A friend and I decided our work staff room (servicing 100 people) would be a perfect place for a Tiny Free Library.
We started on 19/3/17 with 3 books and the first two weeks were a bit disappointing, in that nothing moved. Then, I swapped one book out, and another from home in. It was as if this one change had given people permission to use the library - we had a few donations and loans began in earnest. Six weeks after we opened, we now have books moving in and out every day, and I find myself fascinated with watching the library, and talking about books with the people I work with. I am loving the Tiny Free Library, and the only downside - I now have all these titles that friends have recommended and not much time to read them. I'm a regular blood donor, and this week is National Blood Donor Week. Today was my 66th donation and so I'm almost to 2/3 of my goal of 100 donations in my life time. Where else do you get a medical check, the ability to lie down for an hour and read a book ( The Diabolical Miss Hyde by Viola Carr ), then be fed.
The blood service is also correct in that the Chocolate Chunk Cookie by the Byron Bay Cookie Company is the Best. Biscuit. Ever. And they are only available at the donor centres. Rather than sharing a photo of me in the chair, needles or any blood, I thought I'd share a photo from this morning. I walked across Southbank Parklands to the city and for a second, had the bougainvillaea covered arbour all to myself. It was magic. Reading:
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So, that's me in a nutshell right now. What are you up to?
One of the things that really suffered through our moving house, minor renovations and the arrival of a puppy is reading. One of the first things I packed was the books. On the weekend I had some hard choices on what to keep and what to get rid of, having pulled 4 cartons of my books back from the storage shed. After a tough few hours, I now have one carton of keeper books and to-be-read books.
So what am I reading at the moment: Paris in Love - handbag book- snippets of a year in Paris with Eloisa James. The Land of the Painted Caves - bedside table - this book will be the end of me. I rushed out to buy it the day it released, and yet I can't read more than a few pages at a time. It seems to have lost the magic of the first five in the series and the ONLY reason I'm still going is that I've invested a lot of time in the first five books and I want to see how Jean M Auel finishes Ayla's story. Have decided to read the paragraphs that start with dialogue and skip every description of every cave and every journey between caves. Australian Geographic - couldn't go past the Kelpie on the cover and inside I found an article on Mortuary Station in Sydney which is one of my all time fascinations. I so want to visit it. Australian Country Style - Christmas 2014 edition - I'm writing a Christmas scene and what better way to feel Christmassy in September? (Ok, so Woolworths has fruit mince pies and puddings on the shelves this week, so I could eat fruit mince pies!) Health and Fitness - Is your desk making you fat? How could I not throw this into the mix? Hubby suggests reading the article while eating Scotch Finger biscuits is probably not helping... So that's my reading pile at the moment. What about you? |
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