder how many times i'll mention the weather <i>this </i>week?!} comes the inevitable tidal wave of sleepiness and tired. Thanks goodness for this little post and for <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tomorrow</span> off work to potter and adventure on those two wheels <i>without</i> a see-through dress and with plenty of suncream!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Ice-cold watermelon and cucumber. What i really want to write here is 'anything cold.' But actually what's winning in all of the fruit and veg stakes around these parts is great big chunks of as cold as i can get it {read: sometimes ten minutes before i eat a few chunks of either i put my little tupperware in the freezer just for fun - that's right i <i>do</i> know how to party!} cucumber and watermelon - both or one or the other. Either way they're both just ridiculously refreshing and is it weird that i'll take either of them over ice-cream any day?! Honestly give me a great big bowl of ice-cold watermelon, torn up mint leaves and a squeeze of fresh lime and <i>sometimes</i> if i'm hungry a great big dollop of equally ice-cold Co-Yo right on top and i'm happy as the happiest clam ever was. Also for those savoury beans out there, those great big chunks of cucumber work just as well with torn up fresh mint, a few toasted sunflower seeds <i>aaaaand</i> a great big spoonful of the thickest, creamiest cottage cheese you can lay your little hands on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Remembering to put an apple in the fridge at work all ice-cold and ready for 'end of day twenty-five minute wanders home' where you crave something sweet for energy but nothing but icy-cold will do. Are you sensing a theme...?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Having an empty laundry basket when it's barely even Tuesday. Who am i!? Not the productive domestic goddess you're imagining that's for sure! Praise be to drying washing outside any-which-way but let us praise even <i>more </i>the ability that almost thirty degree temperatures has to mean i can get ALL OF THE WASHING done in a blink of an eye! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Wafty cotton dresses, bare legs, tan flip-flops and the hugest floppiest sun-hat to hide hair that hasn't been near a hair dryer in the best part of a week! Pretty much my every day uniform lately and just the coolest and comfiest! Does it make me sound old if i tell you i wish that more things were made of linen and cotton?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Turtle doves. There's a pair of them {least i <i>think</i> it's the same pair!} that have hung around our garden since we moved in. They sit on the fence next to each other and they cuddled up when it was really snowy over the icy months. Sometimes there's a great big flutter of feathers and a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ferocious</span> squawking that comes from the great big sycamore tree at the very end of our garden when i assume they've had a little fall out or maybe Mr Turtle Dove hasn't washed the dishes. But most mornings lately they're all i can hear first thing as i get ready in out spare room - coo-cooing to each other, one on the roof above my head and the other in the tree. When there's nothing else to hear in the morning but that, and the birds twittering away in the distance, it's actually really lovely. Maybe i should give them some names...?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Tea on a hot day. Okay so i'm one of <i>those </i>people: Not much can keep me from my cups of Lady Grey and actually even in this hot, hot, <i>hot </i>summer weather i find nothing more refreshing than a little mug of tea! Obviously it's even <i>more </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">delicious</span> if you can find a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">shady</span> cool spot on the grass in the garden. In fact i've been making a point of drinking my morning cuppa in this exact way! The only <i>small </i>problem is that it leaves me very much <i>not </i>wanting to go to work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Salad-y suppers. My favourite kind of suppers. Well, you know unless you're going to let me have something breakfast-y for supper instead 'cos then we'll be BEST of friends! Jokes aside, there's nothing i love more at this time of year than just filling up our fridge with fresh seasonal fruit and veg and making supper up based around the most basic things - torn up basil, wild rocket and tomatoes from the window sill with sea-salt, black pepper and a really big zig-zag of olive oil with some crusty bread. Or grated carrots, apple, toasted sesame seeds and torn up coriander dressed with fresh lemon juice and tahini. Or charred baby gem lettuces served up with tamari, toasted sesame seeds and fresh lime. These are all so good served on the side with some protein. Or sometimes i just pair them with left over new potatoes with fresh mint and butter; some leftover quinoa, or even just a little leftover pesto-y pasta and some olives or anti-pasti. If i'm ever in doubt, a slice of toasted rye bread with hummus is always a safe bet too. I LOVE summer food!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Cucumber and mint chopped and torn up in a great big glass of cold, iced water. At this time of year, it's the simplest most easy things that really are the best and if like me, you're just not a sugary drink, drinker then this ones for you. I also love frozen raspberries dropped into water with mint, or even a couple of fresh strawberries and some torn up basil leaves. Lime and mint is also a great combo! Or lemon and basil! The options are endless! And you can even make up fresh fruit or herb ice-cubes so they're good to go whenever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9. Homemade ice-lollies. The bees knees if you ask me! Ours were made from coconut yoghurt blended with frozen blueberries and a great big scoop of Acai powder for extra goodness. I then popped some desiccated coconut and chopped walnuts into each mould before i poured in the mixture for some extra crunch. They are so easy and SO GOOD! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh <i>hello </i>there! I'm here reporting for <strike>duty</strike> #wonderfulwed<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nesday -<i>ness</i> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">still feeling as tired as i did when i fin<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ished work <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">last</span> Friday for a few days off. How can that even <i>be</i>?! Do you ever feel like you're sleeping fine - you're getting the hours <i>in</i> but <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you're <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">busy-sleep<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing?! ie: You're waking up from your solid eight hours only to a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ctually feel not very rested at all. Well hands up if that's you this week 'cos it's most <i>definetly</i> me! I think it's<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> mental exhaustion as a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ppose to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the p<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hysical kind. What has helped it the past few days has been <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">some</span> dry weather and time out on those magical two wheels after the wettest mo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">st grey weekend<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!</span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not only does ri<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ding several thou<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sand laps of our sweet park physically tire me out but the time spent focussing on not much else <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">apart</span> from my breathing and the gulping great big lung<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fuls of fresh air also helps my mental state - no question. SO predic<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tably just as i'm starting to feel more rested.....it'<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s <i>time to go back to worrrrrrrrrk </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!!!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's hoping a great dose of #wonderfulwednesday li<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sting sorts out my frown...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Alone time! Something that's such a personal thing. Some people are their happiest surrounded by others and in company and don<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'</span>t need nearly as much alone t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span>me as others. For me personally i really and truly relish my own time and space and find if i don't get enough of it i almost feel a little flutter of panic in my chest. I find it helpful to be alone with my own thoughts regularly - it almost makes them not so hard to digest<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and</span> to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sort out{?}</span> even. I use my alone time to think, and sometimes in quite the opposite way: to not think at all and just to <i>be</i>. Whether this time spent by myself is intentional - so a really long good few laps of our local park by myself on two wheels - or unintentional: My twenty-five minute walk home from work no matter what the weather throws at me, {i'm very proud to have never caught a bus home in the whole two years we've lived outside of the city centre even if i <i>have</i> arrived home covered in half a hailstorm, several blizzards or even just well and truly <i>soaking</i> wet on many occasion!} or the ten minutes sat eating my breakfast in the morning or taking off my make-up and having a bath or shower on an evening. It doesn't matter <i>how</i> i get it, just know that with it I. Just. Feel. Better. And i've stopped feeling bad about that! This week i've felt like i've really treasured being able to have a Monday off work and some time with just little old me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Exercise. Sort of, <i>kind</i> of linked to the above BUT with a little 'less-than-best' feeling self comes the urge to get out and move in fresh, blustery, 'blown-each-way-and-that' kind of weather. Even if riding my bike in said <i>gazillion </i>mile per hour winds on Monday might not have been my very best idea this week {hello when it hurts to bend down and hurts even more to get back up again!} the ten minute ride to our park; plus the six blustery laps of it {my usual is around and about three} and the uphill ride all the way home again made me feel on top of the world! The fact that i struggled to get a brush through my hair on arriving home was more than worth it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Really rather ripe bananas. This week <i>smooshed</i> onto toasted rye sourdough with a great big zig-zag of runny peanut and coconut butter, toasted coconut flakes and a little pink salt. Or sometimes positively <i>devoured </i>after a really painful 'twisty-turny' sort of a ballet work out. Caramel-y sweet and oh-so-yummy ripe bananas are my absolute favourite!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Stretches. Whether it's the first one i do lay in bed on my back in the biggest star-shape i can manage OR the other few i do in the early hours as the kettle boils for a little warm water and lemon. Stretching really helps set me up for the day. Does that sound weird?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Watermelon and lime. Best. Combo. Ever. Or not least one of them and actually up there with peanut butter and raspberry jam; tea and biscuits and rosemary and potatoes {nb: this list could go on for a long, l-o-n-g time!}. But as a summer pick you up?! Just the bees knees. I cut it up into bite-sized chunks and just squeeze a great big wedge of lime juice over the top. If i'm ultra organised i add in some torn up mint leaves for extra freshness. Top tip: If it's really hot, watermelon is the bees knees frozen in chunks. You heard it here first. Go forth and be refreshed my friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Listening. But to the insides. I think i'm quite good at this but as with everything there's always room for improvement. I try to always listen to my body when it comes to eating. I can have such an irritable tummy and i know what will aggravate that if i'm feeling less than my best. It's never been a case of food intolerance for me but much more about my mental state when i eat. I like to think that my body 'asks' for what it needs when it needs it and that the key to a more...peaceful {?