The Log of the Travelling Lex

Today it is a year since I left Australia. Still alive! Woohoo! :-)

( This Weekend )

( This week coming )

( Previous stuff )

I think that is pretty much everything for the moment. England still good.

Does anyone to read any of my fanfic? because I've worked out a way to post some of it for people who aren't a part of fandom.

( Oxford! )

That is really all. Oxford is lovely. I bought colouring books from the shop at the Bodleian Library.

So, I did write up the weekend before last and the one before that at work last Thursday when I was in charge of the reception all day. Then I never posted it, even after Sam made tsk tsk noises at me. And so, I will write it again, as my duties today at work are archiving, which is dull.

( Three weekends ago )

( Two weekends ago )

( Last Weekend )

So, all caught up on weekend things, now.

( Work stuff )

( This weekend )

Oh, my goodness me, an update!

I am still alive! And still in Birmingham. People are still surprised by the fact that I actually quite like Birmingham. It still has canals. There are fewer residential boats at the moment, because it's no longer the midterm break or Easter.

There are bulbs everywhere, because it is late spring. I really should take some photos of my area. I forgot to when the leaves were all little and green, and I missed the cherry blossoms near work, but the grass is still very pretty.

( New Job )

( Easter )

( May Day Bank Holiday Weekend )

That's enough posting for today. I don't want to get burnt out or turn this into something difficult to do.

Yesterday was pretty good. I had chips for dinner and generally mooched around because I wasn't feeling 100% and needed to be up and about today.

Five things about today that made me happy:

Went with my boss to her allotment and dug up weeds and handled worms and used the rake and drank milky tea with sugar and burnt the dried weeds and chatted with boss's husband about the differences between Australia and the UK and the US (where he was born).

My boss also taught me how to make two different sorts of curry (she's Indian) and we ate them for dinner with kedgeree (well, khichdi - rice and lentils). Then we had apple crumble. Also, their friend Juliet (whose birthday party it also was when it was boss's husband's birthday party), was there and we defended Harry Potter as a story to boss's son, who was bagging it, while we were watching the second film on tv.

Also got to talk a little bit about series subjects like how good science fiction likes to think it is as writing non majority characters and how bad it actually fails to do that.

Then boss's husband drove me home in his removal van.

Three things I did well today:

1. Digging!
2. Took Easter eggs as a present for boss.
3. Was prepared to knock on completely random house when I forgot which was boss's and ask if they knew where boss lived.

Two things I look forward to doing/ doing better tomorrow
1. Going to the market.
2. Buying a plant.

I was absolutely exhausted last night and forgot to post before I went to bed at quarter to nine. I got away with not wearing my coat today, but it was a near thing and I was thankful I had my gloves.

( Monday )

( Tuesday )

( Wednesday )

These posts are not as meditative as it feels they should be. Although mine are a mechanism for actually writing posts. If you have any thoughtful quotes to add, that's really what it's missing. Or if you would like another category of daily item, tell me.