Beautiful wisteria this month
Making: salads – chicken with a bit of blue cheese, inspired by my friend who’s obsessed with it for lunch right now!
Cooking: rhubarb and clementines
Drinking: fizzy water, sounds virtuous but have had quite a few ciders over the Bank Holiday weekend. Sunshine, sea and cider go together beautifully
Lovely bluebells. I’m going to do a separate bluebell post because it’s an annual tradition I don’t want to skip
Reading: Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Wanting: new jogging bottoms for Pilates
Playing: Everything Under by Daisy Johnson – my new audio book
Deciding: to try not to fall asleep over my Kindle at bedtime!
Wishing: to live nearer the sea
Enjoying: the sunshine
Waiting: for the new Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special! Exciting!!!!!
Evening walks with that gorgeous golden light as the sun gets lower, has been a treat this May
Liking: how green everything is, May is one of my favourite months. Colour everywhere
Wondering: when to stop this to make my hair appointment on time
Loving: sleeping well (not the last two nights, but there’s always tonight)
A new walk, discovered the other Sunday
Pondering: what’s next for the country
Considering: eating some breakfast before I leave, better rush
Buying: groceries online
Swansea marina and Swansea market – those Welsh Cakes smelt mmmmm
Watching: the last ever Big Bang Theory last night. They handled the ending well, brought a tear to my eye
Hoping: to visit a friend later
Marvelling: how tight your jeans can feel after just 4.5 days away…
Cringing: at the above, it’s been fun though
Needing: to pause this for now
Tenby – still so light at nine in the evening
Questioning: what’s effective at removing soap scum and limescale from shower doors, without chemicals. So far I’ve tried a few things
Smelling: hair salon smells
Wearing: a black gown
Following: what others are having done to their hair (aka covert staring in the mirror!)
Saundersfoot. I recommend Sue’s Pantry if you like cake (with or without tonnes of icing…actually half of mine fell off and onto the pavement. There’s going to be a gull with diabetes soon)
Knowing: it’s probably going to rain on my styled hair on the walk home
Thinking: about fun times with lots of laugher
Admiring: Andy Parsons for filming this for Campaign to End Loneliness
Sorting: laundry
Love all the colours and patterns in the shells. I think the mussel shell looks almost tartan, don’t you think?
Getting: into cleaning mode. Holiday cottages are – usually – sparkling and your own slightly dusty home suffers in comparison when you come home. I get why people spring-clean before going away. I do sometimes, but not last week
Bookmarking: books to read
Coveting: that house by the sea
Disliking: dust and fluff
Amroth does huge jelly fish
Opening: mail
Giggling: remembering a Christmas Gavin & Stacey episode
Feeling: very chilled
Snacking: on raw carrots, as usual
Tredegar House, National Trust
Helping: the grocery driver find the house this morning. Could hear a van driving up and down the road
Hearing: that Sheeran & Bieber song on the salon radio
Mixing: they’re mixing colour for customers
Worrying: about nothing specific
Colby Woodland Garden, National Trust
Slicing: an apple
Celebrating: long Bank Holiday weekends, especially this last one in Pembrokeshire
Forgetting: nothing?
Winning: nothing!
Pretending: nothing!
Sneaking: nothing!
Embracing: friends and family, it’s good to appreciate and be appreciated in return
The Little Room of Rachell 