What better way to work creatively than having music in the background. Makes me think with more clarity and style.
Today it’s the classics quietly and melodically in the background. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
How about you? What do you listen to while pushing papers and writing notes?
You do listen to music while you work don’t you!
The Burnout Queens xx
Monday was the UK Bank Holiday time. So what did The Burnout Queens and Pups do?
After 2 weeks of leaks, biz writing and launches, and 2 vet visits for a spider bite and infection, we all (yes even the pups had a vote) just decided Monday was the day to do nothing but laze. What else would 4 highly sensitive creatures do after being bombarded with noise, people and chaos!?
With the distinct feel of autumn in the air and rain falling, can anything beat Mary Berry, Fortnum & Mason wedding breakfast tea, snuggle pups and fresh baked chocolate chip cookies? Laze is blissful indeed!
What did you do?
With love, The Burnout Queens (and Pups) xx
September is here already…really?! How did that happen. September is always a great time to get back to school, work, or university; or to simply start something new and intriguing in our lives (well that’s the hope anyway).
We’ve spent time exploring more of our seaside city with it’s quirky districts, architecture, and beaches. Taking it all in while our pet sitter is away on holidays and London tube strikes disrupt our London daytrips!
August is festival, festival, festival time here, so we took some of it in (if you read our blog ‘The parade, the evacuation and poached eggs’ you’ll get it came with an unexpected scare).
End of summer is always time when the little projects get done. The pups viewing stand was assembled on the roof terrace (they feel ever so ‘big’ thrusting their heads through the slats) and Dr B’s veggie garden is ripening (don’t laugh there are loads more on-the-vine waiting to munch) And Dr T finally got a chance to finish her art project, but not before buying cake for evening dessert (the best millefeuille)!
We’re looking forward to more unexpected adventures while daytripping in London in September. We’ll be sure to snap a few pics to share.
Till next month, Embrace Life!
What a night and day we had last week!
4am and I awake to a wicked thunder and lightning storm, and the persistent drip drop of water coming down the bedroom wall, soaking and staining my nan’s antique chair. Jumped out of bed, rolled up the carpet, got out the towels and buckets (yes buckets as water found a seam and was travelling) and moved that beautiful chair to safety. 4am…please!
Obviously leak from the terrace roof is happening, but I’ll save that for daylight. Back to bed for the drip, drip, drip till 7am dogwalk time. Another downpour and the roof terrace is filling fast with water…it’s a workday…but plan B is now afoot. Spent the day phoning property manager to get someone out and cleared the terrace so drain could run more freely (I think we’ve found the problem). Ben, our great management guy pays us a visit, we all look down the drain hole and say…ah, of course, the pebbles are blocking the hole and it’s all going over the flashing down the walls….Sherlock has nothing on the 3 of us.
That’s the storm and bucket sorted. To the nose…cleaning the terrace and removing plants so the drainage engineer(?!) can do his thang! I was putting away gardening tools in the benchseat on the landing, started to stand up and the benchseat attacked my forehead, glasses and bridge of my nose. I saw stars (not the celebrity kind), felt dizzy and just wanted to lie down. My nose came up swollen, black and blue and I thought it was broken for sure. No it wasn’t luckily.
Of course, this Burnout Queen heard not broken, so didn’t stop trying to clean up and get some work done. (can someone say burnout approaching!). Just paced it slow and steady. Then the headache and swelling got worse so I gave in (this is definitely something I don’t do easily) and hit the sofa where I lay for the rest of the day with an ice pack over my face (looking fab with the black on the nose, under the eyes and all swollen!)
WHAT A DAY. Often we say expect the unexpected. (note to self: be careful what you say)
ps: terrace being fixed this week. True test comes with next downpour! Life by the seaside.
pps: so busy catching drips I didn’t look out the window to see mother nature’s event!
Putting the finishing touches on our newest project. The good news, it’s a members club, it’s launching very soon, you’ll get an invite, it’s full of fantastic value and life-changing info, it’s got The Burnout Queens live and online, and….
it’s absolutely FREE!
THE REALM! Where smart, creative & sensitive women begin to Defy Ordinary.
We can’t wait to have you join us as we journey from Burnout to Balance to Bliss! See you inside The Realm! very soon.
The Burnout Queens xx