} tum is balance. If i'm really craving something, i have it. I believe that my body is craving something for a reason and the key to really enjoying your food, apart from the balance aspect; is to feel fully satisfied in what you eat and not forever trying to curb those cravings. They're there for a reason! This week has been all about listening to my tummy even more and feeling the benefits of that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Charred baby gem lettuce. Quite possibly <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THE most middle class sentence i might have ever typed. Also by me telling you that i have wanted to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">try char<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ring a lettu<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ce for SO LONG, will you judge me?! Please don't bec<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ause it is ALL kinds of del<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">icious! This i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dea has mostly been born from <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the fact that i am <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">trying to stop buying bags of lettuce. There really isn't any need since a) {i <i>hear</i>..} that grow<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing your own salad leaves at this time of year is a doddle {i'm sticking to my flowers this year, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but next? I'm all over those leaves!} and b) you can so freely buy actual whole lettuces - <i>tons</i> of kinds come <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tim<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e of year in the U.K. The thing is with fresh lettuce, i alw<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ays find that i use up all of the outer leaves in a jiffy and are left with the bitter<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, core {?} part and it usually just get<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s tossed in the bin or <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dunked in a tub of hummus. B<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by Gems have always been on<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e of my favour<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ites. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They've got back bone you see. You can pile individ<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ual lea<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ves high with anything and everything {i love smoked salmon, creamy cottage cheese and loads of fresh dill and a squeeze of lemon} and kind of use them <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as a non-bread sandwich if you're feeling like you'<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ve eaten a bit too much bread lately. You can use them <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for dips. Hells <i>bells</i> they're even del<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">icious <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">diced ever so finely and stuffed into pittas, burger<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> buns</span> and the like. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So <i>where </i>were we?! Oh YES CHARRING THEM! It's not rocket science and so easy you could do it wi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">th your eyes closed {but <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you know, don't!}. I warmed up a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dry frying pan on a medium heat. Sliced a baby gem do<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wn the centre and pop<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ped in both sides; flat side down. I moved them about a bit here and there <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and</span> just let them char as much as i wanted. Then i popped them onto the plate and zig-zagged them with tahini, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">salt and black pepper and a squeeze of lemon. I'm also going to try them marinaded face down in a little <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tamari f<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">irst, </span>an<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d then top<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ped with tahini<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, chopped chilli and toasted se<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">same seeds. Such a yummy side for any meal and something you <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">definitely could play about with. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Home. I'm <i>such</i> a home-y person. I love nothing more than pottering about here at home and being <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cosy. Or when it's warm, just sat in the garden with a mug of tea and my book. Even though i like going away, visiting people and seeing lovely places; i always feel grateful c<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">oming ba<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ck home. There's nothing better than having a safe haven and place that you can feel totally relaxed<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Especially if you're feel<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing just a little bit frazzled!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-59130853437173715472018-06-13T07:00:00.000+01:002018-06-13T10:21:34.937+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #223<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well hello! How the devil do you and 'all that?!' This week has been a tough one. Long and lasting since this time last week. If you read this early-doors i'm hoping i'll be curled up in the deepest sleep born entirely from sheer emotional exhaustion and a distinct imbalance in hormones. Those little things are <i>demons</i> lately. I'd put good money on the fact that they <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span>re trying to kill me i really would. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fear not. I'm present and correct to count the best bits and i'm doing so to some of my <i>favourite </i>music. Let's get on it...... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. A breeze. Even if it's one that brings with it a sprinkle or two of pollen and few hundred sneezes as a sneaky side order. How ever it comes - be it sneaking up and under couple of curtains or just tickling my knees after a few crafty laps of our dear sweet park after the longest 'never-ending feeling' day; it's this time of year that makes you grateful for it. For it's welcome cool, for the sweet wave of summer scent that travels upon it and even just for the ability it has to bring calm and clarity when you're feeling frazzled and tired and just <i>done </i>for the day. A summer breeze is just the bees knees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. A cool spot. It's all about the 'keepin' cool' this week! You can't beat the feeling that comes from finding a special cool-cottoned spot to curl up in and doze on a heady, heavy and humid feeling summer evening. The kind where sleep doesn't come easy and you often wake feeling like you've been busier than you were awake - tossing and turning and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unintentionally</span> shrugging off the sleep that's trying it's very best to come. That magical little cool spot is exactly that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Mint tea. Yes i'm that person that still likes hot drinks come this time of year. I still crave my morning Cup of Magic no matter how good an icy glass of crystal clear water spiked with a few wedges of citrus tastes first. Despite that, this weeks' beverage choice isn't even born out of a restless tummy - as it often can be where mint tea is concerned! No, it comes purely from the fact that mint tea has the magical ability to cool, calm and refresh me no matter what time of bed. It's the perfect mid-morning refresh-er; the most delicious after dinner 'settle-r' and even the very thing to calm a restless mind before bed. It's the 'Fixer' of all teas in my opinion and is *even* delicious iced......Between you and i that was a little bit of an accidental revolution!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Natural-<i>ness</i>. I never appreciated how many <i>other </i>colours were dotted and sprinkled in my natural hair colour. I count every single day as lucky that i have only one single grey hair on my head {i'm too scared to pull it out!} and have loved noticing what a difference a little bit of sunshine makes upon my little head. You don't get that when you colour your hair - not that there's anything <i>wrong</i> with it - but you lose track of what's yours and what's not. I always thought my little bright and light platinum blonde 'helmet' would stay with me forever but i weirdly feel more 'Me' than ever before with that tangle of dark blonde speckled with sun streaks of red and light blonde. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Ballet. Have i told you i used to do <i>proper</i> ballet classes when i was a little bean?! Despite the fact that we moved away and i distinctly remember forever being told by my mum that i was much more of a 'Pet Elephant' than any kind of graceful swan; i really used to love it. I <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">haven't</span> plucked up the courage to try a proper class but i have been dabbling in You Tube ballet and 'Barre Core' exercises for the last two years or so and i really, <i>really</i> love them. I love the slow stretches; the calming repetitiveness of it somehow and even the pain it brings. It's brought more shape and definition to my arms and upper body and also my waist and for me it's the perfect antidote to a long and stressful day. I roll out my mat, stretch and switch off. This week and the seven days in a row at work that i feel like i've currently been <i>wading </i>through has had me really relishing evening time spent on my mat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Music, magical music. As i type this i'm listening to a live recording of 'Cosmic Love' by the mighty Florence and the Machine and i don't mind telling you that i have tears prickling my eyes and it's taking all of the will in the world to make sense and to concentrate on not letting them spill over and trickle right down my cheeks. I'm ok! But it's been a funny week and i feel both physically and emotionally.....just a bit exhausted. I'm in that kind of mood where i don't know *quite* what to do first. And when i feel that way i listen to music and i write. And it helps. It fixes whatever wasn't really wrong somehow. It fills that funny void and gap of 'nothing-ness' and evens my little heart out again. Music and words have always been my solace and this week they've really helped my frazzled little self. Words have always been my 'Magic' and coupled with music.....? Well in some form or another they'll forever tug at my heart strings and bring me comfort. Let's not even get me started on singing.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Sweet-pea FLOWERS! Okay this <i>had</i> to go in this weeks post. Incase you haven't seen my sweet-pea progress and approximately five billion <i>squillion</i> Instagram Stories tracking my green-fingered <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">progress</span>; this week my little baby-not-so-baby sweet-pea plants finally came into bloom! I have grown them from teeny tiny seeds and i am ridiculously proud of that! They're the prettiest tangle of flowers you've ever seen - all twisty and <i>turny</i> and a haphazard selection of green, white and purple. I can't stop smelling them each morning and night when i also give them a little drink. I just want to wait for a couple more to bloom before i can finally pick some to pop in the house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. A fringe. For many fringe-shaped reasons simply for the fact that it covers my non-existent eyebrows meaning an extra few moments in bed has definitely been spent instead of fiddling and <i>faffing </i>with make-up that i have <i>just</i> realised is actually entirely pointless given that it can't be seen.... OH AND for making me look younger. Let's face it that's probably the reason it's stuck around for so long. That and i have had a fringe for so long that i imagine it's nigh-on impossible <i>not </i>to have one. My non-existent eyebrows and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pale face</span> would probably resemble a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> boiled</span> egg. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And i'm done. I don't mind telling you this week's post has been tough. I might have dug deeper than i ever have before. But i knew i the words would come and that the the tumble of music as dear sweet company would propel me through. Sort of reminds me of revising for exams with my headphones on and my music turned up embarrassingly loud. It felt like the world didn't understand how i could concentrate or how i could hear any kind of anything above and beyond the music in my ears. Truth be told some of my very best work through school and university came from exceptionally loud and deceptively distracting music and singing at the top of my lungs at the same time. Nice to see that not much has changed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh! Listen to me still <i>rambling</i>! 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and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thestorybookgirl.com/" target="_blank">Ellie's</a> blogs </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>and catch up with their very own #wonderfulwednesday posts! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See you next week...?!? Where i promise they'll be far more frivolity...<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and far less spelling mistakes, missing words and general melancholy.</span></span></center>
