That could have gone better...

[rthstewart]

It's been a difficult week and a little distraction might be nice.  If you are so inclined, please share a prompt, or something happy, or something that I've done that helped.
Thanks!

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[heliopausa]

Your stories often help - that's why I headed straight for the llamas when I decided I could allow myself a little non-work screentime today.
But some happy things to share... ummm.
1) I forced myself to rest part of the time this week by using up oddments of grey and pink wool, which I've nearly finished knitting into a tea-cosy. Grey and pink are the colours of galahs and I'm knitting a two-inch-high galah to sit on top. (But I need a few scraps of black, yellow and white to finish the galah.) I'm happy about that, about the fun of thinking of it, and the nearly-done achievement of finishing it.
2) a little while ago, there was a decision to cut down over six thousand trees in Hanoi, in the name of modernisation. But the great public outcry over the past two weeks has brought a reversal of the decision - there'll still be new roads, and a light rail, and dread overpasses and so on, and new drainage, which - yes, is a good thing. But the wholesale rooting out of the wonderful (so needed in this very urban environment) has been stopped by public opinion. It's great when people's voices are heard and heeded.
3. from the Guardian - a video, which... I dunno...might be a bit militaristic for the moment? But it shows a Chinese army recruit flubbing his grenade-throwing, and being kept from harm by his instructor - what I liked was the couple of reassuring pats on the back that the instructor gives at the very end,as they emerge. :)
4. shamelessly pinched from todayiamadaisy here on LJ, the australian magpie singing - to me, the most beautiful of all birdcalls, and the sound of summer mornings.

and a prompt... hhmmmm...
in Narnia: how Susan encountered Love, and how they came to an understanding? and... the name?
in Spare Oom: anyone and anyone, afternoon tea with fine china

[rthstewart]

That wool and the Galah and the cozy are all amazing. What gorgeous birds and what a wonderful thing to take inspiration from! Such good news about the trees. As for Love's name - that actually came a long, long time ago, in By Royal Decree. The name Hell Bitch comes from a novel, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty. It is about a cattle drive from the Texas Mexican border to Montana. One of the characters, Captain Call, rides a mare named the Hell Bitch. She's very smart, he adores her, but she's wicked and everyone else is terrified of her. Susan's horse, who, now that I think about it, supposed to named Dove, not Love, is homage to that horse from the book.