Tuesday's #happything: managing to get out in the garden for an hour in the evening and do some more weeding of the patio. It's about half done now. I do so love our long light summer evenings, when even after a full day at work and getting the dinner etc there's still time to do a bit in the garden and listen to the birds
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Wednesday's #happything was being able to host our book club in the new house. (I'd never hosted before, because our old place was so cramped that if more than about 3 people came they would have had to sit on the floor, and several of the members are reaching the age where that wouldn't represent their idea of comfort
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To all my dear friends on LJ: Christmas greetings... (if possible, have sound on your device when you click - and this does need Flash enabled, for which apologies)
Had all sorts of fun over the last 3 days listening to (mostly) interesting people talking about many aspects of JRRT and his work, at the Oxford Uni English Faculty's Tolkien Spring School. (The "Spring" turned out to be a major piece of mis-billing, for which the organisers kept apologising, but that was hardly their fault!)
To all my American friends, may you enjoy a peaceful, restful, happy Thanksgiving, with good food and the company of your family, friends or other loved ones. May the year to come bring you many more things to be thankful for, just as I am thankful for all of you :-)
[Cross-posted at both LJ and DW - feel free to comment at either...]