Preamble
We came home from the family holidays on Monday. Instead of having a restful week to recover, I hit the ground running. What could go wrong?!
These things happened this week
- On the Tuesday I did what felt like 500 admin tasks, straight off the bat of returning home from the trip.
- Went out for dinner with a Brighton friend and saw Big Thief (one of our mutually favourite bands).
- A different friend is making a spinny wheel for a festival, and it’s covered in terrifying dolls’ eyes. They sent a content warning to the group chat we’re both in before posting a video of the thing spinning, when I learned this word: Trypophobia. How about that!
- I got a book of illustrations called Pond Life, by Hiller Goodspeed. It is so cute[Jump to footnote 1]! I might get a tattoo of one of their illustrations?
- For the first time ever, at 5 years old, Cappy asked to be lifted up for a cuddle. It made my day ☺️🐱
- Met a barista friend for a coffee at one of his old workplaces. He knows a lot of the baristas around Brighton, so when I’m with him I tend to get a freebie ☺️.
- I officially have a match for my volunteer befriender role! We’re going to meet up soon for an introduction.
- Sure enough, after quite a busy week I was too tired at the weekend to go outside and do the things we’d actually booked: a music gig on Saturday and a comedy thing on Sunday. No more battery. Next week will probably be quite light on spoons… 😬
Yours,Leaf
Footnotes
- Have a browse of Hiller Goodspeed’s website for lots of cute content. Unfortunately the images don’t have alt text though, so here’s a description of the featured image. The image is a square and has a pale blue background. The foreground is hand drawn over 5 rows. The first 3 rows are black capital letter text; the 4th row is an illustration. The last row is text. Row 1: “Hide away”. Row 2: “Hide forever”. Row 3: “Inside your new”. Row 4: A lined illustration of a hollow tube, with a simply drawn person lying in the tube. Propped up on their elbows, their smiling face is poking out. Line 4: “Safety tube”. Jump to source of footnote 1