If I stop work now (9.55 am) I will have done more than I do on some days, and probably about the same as I did all yesterday. This isn’t an excuse to stop, but it is a reason to start planning breakfast.
I made beans, toast, black pudding, mushrooms and bacon yesterday, because I’m an unimaginative man and that is what I consider breakfast should be. Ideally it should also have eggs, sausages and tomatoes, and I wouldn’t object to hash browns, fried potatoes or bubble and squeak either. Plus porridge, toast and marmalade. The reason I didn’t go for the whole lot yesterday (apart from lack of some supplies) was laziness – I would have needed to wash some pans to do eggs and tomatoes.
In retirement I may try experimenting with my breakfast menu a little more. I may also experiment with housework. It’s never too late to try something different and I may enjoy it.
We really should have cereal or porridge this morning, to keep things light and healthy . . .
I’ve just had a few minutes looking at breakfast omelettes, but I keep being drawn back to the ones that feature full breakfast with eggs poured over the top.
I’m thinking of soup again for lunch. Yesterday’s tomato soup was very nice, particularly as it is cheap. I may try carrot today and use it for lunch during the week too, as I’m trying to eat healthy lunches again.
The big project of the morning so far has been preparing a short talk on the Memorial Plaque of the Great War. Every year at the Numismatic Society we have an auction and a Short Papers Night to break up the various talks, I’ve decided to prepare one, even though it might not be needed. It’s useful to be one paper ahead of the game, rather than one behind.
Compared to my last presentation this is coming together quite quickly. It’s probably because I’m using it as a displacement activity – I really should be writing poetry and it’s always easier to avoid the pressing work and do something else. In this case I have poetry to finish for the end of the month so I’m writing a presentation I won’t need for at least six months.
My capacity for poor organisation really is quite remarkable.
Olympic Breakfast
Despite the picture, we had porridge. And toast and marmalade.
A good hearty breakfast is a good start to the day. It is what follows the rest of the day that matters more. 🙂
I do hope someday you will publish a book of poetry. Good luck with the paper, too.
Thank you Lavinia. I’m feeling ambitious, which is the start of feeling industrious, so it might actually happen. 🙂
I like your skill at undertaking diversionary activities. I am just an amateur.
Like all these things, skill in diversionary activity takes time and effort, which in turn means I have to eat into the time I had earmarked for procrastination. It’s not easy being as lazy as this.
I feel your pain.
It can be hard, trying to lead my best life (to use a modern expression).
A Taiwanese student I’m currently teaching told me she likes black pudding. Which reminded me: so do I!
I rarely have it as there doesn’t seem to be any of the organic kind. However, I decided supporting my local butcher was still a good move and enjoyed several meals with it last weekend 😊.
In other words I appreciate why porridge might not always appeal.
I like black pudding, but I’m not entirely sure it is good for me. 🙂 Supporting the local butcher is always a good thing, as they are an endangered species.
Is it the salt in black pudding? I dare say it’s also high in saturated fat.
I just assume it is high in everything that is bad for me. However – remember the words of Otto von Bismarck – “Laws are like sausages. It is best not to see them being made.” (Though, as usual, it was not actually him who said it.)
😁
That is one big breakfast. Good luck with the paper.
🙂 Thank you.
Hope you enjoyed your breakfast, this was fun to read, like talking to someone over food and coffee without having to say anything.
Yes, I enjoyed breakfast thank you. I suppose my style, whilst flawed in many respects, can be called “conversational”.
I like it.
Thank you. I will pop over to yours when i have a little more time.
Now that’s what I call a good breakfast.
🙂 It’s the foundation of a good day.Sadly, according to my doctor it’s also likely to be the cause of a coronary. She is very thin and I have noticed that thin doctors tend to be a bit sniffy about life’s simple plesures.
Yes, I have found that to be true.
Glad it’s not just me. 🙂