Happy Monday!

"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you sit down quietly may alight upon you...."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hope that your week-end was as sunny as mine was, London was beautiful....we worked in the garden and ate al fresco which was just lovely!

We seem to have rather a lot of balls in the air right now....I do feel a bit like a goldfish jumping up as high as I can out of the bowl, grabbing as much air as possible and then submerging myself again....it does seem to be that thing of nothing seeming to happen for ages in life and then everything happening at once!

I am one of life's eternal optimists, positively Pollyanna-ish at times whereas my husband comes from a long line of glass-nearly-completely-empty people....somehow we just about balance each other out....thank goodness....

I do always try to look at the bigger picture though (which often drives my husband crazy!)....to me though it's the best way of realising that what you perceive to be a big problem or a real challenge, actually isn't in the scheme of things....

What is your coping strategy for challenging situations....it can be for little or quite major things....and could be something very philosophical or just simply a very large glass or two of Merlot?! I'd love to hear!

Happy Monday!