Category3BT

Based on the Three Beautiful Things project by Clare Law, I try to write about three pleasant things from my day.

3BT – cleaning company

(Only one recorded for today – not sure why — it was a fine day!)

1. A lovely bright day inspires me to go outside for a short while and clean the windows – I do a patchy job really but it cleans off the winter grime so they’re cleaner, if now a bit streaky. At the back of the house, Tilda & Strange follow me from room to room, chasing my squidgy as it squeaks across the glass. Only Tilda remains supervising my work when I’m doing the porch though: there, her eyes widen to almost round when she sees a dog being walked down the road.

3BT – soup, chatty catty, clank, silly

1. The soup is rather moreish – I eat a little too much, a little too quickly.

2. Tilda has a chatty day. We have a particularly cute *’mew’ ‘hi’ ‘mew’ ‘hi’* conversation.

3. The bare tree tops clank together in the wind. It’s a pleasant round sound but slightly menacing too – perhaps because it makes me think of rattling triffids.

4. Belly laughs at silliness.

3BT – silly project #2, gradient, attention

1. Another day, another super cute logo for a silly project. I know they’re a bit pointless, not exactly groundbreaking or world changing but babysteps: it’s better to be trying something rather than nothing, who knows where they will lead?

2. The blitzed ginger & garlic and chilli forms a strangely well arranged circular gradient in the pot.

3. A brush, a play and a Bonio broken into bitesize chunks: she enjoys all the attention.

3BT – super short walk, wee & talk, cinnamon sneeze

1. The walk is super short but it happens – all three of us go and Lily’s tail wags for the first half.

2. We’re deep in conversation but both need to wee. We keep talking as we climb the stairs, while we wait patiently for the other person to finish then walk downstairs again.

3. The cinnamon in the air makes me sneeze but at the same time, it smells lovely.

3BT – plop, weather & seat/colours, treat her

1. The melting chocolate is nice enough to counter the annoyance of bits of it plopping in my tea.

2. A day alternating between blue skies and heavy sleet storms. Thankfully the latter happen when we’re in the car rather than out and about. The sleet piles up in a column on John’s side of the windowscreen and speckles the grass verge on the side of the road. On the way back, we concoct a routine about a strange seat left by the curb, as far from the setback houses as possible.

2b. The mustard yellow in my new scarf matches my boots. The red in it matches my other boots. Winter win!

3. She rejects it at first but a few minutes later, snaffles the chew treat I bought her at the chicken feed store. Later, her tail wags the quickest it has done in weeks.

3BT – day off/chutney, tiny walk, evening activities

1. A day off – from both work and cooking. John insists on his usual hangover fare (a fish butty) for lunch and just as we’re finishing, his friend texts to offer us dinner for that evening: black little desi chickpeas, rice and a rich sauce, with startling yellow vegetables on the side.

1b. The chilli chutney is smooth and consistent, a fresh round green.

2. Lily and I go for a little walk – the first all week. She isn’t really up for it but it’s about as much work as going down to the garden for her to wee, and it is more mentally stimulating. She sniffs EVERYTHING between our house and the horses’ field and back.

3. I go up into the spare room and dig out an old project (a scarf from a decade ago that I didn’t like in the end) to rework (into a cat windowsill cushion), and a box of photos from when I was little. The two things occupy my evening.