This week has simultaneously lasted forever and is vanishing far too fast. I mean most weeks recently have felt like that but this one especially ( Read more... )

Last week was a LOT. I oversaw the removal of a bunch of Barbara Hepworth sculptures (with only minor niggles, everything got out safely and I feel so much better being able to say that) and at the same time managed to open a temporary schools' art prize exhibition and a longer term textile exhibition AND assist with two events and I was so tired ( Read more... )

I'm just going to ignore the enormous gap since I last posted (sorry about that)

I've been reading some Ted Hughes poetry recently, specifically Moon-Bells and other poems which are apparently part of the "Chatto Poets for the Young" series but they're quite full of death and hope and strangeness so I think more YA than kidlit ( Read more... )

I am very tired and a bit unnecessarily sad and I want to post about the interesting things I've already done this year but everything feels a bit too difficult at the moment ( Read more... )

This week I have mostly coughed and felt sorry for myself but, as it is a new year, I suppose I should at least attempt to post by December books ( Read more... )

( Books read in 2018 )

As so often happens I'm using these days between Christmas & New Year to look backa t the last year and think about the next year and also realise that I am very nearly 3 months behind on my "books I've read" posts. So before we reach the end of December here are October & Novembers books ( Read more... )

Christmas cold in full swing but I'm currently treating it with Edinburgh Gin's Christmas Gin and that's helping my mood if not the actual cold. At least Today and tomorrow I have to do almost nothing so reading my way through Yuletide is tomorrow's plan ( Read more... )

I know I've been a bit absent but ahead of the first Christmas Day I won't be having lunch at home (because my sister & her husband are hosting) here are a few of the silly, small things that always make me smile on Christmas Eve ( Read more... )

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In my (slow) walk to Mordor I've reached the point where Sam & Frodo are descending the cliffs in Emyn Muil and the rope unties itself. It's nice when I reach memorable bits ( Read more... )