Photo An Hour | August '20

Friday, August 28, 2020

7am I had tea brought to me in bed. Husband was off to work. I read for a while before starting my day.

8am Every morning when I go to water the greenhouse Socks the boy cat has to do a quick taste test.

9am En route (I'd pulled over obvs). I was off to collect my Dad for a trip to the seaside, primarily to visit The Suffolk Craft Society Exhibition that we go to every year.

10am Arrived at our destination, Aldeburgh.

11am Elevenses. We'd wandered around two exhibitions and an art gallery, and felt the need for refreshments. I spied a tearoom and within minutes we were seated and choosing from a large selection of cakes. Moments after I posted this on Instagram our cakes arrived. 

Mine? A spiced date, carrot and coconut cake. Dad opted for a scone with jam and cream.

12pm Beach messages. There was table full of stones, with instructions to pondering the meaning of existence and write your thoughts on a stone. We spent a while reading them.

We had a stroll along the beach...

... and stopped in to see another an art exhibition, this time in a church, making excellent use of the pews.

1pm No photo as I'd dropped my Dad off and was driving to an out of town Boots store, on my way home. Annoyingly they didn't have what I needed in stock. I took the opportunity to nip into a large St Elizabeth Hospice shop nearby. It took ages to wander around the one way system behind a painfully slow lady who inspected almost every. single. garment. I did find a rather lovely dress though...

2pm A quick pit stop on my way home. Hula Hoops! It's ages since I had a packet of these, unlike almost everything else, they seem bigger than I remember.

3pm I forgot to take a photo as I'd arrived home, was excited to try on my new dress, was making a fuss of the cats, making myself a cuppa, and thinking about eating a little more food, something a tad healthier than Hula Hoops (an apple and some yogurt).

4pm My plan was to attend to the housework but the garden sunshine beckoned. I took a new read outside with me but I didn't crack the cover, instead I sat pondering the garden tasks that needed doing, and trying to decide what shrubs to plant around the patio. There was probably a fair chunk of daydreaming going on too.

5pm I forgot to make another cuppa before I sat down, and was trapped under Tinker the girl cat.

6pm Snoozing (so no photo). What else can you do when the TV offers nothing of interest and the cat looks too cute to move?

7pm Still here. Not long after I had to disturb the cat (she was non too pleased) to make supper as my stomach grumblings had grown too loud to ignore. I made meatballs in spicy bean stew with pasta. 

And here is where my photos of the day end. I was shattered, not because I'd had a particularly busy day, but because sleep has been evading me lately. I took myself off to bed just after 8pm, I read for a while and managed to get some decent kip. I have no idea what time Andy got home, but it was after 9:30pm - the last time I looked at my clock. 

I hope you had a lovely weekend, and have some exciting plans for this one. It's my birthday tomorrow so I've invited some family members over for a socially distanced BBQ. Andy and I will have our traditional cooked birthday breakfast, only this year we're having it at home (Andy's cooking).

I hope you're well, and I promise to catch up with my blog reading soon!

Thanks, as always, to Jane and Louisa for hosting #PhotoAnHour.

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12 comments

  1. Happy birthday for tomorrow!!! Who knows, your birthday breakfast might be even better being home cooked. You might get offered seconds!
    Looking forward to see your lovely dress xx

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    1. Thank you, I had a lovely day.
      Breakfast was really delicious, and I didn't even have to change out of my PJs to eat it :) (it does have advantages over going out).
      xx

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  2. Before I forget, I'm wishing you a happy birthday for tomorrow. I hope you have a fabulous day! Your trip to the seaside sounds wonderful: spending time with your Dad, visiting craft exhibitions and indulging in tea and cakes! And then finding a dress in a charity shop on your way home. Nothing wrong with a bit of snoozing and daydreaming either! xxx

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    1. Thank you, I had a lovely day. I enjoyed my seaside visit, just being near the sea calms me, and it was lovely to spend some time with my Dad out in the world.
      xx

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  3. Lovely to see what you have been doing, the art exhibition looks interesting.

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    1. We saw three exhibitions in total, this one was nice, lots of very lovely seascape paintings of Aldeburgh and the surrounding beaches.
      xx

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  4. What a lovely day out. Happy birthday, I hope you're having a lovely day today too.

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    1. It was an enjoyable day, thank you. And I did have a lovely birthday, I was utterly spoilt!
      xx

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  5. Happy Belated Birthday wishes! I hope you had a fabulous birthday and that Andy did you proud with the cooked breakfast.
    What a lovely day you shared, it sounds almost like normal times.
    I had to laugh at Socks. Stephen will cry if his water bowl isn't replenished with fresh water every time he goes near it but has no qualms about drinking from puddles or the pond! xxx

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    1. Thank you. I did have a fabulous day, and Andy's cooked breakfast was lovely, he even loaded to dishwasher so I didn't have to do it :)
      It was almost like a normal day out, my days do still feel very normal as I work from home, but I have missed my days out since all this disruption started. I am enjoying a little more normality.
      Socks will drink from puddles but he seems drawn by the ease of drinking from the watering can, they're odd creatures, but it makes them very lovable :)
      xx

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  6. Happy birthday for 2 days ago! Hope you had a wonderful time!
    I loved seeing your day and so nice to see beautiful Aldeburgh! I love the pews for the pictures idea!
    When do we get to see this dress!?!?! OOoh!
    I found a couple of lovely items in the charity shop last week when I went to Brentwood to perform with Izzie! Was SOOOO nice to browse! I know what you mean about slow people- we went to Braintree Freeport on Saturday for CBC to get a suit and there were some people who were a nighmare to wait for- everyone else just shoves their way but I want to preserve the social distance , like you!

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    1. Thank you, I had a lovely day.
      I love the pew too, they also used a ladder laid over the pews against a wall, every inch was used.
      You'll see the dress when I do my next update for Wearing It All. I wore it the next day :)
      Being able to browse the charity shops again is lovely, I think I'll stick to early morning trips to avoid other, potentially slow, shoppers. If I thought I was holding someone up I'd feel really self conscious and hurry along. Hope you found what you where looking for in Freeport.
      xx

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