This whole spring thing that seems to be happening now is rather wonderful. Our garden is full of daffodils that are positively golden in the sunshine. I've spent the day doing important but not terribly thrilling chores and then interspersing them with reading (I finished The Fault In Our Stars today, it really is a very good book but I couldn't ( Read more... )

I have been spectacularly ineffecitve today but I think maybe I needed a day like this (if tomorrow is similarly a blank THEN I'll be in trouble ( Read more... )

Apparently it's Easter Monday and April and I really don't see how either of those things happened but here we are.

I've been having a VERY good year for reading so far, it took till nearly the end of May last year to have read this many books, and I've enjoyed most of them too.

• A Sea of Troubles- Donna Leon
  
• Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book- ( Read more... )

Someone remind me that I need to reset my alarm for 5 minutes earlier to allow for frost *sighs ( Read more... )

Yet more sunshine... BLISS ( Read more... )

We put our fountain on for the first time today :D

Well okay fountain is maybe talking it up a little, water feature perhaps? Large tub with a pump in it is even more accurate but it sounded like summer as we sat outside and ate mozarella & fresh bread & olive oil <3 ( Read more... )

The heat and humidity today are sapping all my energy and ability to care... sadly work is not allowing me my one wish right now (to be able to go and lie in the shade somewhere with a nice cooling long drink ( Read more... )

So hot ( Read more... )

It's so gorgeous and sunny outside and I want to be out there and not stuck in here! Ages ago I'd planned to take this afternoon off so I could get to Kingston in plenty of time and wander around the shops & near the river and in this weather it would have been perfect. Sadly it's E's last day in the office before she takes 3 weeks off so I have to ( Read more... )

Today I am mostly too cold. Also possibly developing the other sort of cold :-/

Oh well. If I can hold out another 90 minutes + Rainbows then I'm off to see War Horse in a cinema which will probably be warm and I will mostly be needing tissues for the sobbing I suspect ( Read more... )