2024

Happy New Year where ever you are in the world! Leanne has already begun 2024 and I have another 12 hours before my new year starts. We decided to start the year by showing pictures of where we are in the early morning. Leanne took the first two pictures, a beautiful sunrise in Sydney at 7am. I took the bottom two photos in London ten minutes apart at 7.45am and it was only just beginning to get light. 

tea time

There's always something lovely about sitting down and enjoying a cup of tea. Not only the taste but the ritual, the sense of peace, the shape of a teapot and a tea cup and perhaps a moment shared. 

'No matter what is happening in life, you always offer tea' 

 'Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings' 

'Drink your tea slowly and reverently,  as if the axis on the world earth revolves- slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future'

'Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept'

Top 2 photos are Justine's & the bottom 2 are Leanne's. 

Quotes are by Clementine Wamarya, Letitia Baldridge, Thich Nhat Hanh and Frances Hardinge

Coffee time

How do you take your coffee? Do you add milk? do you have instant or real coffee? do you grind the beans or use a machine? I like to have a plunger coffee at home and then I have a skimmed milk flat white when out. Leanne has a coffee machine and likes long blacks. We don't like to drink coffee after lunch as it keeps us awake. 

J.D. Salinger is quoted as saying "I'll read my books and I'll drink my coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door".

"the power of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks'Sir  James Macintosh

Leanne's photographs are the top two, Justine's are the bottom two

blurred

Whether it's intentional or accidental, blurring in a photograph can add a bit of interest...

Leanne's photo is on the left, Justine's is on the right.