The cold finally started to improve yesterday. I started to write a post on that subject, found inspiration came slowly and, eventually, fell asleep in my chair. Waking at just after midnight I humphed at missing a day on the blog and went to bed.
The clock went off this morning, waking me from a dream where Julia and I were about to embark, as newly-weds, on an academic career at an American University in the 1940s. I think I was vaguely remembering something I’d read in the biography section of a poetry book recently, probably about Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, but as I’m not from Yorkshire and we don’t have a gas oven it’s not a 100% fit.
Julia is now at work, I’m feeling optimistic about my prospects for the day and I now have approximately eight hours ahead of me in which to achieve either greatness or inner peace, or possibly both.
A cup of tea seems like a good starting point for either of those results, so I think I’ll go and put the kettle on.
The photograph is from the Suffolk trip, but it has tea in it so it will do as a library shot.
Selfie in a teapot
Good to hear you are doing better. Tea and crumpets can only brighten the mood. There is an old poem about tea my mother used to recite.
A good cup of tea
is acknowledged to be
a famous restorer in sadness.
It quickens life’s flame
and enlivens the frame
and imparts a spirit of gladness.
That’s an excellent poem. I must remember it.
Hope you are feeling back to your ol’ self soon, my friend.
Yes, after a couple of days of improving I’m feeling far better thanks.
So good you are feeling better. I have found that a cup of tea can work wonders. Always makes everything seem better.
🙂 Tea, time and a nice nap. It seems to have done the trick.
You have a better quality of dreams than me. Most of my dreams are about being lost. I hope the tea and crumpets helped.
After tea and crumpets I admit I did feel like another dream of the 1950s might be on the cards.
Tomorrow I’m going to drink Ginger Beer and see what happens.
Inner peace and greatness! What will you do after lunch?
Ah, well having failed with the inner peace and greatness I went to TESCO then had another go at Inner Peace before waking up in front of the TV and picking Julia up from work. Tomorrow I have a free afternoon to try for greatness.
Free afternoon – that should do it. How long can it take when you out your mind to it?
In the old days I’d have finished the Greatness and had a crack at World Peace by the time Pointless came on, but these days I’m working slower…
Glad to hear you’re on the mend, me too…even the hives from some meds I was taking-next week….we should be really perky!
🙂 Here’s to Health, Hive-freeness and Happiness!
What a shocking man you are, Simon! 😀
I find a cup of tea helpful at any hour of the day.
🙂 I’m about to toast some crumpets and have more tea. Living life to the full here…
Tea and crumpets – Yum! 🙂
Number Two son is visiting – he volunteered to do it so it was even better. 🙂
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Glad you are feeling better. Don’t think the 1940s fits either 🙂
Yes, that’s true. 🙂 In my defence, I was asleep whilst dreaming this so my accuracy was a little relaxed.
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