M.H.Johnsen

Researching plague for a story just before bedtime, and reading that septicemic plague can progress so fast it is seemingly asymptomatic until fatal. Correct or not (couldn't find a source), that is my nightmares sorted for tonight.

#writing

I strongly suspect this image will stay with me next time I visit the library.

Red Chinese lanterns outside Sheffield town hall

Always a delight to attend the Chinese New Year celebration in Sheffield.

Sleeping tuxedo cat

Friday cuddles. Every day is #caturday

And I recon you can easily get on track. The year is young.

Same here: 52 is the aim this year, but more than that I aim to read every day. Having a library app on the phone helps. Every time I habitually pick up the thing, libby is right there.

Gonna have a problem because this book is hard to put down and it is getting rather late...

Tonight I'm refusing to do anything but reading the first Murderbot book with a glass of wine, plus pet the cat who has set up camp in my lap.

#booksky

Good morning. Today, I am reading Marga Minco's Bitter Herbs. It's both excellent and harrowing.

The work in progress. Mittens, traditional norwegian pattern.

Comfort reads are the best. I go for cozy murder mysteries myself, but may give Howl's Moving Castle a go too.

Page from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

Reading Pratchett's Going Postal at the moment. An absolute favourite. Grace looks like a great read - I may pick it up after, if my extensive TBR list doesn't fill me with too much guilt.

It will be all knitting and the winter olympics for me for the foreseeable, if I have my way. Which I won't, but dreams are free.

Foggy landscape with a road, a stone wall and trees

Feel like we have been under a blanket of fog for weeks. Bleak, dreary, and so on, but in the most atmospheric of ways.

Yeah, Pratchett would be gutting. But all I hear about him is reassuringly good, and that is before we take his writing into account. I'm optimistic.

Bernard set the bar high. A keeper.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks. And the Rescuers Down Under.

This is mine too. I found a second hand dvd not long ago and gleefully watched it all over again. Knew all the songs.

Laahkoeh biejjine! Vuorbbe biejvijn! Lihkku beivviin! Gratulerer med dagen!

Ok, I'm enjoying Wonder Man. This, alongside Thunderbolts, fills me with some optimism.

It's a lovely film. Beautiful to watch. I saw it with my boy (his first proper cinema film) and the meaning he took from it was that the cat was brave. Our cats "would be soooo scared".

A small pox vaccine? That's pretty impressive! Well done her!

Page from the comic Valhalla depicting a giant serpent coiled around a house

Reading parts of the Valhalla comic to the boy. Had to pretend that the lindorm survived, however, as he is rather fond of dragons...

Good afternoon, Womble! Today, I'm reading In the Company of Men - The Ebola Tales by Veronique Tadjo. It is both harrowing and beautiful.

I moved desks at work this week. Now by a window, and even though it is awful weather, I feel a new and delightful sense of freedom. Also wasting time gazing out at the drizzle.

Black and white cat

Still bad weather. Still ##caturday

Black and white cat on a red blanket

It may be raining out, but I have a cuddly cat to keep me company. Every day is #caturday

I really need to stop reading the news and instead read, well, anything else.

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