Standing and staring...

I love the pastoral... the rural.... the country...I would be lost without....


When I travel - I always mix up the city lights with gorgeous splashes of town and country, much to everyone's amusement.


Being a city girl - country to me is Utopian - there's something so soothing... so calm... so unspoilt as it were, about it! I am filled with joyous delight, drinking in the gorgeous scenery... soaking in the crisp sweet sun... breathing in the clean clean air... as I stare at the triple rainbows painted across the horizon or sit by a pond feeding swans and ducks. 


Being a city girl again - I can't do with out the frenetic pace of a Mumbai, New York or London for too long, but a Stratford-on-Avon, Kendal or Trent is like a balm to my senses, that heals me and sends me forth for a few more rounds of dynamic mad city life!


Country is where I stand and stare... without the rush to be somewhere else...


As Henry Davies once said:
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare


And the cycle continues.... 

Life...

I have been agitating about this shipment I ordered from Barnes & Noble, USA - a bunch of dvds and  a book - about 8 weeks back. Their normal delivery timeline is about a month. In the mean they even delivered one dvd which I hadn't even ordered, but no sight of the stuff I'd actually asked for!


Today just as I cribbed on twitter - my doorbell rang and it was the shipment!!!!!


Does this tell me something about life? Sure does.... agitating is pointless - things happen in their own time - I just have to keep doing my bit.... 


Someone up there knocks on my head gently!

Meal diary

Brekky
green tea


black coffee
granola with yogurt and blueberry


mid morning
domestic strife - no snack


lunch
mediterranean chicken and couscous salad 


afternoon snack
green tea + a small piece of dark chocolate


evening
tea + lavash w/tahini


dinner
chicken shammi kabab + salad