Stevie's 24-hour tag.
Stevie (http://travellingteacup.blogspot.com/) came up with this idea. It's your ideal 24 hours, no limitations. Visit her blog for full details, and to see if she's put up hers yet!
My perfect 24 hours.
Total self-indulgence here I'm afraid. Room enough for altruism and self-sacrifice in the real world. I should do more of it, but for now ...
I wake in a cottage in the English countryside. The day is sunny but it will be cold outside. I have central heating in the cottage of course - personal discomfort has no part in my fantasies.
I would be alone I think - solitude is rare and precious for me. I would enjoy the silence.
I make tea, and breakfast from a selection of beautiful fresh eggs, bread and fruit which just happens to be on hand in the wonderful warm kitchen. I pull on coat and gumboots and walk through the woods (did I mention this cottage has its own grounds?) and enjoy the smells, feel, look and sounds of the countryside.
About an hour later, I'm back. I run a bath and soak blissfully for half an hour or so. I light a fire, cosy up in the softest dressing gown you can imagine (Cashmere?), and stick my head in a book for an hour or so.
Get dressed, go for another walk, then the rest of the day involves things I'm not going to divulge in detail, but lunch at a perfect, small English restaurant or pub is a feature, as is some lovely wine, more time in front of the fire back in the cottage, laughter, music, a shared supper and an early night which eventually includes sleep.
Oh, almost forgot. The 24 hours would also include the bit where I'm handed the deeds for the cottage so I can do it all again whenever I want to.
My perfect 24 hours.
Total self-indulgence here I'm afraid. Room enough for altruism and self-sacrifice in the real world. I should do more of it, but for now ...
I wake in a cottage in the English countryside. The day is sunny but it will be cold outside. I have central heating in the cottage of course - personal discomfort has no part in my fantasies.
I would be alone I think - solitude is rare and precious for me. I would enjoy the silence.
I make tea, and breakfast from a selection of beautiful fresh eggs, bread and fruit which just happens to be on hand in the wonderful warm kitchen. I pull on coat and gumboots and walk through the woods (did I mention this cottage has its own grounds?) and enjoy the smells, feel, look and sounds of the countryside.
About an hour later, I'm back. I run a bath and soak blissfully for half an hour or so. I light a fire, cosy up in the softest dressing gown you can imagine (Cashmere?), and stick my head in a book for an hour or so.
Get dressed, go for another walk, then the rest of the day involves things I'm not going to divulge in detail, but lunch at a perfect, small English restaurant or pub is a feature, as is some lovely wine, more time in front of the fire back in the cottage, laughter, music, a shared supper and an early night which eventually includes sleep.
Oh, almost forgot. The 24 hours would also include the bit where I'm handed the deeds for the cottage so I can do it all again whenever I want to.
posted by MargieCM at 1:17 pm
20 Comments:
Margie, that sounds like bliss! A wonderful 24 hours! I think, in way, letting ourselves indulge in a guilt free fantasy vacation is a good way to have treat ourselves to total self indulgance, and I don't think that is such a bad thing!
I have been insanely busy with fundraisers this past week or so, so time for me to create my full 24 hours... tomorrow... my eyes want very much to close now!
I love your cottage... I think tea in the garden would be nice! Can I come by?
Stevie: "insanely busy with fundraisers"? Now you're just trying to make me feel really guilty about my total self-indulgence!
As it's term holiday time here though, no school meetings or committees of any sort are going to get in the way of my perfect day. However, if I find your perfect day involves pounding the streets feeding the poor, giving up your clothing for homeless dogs and in general making Mother Teresa look like Lucrezia Borgia, I may have to reconsider. No, sod it, I won't. I can't compete with your innate goodness!
Yes, please do come for tea, but if you mention chocolate drives, car boot sales, auctions, raffles or trivia nights, it's straight out the rose-covered picket gate with you my girl.
Ah, the country life. Sounds lovely.
I'd be on a warm beach, alternating between sunbathing, and riding the waves, with a good book at the ready and endless sangria glasses.
That sounds wonderful Margie..i'll have to think of one and try and keep it clean..i did say try!..
