1) a day at the office with lots of colleagues. Means lots of fun talking :-)

2) going for a walk during lunch break

3) friends coming over for dinner ^^

1) More gorgeous sunny weather ♥

2) Excellent coffee on my sunny balcony to start the day

3) Nice hot shower

1) Spent the morning on my sunny balcony and stayed for lunch

2) Going to a garden center to replace the flower pot that tumbled down last week ^^

3) Clean bedlinen for tonight

1) going out for lunch with Lhune, in our usual spot ^^

2) there is an "art exhibition" in our daughter's school this afternoon. She is so looking forward to it :-)

3) going out for dinner. The most delicious pizza in town

1) Lovely sunshine, so going for a walk during lunch break

2) Good talks with colleagues at the office

3) Going out with hubby this evening :-)

The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers by Matt Bird

A how-to-write book. Despite the title, mostly for TV and movie writers, down to and including explaining that a prose writer has it easier.

Nevertheless, some useful ideas, particularly about irony, such as the character's flaw should be a flip-side of a strength to add reason to not want to fix it. None of the jargon was impenetrable.

1) we have a huge magnolia tree in our garden and its blossom is so beautiful :-)

2) delicious tea

3) hubby's mother is staying for dinner

1) a day at my and my daughter 's favorite theme park. 

2) sunshine 

3) delicious cookies

The Snake Prince and Other Stories: Burmese Folk Tales by Edna Ledgard

A varied collection. I think a little overwritten, but the tales are a new slice, fitting a new culture. Fairy tales, including a kind and unkind girls featuring a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and a unique take on burning the skin of the shape-shifted: the Naga prince is not killed but he is rendered mortal to live and grow old and die with his bride.

Also tales of fools and clever men, and animal tales.

Most are recognizable types, but not close to other variants.

1) Listening to good music while working

2) Getting some things done during lunch break instead of postponing it again

3) Going to work on my 2025 photo album this evening :-)

1) Sunshine! It makes such a huge difference

2) Breakfast on my balcony amongst flowers that smell divine

3) Time on the canopied swinging bench (without canopy) in my parents’s garden

1) Visit to the library

2) My shoulders feel painful so it must mean the new workout I tried yesterday is effective ^^

3) Clean bedlinen for tonight

Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz

A light discussion of Egypt. Admittedly covering a long period of history and so necessarily cursory in place. Discusses what records we have and what archeological evidence we have found, and various Pharaohs and changes.

1) brought my daughter to school with the bus, she has been asking the entire week if we could go to school with the bus. And seeing it was raining today ^^ She loved it. Also, to support ill children who can't go to school, it was pyjama day at school today. No need to say our daughter loved that as well I guess :-)

2) tea and bingewatching season 2 of The Musketeers today

3) I'm going to babysit my sister's children this evening ^^

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

1) working from home

2) sunshine

3) hopefully a library visit to pick up some ordered books for our daughter

1) It had stopped raining when I had to go outside

2) The first fresh local asparagus this year :P

3) I combined one of my shores with a lovely stroll outside

1) read a good book

2) working on my 2025 photo album

3) tea