December books read

See if you can spot the theme to last month's books.

* Mistletoe and Murder - Evelyn James (2015) ★ ★
( Read more... )

I didn't renew my paid LJ account, and now I want to do a poll. Curses! ("Curses" is a funny way to curse, isn't it? Like instead of talking, we just said, "Words ( Read more... )

I walked through Target at lunch time, and they have a shelf of Christmas baubles for sale. So festive. So early.

Here is a meme, stolen from theapink a while ago:

Name ten of life's simple pleasures that you like most. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.1. Watching cats wash their face and paws. The ( Read more... )

This was one of those 100-question memes, from which I have selected ten questions. The others weren't even this interesting.

1. When's the last time you ate a homegrown tomato?Never. I am allergic, apparently. A doctor told me that once. He also said the same thing about chocolate, but he was wrong, entirely wrong. He was probably wrong about the ( Read more... )

It was an urban wildlife week-end, f-list. On Saturday mornings, my mother comes in and we go for a walk along the beach. There is a particular, sheltered spot where there is a patch of scrub land to the north of the path, surrounded by trees, where we have often seen a wallaby. It sits up watching the world go by, hidden among the grasses. People ( Read more... )

The auditor tells me he will be finished tomorrow. That, as the song says, is only a day away, and yet I don't believe it. I don't think this audit will ever end. I will be plagued by questions about the valuation of intangible assets till the end of my days ( Read more... )

I can't believe it took until 1989 for Babs to use this title.

Last night I made a second and successful attempt at seeing Into the Woods. It was okay. I saw it on stage a few years ago, and I remember it as being one half where the characters get their happy-ever-after ending and the other half where those endings all fall apart. The film spends ( Read more... )

This week, ugh. Full of small things. People wanting me to do things and pulling me every which way. I was going to have a grumble about that, but I think the real problem is that the painters have been here seven days a week for the last couple of weeks. I am not getting my required amount of solitude, basically. I will feel better once it's done ( Read more... )

Our Prime Minister, honestly. Last year, in response to precisely no demands, he re-started the practice of creating knights and dames. Yesterday was Australia Day* and to mark the occasion, he knighted Prince Philip. I assume he did this because he couldn't dame the Queen ( Read more... )

Being a sheep:


( Read more... )