Comforting

Today was a beautiful day. The sun was shining like a diamond in the sky. Not a cloud in sight! I had a visitor for lunch and we shopped together for something to eat. Maybe I ate a little bit too much for a person trying to lose a stone or so but I will walk it all off tomorrow.
I prepared garlic prawns for started, and lightly fried scallops with hot salad and new potatoes tossed in garlic and basil. It was lovely. For desert we had tesco trifle as co-op did not have any and I was too lazy to prepare my own in advance.
Surprisingly enough my friend was impressed with my cooking.
Maybe because Mr. Moon is so stuck in his foods I do not cook that much and if I do I never dare to do anything creative or daring with our food he is very conservative after all.

For her birthday I offered my friend to paint a still life for her kitchen. An idea which she loved.I will have to start the work on the painting soon as her birthday is in May. Also we discussed my year old unfinished painting and how I could complete it. I think I have finally come up with a solution so it will no longer be a problem.

I have also considered fixing my beautiful old type writer. It is from the 20s and apart from minor fixable flaw it can be in working order in no time. I wrote my first articles with it and I believe it should be restored. There is also a Corona which belongs to me and which I want to own again. It is the portable one. It has it's own case and I want to lay my hands on it not only because E. Hemingway wrote with one of those but because it is also beautiful object to look that. It looks like my house if going to be filled with another type writer soon. Oh well it is a curse being a writer it involves so much junk and sentimentality. But now that I am building my nest I want it just how I want it.

I feel great tonight. I have spent a day consumed by little pleasantries, intelligent conversation and little discoveries. It is comforting and inspiring. I do not know how I will finish it off but I am sure it will be just as lovely, maybe just a good book, a snuggle in bed with the cat. There are so many possibilities.