Showing posts with label working and relaxing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label working and relaxing. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 September 2009

Squeezing it in

Well, I'm bored of posting pictures of computers and laptops and piles of books and paper. That's what I look at all day every day (or that's what it feels like!), so I'm going with a few pictures of nice things for a while, and forgetting about the work, although obviously there's still a lot of that going on! 

So here's what I'm appreciating this week: 

Sunshine streaming into a (relatively tidy!) living room...


And, as ever, a gorgeous early morning walk over the hills... 




Sometimes I just can't believe how gorgeous this place is that we live in... 

Yesterday involved a good, old fashioned bit of spontaneity, which always rejuvenates me. Peter had his first gig with the Angel Brothers, who he's playing with for a few gigs this autumn. I couldn't go, it was in another town, Peter took the van, and left early afternoon, with me left at home working. 

At first, I was appreciating the solitude and peace and quiet :) I got a fair bit of work done, and planned an evening of more work, a bit of tidying up, and dozing off in front of a nice film. Then, as the afternoon wore on I started thinking about how nice it would have been to be there, and (and this does show just how mad I was going temporarily) whether it would be feasible to cycle there (the answer? It's 25 very hilly, dangerous miles over the moors, and it was on the verge of going dark, so no.)

Just as I was starting to get annoyed, a friend rang up to see if I wanted a pint. Somehow (must have been my lucky night) I managed to persuade him to drive us both to the gig! So a quick pasta tea, into some glad rags, and a drive over to a most marvellously excellent pub, The Globe for a fabulous evening of music and dancing and gorgeous friendly loveliness. 

The evening ended in the garden, with music and singing, and a very cold couple of hours kip in the back of the van. It's not all glamourous... 

Thursday, 10 September 2009

Working and relaxing day 10

Working - the view over the library computer... 

And relaxing - with a new pair of shoes... ;) 

Wednesday, 9 September 2009

Working and relaxing days 8 and 9

working, the view from the attic... 

and relaxing, with a lunchtime walk over the fields... 




Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Working and relaxing day 4,5,6,7...

Well, so much for keeping up with this every day... but I have still taken a few photos, so here goes...

... working, in the university library...

... and in the attic...

... and relaxing... 

... watering the community garden (I'll write about this one day!)...

... dancing in fabulous shoes (have you ever tried taking a photo of your own foot??)...


... eating lunch outside the university... 

... and being Rock Star Girlfriend at a beautiful little theatre... 

Not much in the way of gardening, and certainly not sewing, but the idea of these few weeks was to focus on work and relaxing. I know sewing and gardening is relaxing, but I'm really focusing on taking away the 'must do' things... 


Thursday, 3 September 2009

Working and relaxing day 3

... working... 


... and relaxing... 

Wednesday, 2 September 2009

Working and relaxing day 2

... working... 


... relaxing... 


Tuesday, 1 September 2009

Working and relaxing day 1

... working...
... and relaxing...


Monday, 31 August 2009

The end is nigh...

Most of my time is spent writing these days. I should consider myself lucky! I do consider myself lucky. Although it does feel a bit much at the minute. I've got three weeks of PhD left. Three weeks. After five years (or four, or six, depending on what you count), three weeks seems like nothing. 

And so I'm abandoning pretty much everything else to get it done. I'm trying not to think about the sunshine I'm missing while I'm staring at the computer screen... but this is all temporary... 

And I have managed to sneak a little bit of fun in the last week:

... picking blackberries


... and making a few pies


... harvesting the broad beans (yep, this is the entire broad bean harvest from our garden)

Anyway, I thought a little mini blog project might help me keep sane over the next three weeks. I've taken (stolen?? call it a tribute...) the idea from Heather's morning and night series, but since what I need to be doing at the minute is working and relaxing, that's what I'll call it. 

Each day (or as close as I can manage), I"ll post a working picture and a relaxing picture. Just to keep me on track, and make sure that I'm doing both :) So here we go:

... working - in the university library


... relaxing, with garlicky goodies from a friend for watering her plants - including this cucumber

So, let's see how it goes, shall we?