This is what I got up to yesterday.
04.30 - Alarm went off in preparation for the sunrise at 04.53. It was getting light already though, hit the snooze button for eight minutes.
04.38 - Hit the snooze button again04.46 - Dragged myself out of the nice warm comfy bed (I am not a morning person) and opened the blinds so I could watch the sunrise out the window from bedfordshire. It was quite cloudy though, so it was more just watching the light grow, but that was okay.
04.53 - Once light was all around, put the radio on and snoozed on and off for a few hours.
07.30 - Got up and got ready in a relaxed fashion, as opposed to the usual mad rush due to inherited lateness gene and aforementioned not-a-morning-person-ness.
Me at my dressing table - stop that laughing at the back!09.00 - Left home for a walk into town along the river. It was kind of blustery, but sunny and warm enough to have to shed a few layers during the journey.
09.30 - Arrived at Watershed for a nice big coffee and beans on toast. Don't know if it was the sleep deprivation but me and Brett became philosopical in mood and did a kind of eulogy to the year past and talked about how we imagined SHOP would be before we actually had it and how the reality is different, but in no way inferior. We also talked about the future a bit until deciding that was utterly pointless and just sat there in that moment and enjoyed our coffee instead. 'Eff you future, you don't own us!
10.30 - Went for a little wander around the floating harbour, then went to buy snacks 'cus me and Brett were both still hungry for some reason. We have of late become jointly addicted to the vegetable samosas that our local shop sell, so when we saw an Indian snack platter, even at 10.30am in the morning, we decided we had to have it. And have it we did, for FREE! Brett was holding it, and holding it, and holding it, and he was still holding it when we left the shop - he accidentally twokked it, tsk tsk. Brett does this I've noticed, he finds himself holding things and doesn't know why or how. Like when we went to Scotland in February. He walked through security at the airport, joined me at the other side, looked at me, then looked down at his hand, then looked at me again, we both looked down and found ourselves gazing at a massive masonry hook.
11.00 - Opened up SHOP, on time!
The day at SHOP was a particularly nice one, no exact reason either, which seemed to add to a general atmosphere of wellbeing. It got sunnier, on and off, which helped. It was cleaning day and rather than begrudge it as usual, I took pleasure in making SHOP clean and pretty. Eddy our resident, erm ... resident came in and was in particularly amusing form with his random musings.
Eddy in SHOP in 1977 - he's sitting by the window in the women's section. 17.30 - I went home a bit early to see the cat and collect some sewing equipment, as me and Brett were going to see some friends for a solstice bbq/sewing session/band practice. The cat was in a massive HUFF because there had been MEN working in HER house ALL day! But I managed to win her round with tuna and by the time I left she was giving me face bashes.
19.00 - Came back to SHOP to 'help' Brett vacuum, but more just watched as I decided that as it was the longest day I was going to wear the shoes I bought in April and hadn't had a chance to wear yet. They are quite high. Not really sewing-machine-pedal friendly, or transit van driving friendly, but whatevs man!
Shoes pictured are not my actual shoes19.30 - BBQ time! Our friends have a garden full of green stuff and although they are unemployed they put on luxurious spread of homegrown tasty stuff. I even ate a nasturtium! Along with more traditional BBQ foods such as hot dawgs and burgers. We stayed resolutely in the garden drinking wine and smoking cigarettes until the light finally faded to inky blue. The longest day was over for another year. NB. Brett did band practice, but I failed to sew even a stich, whoops!
My dinner
