The weather is gorgeous and we are at home. Working from home; staying away from others; hanging on every news report and briefing; taking money-less bets on what might happen next.
Up until ten minutes ago it was pretty much “I reckon they’ll drop us down to Covid Alert Level One” but now, they’ve found two more community cases at the same school. Not sure they know how it got there, but the UK variant of Covid-19 has two more positive cases so: all bets are off.
Something I do for comfort is buy books.
I don’t necessarily read (whole) books, but I do enjoy being in a book store, deciding to purchase a book, bring it home/load it on my Kindle, and have that book.
Sitting here at my desk at home I can see a bookshelf of books that I have purchased in the past but have not read. Some of them were purchased more than 20 years ago.
Yesterday I visited a webpage that noted the 100 best books of 2020 and I thought yip! loaded up amazon.com.au and loaded each of the books I thought would be worth reading. I ended up with about a dozen of those books as tabs in my browser. Most of them had Kindle or Audible versions so I was about to add them to my Kindle library when I suddenly remembered the Library. I looked up each of those books and easily 10 of them were at the library and I could request them - some of them were even digital. They all had waiting lists, but it was super easy to add my name to that waiting list.
Who even am I?
Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Verse Two / best lyrics ever:
I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don't like it
What's with all the screaming?
You like monkeys, you like ponies
Maybe you don't like monsters so much
Maybe I used too many monkeys
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?