OK, don’t get too excited -there’s decadence and there’s DECADENCE. Ours was the ‘lower case’ kind – very low key but something that we never normally do. It wasn’t planned.
Husband picked me up from work at 2pm (he takes and fetches me because the parking is dire and if I do get a space, it can take an age to track down the person who has blocked me in). We were planning to go to The Red Lion in Alvechurch, a sizeable village in northeast Worcestershire and in the valley of the River Arrow. It’s about eight miles from us, has rustic decor which I like and, importantly, offers a decent lunch menu. On the way we hit the flooding. The roads were passable but a worry; it was only going to get worse and having heard on the news that 30 roads had already been closed within the county, we decided to turn around and go home.
We made a pile of cheese on toast topped with tomato, onion and Worcestershire sauce, turned up the heating and settled down to watch TV. Daytime television is the something we never do. We decided to watch an episode of of new drama Gold Digger. We had watched the first on Tuesday and found that they were showing the whole series on BBC iplayer, so decided to watch part 2. Then we watched parts 3 and 4! “This feels very decadent,” I said. Husband agreed. And that was it – our rebellious lower-case version of decadence. It doesn’t stretch the boundaries, does it?
I love the sound of your kind of decadence! I rarely watch tv or read in the afternoons; I always think it’s a bit ‘naughty’! If I’m a under the weather, there is nothing more enjoyable than lying on the sofa and watching relaxing programmes.
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I does seem wrong and yet why any more so than, for example, making a cake? It’s just that we never get time for TV until the evening. For the same reason, my reading tends to take place in the evening or, luxury….in bed before getting up when I have a free day!
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I’m in the process of writing a post called ‘Recent Bedtime Reading’ because I read every night in bed. A cup of tea and a book, in the morning, is very much my idea of decadence!
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I can identify absolutely (though I’ll give the tea a miss, thanks. Can’t stand the stuff)!
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Would coffee work?!
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I am a coffee drinker, yes. However, I don’t like it in bed. A nice glass of water suits me
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My favouriote kind of day. Gentle decadence is just lovely and a real boost!
xx
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Absolutely, Joy.
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Sounds like a lovely way to spend the afternoon. 🙂
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Very ordinary really, Bless but so unusual for us
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How tasty that looks! I actually love to sit down in the afternoon (mainly in autumn/winter) and watch a bit of TV. It’s usually Escape to the Country but do remember that next Monday a new series of The Repair Shop is starting but instead of at 7pm it’s been moved to 4.30pm – 5.15pm. We love this programme, one of the best on TV in our opinion. Years ago, we used to watch repeats of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple (the only Miss Marple in our opinion!)
Margaret P
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It’s just that we never seem to have time to ‘chill out’ in the afternoons. Evenings are pretty last though! I’ve watched Escape to the country on catch up TV and on re-runs occasionally. Husband likes to watch ‘Bargain Hunt’ when having his lunch whilst I’m at work. Joan Hickson was exactly as Agatha Christie wrote the character; Margaret Rutherford (though I liked her) was an abomination in the role of Miss Marple!
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Chuckle. I do this too. When it’s raining sleet and I can’t face going outside. It’s good to be “naughty” sometimes..
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It made a nice change.
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These ‘surprise moments’ are the best – sometimes much better than any planned event.
I will occasionally say to The Golfer ‘it doesn’t take much to please me’……these little surprise moments definitely do so 😊
I must try cheese on toast with tomato & onion sometime. It’s definitely not a combination I’ve had before.
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I so agree, Cathy. The little things make life good
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Looks quite delightful, to me!!!!!!
And sounds delightful too. So nice to have those little fun moments! Even later in life. -smile- Perhaps even more so, later in life.
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