One of those days...

Have you ever had one of those days that starts of with all the tantalizing promise of a blank family day with no previous engagements?

And then all the members of the family have totally different visions of how to most perfectly fill that blank canvas already formed in their minds when they set foot out of the bed. So you try to compromise and do a bit of what everyone wants to do. But that is never really enough of whatever it was for the person concerned.

So everyone has kind of done what they wanted, but no-one is really satisfied or in a good mood at the end of it.

And then about 5 o'clock depression sets in because if you had it to do all over again you wouldn't waste that precious free family day.

Have you ever had one of those days?

Well, I've just strained a corked bottle of wine through a tea strainer in an effort to put a shine on this imperfect day, in the happy anticipatory knowledge that I have another free day tomorrow with no plans, so the Kodak moments in my mind are setting us up for another day of frustration as I type...

This was Mairi's "another 5 minutes" moment in the park.

It really was a beautiful day.