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My own celebrations will be modest but very Betty. I am meeting with my writing group in the morning and we will all try to recover from the effects of Summer. (Getting me back into the swing of things after having all the Pledges home all the time looks like those cowboy westerns where they're trying to revive the drunk sheriff in time for the shoot-out with Black Hat and plunging his face over and over and over into the water trough.) Thanks to The Great Betty, I will tamp down feelings of being too old for this and feeling like it's too late to begin to be awesome. The Great Betty would have none of that.
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Sometime in the afternoon, I will have something sweet. Maybe a whole table of something sweet. And though it won't really be the place for it, I will close my eyes and sigh, "Heaven is a cucumber sandwich."
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What is everyBetty else doing?
Hi Keira
ReplyDeleteI arrived in Sydney from Adelaide yesterday and with my daughter enjoyed the Julie Andrews production of My Fair Lady. This morning I'm meeting with two Sydney Betties, Melody and Kerrie and enjoying morning tea at the Queen Victoria Building. Looking forward to meeting them both before heading back to Adelaide this afternoon.
I am trying to wedge in a spot of tea between making pot pie for a concession stand and supervising the percussion section of our local high school marching band.
ReplyDeleteThat last bit sounds very like lining up the children for a parade at the village fete.
DeleteI have a tin of tea from Harrods from a vacation to London this summer. I'll drink a cup or two, out of a beautiful English china mug that I bought for my late mother years ago. And while drinking it I'll decide if The Promise of Happiness or A Girl Named Rose is my favorite of TGB's oeuvre.
ReplyDeleteI am enjoying a second day off this week. I am enjoying a rather late lunch, as I write. I would have forgotten Bettysday, if it weren't for your post. And what am I having for lunch? Pizza — of all things! And very delicious it is, too!
ReplyDeleteBetty-esque things I have done/will be doing today:
ReplyDeleteMaking toast with butter
Conversing with my mother in the kitchen
Going for a walk while muttering (I was praying, but still...)
Going to church
Minding the children
Budgeting
And now that I know the rules of the day, I will find something sweet to eat and toast the Great Neels with it.
Betty Barbara here--
ReplyDeleteI started the day, as I always do, with several bracing cups of tea and then on to the domestic chores. There is still time for a bite of something sweet before consulting with myself on the dinner menu.
Happy Birthday to The Great Betty and many thanks for the countless hours of reading pleasure.
Long day of work, with the rewarding re-read of The Quiet Professor in the evening. It's one of my favorites.
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