100 Days of Happiness 2020 - Day 5 - Wandering Office and Books

[byslantedlight]

Today was odd in that the work I was supposed to be doing didn't transpire, but I was quite motivated to get on with the work that I could be doing that had a later deadline, so I did. I also decided I'd go and work in a library for a change of scenery, which was good, although it was a bit noisy (what are libraries like these days - bloody people on phones and computer games without headphones, and... all this in what's supposed to be the study area!) and so didn't last long. So I look myself and did some more work in an independent cafe, and then I wandered back to the car via a secondhand bookshop, where I might have found three items of local history interest that might have ended up here with me... Which sounds a bit like I shoplifted them, but obviously I didn't. *g*

Working without a deadline was actually quite stress-free, so that was a happy. *g*

Oh, and landlady nipped in to give me some spare roses she had left over after putting hers in a vase! So I have half a dozen rather lovely deep pink roses. *g*

And Melissa Scott posted another Astreiant story to her Patreon, and I love it death. Ongoing Nico and Philip - yeay! It always makes me happy to get those emails. *vbg*

One last happy - just in time for my new hobby, someone posted this good news to a metal detecting fb (it's old, but still) - Antidepressant Microbes in Soil. So better not to bother with the gloves after all... I wonder if this helps to explain why most children are so much happier than most grown-ups - they're far more likely to be grubbing around in the dirt! *g*

Have a pic of today's wanderings. Love the atmospheric compost recycling bins...!

How're you doing? *g*

Comments

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

I just now read the Astreiant piece - I got sidetracked yesterday - and eeee, how lovely in every way! Thank you for reminding me so I could get my day off to a GREAT start!

PS Love that last photo, with the recycling bins ♥

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it brilliant! I try to save the stories when they come up for when I need a boost, but it usually turns out to be quite soon after they're posted... (And a book to look forward to - even if it'll be a print-my-own-pdf-version) - yeay! *g*

And thank you! I walked past and just knew I had to get my camera out... *g*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

That sounds like my kind of day! And I love your photo - you've always got such a good photographic eye.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It wasn't a bad day, for lots of reasons... *g* And thank you! The frame just shouted out that it needed photographing - sort of a poser of a view, I thought... *vbg*

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

I love gateway/doorway shots and that photo is a fabulous example. Great angle, too.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

There was a blog-thingy - on it might have been Tumblr? - years ago, called Beautiful Portals, and it was full of gorgeous gateway/doorway shots! They stopped posting when I was still in Cambs., and I can't find it at all now, but it was fab... Glad you like my attempt! It was just so fab with the rain, and the houses just falling away... *g*

[stellar_raven]

You take such lovely photographs!

And yay for pink roses!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *g*

And definitely yeay for pink roses - so lovely!