Saturday 31 January 2009

A Saturday in my life

For a while now, I have been following Willow's blog. And one of my favourite things is her monthly Day In My Life series of posts. I love the little snapshot into her life - the small details are so interesting. Several of the weekend newspapers run regular columns in a similar way - A Life in the Day in The Times and Writers' Rooms in The Guardian. It is peeping into somebody else's world just momentarily, that gives me such a thrill.

So here - as a one off - is a classic winter Saturday in my life. A day neither remarkable nor special, but just lovely in its ordinariness.
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My children are now old enough to give me lie ins, which is AWESOME. I promise that I will never, ever take this for granted after the years of sleepless-baby-and-wide-awake-toddler, which, frankly, scarred my sleeping patterns for life.
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I emerge downstairs at 9:15 to find C and O settled quite happily on the sofa watching CBBC.
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I am wearing my favourite t-shirt of the moment which was Howie's t-shirt of the week sometime last month.
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I appreciate that all you can see is mirror writing, but its still cool, no? No coffee. No workee. That's me.

G sets the table for breakfast and I tuck into a bowl of my homemade muesli.
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I have recently discovered muesli base from Waitrose, which is a mixture of barley, oats, rye and spelt flakes with sunflower and pumpkin seeds. You then customise the base to make precisely the kind of muesli you want. Becuase people are very finicky about muesli. Some cannot abide nuts and some find sultanas all wrong. I like mine with big old chunks of fruit in it so I add lots of chopped prunes, figs, dried strawberries and sultanas.

After breakfast, I discovered that my children have turned into superheroes. They do this quite often. Today I had Clever Party Girl and Bogey Man (Bogey's my name - snot's the game).
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G cycled to a swimming lesson at the endless pool in Canary Wharf and I reclothed the superheroes and then took O to her ballet lesson.
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While O was at ballet, C and I bought croisssants for lunch.
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After lunch I made some bread - a sesame and sunflower seed loaf - and twiddled around on the computer while I drank some coffee.
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G and C did some research for C's project on the Vikings and O made a playmobil forest.
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I knitted.
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My evening at Stitch & Bitch London this week taught me how to increase, put stitch markers in and put stitches on a stitch holder. I'm attempting mittens now! Oh, and if you click into that link and scroll down, you can find a picture of me - looking very serious, concentrating hard and wearing black, which I only ever do if I am at work.
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I cooked a biryani for supper, and then once the children were in bed G and I dug out a DVD to watch.
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We could only manage 10 minutes of Mamma Mia...the singing! the squealing! the hammy acting! no! no! no!
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So here I am, uploading photos, typing my blog and finding out what events are on in Trafalgar Square tomorrow for the Chinese New Year celebrations.
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How has your Saturday been?

10 comments:

  1. Love the t-shirt - think I need another coffee just thinking about it. Yes, it does seem that lots of people are fussy about their muesli - I buy one with a quinoa base and add loads of fresh fruit and honey yoghurt. Saturday was a work day for me but we did go to a Jose Carreras concert at a local winery last night - spell binding.

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  2. One of my friends had a coffee mug exactly like yours - the one with the multi-colored polka dots - where did it come from?

    My Saturday was quiet, full of good eats (french toast & sausages for brunch, potato pancakes, veggies and steak delmonico for dinner), and cozy while staying warm indoors. Feels good.

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  3. what a fun insight into your Saturday, and nice to see lots of pictures of your house too, now next Saturday I can picture you doing your routine! we had a totally different day yesterday to our usual stuff, and played at being tourists in our home town, it was fun. xx

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  4. Love the t-shirt too, I definitely need one of those for work!! Rob saw the photo, shook his head and said 'Typical N, pointing at her boobs again'...
    No surprise in that I have your bridgewater mug too, and your desk looks full of interesting stuff.
    My Saturday was full of coffee and workee, curry for tea-hee and tell-ee in the evening-eee.
    Today, however, we have been desk hunting (and purchasing) lunching in Carluccios and buying tea from Whittards. And pink tights from M and S. And belts from H and M. And spotty red scarves from Accessorize. I earnt lots of tips yesterday!!x

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  6. It looks as though you had a lovely 'ordinary' day. I must look out for the muesli base!

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  7. Oh at last! Someone else who couldn't stand Mamma Mia...I thought there was something wrong with me. Phew!

    I would love to Stitch and Bitch - is it very far?

    Love the t shirt, that really made me chuckle.

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  8. I enjoyed reading about your day, I like the idea of recording the ordinary events of our lives because in the future I'm sure we will remember the big things but forget the day to day details.

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  9. I had the laziest Saturday imaginable! Didn't see another living soul - just stayed in and mooched about. Something I always think is nice to do, but the reality is always a bit disappointing.
    Love the t-shirt. I'm sat here with a day off uni and a full coffee pot to plough through...

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  10. Another one - and I thought it was just me that wasn't wowed (is that the correct spelling!) by Mama Mia!
    Phew.

    I spent my day at work, covering for a colleague - but cooked chicken and leek bake for tea (yum) and read for the remainer of the evening.

    Love the T shirt and the Emma Bridgewater mug - does it have an endless supply of coffee in it?

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