CYCLE 3 DAY 2
I started yesterdays blog with a reference to the BBC 3 programme the Young Offenders, I think I might have called it “Juvenile Offenders”, in connection to how it connected to my recent thoughts of people who I knew who had died. I found the scene that triggered the most powerful stuff with me so I share link to it with you here. https://youtu.be/5FmJjTxtHkc For those interested it is a U2 song, here is the link to the original but I think I know which version I prefer. https://youtu.be/ujNeHIo7oTE
Yesterday the 15th of October is also a day I keep in my diary for a more esoteric and vain reason. It is the day I finished reading Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time in 2014, having taken a year or more to complete the five novels that make it up it was a memorable achievement. It was one of those reads that left a deep impression on me for all sorts of reasons but mainly because of its existential basis, which fits how my own personal universe works for me. I bought a nice box set at great expense and was later gutted when I found I could get it on Kindle at a throw away price, but I am a bibliophile and love books as our house bears witness to, book shelves in every room.
Today was a day to rest and to do the ordinary. So I got up later and focussed on domestic chores to start with. The kitchen is always good for starters that’s where I got under way. Having done breakfast and cleared away I headed for the garden to pack it away for the winter. It is an annual ritual which finds room to store all the potted plants that are dotted around the garden. So my garden is now packed up. All I need now is a decent winter to make the effort worth it. The oxygenating plants for the new pond arrived in todays post and have been popped in to the virgin pond to play their part in establishing a new ecosystem to encourage the frogs to return. I was so taken with the idea of making a new pond I decided that it could no be complete with out water lily so one of those has been ordered. I realise that allthese are future projects which I may or may not see but what glee I will have in spring when the neighbours complain about my rowdy frogs cavorting in the balmy spring evenings.
The swing seat neatly covered 
The patio furniture stored
The rest of the day was spent paying bills, filling forms and conference applications and tidying the office up and doing the bits of life admin I found amongst the debris. The post arrived and in it there was a nice surprise from my sister. She sent me a card and a book. The book “Life on the Edge, The Coming of age of Quantum Biology” . I am a sucker for anything to do with Quantum mechanics and how it effects things, so a book that attaches that to biology and has a first chapter called “What is life” has me hooked from the start. The accompanying card was lovely as well.
It creates a bit of a dilema as I have just bought Haruki Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart for my Kindle, which has miraculously revived after refusing to charge for some reason.
The friend who came to visit me yesterday sent me a lovely message and video of her ringing the bell on the oncology ward today as she finished her chemo today. She was sporting a very apt T shirt and was rewarded with a good round of applause by her fellow chemo pals of the day. I wish her all the best in the times to come.
My evening is going to be short as I head for bed to make up for last night but before I go I need to clear the office so that the plumber can come and fit a new stopcock. Just one more bit of life admin and the ordinary that keeps things going in the right direction. Like tomorrow brings the trial of the stab stick, its one of those things that will let me see my water lilly in spring and listen to the frogs romp on a balmy evening.
spring water lilly 
spring frogs
