I'm afraid that todays storm has been a little bit of a letdown. The news said it would arrive around six in the evening and that it would be classified as code orange! We've had a fair amount of storms the past few months but I think this was the dullest one by far. I had told L to perhaps ask his boss if he could go home an hour early to avoid what could have been the start of the storm but that wasn't an option. Companies not caring about their employees? Nothing new there.
So far we've had some rain but that's not unusual in the Netherlands. A few interesting and promising pangs of wind right before seven but nothing since. I even went out to the grocery store for a little snack run. The worst thing that happened is that the back of my dress ended up a little wet. Ended up getting a little strawberry trifle and some plain Pringles. People online say sweet and salty is a good mix but I ended up eating them separately.
The weather being better than expected didn't rouse me to go outside though. I've spent the day pottering around the house, cleaning and trying to figure out where I'm supposed to put the air purifier. It hasn't been used in months, maybe even years as far as I know but L refuses to get rid of it.
I did get a few chapters done in the third Thursday Murder Club book today, it's very thrilling so far. But I thought I'd slow down a bit in order to enjoy it more. Otherwise I'll catch up in no time and when it comes to waiting for new books I've little patience. The fifth book was just released but it seems that the ones I've bought are from Penguin. I'll have to wait for them to release their edition, otherwise they won't match.
Once I've caught up I'll have to go back to my British Library Crime Classics for a bit. There are a fair few in the bookcase that I haven't read them. I'm reading them in order now, or at least the ones I have because I'm still missing a few. But I'm also -not- really looking forward to getting back into it because now I've gotten used to Richard Osman's writing.
I think he's a marvelous writer, you just swim through it really. And the characters are so lively. Going back to a more dull way of writing is going to be hard. It'll be like reading any plain old crime novel after having gone though a few Agatha Christie books. At the end you just think "Was that the solution? Agatha would have done it better"
Overall I'm also not that pleased at books where the solution is by a character revealed in the third act. Well how was I supposed to solve it then? I didn't even know he existed! But the worst are really books that are written in a very complicated setting. If I have to memorize the layout of a full mansion in order for the manner of murder to be understandable I'm very much lost. I'm tired just thinking about it.
If the weather is alright tomorrow I may go out looking for LED tea lights. I have a few spaces in my room that would normally be for normal tea lights but I'd rather not start a fire. I've also been quite interested in those racks that you hang on the ceiling to dry herbs. It's very witchy, but a lot of those herbs also smell great. Would be great for dried orange slices too.
But for now I am quite looking forward to simply going to bed. It looks very comfortable right now. It is still a little early for bed, only a little past ten. And I still have a warm cup of tea next to me so maybe I'll aim for around eleven.
- Lily
- Not sure where this is, but it seems like a nice peaceful life -
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