But seriously, this was a real brighten to my morning after doom-scrolling starting at 4-ish my time here on the other side of the pond. It’s now almost 6 AM (1:00 PM) your time perhaps? Anyway, I can now get out of bed on a lighter note.
Golly, I'm sorry to hear you'd had an interrupted night's sleep. Hope your day didn't feel tooooo long as a result! 6am - hmmm, remind me, are you EST? I think I'd first spotted your reply at around lunchtime - 1pm - EST is five hours behind us. I'm typing this at nearly 9pm on Thursday (strictly speaking past my bedtime!), which on the US east coast is 4pm. Sorry if I've misremembered where you're based! xxx
Yes, I’m on northeast side of east coast of America—Maine. We get the first light of the sun as the earth turns toward daylight in North America. And you’re correct that you are 5 hours into your day by the time I am sitting up in bed. 🌞
I’m reading this, then, at 04.14hrs your time on Saturday morning… I hope you’re still fast asleep! 💤 I got up pretty late this morning, and am now about to make my third cup of tea of the weekend!
I love all of this, except the hospital appointment. I could find a way to work in 'right as rain' here, but we already know you have too much of that.
The blackbird - what a con artist! But I must admit I admire their smarts. The starlings have recently discovered our buffet and they are taking the all-you-can-eat opportunity to heart. Hard to not want to shoo them away to make way for the smaller birds.
I have no concept of what builders tea is, but I'm glad it did what you needed it to do. We don't even really eat breakfast here, so I've got nothing to offer in that regard. My routine, however, includes first a cup of hot water with lemon, a last-decade addition that I actually enjoy, bleak as it sounds. On our recent trip to the Gulf coast, one of the visiting cousins brought two dozen bagels from New York. That was a short-lived but much-loved routine!
Speaking of much-loved, Happy Valentine's Day - if you celebrate. ❤️
Ha, 'right as rain' - that's a great fit for the context, Elizabeth! I'd only mentioned the hospital appointment in the first place so that I could say 'just what the doctor ordered'! Okay, so I was given no orders to drink tea on the way home, but still!
Builders' tea is simply the name given to, well, bog-standard strong black tea - just the way I like it!
Ooooh, hot water with lemon - that sounds like a very zingy start to the day! My first cuppa of the day is actually peppermint tea because I'm not to take caffeine with my early medication! I sure make up for that with two mugs of builders' tea at breakfast time, though!
Bagels - what a treat! And thank you - happy Valentine's Day to you, too, for tomorrow! ❤️
Breakfast here: Absolute quiet. No interruptions. TWO mugs of coffee with raisin toast, NYT Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Strands and Spelling Bee. And, my fsvorite, the daily Waffle ( wafflegame.net) . A fifteen minute stop at the Cornell Labs Bird Watching station ( live cam) with my handy pencil and field guide. From 6:30 to 8:00 - my absolute favorite time of day. Oh, and NEVER any world or national news, thank you! I mean, why would anyone want to start their day hearing about the Musk/Trump freak show? The only thing more ridiculous is a man who ties a noose around his neck ( a tie) before heading off to work every day?
Oooh, I love Waffle - my mum does it every day but I haven't for ages - thanks for the reminder! I love Strands, too. And gosh, what a lovely start to the morning, to watch the birds on live cam!
I love that blackbird, and your morning rituals. I loved the entire post, actually. It felt cozy, confident, and content. Thanks for a lovely read as my day winds down, the late winter weather gathering itself into the coldest stretch for the next week or so, and we're snug and warm against it.
Oh Mary, thank you! We've had what I'm sure is a succession of male blackbirds over the years - although of course I like to THINK it's the same one - and they're such great characters! Thank you for kind words! I really enjoy writing these letters to Terry, and I had actually skipped my last two posts, so it's nice to dip my toe back into the water. Keep warm! It's been ever so chilly here, but gosh, it's an absolutely glorious day today - cold but bright, bright, bright. x
I love cliches. Half the time, I'm a walking cliche, 'specially since the Pupsicle arrived. You know - mother with hair awry, no makeup, yesterday's clothes and food stains from holding the infant. Smelling of ...
