Saturday In Pictures

I know I'll be too flat-out busy freaking out about university tomorrow, so for this week your Sunday in Pictures will in fact depict Saturday.

So...

We keep our eyes shut well into the morning...

... until the rest of the world opens its petals for the midday sun.

We sit outside in the sunlight, starting the day with lunch...

... and I feel as lazy as the fat pussycat sprawled out over the cobblestones as though he were a lion.
I catch the afternoon light on the window seat with a fair but drowsy lioness...
...content in my exquisitely relaxed Saturday with the sweet animals and wonderful boy that I love.

Go away, busy Sunday!

God is in the Rain

God is in every ripple.

God is in every sunshower.

God is in every lightened path.

God is shelter from the storm.

God is friendship.
God probably isn't in a hot cup of tea, but it's still pretty wonderful.
God is in every rainbow.

Sunday in Pictures

Firstly, let it be said that the weekend and the sunlight calls for Watermelon.
Succulent.
As can probably be gleaned from my many pictures, I am a great fan of sitting in Victoria Park with friends. And such beautiful friends I have. They really brighten up and chill out an otherwise hectic existence.

I live for the love of dappled light and sticky humid grass and golden green trees and summer freedoms, but mostly thanks for daylight savings and the exquisite sunsets I can watch every day...

Tuesday in the Park with Friends

Songs I'm Singing

Lover, You Should've Come Over - Jeff Buckley
Look Back In Anger - David Bowie
Come Together - The Beatles
Oh! Darling - The Beatles
Night and Day - Cole Porter
Kingdom Come - Coldplay
First Episode at Hienton - Elton John
The Man With the Child in His Eyes - Kate Bush
Miles Away - Marc Cohn
They Weren't There - Missy Higgins
Under African Skies - Paul Simon
On the Radio - Regina Spektor
Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
Being Alive - Sondheim, from Company
Unchained Melody - Righteous Bros.

Eggs...

... are delicious and nutritious.

Good for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and you can put anything in them. Good with fruit and toast. Yummy.

My City by Night

Lazy Delicacies

I love good food but I never seem to have any time to make anything truly exquisite. At some point in my life (probably when I've retired and my hands are too arthritic for knitting) I will reach Emily's dizzyingly Nigella-esque culinary heights, but for now I am content to share with you my favourite quick (i.e. lazy) delicacies.


1. Eton Mess

Ingredients:
Fresh strawberries
Merangue
Pouring cream

Method:
Slice up the strawberries and line the bottom of a bowl
Crush up the merangue and scatter it over the strawberries
Pour the cream liberally over the whole lot and dig in with a spoon, not a fork.

2. Ploughman's Lunch

Ingredients:
Lovely thick sourdough bread
Olive butter
Vintage cheddar
Pickled onions
Pickled gherkins
Cherry tomatoes
A pink lady apple
Fresh strawberries

Method:
Toast the bread, spread the olive butter on it, cut up all the rest of the ingredients and whack them on a plate. Serve with a big class of orange juice and enjoy.

Pictures from a Walk

Peace

A Change

Hair dyed and cut by beautiful Sophia.

What do you think?

(Saturday) and Sunday in Pictures

A collection of wonderfully relaxing moments from a weekend that probably should have been used to write essays...



A two year old took this picture... she's pretty good for someone who just realised she has opposable thumbs.
This is her, my cute little cousin Clare.

Go away, Monday!