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a big change in feeling; autumn!
Aug. 26th, 2018 10:41 amYeah, yeah. It's been a long time. I've read 26 books since January - I've been focusing on it with a bit more gusto. The best was 'Of Human Bondage'. Currently I'm working my way through 'Ulysses', 'Ganger la Guerre', and 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'. I've adopted a bit of a routine with my books - always listening to something on tape when it's appropriate at work, always reading something in print when I'm having my lunch. The lunch thing is really cracking.
Well, it's finally autumn (not really, but it is raining, so...). I like autumn because most of the things I like doing are better suited to cold weather. I have my apple spice candle lit today, baking some Hallowe'en shaped fruit bread, spraying cinnamon air freshener, wearing a few hundred layers and a scarf. Really I am trying to force autumn. I hate it when it's 30 degrees out, and I thought I lived in Canada and thus could avoid that sort of thing. It's been a sweltering, odd summer. But enough about the weather! I've been having a good time at my work, lots of wins this year, lots of good things. What else? Hm, well,
Here are some out of order pictures:
It's Hobbiton. Popped over to New Zealand while visiting the rellies in Australia. It was splendid to look at. They do up a luncheon with flags and big wooden tables, like you're a traveling army eating with the King or something. Charming as anything. Overwhelming, really.
Behold my great-grandmother's cat. This is the bus which she lives in on the family farm in Australia. She's decorated the bus very well, and actually had wi-fi. She did not know how to use it. I didn't bother with it; no point. There was infinite fun to be had poking about in photo albums and tromping across the seemingly infinite desert. I found many a skeleton, many a herd of kangaroos, and many a shrub.
Gas station (abandoned). If only gas were free.
These stables have now been torn down. Mum and I thought we'd have a little look so we hopped the fence and did that. Lots of things had been left behind when the racing club left this old racetrack. The city is creeping in. It's a parking lot, now.
The view from the lighthouse at Byron Bay. It was very windy here. No sharks that day, boo.
Little bar in East Hastings. I learnt to skateboard on this very night, on this very spot. Not well, mind you.
The Green Dragon. Hobbiton again. I like Hobbiton a lot.
Well, it's finally autumn (not really, but it is raining, so...). I like autumn because most of the things I like doing are better suited to cold weather. I have my apple spice candle lit today, baking some Hallowe'en shaped fruit bread, spraying cinnamon air freshener, wearing a few hundred layers and a scarf. Really I am trying to force autumn. I hate it when it's 30 degrees out, and I thought I lived in Canada and thus could avoid that sort of thing. It's been a sweltering, odd summer. But enough about the weather! I've been having a good time at my work, lots of wins this year, lots of good things. What else? Hm, well,
Here are some out of order pictures:
It's Hobbiton. Popped over to New Zealand while visiting the rellies in Australia. It was splendid to look at. They do up a luncheon with flags and big wooden tables, like you're a traveling army eating with the King or something. Charming as anything. Overwhelming, really.
Behold my great-grandmother's cat. This is the bus which she lives in on the family farm in Australia. She's decorated the bus very well, and actually had wi-fi. She did not know how to use it. I didn't bother with it; no point. There was infinite fun to be had poking about in photo albums and tromping across the seemingly infinite desert. I found many a skeleton, many a herd of kangaroos, and many a shrub.
Gas station (abandoned). If only gas were free.
These stables have now been torn down. Mum and I thought we'd have a little look so we hopped the fence and did that. Lots of things had been left behind when the racing club left this old racetrack. The city is creeping in. It's a parking lot, now.
The view from the lighthouse at Byron Bay. It was very windy here. No sharks that day, boo.
Little bar in East Hastings. I learnt to skateboard on this very night, on this very spot. Not well, mind you.
The Green Dragon. Hobbiton again. I like Hobbiton a lot.
