dameboudicca | Reading

I went to listen to the Reading Festival Chorus perform Elgar's Dream of Gerontius tonight. I'm not sure if I'd gone it if had been just them, but they were joined by Johanneskantorei and a youth choir from Düsseldorf (Reading is twinned with Düsseldorf) and Britain Sinfonietta, so I was curious, and the location was convenient. So I booked a ticket. And it was worth hearing, although it seemed to me the ratio of performers to audience was probably at least 2 to 1, if not more. It probably wasn't the best evening for a concert: today has been rather sweltering again and the venue doesn't come with any other method of controlling the temperature apart from opening the doors. It wasn't uncomfortably hot but not still not great.

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I did a volunteering day arranged by work's charity foundation with The Conservation Volunteers at Horsenden Hill. I've been there a couple of times before, and on those occasions we'd had a reasonably big group. This time it was only about 12 of us. The number of people signed up was a bit higher only a few days ago, so perhaps people were put off by the very warm weather forecast. And it was warm, but our day was planned accordingly, and we finished earlier than we would have done if it had been less warm. The group I was in cleared out some vegetation off a path next to some pigs, laid down some woodchip on the path (hence the wheelbarrow), and sorted through some pallets and other pieces of wood into re-useable and recyclable. So we got something done, but it was certainly getting uncomfortably warm towards the end. But it was fun to be outside and do something different for a day.

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beccaelizabeth

I had a really excellent realisation today
that made a story click together so neatly it made it look planned
which is always very nice

but

in order to convey it to an audience
I would somehow have to unpack and explain
the super mega crossover of doom
running in my head now
for decades
(probably for life, but I don't remember what toddler me was writing. probably it had more talking animals in it back then.)

So I do not currently see how to make that story emerge
but it was really neat in my head...

queen_ypolita

Finished since the last reading post
Nothing. I didn't expect to read much while my mum and sister were around and I didn't.

Currently reading
The Blunders of Our Governments by Anthony King and Iwor Crewe. It's now over 10 years old and I think that shows, which is not unexpected—some of these kinds of things will take time to clearly display themselves as blunders. I don't think anyone reading about the state of Thames Water today would consider the privatisation as successful as it might have seemed even ten years ago.

Reading next
Not sure

Current Mood: hot

beccaelizabeth

I just rewatched Victory of the Daleks
and I do not have new thoughts about that right now
but
thinking about it in connection to events in the most recent Doctor Who episode
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beccaelizabeth

Today was a number of small annoyances:
I put the bags out for the supermarket to put the delivery in, and someone took 2/3 of them, the nice ones,
and now I can't find samelike things to replace them with, so that is going to be annoying every shopping day.
The shopping arrived but in much smaller quantities than ordered, and this was a bonus order due to Sunday just not delivering any drinks.
And then when I went to get lunch I discovered the drinks had been damp not because chilled but because leaking, and now approximately 150ml of capri sun was sloshing around the door of my fridge.

That took several stages to sort out and I had to stop for lunch in the middle.

But on reflection in a glass half full way, my attempt to have cold drinks kept that 150ml off the hall carpet, so that on balance works out okays.

Blergh.

But I had a nice ice lolly and when I wipe the drinks down a bit better I have a choice of apple, pear, mango, or ribena, so that'll be lovely.

I also watched two Doctor Who episodes. I started 11 again from the beginning. I am not enjoying how everyone got younger when I wasn't looking but aside from that it remains fun.

🤞🖖🌞

queen_ypolita

After finishing work on Thursday, I then spent a couple of hours hoovering, making beds, and dealing with a mountain of washing up before I headed out to the airport to meet my mum and sister. It was quite late when we all got back to my place and I don't think any of us slept particularly well. I had guessed as much and hadn't planned anything except chatting and unpacking for the morning. We had lunch at home and then we travelled to Oxford for the afternoon. The main event I'd planned was having afternoon tea at the Ashmolean rooftop restaurant, as afternoon tea had been one of my mum's requests for this trip. It was gorgeously sunny and the afternoon tea was delicious. We also did a little bit of browsing in the shops afterwards but it was just about too warm for that to be enjoyable.

On Saturday, we went to Windsor and visited the castle. None of us have any major interest in the royal family, but it was something to see and do somewhere that was relatively easy to get to. We also had lunch and did some little shopping.

Yesterday, we walked over to the university campus and spent some time wandering around in the Harris garden there, before taking the bus to town, doing a little bit of shopping and having lunch. Mum was initially a bit wary about the walking plans—her operated knee isn't always that co-operative—but she found it OK.

This morning, I saw them to the bus stop for the coach to the airport and then made my way to the office. Apparently, the coach journey and the first flight went fine, but checking up on things from afar, it seems their second flight ended up being a little delayed, so it'll be late before they're at home tonight.

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beccaelizabeth

Today I accidentally spent all afternoon designing a character on Inevitable Excess.
I just sat down to see if something worked the way I thought and look at some feats while I waited for the shopping.
Then I tried making a new Legend and the build just didn't work in that order, or possibly at all.
So I started again.
One entire afternoon later I built something happy making
and pretty much exactly the same as the game I erased last weekend ( Read more... )

ANYway.
Shopping arrived long ago, at least the parts Sainsburys deigned to send, and I was going to take a day off from the game, so I guess I shall find something else to do.

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