... although you wouldn't know that from my recent LJ activity (read: total lack of) but I've surfaced now because today is a very important day - it's sparrow2000's birthday!!!

Happy birthday, my dear. Wishing you the best of days.


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...although, I am in self-isolation because I've tested positive for covid. That means I'm stuck in the house until the end of the week. And it could be longer if I continue positive. My symptoms are mild, courtesy of three jabs. Mainly a slight temperature and a cough. Thank science for the vaccine that means I get away with only that ( Read more... )

I wonder whether anybody can help me ( Read more... )

Copied from both curiouswombat and spikesgirl58:

I'm asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture on your page. A picture that YOU took. Just a pic. No description. The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. Please copy the text, put a picture on YOUR page, and let's look at these beautiful pictures.


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An exciting day today - I am actually going in to work. It's just to pick up a few things, but it will be interesting to see the office again after so long. A colleague went in last week and sent photos of the empty desks. He said there was only one other person there and it is a pretty big place ( Read more... )

It's a while since I posted. No reason for that except inertia on the one hand and (work-based) busyness on the other. And it is an even longer while since I did one of these, but books are one of the things that will apparently pull me out of my hole *g*

1. Are books losing importance as a source of information and entertainment?I certainly hope ( Read more... )

I went for a 10 minutes' walk this morning - at 6am. I saw one other person, not particularly surprising at that time of the morning. We exchanged a smile as we veered away from each other ( Read more... )

Three posts in three days. There is no way I will keep this up. Any minute now I will sink back into obscurity ( Read more... )

I just had to go and rescue my neighbour because she didn't know how to reset the circuit breaker on her mains electricity board. She thanked me with a pat of her hand on my shoulder as she followed me to the front door when I left ( Read more... )