Money x 2

The one on the left is the second money plant that I was gifted by meles. I seem to be doing better with this one. Phew. The one on the right is apparently a relative of the money plant and I bought it from Quirkys a few months ago. I plan to take it to Tain as it will be robust and will deal with the cold during the winter. It will go in the car with us later in the week, and I will repot it in Tain and give it a bit more breathing space.

I used a long planned / plotted indoor blip today as I haven't left the premises, although I did go down and do the recycling in the garage. It was good not to move anywhere after weeks, it feels like, of obsessive movement.

Instead, I read a book - a novel - from beginning to end, having finished my previous (crime) novel late the previous evening. It was a satisfying way to spend the day. The book isn't any sort of great literature, but it took me out of myself in a really good way. Here it is, reviewed in the Guardian by no other than Ursula Le Guin. The proposition that the "blandness" in style is relieved by the ending is, I think, a fair one.

Other than that, I continued a bit of tidying up around the house, received a delivery of supermarket shopping for L&L who arrive in Edinburgh on Monday evening, and did a fair old peloton workout.

The only fly in the ointment was a frankly pretty unpleasant email I got from a graduate complaining about the pronunciation of their name in the ceremony on Tuesday, and claiming that I had done no preparation for the event. I found the entitlement expressed in the email to be quite upsetting. It was, I paraphrase, "I paid you to prononce my name correctly. You didn't. You failed".