Knilly Frickers

Shortly before Christmas, James started asking me about books  'We've never really had the book chat, have we?' 'No, I guess we haven't' I mean we've had the Harry Potter chat - FYI, I'm a Ravenclaw,  Neville Longbottom is my hero and Bellatrix Lestrange is my mortal enemy. What he was referring to is that while we each know the other has a love of reading, we've never really delved into a chat about authors and genres, although in hindsight this seems remiss of me. I bore other people, sometimes actual strangers, with my book chat daily.  He's lost me in bookstores for a good ten minutes because something has caught my eye and I've swooped towards it for a closer inspection.  When he picked 'You Do You' as one of my gifts, he did so partly because it's something I say quite often, but also because Sarah Knight featured pretty high on my list of favourite authors. For someone who called their blog The Quirky Queen, has blue ombre ...

I've been working from home over the last few days - something I'm very fortunate to be able to do, I know that lots of people have been stranded on motorways, in work, in airports etc.  Alongside working from home, all of the things I do outside of work were cancelled and I’ve been spending a lot of time indoors. Although I can be a bit of a homebody, I do actually thrive on getting out and about. I'm not really complaining, I'm very lucky to have had the warmth and comfort of my home to work in, a luxury that not everyone has had access to.  My mind does wander a little more at home though and I thought it would be funny to record and share my thought process across the last few days.  Wednesday 7.16am Confirmation received from work that the snow is too cray-cray to be venturing out in the direction of the office.   7.17am I go back to bed and enjoy the lie in afforded to me by a lack of need to travel or put on clean underwear.  8.30am  I’ve been awake ...