And Breathe....

[seraphflight]

Saw this, and had to share.

https://youtu.be/uW57VFE1elY?si=5xmS66O2ttpqA_HR

(0h, I messed this up - you'll have to Copy & Paste it to your browser to watch the Lestat/Louis video.)

A few days of annual leave began this morning - or at 5pm yesterday, depending on how you wish to view it. I'll go with the 5pm version. This morning was wasted on websurfing. This afternoon saw me planting spring bulbs. And tomorrow it's the autumn equinox and the official first day of autumn, though anyone with eyes in their head can see autumn's begun already. Just look at the colours of the trees. Or the fattening spiders spinning webs all across the garden.

Nothing much new here. And I don't wish to bore you all by moaning about work as usual, though my new colleague's enthusiasm is rather wearing at times. I have decided to not tell her there are no promotions waiting for her here; this role is a pretty cul-de-sac, career-wise. She'll figure that out by herself by and by.

My brother is in the market for a new car. He figures that if he doesn't spend his money then the Tax will only enjoy it for him once he's dead, and as he isn't dead yet, and quite possibly won't be for some months/years to come despite his cancer having returned for the third time, he might as well enjoy it. And why not? Good for him. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light, etc, etc, etc. His son earns more each month than he ever earned in a year (or two), and therefore does not need his father's financial help.

Holidays. Holy days. Here's to some much needed peace and quiet.

Comments

[mumsisdaughter]

Thanks for the link (it did work). I am really enjoying the AMC version of my favourite series of books. I am glad they haven't gone for a PG retelling. The season 3 trailer makes my mouth water for its showing, hopefully next year.

I agree that autumn is here already: the pink-footed geese have begun to arrive from Iceland and Greenland in their honking skeins across the sky; the pond fish are reluctant to feed because the water temperature is dropping from the not-so-high temperature that this year's 'summer' delivered; most of the garden flowers and shrubs are bearing seed-heads or berries or hips; spiders that don't spin the beautiful orb-webs are creeping indoors and leaves are beginning to look pale. It puts me in mind of a beautiful hymn that we used to sing at the primary school where I worked for 35 years (find it here)

Yesterday, I paid host to three of my elderly relatives (and I'm 71!) and an hour or two was spent reminiscing over a lovely pub lunch. When we returned to my house, cleaned for the event as if it were Spring not Autumn, haha, we examined the family tree online and I gave them their pedigrees that I'd drawn out beforehand. We promised to see each other again soon...but who knows, given they are in their 80s. Hope springs eternal, as they say:)

The gas fire goes on for a few hours in the evening now. Hallowe'en is coming, ha ha ha! Sorry, another school favourite :D

[seraphflight]

Well, I hope you're snug by a warm fire tonight, as it promises to be another cold one. The autumn has been lovely here, though; prolonged and rich with colour, the weather mostly mild.

I hadn't heard that hymn before, and it's quite a lovely one, you're right.

Sorry it's taken me a dog's age to reply. I've been feeling low lately, and when that comes over me nothing much gets done.