Does anyone else ever have those ‘Sunday Supplement’ moments? Where everything is so perfect and pretty and colourful that you feel sure it’s been taken straight out of the pages of the Observer magazine and actually, you are not you but a model/actress with a fabulous life, perfect feet and no excess hair. Such moments normally involve half dressed toddlers with curly blonde hair and/or a funny hat, hunky men with big hands, hair (can be Boris Johnson stylee but obviously not with the face), and their trousers turned up, puppy dogs (preferably labrador. cream) and an assortment of accessories: strawberries, buckets of water, kites etc. Oh, and everyone is laughing, even the dog. In my experience, the SSM occur more often in the summer although winter moments can happen with the aid of a real fire and big velvet sofas. Anyway, I’m rambling. I had a SSM at the weekend. To celebrate my impending birthday, I grabbed a few girlfriends and we went to stay the night in a teepee in a field just outside Eastbourne. It was idyllic. We went for a walk, laughing all the way, of course. We built a fire (more laughing) and we got drunk (laughter turned into shrieking like a Valkyrie) and sang songs around the camp fire (the Carpenters and Bohemian Rhapsody). However, the SSM moment was shattered when we turned in for the night and the snoring started. What a bloody racket.
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Anna, I’d love to have more SSM’s, as you know I do not have much excess hair, so am OK in that department, but, perfect teeth, alas, I have not.
I have just bought a very chic black sun hat though, so could look a little SSM on the beach this weekend, as long as you don’t look any further down, just concentrate on the face and hat! And I could laugh a lot so that people don’t notice the rest of my body. What do you think? Any tips?
Was your birthday one of those SSM moments – sounded like it could have been!
I was watching bbc news (they call it news) out of the corner of my eye thismorning and i had to do a double take…. celine dion does look a little like you, a little younger maybe, but the lady in the shop does have a point !
Thanks but are you her fan or mine? And will you be stalking me?
Sue, I think the face and hat will do the trick but maybe you could be sitting at a table or be under a blanket! My birthday could have been SSM although there was quite a lot of dirt involved and I had awful hayfever and rubbed soot into my eyes so I didn’t really have the requisite good looks and stylish deportment. Still, if every moment was SSM then they wouldn’t be special anymore.
I SO much wanted to be a girl that weekend (now that would have given yers some REAL snoring, sorry gentle lady snorer!) but my barging in on your actual birthday evening in Hurstpierpoint (a bit part as Uncle Quentin) was one of my real SSM of the season. I will remember it for a long time, lovvie, particularly those small donkeys dragged up as alpacas.