Proving that something small can make all the difference.

Yesterday I was just feeling a little low. I think most people surrounding me yesterday were not shining their brightest. Unlike the sun however, who was out for all to see. Spreading joy to those able to frolic in her graces.

I knew that I wanted to be one of those happy people passing the window and felt that the boy could use with a bit of pepping up as well. So I resorted to a little treat that used to make me smile and forget my worries.  Which is also perfect for a day as beautiful as this. A picnic!

Picnics are such a wonderful idea in the perfect weather conditions. It is one of the ways I used to spend a sunny afternoon in the company of Bubs and Uptight. Putting together a collection of the wonderful and weird foods. Our favourites being Chunkies Pesto dip accompanied with brie cheese, sun dried tomatoes on watercress crackers. Settling down at Eastern Beach pretending we were full of sophistication, then 5 minutes after finishing our food grabbing a piece of cardboard we would toboggan down the hill.

 

Another rememberable picnic experience was when Breezer, Xav, Mitch, Farquah and I went on a road trip to have an ‘Extreme Beach Picnic’. The reason for its extremities are mainly for the distance travelled in a tiny car on a 47 degree day and Xav’s extreme version of picnic food. We got ready for the trip at Breezers house by preparing some travel marshmallow muffins, placing all our assorted food items in three different hampers and then adorning “funny hats” that fell out of the cupboard we got the hampers from. We all packed into our trusty mobile and set out for the beach which was about half an hour away.

When we found our prime position on a grassed area just above the sparkling sandy beach we unravelled the contents we had brought onto paper plates. The food was the picnic  usual assortment, salad, sandwiches, chocolate spiders and cupcakes. But our dear Xav took it t a whole new level producing Figs, Lemons, a grater to grate lemon zest, salmon, sprigs of dill and other such items. We rolled around laughing when he pulled out the greater, but we quickly stopped when he started constructing lovely delights for us to try.

oh and when we got back to the car we realised we didn’t have the car keys so we spent an hour looking for them. Thank you sexy life guard for finding the

 

Our picnic yesterday ‘bears’ quite a resemblance to the picture above. It was lovely and exactly what we both needed. I splashed out and went to M&S on my lunch break and bought some wonderful items for our picnic. Ready sealed glasses of Chardonnay, mini rolls, wholefoods salad shaker, hand cooked crisps, red grapes, toffee meringues and millionaires chocolate dessert.

After eating every last scrap of our picnic we laid back and relaxed. We talked but about nothing except our favourite types of crisps or about what book I was reading, or our 5 things we want to do before we die. Just forgot our stupid meaningless jobs and just enjoyed the sun.

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