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-51102337605798084092018-06-06T07:00:00.000+01:002018-06-06T13:42:36.781+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #222<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I feel <i>fu<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nny</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">his week</span>. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A bit like there<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'s been no middle<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-ground on anything: I'm e<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ither not hungry at all or all of a sudden could eat my own arm if i could and might cry if i don't eat quick-march. I'm either free<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">z<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing cold and can<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'t get warm {<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not normal for thi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s time of year!} or so hot that i just can't s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it still and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even less of an attention span than usual. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>I'm either ridi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">culou<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sly ch<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ipper that i could give the birdsong at silly o'clock in the mo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rning a run for it's money in the 'happy stakes' or i forget to do something silly and immaterial and <i>okay to forget</i> and i c<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ould actua<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lly cry. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> mean i'm fine. I'm <i>fiiiine<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm even Fine. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">did i tell you that i'm fine yet?! </span></span>But i think i'll take i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t easy <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tomorrow</span> on m<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y day off: Less roc<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ket power and more crumpe<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ts and tea and few slow laps of the pa<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">k on two wheels i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">f the weather plays along. Bec<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ause if it's one thing i've learnt as i get a little bit older, it's to listen <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to m<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y body and the little voice in my head more. It's there for a reason afterall. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Grass cut. Yes we're going <i>right</i> in and jolly well head-first with just about the most simple thing ever: A jolly good grass cut. Apart from the solid-gold 'summer is here'- shaped joy of the sweet scent of cut grass {best sweetly inhaled after a long balmy summer day and on the evening of such, whilst you stand and marvel at the neatness and maybe swing a little watering can here and there....or is that just me?!?} - another one of those 'if i'd bottle it i surely <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">c</span>ould' type scents - then there's also the tidiness too. I'm going to admit right here and now that this week is the first time our grass has been cut since.....Maybe last October....?!? Overgrown is the biggest understatement of the whole year {and let's face it we're only halfway through!} but now that it <i>has</i> been cut and trimmed i just want to be in the garden even more than usual. Which FYI is already all of the time....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Elderflowers. The 'what comes next' of seasonal wild forgaging {or at least my knowledge of it!} after i've finished putting wild garlic pesto on anything and everything! We've got a baby Elderflower bush at the very bottom of the garden {which i can now see - hurrah!} and i'm debating picking some flowery stems. I'm just not <i>quite</i> sure what to do with them...? I'm not really someone who drinks a lot of sugary drinks to make <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it worth making cordial</span>. I wondered if i should wait for the berries...? Or infuse it into gin for a gift...? What do you reckon...?!? Either way the sight and smell of Elderflowers is just 'summer' to me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. A jolly great thunder storm. I say 'jolly great' and at the time it was neither really! The thunder woke me up with such a jump that i tossed and turned for a good few hours after and couldn't really settle back to sleep at all. What <i>was</i> a little bit lovely was the sound of the kind of rain that only a heavy, thick and hot sky can bring. And the <i>smell</i> - the smell of thundery rain is just - delicious, don't you think...?!? Murky, humid, heavy and damp....but weirdly comforting. It just <i>does</i> something to my heart and soul. I'd never usually leave the windows wide open if it poured rain any other time of year; but summer rain <i>and </i>an angry rock and roll of thunder too?! I had ours as wide as it would go and even though i was a bit annoyed at being awake; i lay still as a mouse watching the the crumpled cotton curtains light up and waiting for each roll of thunder to follow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Ice cold cucumber. A savoury watermelon <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span>f you will since the smell and taste of the both of them remind me of each other in equal measure and i've often been known to snack on wedges of the both of them at the same time. Maybe it was the two or three heavy-headed and humid days that came before The Storm of the other night, but this week already i've eaten two huge cucumbers. Is that excessive?! They were totally worth the five or ten minute round of hiccups i got after a few too many slices. When i'm not eating cucumber wedges, i'm slicing them into iced water with torn up mint leaves. I got a funny look at work the other day because i was eating slices of cucumber with mint leaves squished in between! I'd like to add this was an <i>accompaniment</i> and not my actual lunch....I just can't get enough!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. White cotton tops. I daren't admit how many i own. But they're my spring summer fail-safe and if i only buy on thing each spring or summer it's usually a variation on a white cotton top. If it's Broderie Anglaise or seersucker to boot or indeed has any kind of ruffle detail then i'm <i>there</i>. They go with every single thing some this time of year: Slouchy soft pale blue denim jeans, wide-leg and floaty cotton trousers, tucked casually into a midi skirt and sometimes even worn with a pair of pyjama trousers for sitting in the garden on a lazy <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sunday</span> morning. I'm wearing one as <strike>we speak</strike> i type.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Growing things. I think i mention a variation on this every single week or have done since i planted some bits and bobs in our garden but there is honestly nothing nicer than planting something and seeing it grow and chit-chatting to it each day; watering it and nurturing it. I feel so proud that i have expanded the three ceramic pots i had last year and this year have NINE POTS with things growing in them! I have neither killed or destroyed <i>anything</i>! I don't want to wish away 'Lately' since this summer is proving so flipping lovely BUT i can't wait until it all flowers and i can pick my very own blooms! I'm most excited for Hydrangeas and Sweetpeas. They're both just the epitome of my childhood. Maybe next year i'll branch out {see what i did there?!?} in<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to some fruit or vege<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tables....</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Less of everything. Well this could apply to a hundred and one things couldn't it?! But if there's one jolly great thing about warmer, brighter and more sunny weather it's the fact that you can care <i>less</i> about hair, make-up and the like. Everyone's skin is better with a little bit of vitamin D: a sweet scattering of freckles and a little bit of sun-kissed colour. All i've been wearing lately is SPF and a few dots of concealer and a little blusher. And i'm finding i need to bother even less with my hair: I can leave it to dry and only really have to rough dry my fringe and rub a little coconut oil through the ends and i'm good to go. Hurrah for sun and blue skies! And embracing natural 'Everyt<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hings.' **make<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s mental note to embrace more often**</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. First Donut peaches. Picked up excitedly at the weekend from our local Sunday farmers market and left to excitedly ripen on our kitchen window-sill. There's nothing better than thick coconut yoghurt, chunks of juicy Donut peach, a zig-zag of runny honey and a scattering of chopped walnuts. Or! Thick and as creamy as you can get cottage cheese spread on dark toasted rye bread with wedges of Donut peaches and torn up mint leaves. Or! Griddled 'dribble down your chin' -ripe peaches with a scoop of coconut milk ice-cream, a drizzle of tahini, one of honey and lots of black sesame seeds. I'm actually considering making this flavour combo into an ice lolly. What do you reckon?!? DONUT PEACHES FOREVER!!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9. Commuting sing-songs. I always sneak a lift to work in the morning with the Mr as he drives past the city centre on his way to work most days. This week we discovered an old David Bowie CD that we'd both forgotten about and have been enjoying singing 'Star Man' at the very top of our lungs together each day on our drive to work. It's rare that we both agree on music but David Bowie has always been an exception - a 'meet in the middle' if you will <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- </span> and a little sing-song morning <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">karaoke</span> has been the perfect antidote to bleary-eyed sleepy morning drives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And i'm all done and dusted and loved and <i>listed</i> for another whole week! These posts are <i>rocketting</i> around each week {infact it sometimes feels like the weeks get faster and faster lately, do you feel it too?!} and you'll join me this time <i>next</i> week almost at the end of eight days in a row at work!! So brace yourself for some seriously long and under-punctuated sentences and far too many brackets! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't forget, since you're already here and sitting comfortably; to pop right on over to my <i>favourite </i>ladies </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 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and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thestorybookgirl.com/" target="_blank">Ellie's</a> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> #wonderfulwednesday posts and catch up with their weeks and what's been making their little hearts happy! I'm excited to spend this afternoon curled up with bottom-less Lady Grey and a little blog catch up myself since as it's my day off on Wednesday. </span></div>
