We were stood up this afternoon.
We had a play date down at our local park, but our friends did not show. Perhaps I had a premonition, because as I was walking out the door, I added this book to the basket with our afternoon tea. I would never usually do this. Why would I do this? we were going to catch up with friends that we hadn't seen for almost a month.
I have had this book reserved at the library for a while now and I was very excited to collect it yesterday afternoon, but had not even had a chance to open it.
But now, I have just spent a blissful afternoon sitting in the fading sunshine on the grass reading it. The children collected sticks and rode their bikes while the kookaburras laughed in the gum trees surrounding me. My head is now filled with dreaming: of home-cured bacon, keeping chickens and a sprawling productive vegetable garden. And... this book was hot off the press, the new revised edition printed only this year and delivered to the library just days ago.
Bliss indeed.
