I really must get better at noting and posting these at the time - otherwise they're not exactly the mindfulness exercises they were meant to be ( Read more... )

Definitely a bit of a theme in the last week or so's #happythings, but hey. What can I say, I like food and I love cooking for my family ( Read more... )

I am standing at the stove making a cheese sauce, to go with the fish which is cooking in the oven (and will have mashed potato, carrots and broccoli to go with it) for dinner. I have a glass of rather nice Sauvignon Blanc in my hand, and there is jazz on BBC Radio 3.

Completely content :-)

Just realised I missed posting this: Tuesday's #happything was sitting down to a very tasty dinner (chicken couscous with roast vegetables) cooked by First Small Person in his Food Technology lessons at school ( Read more... )

Making garlicky roast lamb for Sunday dinner, and then when the Small People were finally shoehorned into bed, curling up on the sofa with the Resident Geek to watch the first episode of the last half of the last series of Mad Men.

Yesterday's #happything was a meal out with my lovely work colleagues. (Several years ago we started having our small site library staff's "Christmas" meal out in January or even, as in this case, February; instead of having to struggle with all the other work Christmas dinners to book in the run-up to Christmas and eat yet another turkey dinner, ( Read more... )

I don't know about you, but sometimes anticipation can be a pleasure in itself ( Read more... )

Thursday's #happything: very tasty lunch at a work conference (there isn't very often such a thing as a free lunch, but our University conference catering, particularly when it's a conference with external visitors like this one and so there's a decent budget, is very very good ( Read more... )

Now, the Small Persons are in bed, the Resident Geek and I have not yet had dinner, it's the end of the week... what do we have in the ingredients line? Ahha - left-over roast chicken; onions, check; garlic, check; a bit of spinach that needs eating up, check; mushrooms, check;... oh good, half a packet of arborio rice, check. Home-made chicken ( Read more... )

To make up for a weekend full of minor crapnesses, some just bad luck and others entirely self-inflicted, spent a happy hour or two this afternoon up the hill behind us in our favourite blackberry thickets at the back of the golf course, with the Resident Geek and the Small Persons - result, stained fingers, the odd scratch and a great big plastic ( Read more... )