Today is going to be about simple pleasures with as few nasties thrown in as possible. The last couple of days have been very stressful, as I was outside in a gale, walked past my car and noticed that it had a puncture. Which means I need a new one, right? The place that sells tyres order them in for next-day fitting, but as I couldn't get there to physically pay the deposit, because my car would've been running on a flat and home again, they won't order it in. Which means no tyre until at least next week. So my husband has hired a car to make sure that we can get to the garage to give them the money and so that I can get to work and back on Sunday. *Sigh*.

That plus having to change my driving license to my new name (I positively hate filling in important forms) and another doctors appointment for this chest complaint that seems to have turned itself into some form of allergy-caused asthma (complete with wheezing and inhalers).

But on the upside, I'm not going to complain because a wonderful parcel popped through the door today and fell with a thud. Thankfully the dog wasn't present as it would've been in a hundred little pieces by the time I got to it otherwise! Who wouldn't smile when you open this?

I saw it and had to have it ~ whilst on my little shopping spree I also ordered Kathryn Williams' new album 'Leave To Remain' which is just beautiful.

Tonight I'm making Nigella's pasta with meatballs in tomato sauce with Waitrose's (have a look at their recipes section, yummy!) organic, free-range minced pork although I can't decide whether to make the pasta myself or not, I might just be lazy and enjoy using ready-bought stuff. Either way, today is going to be spent doing as little of the boring stuff and as much of the enjoyable stuff as possible ~ excuse me, the DVD player is calling :) For the rest of the day I'm 'past all concerns'.