Just call in the house sitter, from Kenya, and, with a swhish and a swoosh, you can have your above perfect day!
My perfect day
Wake up on a nice firm mattress, in cool linen sheets. Sit in bed sipping a cup of Earl Grey and listening to somebody doing the housework, and somebody else attending to the garden.
Shower in a bathroom that somebody else has cleaned, and dress in clothes that somebody else has laundered.
Wander around garden, with husband, dogs, cats and parrot in tow, admiring weedless flowerbeds and perfect lawn.
Retire to an immaculately tidy and uncluttered office, with a vase of fresh flowers on the window sill, and spend three hours uninterrupted doing what I love - writing. Either working on my own books, or with other writers
A huge lunch, magically calorie-free. A long walk with husband and dogs, during which we will meet no irritating, stinging or buzzing insects.
Another cup of tea, a great big slice of calorie-free cake, and another three hours of work which will not be interrupted by phone calls, unexpected visitors or any kind of natural disaster.
An hour in the kitchen creating a meal to share with husband and friends. Somebody to clear away and wash up the mess.
Back to bed.
As you see, I am a woman of very simple tastes.
Chances of ever enjoying such a day: about the same as winning a Nobel Prize.
Responses
By: Vivien on July 27, 2007
at 1:49 pm
She’ll be disguised!
By: Vivien on July 27, 2007
at 1:50 pm
“She’ll be disguised!”
How will I recognise her then?
By: merewoman on July 27, 2007
at 7:47 pm
It’s easy, as she will be in disguise you won’t recognise her, ergo she must be in disguise therefore be someone you would recognise otherwise.
So . . . look for someone you don’t recognise and greet effusively. Might be embarrassing but could lead to a whole new experience - go for it.
I am never in disguise so it won’t be me…….
By: Adrian on December 24, 2007
at 5:11 pm
I’m getting very unsettled with all this talk of disguises. One never knows who might be creeping around in the bushes waiting to spring upon the unwary. 
Think I’d better start locking myself in. 
Happy Christmas, Liz and Adrian
By: merewoman on December 24, 2007
at 5:16 pm
Be wary 
We do ATB 4X LnA The card is great
By: Adrian on December 24, 2007
at 7:08 pm
ATB 4X LnA = Wot that?
By: merewoman on December 24, 2007
at 7:12 pm
Susie, I recognise that you are a mere woman but you’re not that dim. ATB all the best: 4X for Christmas< LnA Liz and Adrian. Me, I don’t have a clue what text messages are or why Tiscali seem so disappointed that I do not SMS?
BTW hope you are weller, LnA
By: Adrian on December 30, 2007
at 1:38 pm
This merewoman had most of its brain cells sucked out and vaporized over the last year; the few escapees succumbed to the flu, hence a mindless moron of a merewoman.
Nearly beginning to get weller, thank you.
Happy New Year.
By: merewoman on December 31, 2007
at 1:06 pm
Earl Grey first thing!!!???
….and what about some exercise? Else it’s all pleasures and no joy!
Enjoying your blog. Got here from total france, a post about cycling. Did you ever get to do that long cycling trip you talked about? I was half expecting to read about it here.
SB
By: steve on February 2, 2008
at 12:37 pm
Steve
Welcome!
Sitting up in bed; listening; showering; dressing; wandering; walking; cooking: how much more exercise can a woman manage in one day?
Yes, we cycled from Versailles through Paris and along the Marne valley as far as Chalons, then north to Reims and back along the Marne, back through Paris to Versailles. A fantastic experience, but even with an electrically-assisted bike I found the hills of the Champagne exhausting. The account is currently in a manuscript waiting for a discriminating publisher to pounce on it.
Earl Grey is the only tea I like; all the rest I find too tannic.
Happy cycling. I see that you have many accomplishments. Chapeau!
Susie
By: merewoman on February 2, 2008
at 2:01 pm
*lol* I like your day, just change the Earl Grey with German Jacobs Coffee!
By: Netty on February 29, 2008
at 9:37 pm
By: merewoman on March 3, 2008
at 9:18 am
