So how are YOU today?

Thanks for the kind thoughts, Clary baby!
Fractionally better today. A long, hot soak in the bath not long ago has done wonders!

My goodness, you DO get around, Clare! London now, meeting JB, your school & also planning future travel adventures!
You're a whirlwind!

Whirlwind, me? Hardly! Remember, the distances aren't huge. It took me as long to get from Totnes to Heathrow as you would take to drive from Melbourne to Lorne. And then because I met up with my 2 younger sons, they drove me around in London and we went to a great Thai restaurant and all I had to do was pay! We are all going to the 18th birthday lunch of an old friend in the southeastern suburbs of London, and then driving back to Totnes tonight. And tomorrow - the roofers

No more leaks!!!! Hooray!

You won't know yourself, Clare!

hope it works! (they aren't sure)

Mending the roof? What's not to be sure about?

it may be impacted by the hollow wall on the Council offices next door - living in an old town where houses have just been built onto the next door one, over the centuries, is infuriating; and the council building is 'listed' so there's a lot they can't change

Oh, what a drag, Clare! But there's got to be some way of successfully fixing a simple leak, yes? It'd be in the Council's interests, too, surely?

oh yes, but how long do things take if left in local authority's hands???

Yes, yes, I see your point!

Good luck & fingers crossed!

right!

must now start the dull business of shoehorning my son's possessions (relly mum I haven't got very much) into the car - starting with the 4 foot long framed pic, the large office stool, the computer and music system....

I'm fine .. somehow, everything is perfect, even the gentle breeze on a hot day and the restaurant one walks coincidentally past that turns out to be called "The Plumblue Tomato".

Course, I havent turned on my phone - if Id be getting my SMSs I probably wouldnt feel anywhere as good, I'm sure. But I've gotten to guard my moods jealously. I'll take up the difficult stuff when I can deal with it.

For now, all there is is the afterthought of a very pleasant dinner with extended colleagues last night, and a pleasant start to the day in the quiet, perfect Szimpla Kiskert ...

Top of the world, today!

HOORAY!
Are you gonna tell us how come?

I actually managed to wake myself up this morning! I was being followed or harassed or persecuted or something, just fleeing and fleeing, and then I suddenly remembered something, I think it came from this thread, and I turned around and just said: "Who are you?". As in, you know, demanding a would-be cop to show his ID or something. And at that, I woke up!

nimh - more empowered by the day.

Of course, I did shortly after fall asleep again and the dream did eventually come back somehow several times, though each of them short, but still. A small step for mankind, but - or what was it.

Now to bolster the same power to wake up when the alarm clock goes ...

Cool!

I keep having way-vivid dreams since the last one but they are progressively less horrible, just vivid. Last one that I remember was about travelling to Paris, it was actually quite nice...

Hey, that's an amazing development, dreaming yourself awake, nimh!

Oh, just several things I guess! That dinner on Saturday, which I'd kinda been dreading (it being with colleagues and all that) was really immensely pleasant. After that I sat at the steps of the cafe across from home for a bit, watching passers-by (a traditionally clad Jewish man in a big truck, a charming young couple who stopped to say hi, etc). And the day before had also already been such a nice day.

Yesterday I didnt do so much, but I did go see a movie, which though in a way supremely annoying was also interesting and in another way, really good (Bertolucci's The Dreamers). Good music, especially, which I totally fuel on b/c I dont have any at home - so I'm still humming "Ay Carmela". I saw it in the Kultiplex, which is a place I really like, its like the cafe I used to work at when I was 24, except outside. Same kinda folks. And after that I returned to the cafe across the road again, feeling too full of feeling good to just go home, and this girl I'd chatted with earlier was working, so we talked for an hour or so. She was really nice, asked if I could come back tonight.

Plus, this morning I went to a little coffeehouse by where I used to live and edited the final paper on my to-do list there before going to work. Its a great little place, tiny place with lots of regulars. Young mum with an adorable little boy, who sat on the counter playing and trying on the earrings that were a friend of the owner's work, for example. The first time I went there I tried the latte macchiato (delicious) and the brownie, and had said, well, its good ... but not as good as mine! Upon which she, of course, had gone, "i'll believe it when i see it"... so last night (after returning from Sark still) I'd made brownies, and I brought them there today. They were charmed -- well, they are pretty good ;-)

Paris is always nice ... the closest I get to Paris these days is an Amelie-looking Belgian restaurant called Mosselen!

Nimh, you didnt put any of that special Dutch "ingredient" in it, did you?
I tried one of "those" brownies in an Amsterdam cafe once, and slept ever so well that night.

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