Me Days

When I started working more than 10 years ago, days off from work were precious and I saved them carefully so that I could take short holidays or one long break each year. Sometimes, I take one or two precious days off to meet up with some friends. But that's about it.

Since I started working again (by the way, I've just passed my one year mark recently!), I have found that taking a day off now and then to do things I like, for myself and by myself is important for my sanity.

I call those days "Me Days"

Today is one of those days, except I only took the afternoon off instead of 1 full day. After 1pm, I went for lunch by myself, went for a bit of shopping.. then to the gym.. and then went home to watch some TV. Then I took my own time to make dinner.

By the time The Husband came home, I felt as if I have been resting all day!

What a lovely day today has been!

It's also nice to see my balcony in the afternoon, with all those portulacas smiling at me

The Growing Lemon Myrtle

The lemon myrtle plant N brought all the way for me from Brisbane died when my parents didn't manage to water my plants for 2 weeks because of the Lost Key Incident.

For a while, I didn't dare to mention it to N. But I think I briefly brought it up when we met up during one of his trips back last year. I don't remember if I mentioned it to him.. but I found a nursery in Singapore that sold this plant afterwards and bought one back home.

This lemon myrtle has been with me for about 10 months now.

It was a little thing when I brought it home. It's now much bigger than it was!

Lemon Myrtle grow pretty well it Singapore's climate - Mine gets the afternoon sun and I have found that it can survive a day or two without water pretty well. I feed it occasionally with bonemeal and seaweed extract and so far (fingers crossed), all is good.

When I have a real garden, I'd like to grow a lemon tree. That would be a really useful tree to have, I think - you can do so many things with the lemon! It seems that it can be grown in Singapore too because I saw a few on sale at World Farm.

It would be really useful to have your own lemon tree

Iced Tea with Ice-cream

If you like iced milk tea, you would like this even better.

At least I do - iced tea with vanilla ice-cream is a dream for tea at home during the weekend.

Pick a tiny bit of mint leaves from your garden, add some homemade scones or buns and a great book, and you'd feel like you are on a holiday.

I also like iced earl grey with vanilla ice-cream. They make this rather well at Coffee Club but I think homemade is always better because you can make the tea the way you like it.

Have a fabulous week ahead - this week is a short week for those of us who get a day off on Good Friday.