Festive Saturday Pleasures

• Breakfast with grapefruit.


• A little time to read in my sunshiny sitting room.


• The fragrance of tangerines.
• A long crisp blue walk after lunch.
• Knitting Clara's sweater by the fire.


• The luxury of a stash of gift boxes--no wrapping odd-shaped bundles, or scrounging for old shoe boxes in the attic.
• Plenty of tape in a weighted dispenser.
• A wonderful rich pork ragu on the stove.


• Arranging my Christmas roses.