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-35046326043248015902018-05-30T07:00:00.000+01:002018-05-30T07:00:00.619+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #221<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You know that feeling...?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>When a wave of sheer exhaustion hits you in one <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">huge </span><i>swoop</i> and it suddenly occurs to you that you have in fact worked another eight days in a row! That's my Tuesday evening feelin'. So let's all be thankful that this post makes it out to you at all and please courteously look past the terrible lack of punctuation and cast your pretty peepers quickly past any spelling mis-haps you might notice whilst you<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'re here</span>! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That said i'm running on somethin': A heady mix of sunshine, double figure-d temperatures as far back as at <i>least</i> this time last week {?} and probably a considerable few litres of Lady Grey tea for extra goo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d measure</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shall we celebrate the best bits since this time last week....?!? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Sun. Not just Sun. I mean i could sit here and write a whole <i>post</i> precisely dedicated to that burning ball of <i>gas</i> {?} up above and how much of a difference it makes to every single last thing. I wont. But i <i>could</i>. This week's 'Sun chat' is the Summer <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">S</span>un kind of Sun - typically the kind that arrives from nowhere. The kind you just wake up to - blindingly bright and a sky light on clouds but with air so humid and heavy that you feel your hair start to double in size even as you lift your sleepy head from the pillow. That said it's also the Sun that means it's okay to freeze anything and everything - wedges of lime, ice cubes with edible flowers {a sure-fire way to perk up any kind of beverage - iced tea or otherwise - for the kind of awkward fuss pot that <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">doesn't</span> really drink anything other than tea and water}, grapes, leftover spinach, crushed watermelon {granita style - served best with wedges of ice-cold cucumber}. And eat everything outside, <i>always</i>. Especially early morning porridge topped with frozen berries and nothing but two wood pigeons for company. But the very best bit...? Windows and french doors flung open until almost 11pm and long chats under the stars. This kind of <i>consistent</i> sunshine is so rare up here, it's felt like the very best thing to happen in a long time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Acai powder. For smoothies i thought. Iced berries 'whizzed' up 'clitter-clattering' in a blender with a scoop of the thickest creamiest coconut yoghurt i could lay my hands on and maybe even frozen into ice-lolly moulds too. I<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> plan to try this</span>, <i>this </i>week. As far as i got <i>last </i>week and into the start of this one was adding it to my morning porridge {yes i still eat porridge in the Summer!} alongside a fudgy, spotty sweeter-than-sweet mashed banana and topping it with peanut and coconut butter and frozen blackberries and blueberries. It was the the purple-<i>ist</i> breakfast that i think i've ever eaten but it tasted all kind of yummy! And i'm not sure you could fit anymore antioxidants into one bowl of porridge if you tried.... *flexes muscles*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Bare feet. Well you know what it's almost <i>always</i> bare feet at home over here. Unless it's minus a million degrees and then it's sheepskin slippers all of the way! But this weeks warmer temperatures reminded me of how lovely it is to pad about on cool wooden floors at home with bare feet. How comforting it is to feel the warm patio stones against to soles of your feet and quite how lovely bare feet on cool green grass is. It's the little things <strike>sometimes</strike> always!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Bare legs. I know, i <i>know</i> bare 'this bare '<i>that'</i> this week! Bare <i>anything</i> come this time of year! I jest. After the longest Sunday at work on a bank holiday weekend, spent cooped up doing pages of percentages and figures and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>nonsense</i></span>, nothing was more lovely than riding my bike home; via our pretty bright green and leafy park; wearing a sundress and feeling the warm breeze tickle my knees; tug at my hair blowing behind me and propel me all of the way home with a pretty scattering of freckles as a sunny souvenir! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Home buys. Buying for our home sometimes beats buying for me. Scratch that, buying home bits and bobs <i>always</i> beats buying for me! You only have to open our cupboards, rummage in our bedding chest or cast your eye around the <i>squillion </i>cushions scattered across our bed or sofa. And know that to sit or sleep anywhere in our home you pretty much have to remove 95% of the soft furnishings so you can fit on! Last weekend i did a mini H&M homeware shop {their Spring Summer stuff is just the bees <i>knees</i>!} . I picked up some new pale green leaf print curtains for our office {i will get it finished!}, a new rug {which may or may not end up on the wall yet} and some storage knick-knacks, some new cushions {'cos we are short on them *cough*} and some new bedding. Homeware shopping is the BEST! And there really is something about a change in the weather which just <i>makes </i>you want to update things and have a little refresh, don't you think...?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Cobbled together suppers. The kind that are born from that awfully British excuse of 'it's too warm to cook' AKA let's just get lots of little things that don't need cooking or very much attention at all or really go together but then we can live off them for at least two suppers and maybe even lunch too. I'm talking fresh olive bread, anti-pasti, pesto, baby new potatoes, hummus, fresh mint and yoghurt, pickles, cheeses and chutneys. Also AKA how to make yourself feel like you're on holiday even when you're working eight days in a row AND the whole entirety of the bloody bank holiday.....me bitter...? <i>Noooooo</i>....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Candles on Summer evenings. You know me, it's candles <i>any</i> time to be honest. But there's something quite lovely about dotting tealights about the home on a lighter evening. Inter-mingled with the odd Citronella candle and the sweet scent of my new favourite Summer fragrance oil in our little burner: Peony and Sage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And i'm all done, dusted and feel like this post could have almost been three times the size had a sudden wave of tiredness and the thought of a leftover falafels, crusty bread and hummus<b> </b>for supper not all occurred to me at the exact same time {aswell as a face mask and maybe some tea and chocolate before bed too} and made my tummy grumble beyond belief. Eat or sleep? Eat or <i>sleeeeeeeep</i>?!?!? </span></div>
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and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thestorybookgirl.com/" target="_blank">Ellie's</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> #wonderfulwednesday posts and marvel at <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">their</span> very own happy list and list of lovely to celebrate. 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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-47911456955601713612018-05-23T07:00:00.000+01:002018-05-23T07:00:02.999+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #220<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh hello <i>you</i>. How the devil are you?! Here we all are again, back and ready for another list of great and good and mid-week JOY. My week has been pretty damned lovely since i have been off work since last Thursday. Man alive was it needed and it couldn't have been better timed if i'd tried. I had the worst summer cold at the very start of last week. I don't think i've had a cold since last Autumn. This combined with a bit of a stressful time at work meant i was more than ready to rest. And rest i have done! There has been a cheeky extra hour in bed each day, each day has started with all of the windows and and french doors flung open AND mostly also with some kind of toasted breakfast. Days have felt like holidays and been long and sunny and filled with riding my bike with bare legs and dresses and sandals too. I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO WORK!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just joking. But if someone could arrange to give me a job where i eat crumpets, ride my bike and sit in the garden and generally just <i>faff</i> with things then i think i'd be more than okay with that. But to this weeks #wonderfulwednesday LIST we go..... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Eating outside. Well doing anything outside is 99.9% better than it is doing it inside, right? But there's something about any kind of food or drink eaten or drank outside {i <i>guess</i> come rain or shine but you're much more likely to find me out there with a snack or beverage when Mr Sunshine pops his floppy fedora on} that just tastes a million percent better! Sort of like....how much better a biscuit tastes when you dunk it in your tea....<i>ish</i>. On this weeks few days off i've eaten outside at every given <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">opportunity</span> and even when i haven't i've flung open our french doors and brought the outside in. Even sitting curled up on the sofa in my pyjamas with a hot mug of tea just watching the garden and listening to the birdsong is just bliss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Moving. When i was little i was forever being told to sit still or that i'd 'got ants in my pants.' Fast forward far too many years to mention and i struggle to sit still for longer than twenty minutes or so. I'm a film lovers worst nitemare! If you manage to hold my full attention for any longer than that then you must be pretty special. For that reason i find relaxing and switching off quite hard. It has only been the past few years, and probably really since i got my bike that i realised that to relax you didn't <i>have</i> to sit still. That you could still think, switch off, relax and just <i>be</i> in that exact moment {did i just type that?!} <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">just the same but<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> by</span></span> being active: walking, running, cycling - even yoga. This week i've not stopped. But when i say i've not stopped what i really mean is that i've walked, i've cycled <i>everywhere</i> and i've enjoyed gulping in great big lungfuls of fresh air and feeling sunshine on my pale skin at every given <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">opportunity</span>. And because of that one simple thing i've felt a million times better both mentally and physically. