I love the special foods we have around Christmas: sausage rolls, cake, turkey, mice pies; I love the leftovers however they come; but there is something very special about that first Sunday dinner of the New Year. Today I had a simple lamb casserole with rich gravy with a baked potato, swede and carrot and a few peas. Delicious! Sorry, I didn't even take a photo!
January is my special time for appreciating the simple pleasures of life and my mind has been turning to the famous poem by the Welsh poet, W H Davies. Americans and Brits pronounce the title very differently but I think we can all appreciate the thought.
Leisure
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?-
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows:
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
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