I also rather like your blackbird. What a hoot! Or should that be tweet? I have two parrots who have a certain call if the bird feeder is empty. Considering they're loud birds normally, it's an awfully polite reminder to do my job a little better.
And Builder's Tea! It's what our shearers always preferred, but now with refined palates, they go for coffees and lite morning teas and lunches. My F-I-L adored Builder's Tea. His comment was that he wanted the spoon to stand up straight in it - obviously meaning as strong as...
We've always had a tame-ish blackbird hanging around, even when our much-bigger-than-a-blackbird jackdaw friend Jacko lived here. I always tell Jim it's the same one as when I'd first moved here, but that of course is ridiculous!
I love a proper cup of strong, strong tea. Hurrah for your F-I-L and his cuppa in which you could stand a spoon up! If anyone offers to make me a cup of tea and asks how I like it, I say 'so dark that it looks like coffee, please'. Usually works!
Hospital visit was fine thank you - you're so kind to ask. All part of an ongoing ruling-out exercise related to whatever it is that's making me so slow and tired! All is well, really it is.
Slow and steady, Rebecca. I have a daughter with auto-immune disease and she really does need to make it slow and steady. The body's actually quite a good communicator.
Thanks, Prue - this means a lot! The third in what would have turned two related existing conditions into an unholy trinity has just been ruled out, and for that I'm very grateful! Glad to know that slow and steady is the way forward for your daughter - I'm working along similar lines in order not to overdo things. xxx
A fun read! Thank you.
I have a love / hate relationship with cliche’s.
See what I did there?
But seriously, this was a real brighten to my morning after doom-scrolling starting at 4-ish my time here on the other side of the pond. It’s now almost 6 AM (1:00 PM) your time perhaps? Anyway, I can now get out of bed on a lighter note.
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Ha! Great opening cliché, Gail! And thank you!
Golly, I'm sorry to hear you'd had an interrupted night's sleep. Hope your day didn't feel tooooo long as a result! 6am - hmmm, remind me, are you EST? I think I'd first spotted your reply at around lunchtime - 1pm - EST is five hours behind us. I'm typing this at nearly 9pm on Thursday (strictly speaking past my bedtime!), which on the US east coast is 4pm. Sorry if I've misremembered where you're based! xxx
Yes, I’m on northeast side of east coast of America—Maine. We get the first light of the sun as the earth turns toward daylight in North America. And you’re correct that you are 5 hours into your day by the time I am sitting up in bed. 🌞
I’m reading this, then, at 04.14hrs your time on Saturday morning… I hope you’re still fast asleep! 💤 I got up pretty late this morning, and am now about to make my third cup of tea of the weekend!
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Love it! Your posts always make me smile xx
Awww! Yours too - that's so kind! Thank you. x
I love all of this, except the hospital appointment. I could find a way to work in 'right as rain' here, but we already know you have too much of that.
The blackbird - what a con artist! But I must admit I admire their smarts. The starlings have recently discovered our buffet and they are taking the all-you-can-eat opportunity to heart. Hard to not want to shoo them away to make way for the smaller birds.
I have no concept of what builders tea is, but I'm glad it did what you needed it to do. We don't even really eat breakfast here, so I've got nothing to offer in that regard. My routine, however, includes first a cup of hot water with lemon, a last-decade addition that I actually enjoy, bleak as it sounds. On our recent trip to the Gulf coast, one of the visiting cousins brought two dozen bagels from New York. That was a short-lived but much-loved routine!
Speaking of much-loved, Happy Valentine's Day - if you celebrate. ❤️
Ha, 'right as rain' - that's a great fit for the context, Elizabeth! I'd only mentioned the hospital appointment in the first place so that I could say 'just what the doctor ordered'! Okay, so I was given no orders to drink tea on the way home, but still!