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Being in your pyjamas when it's still light. To be honest it's not really been getting <i>dark</i>-dark until almost 10:30pm here most nights lately which is hardly early. But remember when you were little and had to have a bath or shower and put on your pyjamas when it felt like it was only 4pm?! I forever felt like i was being <i>tricked</i> into going to bed far too early. I remember we'd run around the garden in our pyjamas with damp hair as my mum shouted to us that it was time for bed and there she was watering the garden and it was still sunny and so it couldn't <i>possibly </i>be true! Nowadays i feel like it's a bit like heaven getting out of the shower and wrapping up in cool cotton pyjamas and watching something or reading a book with the french doors open. It's almost a <i>luxury</i> and i feel extra relaxed from being ready for bed whilst there's still daylight left. Who even am i.....?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. The tahini-train goes next level. Just when you thought these weekly catch ups couldn't quite possibly get more exciting here we all are chit-chatting about Tahini again. Have you tried it?! Just by itself it's rocket-fuel and full of the good stuff - a high protein paste made up from whizzed up sesame seeds - essentially i guess, a more savoury nut butter....? I've been eating the stuff non-stop this Spring summer: Zig-zagged across warm purple-sprouted <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">broccoli</span> and sprinkled with black sesame seeds {this gal can <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">never</span> have too many nuts and seeds}. Sometimes i add a tablespoon to the juice of half a lemon and just half a teaspoon of wholegrain mustard and toss it through roasted baby carrots OR just <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span>n a bag of wild rocket. This week though, things got serious. My Tahini love reached new levels as Mr Tahini met a sorry looking bunch of flat leaf parsley from the bottom of the fridge and a past-its-best half of a lemon <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and some of them</span> jumped in a blender and <strike>lived happily ever after</strike> and created the yummiest Summer dressing/dip. I used it to liven up some leftover quinoa in the fridge and then proceeded to eat the stuff for the next three days solid.... It's <i>that</i> good and also the happiest green thing you'll ever see!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Sleeping until you wake up naturally. I'm convinced i'd be a happier and more productive person if this was the case every day. This week i've been off work and have woken almost religiously at the same time - give or take ten minutes - each and every day, roughly 7:30am. I've padded downstairs and flipped the kettle on, done some stretches whilst it's boiled; made some tea and hopped right back into bed under the duvet for half an hour. Now i <i>might</i> not be quite so productive if i did <i>that</i> each day but HURRAH for no alarm clock<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> apart from <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my actual <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">body clock!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Less is more. Maybe it's the sunshine and the fact that since we had such a long and grey and <i>cold </i>winter i quite frankly want to lie down on the floor in a star-shape and thank the world from the bottom of my heart for each day of light and bright and vitamin D-filled sk<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y or moment the sun shines</span> BUT this warmer, lighter and brighter weather means i've been spending so much <i>less</i> time on things like my hair, my make-up and so on. Even I {little miss paler-than-the-palest-thing} look better after a couple of afternoons out in some sunshine with only SPF and a little under-eye concealer on. That coupled with a little rest, self-care and numerous laps of that dear park of ours and i feel like my skin is the best it's been in a long while. HURRAH!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Progress. However it comes progress is mostly always welcomed. It's a sign that <i>something</i> has gone the way it was intended or even of it <i>hasn't</i> that some kind of movement has come from it, be that in the direction you'd hoped for or not! <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's</span> all getting a little deep here and all i wanted to tell you about was how proud i am that my plants are all growing in the garden and are on the brink of flowering and i can't WAIT until i can pick all of the things! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. The Royal Wedding. I mean i'm sorry but i couldn't <i>not</i> mention it. I'm one of those people who wasn't really too bothered about it. I didn't even watch the live stream. I was off work on Saturday - an oh-so-rare <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">occurrence</span> - so naturally i took advantage of the quiet outside and took myself out on my bike for a couple of hours of unusually <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">quiet</span> Saturday morning-shaped bliss. Then i watched the highlights later and cried my little eyes out. I'm not even sure where the tears came from! I don't think i've even cried at <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">anyone's</span> wedding i've attended that i actually know! It was MAGICAL. And on that teary note...*sniff*.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And whizz, bang, bong and <i>ting</i> and i'm only flippin' floppin' done for another week of 'wonderfulling' and 'Wednesday-ing'. Spare a small thought for me <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">if</span> you read this on the day it's published as i'll be back at work for the first time in six days and just thought of it makes me want to hide under the duvet! </span><br />
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-34702288364415394192018-05-16T07:00:00.000+01:002018-05-16T07:00:04.090+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #219<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's me! Reporting for #wonderfulwednesday duty <i>definitely </i>with maybe one eye open and even <i>more</i> definitely counting down the hours until i can go to bed! It's been such a long and busy week - the kind that feels like it should be so much further along than <i>just</i> Wednesday somehow. Do you ever feel that way too?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm full of a horrid cold because i've been not being kind enough to myself and have been working too hard and too fast and i fear that the world is simply telling me to slow the <i>fluff</i> down and take care. Fear not, operation 'Put Me {mostly!} First' is in full swing as of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now</span> and i'll soon be back fighting fit before you know it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But without further ado, let's get-a-listin' shall we?!? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Raspberry ripple porridge. That's right i'm going right in with the big guns this week! You and i both know how very much i love my porridge-y breakfasts - there's nothing that brings me more comfort than a huge big bowl of the stuff for breakfast each day and it's something i'll never ever tire of! This week i ran out bananas *feels the world rock as everyone gasps*. YES I KNOW! Truth be told i <i>could </i>have picked up some more but i like bananas from a certain place {they're The Nicest - believe me i know my bananas, some might say i could write a book on them! That's not cool is it? <i>Is</i> it?!} *cough* and i think i'd rather have The Nicest Bananas than rubbish ones. SO {i mean are you even still following?!} in a bid to make up for the fact i was lacking in my favourite porridge flavour {mashed banana and Maca powder incase you're interested} i tried something NEW. I <i>know</i>. I mean i <i>can</i> be a trail blazer <i>sometimes. </i>I let my oats and hazelnut milk and one scoop of Maca powder blip-blip away in the pan whilst i mashed up some 'almost-past-their-best' raspberries with a teaspoon of honey in my porridge bowl. When the porridge was creamy and cooked through i poured it on top of the raspberries with a heaped tablespoon of chia seeds and folded them through roughly. It created the prettiest raspberry ripple porridge! I finished it off with a great big zig-zag of peanut and coconut butter and some toasted coconut flakes and it was HEAVEN!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. The sweet scent of a sunny Spring morning after it's rained all night long: All sweet, fresh and heady with the soft scent of wild garlic and the first buds of flora and the tail end of bluebells. In a word: Heaven. I filled my little lungs with great big gulps of the stuff on Sunday mornings<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'</span> bike ride to work and felt all the better for it whilst simultaneously wishing i could keep on riding and <i>not</i> go to work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. The Ultimate Chocolate Eclairs. I mean are there ever four words that will catch your attention and stop you dead in your tracks more than those?! I'm not sure if you know but i'm a bit of a chocoholic. I mean i'm a <i>fussy</i> chocoholic - i like good chocolate and mostly the expensive kind too which actually come to think of it is really rather handy otherwise i'd have no teeth left if i could eat it all of the time. BUT that does mean where anything and everything is mostly concerned: Puddings, snacks - <i>anythings</i> - you can bet your bottom dollar i'll always choose a sweet option and i'll mostly always choose a chocolate 'Something' over anything else. Last weekend we picked up Marks and Spencer's Ultimate Chocolate Eclairs as a treat for after supper and OH MY. I felt so ridiculously happy and in some kind of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">delicious</span> chocolatey coma for all of and a long while after. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">B</span>etween you and I, it's taking all of the will in the world not to buy another packet already and it's only Tuesday. They're a chocolate choux pastry eclair; filled with a dark chocolate creme patisserie and topped with the fudgiest most deliciously decadent milk, white and dark chocolate ganache across the top. If like me you ADORE chocolate you MUST try them QUICK. They <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">equal</span> instant joy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. That heavy kind of 'feeling a bit under the weather sleep' that only comes from sleeping in your softest pyjamas with a pair of fluffy socks {yes i know it's Spring}, a few drops of eucalyptus oil on your pillow and the window open. The kind where you wake up, not having even moved an inch; don't know your own name or what day or time it is and only that you feel ridiculously better than you did when you went to bed. Sleep is the ultimate fixer for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Blusher. I never understand people who say that they either don't like blusher or that they prefer bronzer. How can you not like having a rosey flush?! And what's the point of bronzing any part of your face when the rest of your body is paler than a milk bottle and the only sign you've ever been in any kind of sunlight full stop is the sweet scattering of freckles on your arms and across your nose. The jig is up! This week a gentle dust of rose pink blusher on the apples of my cheeks has been bringing life to that sleepy little face of mine! And distracting from my red nose....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. The most delicious box of things to munch. And leftovers too! There's a certain kind of happiness that comes from using up everything in your weekly shop and being creative right down to the very last wilting leaf of lettuce. I always find it an enjoyable challenge {i know, i'm <i>that</i> cool} as it forces me to be creative and i love being creative. I often make sauce and freeze the leftovers to use as the base for other things. I put homemade pesto into ice cube trays and wilting herbs are also fired into ice-cube trays - sometimes with soggy chunks of raspberry or strawberry, or wedges of lime and sliced ginger- they make great water 'spicer-uppers.' This week i fired torn up mint leaves, the last few chunks of a massive cucumber, some grated beetroot and sliced leftover strawberries alongside some black sesame seeds and ate the lot of them altogether with my sandwich on Tuesday. It was like a little tub of Summer AND it emptied the last few odds and ends from the fridge before our mid-week, weekly shop. HURRAH!</span></div>
