M.H.Johnsen

Happy upcoming birthday!!

Backpack cat carrier (much easier to lug around) and one of those telescopic cat teaser wands with an interchangeable feathered toy at the end of the line for maximum murder feels.

Yeah, I'm not sure about present tense. I have enjoyed writing/reading short pieces in it, but in anything longer it feels cumbersome after a while. That said, each to their own, and I got used to first person so never say never.

Santa Clarita Diet for me. Zombies and Timothy Olyphant - it deserved a resolution.

It is really good fun, and Moriarty is a delight to watch.

Black cat on sofa

Got two cats on the sofa and a spot of nostalgia (Babylon 5) on the telly. Happy #caturday

Good luck! I need to tackle my dusty non-fiction hardbacks too, so may take a leaf out of your book.

Loving the fiction-nonfiction ratio.

Summary of reading tracking from Storygraph

Decided to have a look at @thestorygraph.com wrap-up function. Bit one-note this month, but reading is reading regardless. #booksky

Researching plague for a story just before bedtime, and reading that septicemic plague can progress so fast it is seemingly asymptomatic until fatal. Correct or not (couldn't find a source), that is my nightmares sorted for tonight.

#writing

I strongly suspect this image will stay with me next time I visit the library.

Red Chinese lanterns outside Sheffield town hall

Always a delight to attend the Chinese New Year celebration in Sheffield.

Sleeping tuxedo cat

Friday cuddles. Every day is #caturday

And I recon you can easily get on track. The year is young.

Same here: 52 is the aim this year, but more than that I aim to read every day. Having a library app on the phone helps. Every time I habitually pick up the thing, libby is right there.

Gonna have a problem because this book is hard to put down and it is getting rather late...

Tonight I'm refusing to do anything but reading the first Murderbot book with a glass of wine, plus pet the cat who has set up camp in my lap.

#booksky

Good morning. Today, I am reading Marga Minco's Bitter Herbs. It's both excellent and harrowing.

The work in progress. Mittens, traditional norwegian pattern.

Comfort reads are the best. I go for cozy murder mysteries myself, but may give Howl's Moving Castle a go too.

Page from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

Reading Pratchett's Going Postal at the moment. An absolute favourite. Grace looks like a great read - I may pick it up after, if my extensive TBR list doesn't fill me with too much guilt.

It will be all knitting and the winter olympics for me for the foreseeable, if I have my way. Which I won't, but dreams are free.

Foggy landscape with a road, a stone wall and trees

Feel like we have been under a blanket of fog for weeks. Bleak, dreary, and so on, but in the most atmospheric of ways.

Yeah, Pratchett would be gutting. But all I hear about him is reassuringly good, and that is before we take his writing into account. I'm optimistic.

Bernard set the bar high. A keeper.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks. And the Rescuers Down Under.

This is mine too. I found a second hand dvd not long ago and gleefully watched it all over again. Knew all the songs.

Laahkoeh biejjine! Vuorbbe biejvijn! Lihkku beivviin! Gratulerer med dagen!

Ok, I'm enjoying Wonder Man. This, alongside Thunderbolts, fills me with some optimism.

It's a lovely film. Beautiful to watch. I saw it with my boy (his first proper cinema film) and the meaning he took from it was that the cat was brave. Our cats "would be soooo scared".