Things That Gives Me Pleasure

There was a time where I'd go and meet my friends when I worked in London on a Friday night and would be out all night. I am glad I had that time. Now though, I get pleasure being a homebody and spending time with my son, watching TV, music and now my son has lessons at the local library until he gets a school placement, put on some music and write in my journal. 

Me and My Son at the Cinema seeing  Wicked 2

I love a Charity shop. I get pleasure in the mornings when I have a coffee with my son before his lesson and create more ideas for my blog sites and planning content. Working on my books and planning, setting goals and organise my life so I have direction but also being flexible and if I don't feel like doing something and if somethings can wait then I will put it on hold and love having free choice days. I have shared this on my Blog site: Organize 4 the better: Doing Things That Aren't on a to do list 

I also like to spend time reading and my goal is to read twenty books this year and I am on my 16th and being in the library is really helping me to read and read. I love to read at the end of the evening before bed time and in the morning.

I also have audible and listening to books. I like to have a lot going on especially this time of year, with Christmas and birthday's. I like to plan meals and have a festive drink.

I like to check out Pinterest and journal in my APP on my phone when not in my Journal I write in and it helps to clear the mind and also love swimming. It is good to be active and feel that this year is very different. I like to spend time sorting something out. Like my bedroom and my books. 

I am liking the free tea and coffee at the library and is helping with my book collection. 

It is feels me with joy seeing the books I have. It is amazing how life changes and enjoying the comfort of being inside with a pair of good fluffy socks, a good pair of loungewear or PJ's when it is wet and rainy and just feeling so cozy and free. 

I do like to clean with some music or cook a nice hot meal. I love the good old fashioned dinners such as Bangers and Mash, Ham Egg and chips, fish n chips and a lovely roast dinner. I begun to create A Midweek Roast and the one thing I haven't done is do a Curry Sunday. 

My husband takes care of the season decor. It is good to have a the home decorated and I do feel sad when it comes to taking it all down. It's like, "Another Christmas over, how come?" but that is the reality and means the days become lighter for longer again and playing out in the garden until Autumn and Winter comes again. I do love all the seasons and change my meal choices and like clothes that can  be worn all year around. 

I also like going to the Cinema or going to the Theatre. I love doing my radio show and make sure I have a cup of tea and then go home and getting ready for the new week.

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X 

What I do to Relax

For me it is essential to have time to relax. I have several blog sites and a mum. I also have three Youtube Channels and on various social media and like to highlight the things I love and so the first one is.

A Pot of tea in one of my son and I's favourite Coffee Shops 

• I love to write so find it relaxing. Along with reading with a brew and listening to music. 
• In the mornings and before I go to bed is read. I like to silence my phone and have a cup of tea. 

My son is not allowed to take his tablet to bed as when he did he would wake at 3am and so now only allowed it after we all are up and no longer allowed it with him in bed in the morning.

• I like to watch a concert or some TV, but not a lot now. My bed time at the moment keeps changing because we are out early taking Henry to see his tutor. We are out by 8am to about 1 or 12 and we both so tired so this week we have been going to bed around 8pm.  

It has been my sons birthday and so we have been focusing on that and he didn't want too much fuss and didn't want Candles and feel a little sad but respect his wishes. Instead we have been testing out one of his gifts. I got him a Telescope and so been testing and he loves it. 

When I relax I feel the day fading and so won't look at my phone as I do have a Overactive mind especially when I go to sleep so I read and completely switch off. 

It has been weird with Henry not being at school and he and I both miss the routine and it has been stressful sorting out his learning as been teaching at home. Now he has a tutor the routine has changed but it is okay, as I do get that time to myself and hope by end of 2026 he gets a Secondary School place, so he can see other children again. 

I find cleaning and cooking relaxing by playing music or listening to an audiobook and it doesn't have to be rushed, so I take my time. 

Seeing the difference helps me relax and not having tasks hanging over my head. 

I at the moment enjoying a magazine to read whilst my son is learning and going for walks around town and building my steps. I love to walk and another thing I do whilst my son is learning and we like to have a drink in a coffee shop beforehand and when my son has his bath we will often sit and chat. 

Letting the day flow of the things that I enjoy and making tasks that aren't usually enjoyable fun and it seems less work but pleasurable. So what do you like to do to relax? You can leave comment below. 

Please check out my Pinterest where you can find other blogs I write and of fashion, food and how people plan their lives: https://uk.pinterest.com/thetypicalLondongal/

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X 

My Home Comforts

It is never to early to put on your PJ's or stay in them. My niece loves being in her PJs all day at the weekend and I loved this too, but when I did I would feel some sort of guilt. It made me feel that it was a waste of a day and was bought up to believe that mornings were about getting up, making your bed, getting dressed, brush your teeth and go out, but there are days I don't want to go out and indoors reading, writing and spending time watching TV with my son.

I love seeing the clouds and sky turn from daytime to night especially during the Winter

Yet looking back as a kid I am glad that I didn't always stay indoors because I loved the weekends. We were always socialising and would go to see a friend, see my grandparents, watch my brother play football, I would be at dancing school and so my brother did judo and I lived a very sociable life. 

Now, I have a few or at least one or two days a week indoors or an afternoon indoors, as I love going on morning walks. It's a bit hard at the moment to walk, because my son Henry, likes to take the bus, but like to have break in the afternoon, so my first Home Comfort, which I do in the morning and evenings too, is having a Cup of Tea. 

I do like coffee but I like to go out for one. I tried a new Flavored Latte called Nutcracker in Costas and is lovely. 

A second home comfort is having a magazine to read. I have just got back to buying a magazine and so want to buy another magazine to read and when Henry has his lessons, as he will have a tutor, whilst we await for a place to be available at a Secondary School, is to read a magazine in a coffee shop. 

Then there is clothes. I like to put on my jogger bottoms and a jumper. I like to watch a documentary or a concert. I am into the Celebrity Traitors and like to have a nice cup of tea and write along with a biscuit too. Not trying to do this too much as I am starting to be a bit more of a lunch girl and avoiding having a snack. I enjoy food and mix it up, by having a McDonalds or a pastry, just not all the time.

I like to watch sport and I love my radio show. I like to plan meals and will be Christmas shopping soon but will think about this at the beginning of December.

Have a blissful life and feel you have to over do it. I like to take my time and focus on my mornings, then the afternoon and then the evening as it comes, with a bit of a structure and take a break from a to do list and pleasing other people. 

So what are your Home Comforts? I will be adding this blog post on my Winter Wellness Programme that starts today and it is all about having a better Winter if you dread this time of year and enjoy it more. 

Check out Pinterest: https://uk.pinterest.com/thetypicalLondongal/winter-wellness-2025/

Check out my blog site: https://www.everyonecanbuildacastle.cm 

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X