Well, the quote for today was an easy one if you took it literally. It concerned a cuppa which is traditionally quite an English thing. Everyone associates a cup of tea with the English yet there is one here who never ever drinks it. It's not my cup of tea! On my journal page this week you can see a cup and saucer but - oh dear, it is empty.
"Three friends have all met up for an afternoon in the sunshine at Lotta's house. Lotta was the eldest and also the bossiest of the three girls. Of the other two, Simone and Sarah, Sarah was the baby in the group as well as the tiniest. Not that she could not hold her own in an argument, she certainly could. Simone tended to be the peacemaker in the trio. She hated confrontation.
As usual the topic of conversation centred around make up, hairstyles and fashion. Simone had chosen to wear her latest purchase, a lovely dress in shades of blue and yellow and she had bought some tiny yellow ankle boots to wear with it. The other two admired it and said how it looked good on the slim Simone but Lotta felt that she should have had her hair in a different colour, "lilac does not work with that dress somehow" was her rude remark.
Little Sarah was a bit 'put out' and thought Lotta was being rude, "perhaps in one of her moods", she thought. "I hope she does not start passing comment on my hair because I don't want to start colouring it like the other two". Just then Lotta made a remark about what Sarah was wearing too. "Don't you think it's about time you stopped wearing those skirts with the straps over the shoulders", she said, "they are the kind of skirts little girls of six and seven wear, not teenagers like you."
Despite being hurt by the comment Sarah answered back and the conversation became a bit heated between the two of them ending with Sarah in tears.
Ever the one to try to settle arguments Simone stepped in and told Sarah to calm down, "Lotta did not mean it like that", she said, "and you could always cut the straps off and wear it just as a skirt."
"Then it would look worse than ever" was Lotta's reply to that one. Sarah, tears now streaming cried out "You just don't care do you?" To which Lotta answered "This is my cup of care, oh look it's empty" as she lifted her cup of lemon tea and peered inside it".
I know I have given Lotta a very big cup of lemon tea but it rather emphasises the saying doesn't it.
I am entering this into Art Journal Journey where the lovely Mia chose 'butterflies' as the topic for this month. I decided to add a couple of butterflies flitting about and decorated the cup with them to pretty it up a bit. Why not join in with this challenge, you have until the end of this month.
I messed up last week and got this post and the one I did mixed up so Wendy and I were out of sync. Now I am back with my posts in order I hope I get it correct next week.
