[shakes head] I seem to be overwhelmed with things that need doing at the moment...
BUT... [bounce] They found my photos!!
o... (where do I start? Room perhaps....) Edit Oct 1st 2014 All these photos were uploaded to the old wordwrights site, which no longer exists, and I'm not sure where the originals have got to. Sorry about that...
This is the room before it was decorated: yes, the walls are pink, sort of - a kind of dusky rose colour (chosen in an attempt to warm the room up before I decided I liked golds and oranges...) The.... um.... mess is Kai's (you might just be able to make out the 'robot' he made, from meccano and a Weetabix box.) The 'tree' on the right is my dracaena marginata (the one that was sold as ideal for a bottle garden) after five prunings...
A colourful but not exactly sophisticated room!
And this is almost the same view after decorating (the weekend after, you can tell by the rather old and traditional Yule decorations... must try to get some new ones next year...) Miraculous as it may appear, it's actually stayed this tidy, although it's taken a bit of me nagging Kai for it to do so.
It's so much better now, warm and comfortable to sit in - I love it!
Quyn likes his new carpet -
And this is the best of the pics I took of Rosa. It's been brightened and lightened and sharpened in PhotoShop - she's not really this colour... I'm hoping that the ones Ken took with his much better camera come out clearer, but he hasn't finished the film yet, so we'll have to wait and see...
The two black semi-circles are the thermometer and humidity-gauge on the inside of the tank.
This is what is on the wall behind me when I'm at the desk - although as Carol and Sue will confirm, the table is usually piled high with books, files, and other bits and pieces: it's clear here because it doubles as the dining table over Yule (the top opens out to twice the size). This is what the room looks like at Yule.
And these -
Are the gorgeous yunomi Littesaru gave me for Xmas!
Lastly - but certainly not leastly -
Kai as Harry Potter for his Samhain Party! (I have some good pics of the other kids at the party but I really should get everyone's permission before posting, which is probably going to be impossible!) OK, so he's a dark blond and rather tidy Harry, but I had to organise the costume in a hurry...
Right - time to make the German Potato Soup... (Hm. The sort of thing Jaeger would make, perhaps? [smirk]) It's still freezing here: the little bit of snow we had is still on the grass in the shadows. Ken rang: Kai's asked to walk through Nightingale Valley on his way home from school - it'll be cold but very pretty down there!
I have a few more amendments to make to the IAVMT site. Should be able to upload it on Monday, barring any problems with xo.com (who have been very helpful so far...)
Then it's back to F45. Managed about half of it last night, which wasn't bad given how busy it's been...
And yes, Lutra, I could have made the 'thanks' at the bottom of Collapse pt 3 smaller - but I've upped it a font size instead. I only made it small because all I contributed was one little line of 'fallon's dialogue - hardly enough to warrant a big thank you...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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