Oh by the by, I read your comment on stevies page about your eldest and the Dali talk...wowsah!..i'd love to be in his presence for just five minutes, he is a truely lovely man..if i was forced to have a religion it would be The Buddha way, as it's so peaceful and wise..
Hiya Margie!
Well, my 24 hours has been posted, and it is fully self centered and totally indulgant, so never fear!
Thanks for letting my in for tea... I promise not to talk fundraisers!
:)
Hi Margie, this sounds totally delicious in every sense and aspect, and I would only chnage just one small thing about it. It would be warm outside in the sun, but just still cool enough for that fire you are cuddling up to indoors. I would want to have a picnic too, you see xx Val
Ooh nearly forgot. Last proper part of WW is up. There'll be a sort of epilogue, but in essence it's finished!
Oooh yes, Margie!
Total self-indulgence is included in my perfect day, as well...
I'm still working on it.
I love your cottage - when may I come visit?
Epilogue's there too now. Phew!
So you're a beach girl Anne-Marie? Sounds lovely. Keep the sand out of the Sangria though. Grit is distinctly unromantic.
Gyps - I've checked yours out of course, and it sounds brilliant. I think my cottage could well morph into something a little larger and more mysterious now I've been thus inspired. I agree with you about Buddhism. "First - do no harm." Can't be bad.
Stevie, you acquitted yourself very well indeed! I'll have a piece of yours too thanks.
OK Vally, I will arrange a little warmth - that lovely Autumn sun that creeps into your very bones and makes you want to stretch out and purr. It will have to be windstill though - no cold breezes. Oh, and I have now caught up with WW to the end (gives sad little sniff). Many thanks for a wonderful journey. (And yours was real!)
Dale, as I now intend to keep my cottage, and it will be quite a large one - probably with 15th-century origins, 5 or 6 bedrooms and several sympathetically designed but luxurious bathrooms - you can come whenever you like! I shall also have horses - at least three, so we can go riding any time. Bliss, eh?
I think you deserve a masion Margie..nothing less..
I really like your day Margie. It sounds like bliss. Sometimes its the simple, quiet, solitude things that really are heavenly.
This has been a wonderful idea by Stevie.
Margie I love the idea of the horses.
In another perfect day I have the ideal mount and ride to my heart's content.
...I used to want to be a Grand Prix competitor...
Hi Margie, that is a great 24 hrs! (reminds me of the movie Holiday with Jude Law), can he be thrown in there somewhere?!!
Thanks for thinking of my June, it was very scary. She is fine now. Hopefully she won't do that one again!!
xx
But 24 hours on the shortest day of the year or on the longest day of the year? Too many details missing...write a book.
Just kidding.
--Dan L.
Thanks Gypsy, you are most kind. I'll just nip out and pick up the current ish of "Country Life", shall I? I'm not fussy - something that needs a litle work is fine.
Lesley - you're right. Solitude is good for the soul. Come to think of it, solitude - solo - soul mmmmm could there be some crafty etymology at work here?
Right, Dale, stables and paddocks are definitely indicated. Grace - no problem - what do you reckon at having Jude Law as the stable hand?
Dan - that's a tricky one. Normally the longer the day the better, but if it FEELS too long, it's probably dragging, and this one I suspect will speed by! Days do when you're enoying yourself, time being relative and all that.
Alas, if If I wrote the book I wanted to I fear I would make you blush. And myself. Best not for the moment.
Hi there Margie,
Sorry I've not checked your blog sooner. I haven't had time to think of this 24-hour thing but I promise to try to come up with something. Your dream day sounds rather wonderful I must say!
Margie buy a copy of
'Derelict-R-US'..
good mag for finding old ruins to lovingly restore..
Margie, I have posted some pics of my trip to Australia a couple years back. Couldn't locate all pics, as I think most of them are on slides. Hope u like.
Maria - I look forward to reading yours, although from your last post, it looks as though you may already have done it!
Gypsy - where can I subscribe???
Grace - I've visited, and the photos are wonderful. Thanks for remembering!
Well, now. One scenario for my 24 hours would be simply to go to London, walk for hours around the city with a very good, old friend of mine who lives there and talk about everything between heaven and earth, and in the evening go to an Attic Jam concert.
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