Builders' tea is simply the name given to, well, bog-standard strong black tea - just the way I like it!
Ooooh, hot water with lemon - that sounds like a very zingy start to the day! My first cuppa of the day is actually peppermint tea because I'm not to take caffeine with my early medication! I sure make up for that with two mugs of builders' tea at breakfast time, though!
Bagels - what a treat! And thank you - happy Valentine's Day to you, too, for tomorrow! ❤️
Breakfast here: Absolute quiet. No interruptions. TWO mugs of coffee with raisin toast, NYT Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Strands and Spelling Bee. And, my fsvorite, the daily Waffle ( wafflegame.net) . A fifteen minute stop at the Cornell Labs Bird Watching station ( live cam) with my handy pencil and field guide. From 6:30 to 8:00 - my absolute favorite time of day. Oh, and NEVER any world or national news, thank you! I mean, why would anyone want to start their day hearing about the Musk/Trump freak show? The only thing more ridiculous is a man who ties a noose around his neck ( a tie) before heading off to work every day?
Oooh, I love Waffle - my mum does it every day but I haven't for ages - thanks for the reminder! I love Strands, too. And gosh, what a lovely start to the morning, to watch the birds on live cam!
I'm sorry, but it has been so long since i heard fron you, can you remind me who you are please?
Beats me if I know.... 🤷♀️
I love that blackbird, and your morning rituals. I loved the entire post, actually. It felt cozy, confident, and content. Thanks for a lovely read as my day winds down, the late winter weather gathering itself into the coldest stretch for the next week or so, and we're snug and warm against it.
Oh Mary, thank you! We've had what I'm sure is a succession of male blackbirds over the years - although of course I like to THINK it's the same one - and they're such great characters! Thank you for kind words! I really enjoy writing these letters to Terry, and I had actually skipped my last two posts, so it's nice to dip my toe back into the water. Keep warm! It's been ever so chilly here, but gosh, it's an absolutely glorious day today - cold but bright, bright, bright. x
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Ha! Great read.
I love cliches. Half the time, I'm a walking cliche, 'specially since the Pupsicle arrived. You know - mother with hair awry, no makeup, yesterday's clothes and food stains from holding the infant. Smelling of ...
I also rather like your blackbird. What a hoot! Or should that be tweet? I have two parrots who have a certain call if the bird feeder is empty. Considering they're loud birds normally, it's an awfully polite reminder to do my job a little better.
And Builder's Tea! It's what our shearers always preferred, but now with refined palates, they go for coffees and lite morning teas and lunches. My F-I-L adored Builder's Tea. His comment was that he wanted the spoon to stand up straight in it - obviously meaning as strong as...
Hope the hospital visit was okay for whomever.
Take care. XXXX
My ipad no longer displays this page correctly. So I have not been commenting. But always love your posts!
Oh, that's lovely to hear, Julie - thank you! Well, not lovely to hear about your iPad display, but lovely that you're here! 🥰
'Smelling of...' LOL, Prue! Thank you so much!
We've always had a tame-ish blackbird hanging around, even when our much-bigger-than-a-blackbird jackdaw friend Jacko lived here. I always tell Jim it's the same one as when I'd first moved here, but that of course is ridiculous!
I love a proper cup of strong, strong tea. Hurrah for your F-I-L and his cuppa in which you could stand a spoon up! If anyone offers to make me a cup of tea and asks how I like it, I say 'so dark that it looks like coffee, please'. Usually works!
Hospital visit was fine thank you - you're so kind to ask. All part of an ongoing ruling-out exercise related to whatever it is that's making me so slow and tired! All is well, really it is.
Slow and steady, Rebecca. I have a daughter with auto-immune disease and she really does need to make it slow and steady. The body's actually quite a good communicator.
Thanks, Prue - this means a lot! The third in what would have turned two related existing conditions into an unholy trinity has just been ruled out, and for that I'm very grateful! Glad to know that slow and steady is the way forward for your daughter - I'm working along similar lines in order not to overdo things. xxx