Tag: podcasts

Easy like Sunday mornin’

Annette4 Comments

It’s that hallowed time of the weekend, all is reverently hushed, save for the faint sound of birds chirping outside and the rhythmic click, click, clicking as I type this blog post with one finger. 

Sunday morning is here, and I am taking it e-e-e-easy. 

Now that I’m in full time work again (forgot to read the small print in my contract) I will become utterly militant about downtime on the weekends. If you want to find me, listen out for the muffled sounds of podcasts and a cup and plate clattering as I eat breakfast in bed. I’ll be looking at this view and smiling contentedly. 

Today’s podcast listening will include an episode on poop by the lads from Stuff You Should Know, and the latest episode of awesomeness from The West Wing Weekly. I have yet to pop my Woog & Berry podcast cherry, but I have nine episodes locked and loaded on my beloved bed companion, the iPad. 

Yesterday I had an osteo appointment (good ouch) and so had to shower, dress and leave the house, so I threw in some grocery shopping as well. Mmmm that roast chicken for dinner last night was GOOD. 

Today I’ll go no further than the couch, kitchen and clothesline, and  I will stay in rumpled pjs all day long, and that suits me just fine! 

I may bake later a la #sundaybakingsunday if inspiration strikes, I may not. I don’t HAVE to do anything today and that’s my idea of a pretty great Sunday. 

My podcasts await, time to re-arrange my pillows and get comfy. 

Have a fabulous Sunday wherever you are. 

Signing off John & Yoko style, from my bed, 

Annette xx 

 

PS I was watching an episode of Oprah’s Masterclass the other weekend and Ellen De Generes spoke about how much we seek after other people’s approval, when we really should be seeking our own. I love that.

Just something to ponder. 

 

Good (Friday) Things I’m Liking

Annette4 Comments

It’s Good Friday, and the day started goodly indeed, as I made myself a festively appropriate breakfast of a toasted hot cross bun and a lovely cup of coffee, then hopped (#seewhatididthere) back into bed and enjoyed my first fix of the podcast Stuff You Should Know. 

Pleasingly, I now know more about Carl Sagan, and Grimm’s fairy tales and how continents got their names. 

Do you like podcasts? They’re certainly super popular at the moment. I like Serial (though season 2 isn’t as captivating as season 1), Short & Curly, Let It Be and now I definitely rate SYSK. 

Podcasts satisfy and fuel my curious nature. I think it’s super awesome that we have access to so much information  just with a press of a button. My SYSK playlist (so far) has episodes on mass hysteria, passports, colour, Tupperware, ocean currents, pyramids and the Enlightenment. Bring. It. On. I’ll have to go back to the library soon, so I can download more eps. 

I had another lovely creative time with my niece Matilda this week. Here’s our latest collaboration. I am loving my role as “the creative auntie”. 

This week Matilda chose acrylics, and I encouraged her to mix some colours. 

I think this pink house with Matilda mixed blue-y green window frames looks sensational. 

At my house, there are no mistakes when you create. Art critics be gone! 

We sat side by side at my small desk, collaborating on where the stripes should stop and the spots begin — so much fun. Hopefully not just for me! 

And you can’t create on an empty stomach, so we made a batch of pikelets and gobbled them happily. 

Autumn seems to be kicking in properly, at last. The temperatures are dropping, and the sky has been super blue. I often stand at my back door and snap pics of the sky. Blue skies and gutters – which captures your attention? 

I choose the sky, though the lines in this shot make me smile. 

I’m still sketching/painting/drawing every day, dipping in and out of online challenges and my obsession with all things autumnal. I’ve got 84 consecutive days under my belt. 

There is endless inspiration in nature, as well as in every day domestic things. In fact, wherever I look I see beautiful lines and shapes and colours. I want to have eyes to see beauty in the ordinary. 

I see it in buttons, in a fallen leaf, in a collection of house plants.  

I hope you’re cosy and close to a hot cross bun and a cuppa. And I hope you always have the ability see beauty in ordinary things. 

 

Annette x 

 

PS If you love autumn too, tag me in your fave autumnal pic on Instagram @igiveyoutheverbs, or jump on to my seasonal hashtag #crushingonautumn.