Sunday Roundup

Seeing: the view above from the 10th floor of UCL hospital

Listening to: Bastille

Waking up to: kitten meows

Eating: hospital food...gross. And anniversary cake chocolate fudge cake - YUM

Watching: Pretty Woman (for the first time), Great British Bake Off and Dragon's Den

Laughing at: the kitten hanging off the kitchen work top with his legs dangling, all so he could grab at a plant

Finding the silver lining in: being told by the mean receptionist that I can't visit Mike during certain hours so instead lying in the sunshine.

Admiring: my pretty anniversary flowers

Yesterday marked six years since Mike bought me a Fab ice lolly and said he wanted to "start seeing me", to which I replied "Are you asking me out?" and he nodded. The rest is history as they say! We're both currently burdening the NHS so unfortunately couldn't celebrate properly but have lovely things planned for October/November in various places. I will share those with you as they happen. Words don't really do him justice at all but he is a keeper for sure.

St Mawes, 2009.

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Cards

For many years I was not a card person at all. I didn't see the point of giving something which probably wasn't going to be read and was probably going to be thrown away about two days later so I just didn't bother, yet I collected cards given to me and kept them for years. Then I figured out that what it is all probably about is giving someone a card which can't be thrown away too easily. One with a special or thoughtful message, or personalised. Better still, one which was handmade. So that's what I started doing - putting effort into cards, the words written and images chosen. I make most of the cards I give these days, either with a little animal illustration or some sort of magazine cut-out creation. When I am lacking inspiration I jump at the opportunity to hunt around on Pinterest (any excuse) but my favourite place for browsing is in Paperchase. The other day, I had some time to kill on Tottenham Court Road and spent a good half hour in the huge Paperchase shop there (it has lots of floors!!). I like looking in there for art supplies usually but this time was looking for inspiration for an anniversary card. In all our years together, I have never bought an anniversary card for Michael before because they are all so soppy and I don't like the idea of somebody else buying their boyfriend the same card as I have given mine - I realise that that sounds ridiculous and precious, but I like to use my own words and make it as personalised as possible. I'm probably not the most romantic person in the world and this, coupled with my hatred for commercialised events/holidays, mean that handmade is the only option. Paperchase, in all fairness, is the lesser of all card shop evils and I like the quirkiness and simplicity of a lot of their cards. Needless to say, I gave up on the anniversary card search and was instead distracted by the three cards pictured above. I LOVED the series I found these cards in! For some reason they all really tickled me but these were my favourites. 

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High

Today was an amazing day in so many respects. I think I was running on adrenaline for most of it and for the first time in weeks I have felt genuinely content. I hope this doesn't jinx it but I'll cherish the memories at least. Carpe diem. Happy silver wedding anniversary mum and dad and happy 18th roxy and millie xxxxxx

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