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-45898162778370436902018-05-09T07:00:00.000+01:002018-05-09T07:00:14.733+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #218<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't think there's anyone in the whole of the United Kingdom that hasn't been rejoicing about basking in, scampering about in and generally frolicking with wild abandon in the glorious double-digit sunshine that we were lucky to have over last weekends' long Bank Holiday weekend. I mean i worked most of it and i took every given opportunity to be outside! Thank goodness for longer lighter evenings and sunlight from 5am! I feel one million percent {and more!} better for a jolly great dose of vitamin D, don't you?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As i type {sat in my usual spot and my usual Tuesday evening <i>slot</i>} the sun and warmth that came with it as been all but abandoned in favour of grey skies and the odd rain shower. But i don't even <i>care</i>! I'm still riding on the euphoria that a few days of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">interrupted</span> sunshine brings and as such, this weeks list has quite predictably come to me quite easily.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Gardening. Now i won't profess to actually be any <i>good</i> at the thing but i do love it so! I'm getting better and since last years very first attempt with my very own patch of green to call my own {<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Albeit</span> a little square of grass and a patio. But there <i>are</i> french doors, and it's south-facing and has the pret<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tiest old Sycamore tree right at the bottom along with a beautiful E<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lderflower bush too!</span></span>}. I've learnt from what didn't work so well then, and this year i'm going to be even better! But it's not even that - the 'being better' isn't '<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span>t.' It's lovely to learn something new; to nurture something from being a teeny tiny sproutling {i'm making that a 'thing' FYI} into something that i hope will be beautiful and all my own doing. It's the quiet and the tinkering around and about with terracota pots on a light, balmy 'almost feels like summer' evening with only a pair of wood pigeons for company. Maybe i'm old before my time...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. The scent of a warm evening. Nothing like a Spring one. More.....sweet, <i>balmy</i>, slow and sleepy. The kind of evening where you linger, loll and laze about even - maybe grab a watering can and stand on the patio in your bare feet and pyjamas with hair damp from a coconut-ty shower, watering pots galore with nothing to hear but birdsong and a gentle breeze tickling the leaves on the giant sycamore tree at the very bottom of the garden. Bliss!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Hummus. This weeks yellow split pea and turmeric spread on anything and everything as a quick 'can't be bothered/don't have the energy' sort of a snack. With a little {re<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ad: </span>not very much at all quite frankly} effort; spread lavishly across toasted sourdough and piled high with slow roasted baby tomatoes from the windowsill, tossed in leftover torn up basil leaves and salted and peppered too. That's Summer supper on a plate right there dontcha' know? Sometimes even just eaten straight out of a tub with icy cold chunks of cucumber sprinkled in black sesame seeds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Almost bare '<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">E</span>verything<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'</span> sleeping. You can't beat the feeling of cool cotton bed-linen against your skin almost as much as you can't beat the first hop and a skip right back into sleeping in pyjamas as Summer slips away. That mixed with a wide open window and a cool breeze makes heavenly dreams. This time of year somehow makes me need less sleep somehow too. I've been naturally eased awake by the birdsong most mornings this week at 5:30am and have felt oddly rested and peaceful<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">;</span> not thrust into a dark early morning. That said i've been curling right back up and cat-napping until my 6:30am alarm because i fear if i got up <i>that</i> early my tummy might expect lunch at 10am....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. When nature takes your breath away. If you're me then that's all of the time. Do you ever sit and wonder and think about how amazing the world is?! As cheesy and as maybe daf- WAIT! <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">N</span>o it's <i>not</i> silly or daft. I love the way the seasons change, how much that impacts, affects and changes the littlest most special of things. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">H</span>ow all of those little things are intrinsically linked to mean that day can become night and Sunday can become Monday, May can become June and so on and so forth. Infact if i sit and think about it too long i feel like i've fallen down a little bit of a rabbit hole! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Sunday evening, i cycled home from work via the park. It was twenty-two degrees when i left work and the sky was a brilliant blue and not a cloud could be seen. I last visited the park <i>oooonnnn</i>, Friday maybe? The verges were a vast blanket of green: Nettles, tiny sprigs of baby cow parsley yet to flower and a blanket of wild garlic leaves. In just two days they'd become a riot of colour and an almost-overnight meadow of brilliant white wild garlic flowers, cow parsley flowers and white and blue bluebells. I must have stood for a good ten minutes just taking it all in. I wish you could press pause for those kinds of moments: the kind where nature knocks you a little bit sideways. I naturally did the next best and probably most <i>millenial </i>thing instead: I saved it to my Insta-Stories.... {<a href="http://www.instagram.com/sallytangle" target="_blank">HERE</a>}.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And i'm DONE! All loved and listed up for another seven days! Consider this your mid-week rocket fuel to see you through until the weekend. Can we all hope and pray it's just as nice as the one we've just had? Please?! 'Cos wasn't it the best of our lives?! I mean i say this and i worked most of it so i can only begin to imagine how ridiculously dreamy it was if you snagged the whole bank holiday off work *begins search for typical 9am-5pm office job*. I jest! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh well hello there. How the devil do you <i>do</i>?! I write this lovely <strike>letter</strike> post to you after feeling like i have walked and cycled approximately <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ALL</span> the live long day and feel THE most spaghetti-legged that i ever have. I think the fact that it's <i>bloomin'</i> windy out there has done nothing in aiding the whole aero-dynamics of everything either and what i'm left with are lessy-legs and feeling like i could eat the whole of our weekly <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">grocery</span> shop that we've just completed. Yes. All of it. I think i might still be hungry afterwards too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ravenous-<i>ness</i> aside i'm doing pretty well. I've had a few days off in a row from work {always a recipe for clear skin, less dark under eye circles and many crumpets consumed and mugs of Lady Grey drank - ie: My idea of a good time} and there's been sunshine {<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">albeit</span> icy, 6 degree sunshine} and lots of sleeping and bike riding and making nice things to eat and predictably leaving all kinds of less-fun 'stuff' to my last day off {<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tomorrow</span>} such as Depop-ing half of my wardrobe, pesky weeding in the garden and hoovering. But it's all about balance.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. From line, to bed. Yes that's right here i am back <i>harping </i>on about line-dried laundry but THAT SMELL - well if only i could bottle it you can bet your bottom dollar i'd wear nothing else! On <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sunday</span> i managed to wash our duvet and towels AND put said duvet, sheets and pillowcases back on the bed after my early evening shower. Not only did i feel a little bit like a domestic goddess x 100 BUT the <i>smell</i>!!! Falling asleep in clean pyjamas after a steamy shower underneath a duvet that had been line-dried in the the fresh air. There are NO WORDS. Well you know except the fair few i've just tip-tapped out to you....*cough*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Reliving the past. In so many instances you're told to move forward, forget the past and keep on.....keeping on. One huge exception to the rule {in my book at least!} is with music. I can't even put into words how much i love it when a song just pops into your every day and takes you right back to the last time you listened to it. The mark of a beautiful song, whatever genre; <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and</span> it's power to take you somewhere - to make you travel on a journey and to tug at your heart strings: Happy or sad. That is just a magical feeling, don't you think?! This week i stumbled across some old CD's: Razorlight's 'Golden Touch' and a couple of old Arcade Fire ones and suddenly i was back at uni, not caring about any kind of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tomorrow</span> and only about dancing until my legs ached and singing until my throat was too croaky to manage anymore. Of course i studied hard *cough*. Naturally i've added everything to my Spotify and i'm enjoying power-walking to and from home singing 'Golden Touch' by Razorlight pretty much on loop. Sorry neighbours!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Florence. I mean it's really in a very sim<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ilar</span> vein to the above point but it's my #wonderfulwednesday and i'll <strike>cry if i want to </strike>have two points that are very similar right next to each other if i flippin' well want to! Have you listened to Florence and the Machine's new song? {listen <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1TSiB9OuVM" target="_blank">here</a>} Do. Please do! There's no one else that can tug at my heart strings more than her and<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that</span> voice. I sometimes struggle to sing her songs myself because my voice just <i>goes</i> and my eyes over flow with tears. Does anyone else get you like this?! I'd love to know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. The scent of bluebells. Nothing says Spring quite like it. It's only really been this week that our forests and pathways have sprung to life with a brilliant violet blanket of bluebells and the smell is HEAVEN: All fresh and green and florally-good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. White cotton tops. Okay so maybe worn with frayed and well-loved indigo jeans and sometimes still boots, a chunky cardigan and a green slouchy army jacket and not <i>quite</i> in the bare-ankled, cropped jeans and sandals and sunnies way that i had anticipated but Spring-like and joy-filled all of the same. Have you got an outfit that makes you feel all Spring-like too?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Freshly washed hair. Even if it takes all of the will in the world and all of every scrap of energy i have to be bothered to wash it {yes i'm <i>that</i> person} and to stop giving in to the 'not-so-catchy' mantra of 'Well what's another day of dry shampoo?' <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T</span>he second i step in the shower and start to wash my hair, it's suddenly all worth it. There really isn't anything i love more than the smell of freshly washed hair. You just can't beat it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Feeling exhausted. Not my usual 'exhausted from work' sort of exhausted either: No the 'I've cycled and walked so much that my legs are aching in the very best possible way and my little heart is thumping in my chest and i feel like i could move MOUNTAINS' sort of an exhausted. Which is funny really as sometimes i struggle to open a new jar of peanut butter.... When i use to <strike>do</strike> be made to do cross country at school<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span>my teacher would tell me that one day i'd learn to love that thumping in my chest and aching of my legs<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and</span> i would forever argue that i never ever in a million years would {<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">whilst</span> trying every excuse in the book to not have to do it each week}. Turns out i just needed to find my <i>thing</i>. Running is not it. Cycling and walking though? I've got all the time in the whole wide world for cycling and walking as much as i can in the fresh air. