Hello Pip-Life

:: Sometimes Lily Allen Makes Me Cry

May 12, 2014

I had the best day yesterday. I know for some Mother’s Day is all about having a fancy lunch or dinner and pricey gifts. More power to those people. That is cool. I get it.

For me, though, Mother’s Day is just perfect if it’s non-fancy, there is heaps of yum homey/simple food and I get to see all of my kidlets.

Yesterday was just like that:

7am Toast and tea by myself in front of heater. PJs and Ugg boots de rigeur
8am – 11am Bits and piece of Blog With Pip work, hot bath, get dressed
11am – 2pm Visit Rin at Wide Open Road, shopping at Barkly Square for snacks and dinner, Savers
2pm – 3pm Smith St for Vietnamese Pork Rolls, chips and chocolate (my fave Green & Blacks white chocolate!)
3pm – 7pm Mooching on couch watching Land Girls, chatting, eating cake and drinking tea – quick trip to vintage shop for new/old boots
7pm – 10pm Dinner with kids in front of telly – Lamb roasted with tomatoes and Fatso French style creamy potatoes
10pm – 11pm Land Girls 

There was a bit in there between 3pm and 3.15pm when we were in the car listening to THIS Lily Allen song and it made me cry. Because of the TOAST and TEA.

The things is, there is nothing better than beans on toast and a nice cup of tea… or Chinese food… or something equally non-gourmet with your favourite people. Food and entertaining has been elevated to QUITE lofty heights, but you don’t always have to go down that road. No. You really don’t.

It’s the simple, pared-back, chatty, cosy stuff that matters most (to me, at least.) I don’t want a fancy, best-dressed kind of life. I want to hang with my homies and be myself. Be comfy. Be happy and satisfied and warm and relaxed. Eat beans.

Apparently Lily wrote this song about her Mum, but really, anyone who will make you tea and toast is a superstar and I for one CRY with gratitude/sentimentality at the simple kindness that it is.

To me, it’s a sort of old-school kitchen table nostalgia/simplicity/kindness, transporting me back to a time when my Nan would snap the legs onto a TV tray and pop a plate of beans and toast in front of ME. Aw thanks.

I vote that we all make toast for the people in our lives. With a nice cup of tea. I think we should Lily-fy our lives in a toasty way.  I also think there’s something really freaking special about eating Chinese food in your slippers with the people who know you the best.

(I like the ham flavoured baked beans. Sob!)

x Pip

PS: I love Lily’s new album too!

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