I’ve been a little (or more correctly, a whole lot) meh in recent weeks, so I’m planning on busting out Nice Things that I know cheer me.
Today I went for a walk and grabbed a pile of unfamiliar books at random from the local Library.
My reading has been underwhelming this year – way too much non-fiction teetering on self-improvement and very little fiction.
Hopefully there is a gem in this mystery stack!
And I’ll be away from devices while reading – also essential for mood improvement.
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I collected the pieces from my first pottery class on Friday. Those six weeks passed insanely quickly.
These photos make them look infinitely better than they are. In Real Life they are … really not great. No really. I’m definitely not just saying that. No false modesty here.
I find the colour of the fired clay extremely unsettling – kind of like that salt playdough you make with toddlers which gets all discoloured from their grubby wee hands. To be fair the actual pots themselves could have been made by toddlers.
I clearly have a long way to go on this pottery journey. I’m hopeful the pots from the other class are somewhat less displeasing.
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We’re back to the office this week. I am not filled with gladness about this – and indeed it is at least 97% of the cause of my meh.
I was in a meeting last week with someone whose surname was Puttock, a name I have never seen before in my life, and then I open your blog and there is the very same surname. Hope some of these books were good.
You’ll see Puttock everywhere now – Baader Meinhof Phenomenon.
We cooked an excellent vegan chilli from the Puttock, I discovered I’d already read The List of My Desires in 2019 – and the Muriel Spark is utterly bonkers.