Today was not one of those days. I slept late, went to church, did some grocery shopping, worked on a quilted table topper for a Christmas present… It was a nice day. I have no reason to be grumpy or blue.
But I am. Grumpy AND blue. I tried to trace the cause of this disagreeable mood, and I think it might have been my weekly budget planning. Christmas is killing me, and my expected income is severely less that I’d hoped.
Amelia Peabody, heroine of the mystery series by the same name, calls tea ‘the genial beverage’. It was too late for regular black tea (caffeine, you know) so I brewed up a cup of this honeybush tea. It didn’t make me magically perky, but it was soothing. Tea might not cure all ills, but it doesn’t hurt either. :)
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I love Amelia and her parasol! May you be surprised today by a little peace, joy, and Christmas serendipity.
Thanks, gmathis I think I’ll pull out a book from that series and do a little re-reading.
I think I like the earlier ones better, when Ramses was a precocious little toot :) Have you ever read the Irene Adler series by Carole Nelson Douglas? They’re Sherlock Holmes spinoffs but they have that same mischievous-Victorian tone.
I love Amelia and her parasol! May you be surprised today by a little peace, joy, and Christmas serendipity.
Thanks, gmathis I think I’ll pull out a book from that series and do a little re-reading.
I think I like the earlier ones better, when Ramses was a precocious little toot :) Have you ever read the Irene Adler series by Carole Nelson Douglas? They’re Sherlock Holmes spinoffs but they have that same mischievous-Victorian tone.