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9. New sunnies. So what if i mostly wear them to keep my hair back off my face and then forget where they are and spend a large proportion of the time either a)looking for them or b)not even realising they're there to start with?!?! I picked up <a href="http://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=1&langId=-1&productId=26213838&Ntt=candice&pageSize=20&defaultGridLayout=3&Nty=1&CE3_ENDECA_PRODUCT_ROLLUP_ENABLED=N&productOnlyCount=1&catalogId=33057&Dy=1&pageNum=1&productIdentifierproduct=product&storeId=12556&qubitRefinements=siteId%3DTopShopUK" target="_blank">these</a> tortoise-shell ones from Topshop and when i <i>do </i>remember to wear them i feel ALL kinds of cool and sassy! Now if i could just book a good spell of consistent sunshine that would be great thanks.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And with a blink of an eye {that's a bit of a white lie. I wrote this weeks post over several hours, with several millions cups of tea in between<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">;</span> a lovely open window and experimented by writing the middle, followed by the end and then the beginning. I like living on the edge. I probably won't do that again. 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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh well HELLO THERE. So kind of you to pop by and read along with this weeks #wonderfulwednesday list! If you read this early-doors i'll be all curled up asleep as today is my unscheduled day off. I do like a day off-shaped <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">surprise</span>. Especially when i was convinced i was working for eight days in a row and now have only worked a total of five. Hurrah! I'll mostly be catching up on jobs, willing the rain to buzz off so i can get out for some fresh air with <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">two-wheeled</span> partner in crim<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e </span></span>and doing a little bit of Spring cleaning. If the rain hangs around i'll no doubt go for a walk and buy myself some fresh flowers because #yolo. How has you week been?!? Catch me up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Sleeping with the window open. Maybe i'm late to this wild party but it's been too blinking cold to have any kind of window open when there's no certainty of sunshine on the horizon! Until these past few days. I mean after last weekends sh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o</span>rt, sweet burst of almost 20 degrees {<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">albeit</span> for one day only!} i've been almost lulled into a false sense of <strike>security</strike> summer where the weather has been concerned. I mean it's been 10 degrees at best but i don't care. The air <i>smells</i> like only Spring can: All grassy-green, fresh and clean - and so i'm just working with what i've got. Nothing beats the smell of a Spring evening as you drift off to sleep. Is there any better lullaby than the sounds of the trees and the distant hum of a sleepy Spring night?!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Rhubarb and custard. You know when you just get a <i>not</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>ion</i> for <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">something</span>?! </span>I've eaten neither in their true and actual capacity since as no supermarket or green grocer near me seems to have any of the stuff. I thought it was still around and about but alas, maybe i have missed the Spring rhubarb flourish! I <i>am</i> being spoilt by having some freshly picked stuff from a friends garden at the end of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the</span> week {cross ALL of th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e things!} </span>but until then i'm getting my rhubarb and custard 'fix' anywhere else i can! Namely in my breakfast: Creamy almond milk porridge cooked with vanilla and topped with sour rhubarb jam, a great big zig-zag of peanut butter and as much toasted coconut as i can get away with! I mean it's not a crumble but it'll do for now. OH! I should also tell you that the 'Nakd Rhubarb and Custard' bars are the bees knees also. Oh OH! AS is Yeo Valley rhubarb yoghurt. I mean don't feel sorry for me anytime soon...i'm getting by....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. A fresh fringe. I mean a fringe trim is as good as a face-lift <i>and</i> a haircut if you ask me; only with far less.....<i>mess</i> and worrying! |The best thing i ever did was a) <i>get</i> said fringe {covers a multitude of <strike>spots sometimes</strike> sins} and b) jump right on in and learn to cut it myself. Heavens i'd be at the hairdressers every other week if i had to get someone else to do it! There's nothing like a lovely straight fringe to completely perk you up and make you look far more like 'you' again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Mantras. Words to live by. <i>Sayings</i>. Oh heavens knows what you call them but earlier on this week the ever lovely <a href="https://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/pe-ta-18356771" target="_blank">Peta</a> {fellow #wonderfulwednesday writer and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">loveliest</span> lady in the whole of the world wide web, no really} posted a quote that really and truly resonated with me: 'I am me and you are you.' Isn't that <i>brilliant</i>?! I spend so much of <i>forever</i> wishing i looked like that person, wrote like this person, had the clever-ness of who knows <i>what</i> person, could cook 'xyz' like who knows who.....the list is exhausting but this little snappy phrase isn't. And i love it. Thank you darling Peta!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Various pestos. Who knew there were so many?!? I mean i've made standard pesto for years and love using it through fresh pasta, tossed through warm baby new potatoes or drizzled on roast veg right at the last minute, <i>even</i> swirled on top of a summer veggie omelette BUT who knew you could make pesto from...*drum roll* {are you ready because i'm currently planning on eating pesto for the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">foreseeable</span>...}: Carrot tops {yep that green bit you throw away}; watercress {peppery wonderful-ness - i imagine it would be lovely with fresh dill thrown in too and served with fish}; kale pesto {bloody LOVE kale - i think this would be extra yum served with a squeeze of fresh lemon and maybe even crumbled feta on top at the last minute}; cavelo nero {pretty kale-ish - heavens maybe you could be a rebel and mix the two!!} and <i>eee</i>ven avocado and rocket together {creamy and peppery and apparently extra delicious with fresh lemon and ricotta at the last moment}. Be right back.....i'm just off out to stock up on ALL of those things....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. A new plant mister. That's right, now i'm a real grown up. Is that even what they're called?! Who knows. This week i reached the dizzying heights and absolute epitome of green-fingered <i>chic</i> by ordering a sweet little golden plant mister. For our three house plants. Who i haven't killed yet. Have i told you that i <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">haven't</span> killed our THREE house plants yet?! Oh what i already <i>said</i> that?! Sorry i'm just excited.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Carrot falafels. AKA: <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chopped</span> onion and garlic, smooshed up leftover roast carrots, equally smooshed up leftover chickpeas; a whole host of spices {ground coriander, cumin and a little mixed <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Italian</span> spices} made into sweet little balls, rolled in seasoned polenta and baked for <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fifteen</span> minutes or so. Served with a rocket-y, coriander-y salad and more houmous than is probably socially acceptable. HEAVEN. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Planting. Since ordering said plant mister i'm obviously now convinced i have the skills and know-how to create and grow a vast menagerie of plants and flowers. You know, instead of just buying plants and....planting them. So far i've planted peas and sweet-peas indoors <i>aaaand</i> Anemones and wildflowers in the garden. Please cross your fingers and toes for the outside plants to actually grow. Don't worry yourself about the peas and sweet-peas as both are currently taking over the kitchen wondow-sill and growing at break-neck speed. So much so that i'm quite worried i'll wake up to a kitchen in bloom and a window blind that has un-intentionally bec<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o</span>me a garden trellis overnight without any choice in the matter......Is it too soon to plant eager-beaver <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sweet-peas</span> outside yet?!?!? Asking for a friend....</span></div>
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Because who can ever read too many happy lists?!! I mean is there e<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ven</span> such a thing?!?</span></span><br />
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-61639478207276281952018-04-18T07:00:00.000+01:002018-04-18T07:00:51.126+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #215<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I DID IT! I'm here and more than that i'm ALIVE! You join me here this week after a bit of a stressful eight whole days in a row at work and i feel like i am very much running on nothing but tea and porridge! I'm feeling <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">surprisingly</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span>-ok but i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><i>am</i> little bit convinced that's actually just because i haven't really stopped yet. I just know that as soon as i eat supper tonight and just <i>be</i>, i'll likely be asleep before you can say #wonderfu-----</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's okay i'm here! I've not gone yet and i'm ready and raring for some happy listin'....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Sleep. The kind you where you can't remember actually falling asleep and also the kind where you wake up each morning wondering where you are, <i>who</i> you are, what day it is and what <i>is</i> that incessant <i>noise</i>?!? Oh it's the alarm and i have to get up. Feeling very thankful for falling asleep pretty much as my head hits the pillow this week since as i've needed all of the energy and all of the sleep i can get! I'm very much looking forward to the same kind of sleep later, only adding about two hours extra on top because incase i <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">haven't</span> mentioned already this week: IT'S MY DAAAAAAAAY OFFFFFFFFF this #wonderfulwednesday <i>and</i> Thursday too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Chocolate porridge. I'm not sure why i crave the stuff even more when i'm sleepy and feeling a little less than myself but i just do. Maybe it's a comfort thing. This week i've been cramming the stuff into anywhere and everywhere that i can. I grated leftover {who even am i, leftover?!?} darker than dark chocolate into our lentil chilli at the very end of last weekend. I've also been adding one very heaped tablespoon of ground cacao powder into each bowl of porridge this week AND i've been snack, snack, snackin' on homemade date, raw cacao and coconut balls this week with mugs of tea galore!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Coconut. Maybe it's the incoming sunshine or <i>maybe </i>it's the fact that i spent most of my childhood avoiding the stuff like the plague {my only coconut-shaped childhood memory is Bounty chocolate bars <i>bllleeeurgh!!!</i>} but these past few months i've been <i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cramming</span></i> the stuff into everything i can and it <i>might</i> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">even be</span> up there with one of my very favourite flavours/things to eat. INFACT i don't think you can get much better than toasted flaked coconut on <i>anything</i>. Lately i've been snacking on the stuff right out of the jar but i normally use it to coat my date and cacao balls {extra crunch!