Today: everything done in another way. Breaking the routine. Strong coffee first thing in the morning instead of tea, rolls instead of porridge, no grapefruit and the egg can wait. Still in my nightie, and yes: it is later than usual, because yesterday evening I cooked dinner for friends. We sat long on the balcony, so sweet and warm the air, and raised the first Pimm's No. 1 of this summer to the stars above.
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Hello Britta:
It is so satisfying to break with tradition and routine, as obviously you are doing today, from time to time. In fact we increasingly try not to follow any particular pattern in our daily lives.
Dinner with friends last night on your balcony sounds to have been idyllic. We hope that you will have many more similar evenings this summer.
Dear Jane and Lance,
thank you! I'm sure I will - summer coming at last (31°C for today). I do like routines - though not too many, because then one becomes peculiar.
Perfect. Just perfect!
I like to pick out a favorite line with posts like these but for this one, it's all my favorite.
Sigh.
Dear Suze,
thank you, of course I like it! But I know that you write wonderfully - so you have no reason to sigh.
The morning after the night before - I hope you sat in a secluded corner of your balcony to enjoy the morning sunshine and think about the pleasures of the evening with friends.
Shaking up the routine can be a good thing!
Dear Pondside,
thank you! Yes, the balcony is a recessed balcony, so I am well protected (against glimpses too: the trees in the street guard our privacy - and choice of nighties. And it wasn't only Chanel No.5, as Marilyn's :-)
If you were really doing things the other way around you'd be drinking Pimms for breakfast.
Haha, dear Tony,
that's a very logic remark :-) I have a book that is called "Icecream for Breakfast" - really - but Pimm's in the morning... shudder...
Only your first glass of Pimms for the summer? You have some catching up to do.
When I'm in Asia my routine always involves chilli and beef soup and a cold beer for breakfast!
Dear IG,
I think it is vice versa here too: the summer has to catch up with the Pimm's - I am willing! Your Asian breakfast sounds interesting - my friend in Bremen always serves Miso-soup in the morning - but cold beer? With the chilli it sounds more like dinner to me.
It's important to do something out of the ordinary. Otherwise you start to feel like an robot, programmed for life instead of enjoying and really living it. I miss those silky summer evenings you get to experience. Here it's sticky evenings because of the heat and humidity. I'm not complaining though because the fall and winter evenings are usually most pleasant.
Dear Walk2write,
I agree. The ordinary as a foil for the extraordinary. And vice versa. It is an interesting thought that the winter evenings are more pleasant - I do understand it right - here they are so different from summer that no comparison comes to mind.
Sneaking online for just a minute (only a minute, I vow to myself). Breaking the routine, such an excellent way to live. And somehow I love that breaking your routine involves "rolls instead of porridge, no grapefruit and the egg can wait." Now, off I go again, to what passes for the "real" world, stack of books and list of projects at my side . . .
Dear Sue,
thank you for that minute! I am so curious how your project will turn out - and lists are always good to get things done. For the blogs I use a big hour glass now.
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