Welcome, one and all (or maybe just one of you), to the umpty-millionth reboot of my poor little blog. My more esteemed, and equally silent right now, professional-ish blog can fill in some gaps but here's a quick rundown of what I've been up to.The job's going suspiciously well. I thought it could never top Gladstone's Library, and nothing will ever quite do that, but I'm lucky enough to have found another job that I genuinely enjoy, and don't dread turning up to on a Monday morning (though if we've run out of coffee, you can sense the stormcloud threatening to blow up the computers). Since June I've made a best friend, caught up with another, searched in vain for Vikings in Oslo, started a Masters and raged when I was rejected for a moved out of my poky box room, launched into the world of dating, and discovered the sheer hell of chasing a five-year-old across four floors of a Bath townhouse the weekend after a sadistic boxercise class.
So, there are some of the highlights. I'll be updating far more often with opinion pieces, waffling, pithy observations and anything else I can think of that someone might want to read, or that I dream up while trying to kickstart my fictional pursuits.
I'm reading: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas. My friend lent me the Throne of Glass books by the same author, and I was hooked - a fantasy series with a fierce and funny assassin for a heroine, and hundreds of pages of adventures and romances? Nothing better, and I'm a bit jealous of the idea. Stupendously jealous that she started writing it at 16... The friend and I went to a talk by the author a couple of weeks ago in Bath - it was SO GOOD - and I got this book signed.I'm listening to: Twenty One Pilots. On repeat. I never thought this would be my kind of thing but I just can't stop listening! Especially Trees, Migraine, Heathen and Guns for Hands.
I'm eating: apparently, lots of blended fruit and vegetables. The latest health kick accidentally resulted in a homemade smoothie for breakfast (a bit in love with my Breville BlendActive), Jamie Oliver's 7-veg tomato sauce on pasta for lunch, and Jack Monroe's nut-free kale pesto on gnocchi or toast for dinner. Rehabilitating back onto solid foods now, at least for some of my meals...!
I'm buying: lots of clothes, upon realising I had nowhere near enough suitable outfits for going on dates. All potential clothes purchases must either be librarian-appropriate cardigans, or vetted for suitability as date clothes. I bought an incredible sexy and sophisticated velvet and lace top in Bath's Urban Outfitters before the author talk and am dying to wear it.
P.S. If anyone remembers the Neurotic Russell, she now gets my dad to arrange her red Ikea throw (it wasn't always hers, it is now) on the sofa, just how she likes it, often with a cushion for added comfort and nest-ness. She stares at Dad until he's done it properly, then hops up. Go girl, you got him trained.
P.P.S. Also, Bake Off?! WHAT IS GOING ON? Horrified and intrigued to see Channel 4's version - envisioning a reality show with lots of swearing and oh no ad breaks...
P.P.P.S. I went to Oslo and it was beautiful and bleak and expensive and beautiful. Can't wait to plan another Scandi trip, once my bank balance recovers.
Viking queen. Oh yes.
Does this look Photoshopped to you? Honest, I really was there!
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