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I had my first weekend break in forever and visited family friends in a Scottish coastal town called Largs (It has a Viking connection in case anyone is somewhat curious).

It was so nice to be somewhere other than home that I cannot really describe it. The former mundane is now terribly exciting.

Hope everyone else out there in Dreamwidth land is doing well.

I eventually had to give up on doing a full Guardian re-watch as I kept get distracted by Douluo Continent. As a result, for the latter half of Guardian I just watched favourite scenes to reinforce my love for our beautifully tormented tragic heroes.

I did make it through all of the aforementioned Douluo Continent which was supremely silly and sweet, I loved it.

I am working my way through the Bon Voyage seasons of the BTS reality show. It is cheerful and offers vicarious travel while the world is still mostly stuck at home.

Once the holiday weekend is over, I am planning to watch The Untamed again.

To anybody reading this, I hope you and yours are healthy, happy and that life is treating you well.

I finally finished watching something! I honestly thought I had forgotten how to actually start and finish something.

The programme in question is a slightly older Taiwanese one called Lion Pride. It was a Netflix suggestion so I gave it a go. It wasn't my normal type of choice for a foreign drama but it was enjoyable enough. Each episode was about an hour and ten minutes long, I am soooo not used to that anymore.

I think my reward will be to start The Untamed again. 😁

My employer is being really rather brilliant about working from home. The teams that make up my department (3 teams across the country) have been told to work from home since Wednesday. Plan is potentially for 12 weeks. If the situation allows it we'll be back in stages before that but we have been told to plan accordingly. Those with underlying health conditions will be last back. I have asthma so I am more or less expecting up to 12 weeks at home.

It is the end of day 2 and I miss walking about. Furthest I have been is a five minute walk outside.

I am planning on a lot of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Spotify.

I fear boredom and growing stir crazy, I worry about family and friends getting this sodding virus and I am fervently hoping for the best.

Stay safe, everyone. 💛

My Kindle which has been like old reliable has suddenly decided to wipe all favourites and bookmarks and decide I have never browsed the internet ever.

Confused and slightly vexed.

I suppose it is an excuse to compile a new list of favourites but I don't like it when technology goes wacky.

I have been very lackadaisical about posting but, in my defence, I have had work, dog-sitting and a long weekend in London since I last posted.

I will endeavour to do better in December.

My music recommendation for the day is Raymond Froggat and the album Bleach. It was one played regularly when I was younger. I recently found it via Spotify and nostalgia abounds.

Yikes, July is proceeding speedily along, or so it seems to me. June was far more sedate and respectable. *g*

Work is work, nothing exciting particularly but a necessary evil to be able to pay for things.

Things I have enjoyed:
a) Reading fanfic in various fandoms (particularly Good Omens because it makes me smile).
b) Watching entirely too much foreign dramas and animation.
c) Becoming ridiculously obsessed with BTS and continuing to be fascinated with Hua Chenyu (its the most interesting music listening has been in a while).
d) I managed a fic for the July theme for the brush_and_lantern in spite of the aforementioned hectic nature of July.

Things I endured:
Shopping for an outfit for a family wedding. I hate clothes shopping with a passion!

Things I am looking forward to:
Trip to London at the end of the month - LFCC (London Film & Comic Con) - with perhaps a stop off at the Manga exhibition at the British Museum.

Hope everyone else is having a reasonably serene July.

It has been a local bank holiday here. I've had a few days of chilling out, trying out the food in a pub I have previously walked by (yum!) and hanging out with family and friends.

Not the most exciting time ever but sometimes that is a good thing.