Morning Musings

Hello, Mr Rogers, why is your "it's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood" playing in my mind this morning? Although it most definitely is. The sun is out but the day is still cool and comfortable (despite that it may reach the high 80s later), the birds are twittering happily outside and all my 4 legged fiends are snoozing.

I love my quiet mornings. I get on and do a lot of my online "stuff", my Facebook birthdays (it's the only platform that reminds me), catching up on emails and messages, blogging (seems my thoughts are more ordered when there's no background distractions), place advertising posts, connect with my team members and such.

Then, once my doggies re-awaken, my doggie doh-si-doh begins. They are all let out at 5.3am and brought back in just as hubby leaves for work a short while later, and then they just collapse into heaps on the floor and head into dreamland, sometimes mumbling in their dreams or legs walking them someplace nice.

One will awaken. If it's my boy, Max, he will whimper to let me know he wants to go out again. If it's Boo, she shakes her head as she wakes, so I hear her ears flapping. Angel pants. Mystery will yap. I then trek down to the front door and let them out. Boo was the ringleader this morning, and the others followed sit, so theyre now all enjoying the sunshine, and I'm enjoying the fresh air from the front door being open.

Plus, when I head that way, I go into the living room and pedal for a bit on my elliptical bike (usually 10 minutes) and read some of the latest book that I've got my head in.

I've loved reading since I was about 5 or 6, my nan used to buy me all the "Ladybird" books

and I later bought Ladybird Books for my kids when I taught them to read as toddlers. I love that they were memorialized on stamps a couple of years ago (and I just ordered me this presentation pack!).

Now, my tastes vary from medical and legal thrillers, to Native American based stories, to Victorian England and onwards stories, so I'm pretty much easy-to-please. If I discover a book by an author that I've not read before, and enjoy it, then I seek out other titles they have written. I recently finished Margaret Coel and am now enjoyinng Edward Marston, but hubby is picking up a James Patterson for me, that I have on reserve at the local library.

I also love English history, particularly reminiscences about growing up in the areas of London that I knew, so I also love factual and photgraphic books on those, and old newspapers.

Well, my day is getting busier, ye phone is ringing, and I must away !  Enjoy your day