Domestic Paradise
It is a good day. I've had strawberries sprinkled with orange blossom water for breakfast, and there is Formby Asparagus soup simmering on the stove. I've got a line of lemon juice bleached tea towels swinging in the breeze, Marthas coffee strudel baking in the oven and joy of joys, there are teeny weeny green strawberries on my plants (Bizarre! Plant and they will come!). My head is buzzing with a hundred and one things I want to do in and around the house and garden, books to read ( "A Solitary Summer" has just landed on my doorstep) books to write, plans for Brocante to make, junk to sell, eyebrows to pluck, purple sprouting brocolli to plant and songs to dance to...
I'm alive with it! But I don't feel like blogging. Some days I just want to be instead.
If I had a proper job I would call in sick. But I haven't. There's just me, whacking myself with a big stick and creating obligations that only exist in my head. So if it is ok with you I am having a few days off. Days to dream, and plan, and bring crazy notions into fruition. A chance to hear myself think and fill the freezer with summer soups...
A short holiday in domestic paradise.
I have been the same just lately - perhaps it's the time of year! Look forward to seeing you back when you're ready!
Posted by: Clare | 14/05/2007 at 11:48 PM
Enjoy your time off, love the sound of strawberries with orange flower water, have you tried them with pepper mmmmm
Posted by: Joy | 14/05/2007 at 06:32 PM
Have a lovely break. You deserve it, but don't stay away too long as we will all miss you!
Posted by: Petah Hatcher | 13/05/2007 at 06:44 AM
"A short holiday in domestic paradise. "
Yeaaaaaa you! I'm so happy you simply did this! May you enjoy each and every minute of it.
Mari-Nanci
Posted by: Mari-Nanci | 12/05/2007 at 03:38 PM
Enjoy these blissful moments Alison,your've earned them.
Posted by: cassandra | 12/05/2007 at 01:06 AM
Have a wonderful holiday, filled with ideas and soup ; )
Have fun !!!
Posted by: Monique | 11/05/2007 at 02:53 PM
We'll still be here waiting patiently. Enjoy your time off and come back refreshed.
Gill x
Posted by: Gill | 10/05/2007 at 05:59 PM
Dear Alison, I understand from you recent posts that you are happy these days... You deserve whatever makes you even happier. Enjoy 'being' and may you find inspiration for many more charming posts. La Chouette.
Posted by: La Chouette | 10/05/2007 at 02:41 PM
ha! That picture looks like me working at the office lol
Posted by: Amy | 10/05/2007 at 02:05 AM
Weeellllll...all right, I guess...I'll wait here. Don't mind me. Go be and having been, be more. I think.
Posted by: sisiggy | 09/05/2007 at 10:22 PM
DREAM, PLAN, "BE"....that's what life is about! Enjoy yourself and I hope you have a blast!
Posted by: HeatherJean | 09/05/2007 at 12:53 PM
Enjoy yourself. We all understand and some of us are even a teeny bit jealous with the desire to "just be". Have a marvelous rest.
Posted by: Jennifer | 09/05/2007 at 11:54 AM
Enjoy!
Every domestic godess deserves a day or two off every now and then!
God bless.
Terri
Posted by: Terri Pollhein | 09/05/2007 at 11:53 AM
See you later... go just be!
Posted by: Angel Jem | 09/05/2007 at 11:18 AM