Ecolinda

doing the 100 things (read all 4 entries…)
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I feel I have become a little slack about pushing forward with this, so I have put up the things I have done up until now. (See above)

This weekend John will be away at TA and I will be rather lonely, so as not to brood about the house I must set myself some goal to see if I can achieve anything more things on this list. My aim will be to achieve at least one things per week.

By next week, hopefully, I will have completed reading The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks, which I have borrowed from the mobile library, so I should be able to tick off Item 4, “Read a New Fantasy Novel” and the next time I am at my local community centre, I will book up my place on the trip to Guildford Cathedral (1st December) to go along and sing carols (Item 24). Since it is now 30th September, if I am to spend either a night in a hammock or under the stars, I will have to do it soon. Since ‘wild camping’ is rather frowned upon where we are, I might investigate Earlswood Island (a rather nice island in our local lake, that is now seldom visited) to see if it would be suitable. Since I have no boat, and the water is fairly shallow, I might take a lilo and paddle over there this weekend. Still need funds for the purchase of that hammock, but provided it is not pouring with rain, I might be able to do the “Sleep Out Under the Stars” (Item 82) soon and if I nip up to Waitrose, our local supermarket, I can pick up some blueberries and ice cream there and complete Item 53 this weekend.

Sep 30, 2005, 06:36AM PDT


Comments:

BlueBerry Pick'n

Back Again!!

Sweetie, we haven’t heard from you in WEEKS…

I can suggest 2 fantasy series you’d probably love. They’re highly under-rated as far as I’m concerned:

1. Kate Elliot’s Crown of Stars
2. Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Both have wonderful historical research & intriguing literary/anthropological influences.

Don’t forget Neil Gaiman’s NeverWhere... the book that I’d forgotten completely while solo-travelling in London. I was thunderstruck by inspiration & bought a notebook.

I was constantly scribbling cryptic notes to myself about a novel set in London… coffee shops, my bed, Fortnum & Mason’s cream tea where I bought my bristle brush (had been on a list of my own! – I should add this to my completed list) until I went to Harrod’s & remembered where all the ideas originated!

sigh But I did have 3 days of thinking I was going to be a genius author! There is nothing like a visit to London Below to truly inspire: I was pleased to note that many of my ideas WERE originals!

Don’t be a stranger, I like hearing from you.

Nov 26, 2005, 10:28AM PST | Respond to this

Ecolinda

Not got back to my regular pages in ages (ouch! Poetry!)

...too busy surfing, ordering stuff online for Christmas and generally doing other things. Result all my regular stuff suffering.

Have not done a lot om my list, not even the things I thought I would do cos it have become (*~@%$#) cold here. (Temperatures down to six below freezing one morning – I blame it all on the gulf stream, it is obviously getting slower.)

We have also lost all our heating downstairs, though upstairs is red hot, so I wind up sitting around with a duvet wrapped around me. Hard to be adventurous when frozen.

Dec 01, 2005, 06:21AM PST | Respond to this


 

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