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A Serpent Birthday
I still can't believe that it's exactly 23 years ago since the serpentine creature Izzie took residence in the brain of this poor unsuspecting muggle
Never hang around old insane asylums as you just don't know what sort of strange creatures lurking there may snatch your soul when you're distracted.
Strange how I had woken up on the morning of Wednesday 2nd January 2002 after a nightmare where a pair of scabby hooded Dementors were just about to give me some big slobbering kisses.
It was a warm sunny summer morning but I woke up freezing and relieved it was only a dream.
This last week I finally finished decluttering and tidying my living room writing desk.
I've decided that that it's time to stop my bad habit of saving too many beautiful things for a rainy day.
My new motto for 2025 is
Use it or lose it.
As well as some gorgeous quills & witchy leather bound notebooks, I also encountered an interesting journal buried under the rubble
It has a page for each day of the year, a prompt for each page and this is the unusual bit, the page is divided into 5 sections with room for a couple of sentences for each.
The idea is that you answer the same question on the same day every year for 5 years.
Yesterday's question
What is your mission?
Today's was
Can people change?
Of all the days that one had to turn up.
The poor old Big Mac is upstairs and still unplugged. I had hoped to use it for posting the usual year in review (2024 was a particularly good year for me) but that's when there was a string of 40 Celsius days.
I just can't get back into the habit ever since my sister was here in late 2023.
I'm more likely these days to be lurking in the garden looking at the stars where I am right now.
There was a gorgeous silver sliver of a moon just after sunset today. New Moon was on New Year's Eve so it's had long enough to come out of hiding.
Next New Moon on Wednesday 29th will mark the start of the Year of the Snake.
Never hang around old insane asylums as you just don't know what sort of strange creatures lurking there may snatch your soul when you're distracted.
Strange how I had woken up on the morning of Wednesday 2nd January 2002 after a nightmare where a pair of scabby hooded Dementors were just about to give me some big slobbering kisses.
It was a warm sunny summer morning but I woke up freezing and relieved it was only a dream.
This last week I finally finished decluttering and tidying my living room writing desk.
I've decided that that it's time to stop my bad habit of saving too many beautiful things for a rainy day.
My new motto for 2025 is
Use it or lose it.
As well as some gorgeous quills & witchy leather bound notebooks, I also encountered an interesting journal buried under the rubble
It has a page for each day of the year, a prompt for each page and this is the unusual bit, the page is divided into 5 sections with room for a couple of sentences for each.
The idea is that you answer the same question on the same day every year for 5 years.
Yesterday's question
What is your mission?
Today's was
Can people change?
Of all the days that one had to turn up.
The poor old Big Mac is upstairs and still unplugged. I had hoped to use it for posting the usual year in review (2024 was a particularly good year for me) but that's when there was a string of 40 Celsius days.
I just can't get back into the habit ever since my sister was here in late 2023.
I'm more likely these days to be lurking in the garden looking at the stars where I am right now.
There was a gorgeous silver sliver of a moon just after sunset today. New Moon was on New Year's Eve so it's had long enough to come out of hiding.
Next New Moon on Wednesday 29th will mark the start of the Year of the Snake.