guilt free pleasures

Today I have a date with Dan. I won't be dressing up. I was chatting to one of my scientist friends about Dan's books and she gets irritated by the inaccuracies. I said I just love the page turning story and pay very little attention to any details and any art or science mentioned doesn't really register. She borrowed another :-)
I have started the day by checking my diary - Christmas eve I missed something as I hadnt even looked at My diary. I was tempted not to look today as I really want to do nothing and would have been alarmed if I discovered it said I was on Sunday school or something. But I wanted to read guilt free and so I checked. Nothing, phew. For the same reason I checked my work email.
And now its just me and Dan :-)

Love love loving the feeling of not having any deadlines that I have to get me or my offspring to.the floodwater nearby has receded.  Here are pics taken about 24 hours apart - the depth marker can barely be seem in one, just its tip. Today I had to shield the lens with my hand as the sun otherwise made the shot impossible.

My shoulders feel so much lower than where I realise they usually are. I am going to take time out more often.