Long overdue catch up with Bea today. Ours is one of those friendships that doesn’t need too much but keeps on giving 💖
Joy-spotting 💖
Finished reading: What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo 📚
4/5 ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
Finished book via audio — it’s the better way to appreciate this memoir. Author narrates plus the recorded therapy sessions requires it!
Back in the Ravelry rabbit hole and some of the patterns I would love to knit are so out of reach right now (skill wise)!
Finished reading: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters 📚
4.5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🦴
Very enjoyable read. The writing style is not the easiest to digest (esp after a long hiatus from the genre). However I feel like my vocabulary has expanded immensely by the end. Highly recommend! Brother Cadfael reminds me of P.F. Ford’s Norm.
A meadow underwater. How absolutely stunning. So glad I looked.
Finished reading: A Date with Death by P.F. Ford 📚
2.5/5 ⭐️⭐️🌗
Prequel to the West Wales series that focuses on Southall. Which means no Norm. Which means nothing endearing. The ending felt rushed. If not for Polly, this would have been 2/5.
I really didn’t need another dozen tulips to plant… and yet here I am.
Substack has been relocated to The Graveyard of Deleted Apps.
Currently reading: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters 📚
I must admit I’m only reading this because of my recent rose bush acquisition (a DA named Brother Cadfael). I hope it’s good!
Finished reading: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚
4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I’ve heard so much about this book and expected too much. Still a great read but has not made it to the favourites list.
Finished reading: A BODY ON THE BEACH a Gripping Welsh Crime Mystery Full of Twists by P F Ford 📚
4.5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌗
For the genre (cosy mystery!), it’s a great read! Can’t help but like Norm. He reminds me of my favourite mentor, Carlos.
Finished reading: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt 📚
3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Found the book repetitive and thought the focus on safety-ism valid but also wanted to retort back (to no one in particular) that it’s not that simple okkk. Agree with most of it and the recommendations are solid enough. I just think that majority of the onus needs to be on the design end of tech.
First bunch of chrysanthemums I’ve ever picked. Pictured here are Champagne and Baltica Salmon.
Approaching mid-century and still feel the sting of messages unacknowledged. Ahh to be human!
I almost bought a Light Phone / Punkt / some dumb phone today but thought I’d try a minimum spend approach first 🤷🏽♀️ Deleted a bunch of apps (looking at you Substack!) and installed Blank Spaces App to reduce visual clutter. I think it will work!
A new dinosaur: Philoseraptor – courtesy of A.
Noticing the tension between wanting something pretty vs just going for it, mess and all.
Dahlia cv Belle with her two toned petals. I was so happy to come home to her in bloom.
Days are getting shorter. The garden looks tired. Still! It’s trying for a last hurrah.
One more week and Term 3 will be over. Then it will be one more term, and prep will be done and dusted for my eldest. Where did the year go? Sheesh!