1. Lingering at a market stall while picking over a tray of jewellery described as 'the latest from Paris.'
2. Lying on the floor playing with toy cars. You can line them up and pretend it's a carpark for a festival -- use a CD as the main stage, and have the police cars patrolling up and down nicking troublemakers; or you can race them by giving them a good push and sending them off across the floor; or you can put them on a collision course with Thomas the Tank Engine.
3. Sitting in a conservatory when it's raining outside.
Losing an earring but finding it again the next morning.
ReplyDeleteCompleting my weekend 'to do' list!
Subconsciously thinking, 'I don't have time to browse' in the bookshop, then consciously thinking, no, dammit, it's the weekend and I deserve some leisure time! Browsing yielded a copy of Keats' poems from 1897, with the most beautifully kitsch Victorian illustrations.
Oh, the days of playing with toy cars! Why did they have to end?!
ReplyDeleteI loved making garages with my big Lego blocks. I would park all my cars (and I had a lot of them!!) into the garage and then I'd put the "owners" of the cars around the "building" - the "owners" usually being small figures of The Snowwhite and the 7 Dwarves. I'd make believe that the "owners" had to travel somewhere and I'd "drive" those little cars around the room. It was so great! This was one of my favourite games!
Your talk of toy cars has reminded me that i recently uncovered a box of Subbuteo (a football game) complete with carefully hand-painted players (by my Dad) and green felt fottball pitch. It brought back wonderful memories of lying on my stomach in the living room, playing Subbuteo with my Dad and brother while Mum made lunch as she sang along to Tina Turner or Whitney Heuston (yes, it was the eighties!).
ReplyDeleteIncidently, Subbuteo is reputed to have been invented by a bloke from Tunbridge Wells.
Louise XX
I agree with the conservatory in the rain, but only if it has a proper glass roof so you can see the black clouds, none of this newfangled safety-glass that you can't see through. Ideally a warm & soggy day, so there's no hope of gardening, so you have to sit there with coffee, cake (home-made) & a book, all day.
ReplyDeleteMy lovely thing today is creating a whole new meal experience: pasta in curry sauce.
ReplyDeleteLucy Tipps
Oh no! Not Thomas!!! Edward maybe, but not Thomas.
ReplyDelete