Are you lazier than me?

A quick hello - and goodnight

Me. For most of the weekend. Photo by Tim De Pauw on Unsplash

Hello! It’s late, I know. If you’re reading this in an email, I apologise for writing to you at 11 o’clock at night and 14.45 hours later than usual with no warning at all.

As this is The Honesty Box, I need to tell you the truth. And the truth is, I spent too much of yesterday asleep to write this.

When I was awake, I ate apple pie and drank sparkling water with some people (people I know) in a pub before coming home, having a baguette with cheese and going back to bed.

I’m not proud of my lack of productivity/exercise/life purpose but I am grateful that my lifestyle (single! no kids!) currently allows it on occasion. Let’s call it Self-Care Saturday and leave it at that.

Today, I spent more time awake and playing football with my nephews, which was very muddy and much fun.

I doubt you’ll have much to say about this behaviour, but if you have any grand confessions of laziness, do let me know!

So, a very brief Things I Like today.

One Day

I avoided the book (by David Nicholls) and the film (released in 2011 and starring Anne Hathaway) because I imagined both would make me bawl.

Now, I’m trying not to binge-watch the Netflix version of One Day with Ambika Mod (Emma) and Leo Woodall (Dexter) who play friends/potential lovers who meet at university on 15 July 1988 and are in touch on that date each year after that until … (I don’t know what happens at the end).

I’m only on episode three and am addicted to the ‘will they/won’t they,’ to the difference between them (he’s posh and privileged, she’s clever and more working class) and to their various adventures - he hangs out in Rome, she in a Mexican restaurant in London. I don’t know if it’ll beat the February blues, but it sure is great escapism.

Beyoncé does COUNTRY MUSIC

A week ago, Beyoncé effectively crashed the Super Bowl by releasing two new songs, essentially using her turn in an ad for a mobile network at the big game to promote her new music.

Bey has been wearing cowboy hats for a long time and the new tracks are firmly in the country genre. The up tempo one, Texas Hold ‘Em, is a very fun ditty I imagine will become my go-to karaoke song (it might be 10 years since I last did karaoke), and the slow one, 16 Carriages, has already made me cry.

She is the queen of marketing - and pop.

I’ll return next week with something less lazy and more profound, I’m sure.

For now, it’s back to bed.