Saturday 18th March - 'niksen' in action

 On Thursday I blogged about 'niksen', the Dutch word which means 'doing nothing'.

There was no post yesterday because that is what I was doing most of the day - niksen.

Although, come to think of it, I did cook lunch (usually Himself's job).

The blue plastic sistema soup mug contains honey mustard chicken, which I made the day before in the crockpot,  following another really easy recipe from 'Bored of Lunch'. The packaged wormy looking things are udon noodles and on the plate are prepped vegetables; green beans, spring onions and red peppers. Assembling this took minutes and was delicious.

It's one of the recipes which just combines various sauces; honey, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, sriracha sauce, garlic, salt, pepper, a bit of cornflour, all stirred up with the diced chicken and cooked. Next time I'll use a little less honey, and cook for a few hours less.

A Joan Didion quote is

ACTION IS THE ENEMY OF APATHY

and it works for me.

Today I completely tidied my 'studio', a 60x30cm desk, squashed into a corner of the dining area between a bookshelf and a storage trolley, and looking out over the garden. The shelves and trolley had become cluttered and untidy and everything was a mess.

It's an odd thing, but throwing away a load of stuff made it much harder to fit everything back....