How to pass a rainy day

How to pass a rainy day (if at home).

By Flamingo Dancer, aged 51 years and 10 months





The obvious – read, watch movies, craft, sleep

Cook soup and muffins (even if 30 degrees Celsius outside!)

Locate all the cutlery into one spot and place them neatly in a drawer. Spoons spooning, that sort of thing.

Gather together all the Christmas cards and update my address list

Go through the pantry and check use by dates.

Find all the stray socks and match up.

Untangle all the wire coat hangers at the back of my closet

Drink tea

Go through old magazines, rip out any recipes I think I can’t live without and recycle the magazines

Make a stew (yes, even if 30 degrees Celsius outside!)

Think (but not too deeply, let us not get too carried away)

Watch rain run down the window pane

Check the rain gauge (becomes an obsession in a drought!)

Knock on the rain water tank to check how much rain water has been collected. Listen for variations of sound to decide on water level. Knock some more trying to make music.

Surf the net

Drink more tea.

Wait for the mailman who will only bring requests for payment and so avoid opening anything.

Think about ordering pizza, but try and be strong.

Search for hidden supplies of chocolate. Give in to weakness

Consider going through my closest and throwing out clothes not worn for 12 months. Think better of going through my closest and throwing out clothes not worn for 12 months.

Feel guilty and phone mother, and then wish you hadn’t.

Drink more tea.

Plan dinner for next Christmas – put in too hard basket and promise self to just buy take away.



So that should keep me occupied until lunch time. Suggestions for the afternoon please?