}; scattered across any kind of cereal, porridge or toasted 'anythings' or sometimes piled high on the thickest, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">creamiest</span> greek yoghurt i can find with a handful of chopped walnuts and a drizzle of runny honey. I love the stuff! I also use coconut oil in most of my cooking and also add that into my porridge right at the every end too. I'm surprised i haven't turned <i>into</i> a coconut yet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. A basket bag. I finally cracked. Again i'm blaming <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it</span> on the incoming sunshine and milder temperatures that we keep being promised over here in the U.K BUT<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span>after much research; I have bought a sweet round wicker basket bag. I'd been searching for a new 'warmer weather' kind of a bag anyway and hadn't had much luck so i feel like i know i'll get lots of use out of it. <a href="https://uk.accessorize.com/view/product/uk_catalog/acc_1,acc_1.1/4909232200" target="_blank">THIS</a> is the one i picked in the end. I can already see it filled with flowers and fresh bread on a weekend hooked over my bike handle bars or worn across me with faded slouchy dungarees, a plain white tee and an embroidered cropped jacket. Summer here i come!!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Bedtime. Okay so it's not a secret that i love my sleep and my bed {i know what you're thinking: I just get more and more rock and roll as these posts go on....*cough*} but lately it's not even that: Can i call it my wind down routine?!?! After supper i love the little routine of taking off my make-up, having a hot and steamy eucalyptus-y shower with my favourite bergamot and sea-salt shower-gel {i've been using <a href="http://www.boots.com/kind-natured-soothing-sea-salt-and-bergamot-body-wash-250ml-10199589" target="_blank">THIS</a> one for ages and i'm <i>hooked</i> - ps ALL of the range and scents are beautiful} and then putting on a softly scented body cream; a face oil and clean pyjamas and curling up with a chai tea and my favourite book on the sofa with some scented candles lit. It's the perfect way to unwind and de-stress and i'm pretty sure my sleep has been better because of it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. White cotton <i>'everythings.'</i> Because when it's not raining and the sun is shining and the temperature <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are</span> anything but any kind of minus variety; nothing beats crisp white cotton tees and blouses. They go with anything and everything and are so versatile and the combination of my favourite jeans and a white blouse or tee just has me feeling all Spring-y and happy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Sweet-peas! They're GROWING!! My baby sweet-pea seeds that i planted only a week ago seemed to have also picked up the Spring memo and are shooting up at rocket speed! I'm so pleased! Cross your fingers and toes that they keep up the momentum so that i can plant them outside in a tub on our patio and have them climb up our pretty trellis and give us sweetly scented sweet-pea flowers all summer long!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Mum chats. I'm so lucky to call my mum one of my very best friends. We're so similar in so many ways and i sometimes wish that there were more hours in the day and days in the week AND that she lived a little bit closer so that i could spend even more time with her BUT all of that aside; <i>sometimes</i> there's nothing better than a long chat with your mum: Putting the world to rights and laughing until you cry. Am i right?!? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I did it! I'm alive and more than that: I'm not asleep! 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Also don<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'</span>t forget you can always follow along with all of the #wonderfulwednesday chat across social media channels and get involved yourself too!<b> </b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See you same time next week? Where i'll <i>beeeee</i> on day five out of another eight..?!?</span></div>
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Sallytanglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09070219776982675074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745898643510274106.post-64165069584438033032018-04-11T07:00:00.000+01:002018-04-11T07:00:32.086+01:00Wonderful Wednesday #214<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well hello there and how the devil do you <i>do</i>?! Do fill me in on your week wont you! You join me with a little bit more 'get-up-and-go' than i had this time last week {but that <i>could </i>be to do with a little bit of an extended long weekend - i highly advocate booking both a Friday and i Monday off work <i>especially</i> if like me having even a weekend off at all feels like a luxury.}. There is something indescribably <i>lovely</i> about not getting that Sunday night feeling and stretching out in bed with a mug of tea on the one day of the week that most of the worlds population {myself included} dreads. Maybe i'll make a habit of it if makes this much of difference. What's the chances of four day weeks becoming an actual 'thing' do you think?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's get #wonderfulwednesday listin'.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Rest. I used to feel guilty for just that: For letting myself just <i>be</i>; for admitting that i needed it and often used to feel like i had some how 'admitted defeat' of <i>something </i>by just admitting that i needed it. Over the years i've learnt that it's a good thing to be able to realise when you need rest and moreover to making sure that i include it as a given. Why is this something that comes more naturally as you get older?! I can't help wishing i might not be such an over-worrier if i'd realised this sooner. I booked last weekend off and then Monday too. I did lovely things and spent time with friends and the Mr but mostly i took time to just <i>potter</i>; do odd jobs and rest a little. Even though i spent all of Tuesday feeling like it was Monday it was more than worth it...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Toast. I mean always. I say <i>always</i> when what i actually mean is 'always when not porridge' as that will mostly always be my forever love. This week though, my snacks have been various toasted 'things'. I'll forever be a snacker and not someone who can only eat three square meals a day and feel as if my energy levels are much better if i eat three smaller meals a day and a couple of small snacks too. I'm often hungry between supper and going to bed and this week it's been all about the toast. Usually just with butter and marmalade but <i>sometiiimes</i> with a little sneaky zig-zag of peanut butter too. Because whoever needs an excuse for that?!? Oh! And always with tea. Because you can't have toast without it, am i right?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Warmth. I said last week that i felt like i'd been cold since October last year and i really wasn't kidding! On Monday this week though{couldn't have booked it off work more accurately if i'd tried} it was the first day where it has been sunshine and blue skies with a great big slice of real life WARMTH alongside it too! It was infact so warm that i dried two whole lines of washing AND padded around outside on our patio in just jeans and a t-shirt AND even sat and drank my afternoon mug of tea outside too! I mean it was back to three degrees and pouring with rain when i woke up today {Tuesday} but it's all progress.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Clean hair. I can't believe i used to wash my hair every single day! Now i try and make it last aslong as i can {dry shampoo and hats are my very best friends. Well you know aside from porridge, toast or tea...}. The thought of doing it is always the absolute <i>worst </i>and is also quickly replaced with the sheer joy that comes from softly scented, swishy and shiny clean hair and the ponderings of why i leave it so long. And then the cycle begins all over.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Planting seeds. Done so on a sunny and warm Monday afternoon on the patio. It was quite the therapeutic task: filling teeny tiny pots with sweetpea seeds and tucking them up in little compost blankets. They're currently living on our kitchen window-sill and i'm crossing everything crossable that there is to cross that they grow and i can fill our little somewhere with the sweet scent of summer for months on end!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Spring clothes. I mean i've only really bought a white cotton ruffly blouse {which shall become one of approximately ninety-two billion, squillion <i>thousand</i>} but is it even Spring if you don't buy or <i>want</i> to buy one extremely crisp blue or white cotton 'something?!' I say this but if there's one thing surer than....sure {?!} it's that i'll spend most of the Spring and Summer in some form of white cotton blouse. Paired with slouchy indigo jeans and sandals and messy hair on a lazy Sunday; or tucked into high-waisted skinny jeans worn with ballerina pumps, a beret and a trench coat for pottering about on days off. Or sometimes just tucked into a skirt with flip-flops. It's something that easy-breezy and fresh! Just like Spring should be..... *cough cough* Come back warm sunshine pleeeease.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Pink blossom. *Writes/says approximately five million people either in a blog post......in a text, emaaaaail or on twitterrrrrrrr orrrrr Instagraaaaaam* I know. I get it we're all blossom MAD! But when the weather is NOT predictable or particularly dependably s<i>easonal</i> at any given moment up and down the U.K can you blame us?! It's the anti-dote to a grey sky, the great big 'Cheerer Upper' of looking up {even if you <i>are</i> tentatively peeking out from your umbrella} and a sure-fire way to cheer up even the most miserable of days. This year the beautiful cherry and hawthorn blossoms seem to be everywhere i look; defiant and buds and flowers of ballsy bloom and pom-poms. And it's nothing short of happy making, isn't it?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. Less make up. Why is it <i>also </i>only really when you're older that you learn two really important things? The first that really for your skin to be it's very best version it takes not very much at all and even in most cases, the less you do to it and the more simple you keep 'things' the better it will be because of it. And two, that regardless of how your skin is - on good <i>and </i>bad days - it's <i>your</i> face and you shouldn't wear a mask. You should learn to take gentle care of it; make the most of your best bits and stop seeing the less 'magazine perfect' bits as <i>flaws</i> but more as.....you. We're not genetically all the same and neither are our faces. I've spent most of my life hating my skin and spending far too much money trying to make it look a way it just isn't designed too. And that's okay. I've learnt that and i've accepted it and even if it's taken me the best part of thirty-or-so years to realise it; it looks, feels and IS better than it's ever been with or without make-up and i feel more comfortable in it than i ever have. Well <i>that</i> went a little deeper than i'd first imagined......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And we're all done and <i>dusted</i> for another whole week. Consider this a wordy-dose of rocket-fuel to see you through until the end of the week! Better than that, write your own and e<i>eeven</i> better than that: TELL me so i can read it and share it too! Writing a mid-week happy and thankful kind of a list makes me not forget the good bits in the great big vastness of time and means that the days and weeks and months don't just merge into one vast expanse of simply <i>only </i>being. What is life without memories...?</span><br />
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oh, OH and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thestorybookgirl.com/" target="_blank">Ellie's</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> lovely blogs and catch up on their very own #wonderfulwednesday. Because who's ever heard of too many lists of GOOD things?!?</span><br />
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