As in: yes, I’m having a pizza party 🙂
The winners of our various Book Week competitions won themselves tickets… so this coming Tuesday at Morning Tea will be the final ever Book Week 2025 event.
Meaning that life can get back to its pre-Book Week normalcy; including watching Top Gun: Maverick, Live in Concert yesterday. And it was REALLY COOL!
Here’s wishing you a really cool week too, dear Reader!
I started the week with meetings and deadlines. And ended in Sydney with chameleon socks, capybaras and Cats.
First, the deadlines:
Then the work began in earnest:
And then the fun:
What a week! I hope your halfway-through-2025-mark was just as wonderful, dear Reader!
KRidwyn
So Monday was assemblies and Tuesday was Chocolate Chess (7.30am start) through to Instrumental Showcase (finishing at 8pm).
Wednesday 5am was:
Then:
It’s amazing the people you run into!
Then:
Double-decker train!!! To the sister school for a one day conference and Library visit:
Before flying home, and then today playing violin and bass guitar at church and being Bible Reader… and then clearing my inbox! (First time this term!)
PHEW!!! I need a holiday now, I think…!
I hope your week is just as full of memorable events, dear Reader 🙂
KRidwyn
I was surprised a few weeks’ back by some titles in my new-to-me Library (I started at the beginning of 2025 but the Library’s been there for decades).
The series is Shakespeare plus modern settings (Star Wars, etc). An interesting find.
This coming Tuesday I’ll be heading to a local school’s production of Twelfth Night… but in a 1980s musical mashup style.
Should be… interesting! I’ll tell you all about it next week. Until then, have a lovely week too dear Reader!
KRidwyn
I’ve read lots this year, averaging just over two per week, and a couple recently have really quite surprised me with how good they are.
So: two recommendations today, if you’re after titles which tweens / teens might like – even boys!
Enjoy! And have a week full of lovely surprises yourself too, dear Reader!
KRidwyn
One of the best things about being a school librarian? Buying books you love so you can share them with your students!
And at my new school, they hadn’t yet discovered the pleasures of SA.Patrick’s ‘Songs of Magic’ series. So I was very happy to introduce them to Patch, Wren and Barver, and the adventures they have… only to discover during the purchasing process that there’s a third book and now I get to enjoy reading them again, with the third book to add to the enjoyment!
Yay my life!!!
Have a wonderful-discovery-type-week yourself, dear Reader!
KRidwyn
I’m getting ideas for new furniture in my library. A colleague has these, and they’re comfier than they look! What do you think?
Hubby also finally collected his new car – 3 weeks after he was expecting to! I think he likes it – and the doggos in the back are pretty darn cute too!
And with my brother in the country, it was family pic day today.
Yes, Kiya is one of the family!
Have an amazing, photo-worthy week yourself, dear Reader!
KRidwyn
I’m getting idea for new furniture in my library. A colleague has these, and they’re comfier than they look! What do you think?
Hubby also finally collected his new car – 3 weeks after he was expecting to! I think he likes it – and the doggos in the back are pretty darn cute too!
And with my brother in the country, it was family pic day today.
Yes, Kiya is one of the family!
Have an amazing, photo-worthy week yourself, dear Reader!
KRidwyn
Something I’m enjoying about being back in the library again, is recommending books and book series to my patrons, be they Year 12s or Preppies. And I’ve recommended several books to staff members too, over the past few weeks!
And seeing as I’m trying to recommend books from a collection I’m unfamiliar with, it behooves me to get my speed-reader on, and get familiar with it!
And a title I was rather impressed by, the last week: Cinder, book 1 of The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer.
Think Cinderella with a slice of James Cameron’s Alita and set several centuries into Earth’s future. And Cinderella doesn’t lose just her shoe, but her whole foot (did I mention she’s a cyborg?)… I also felt there were hints of Jay Kristofer’s Lifelike series in there too.
An interesting read; I’m hoping the rest of the series lives up to the premise!
And until next week, happy reading yourself, dear Reader!
KRidwyn
It’s Saturday morning, and we’ve finished Week 4 of term. Nearly half-way there! And I feel like I’m starting to emerge from the ‘head-down-bum-up’ non-stop ‘doing the work’ that’s been my life this year.
Take a breath.
Look around.
Take a second breath – because I can.
It certainly has been a busy start to the year. The line between important and urgent, work and home has been blurred, and I’ve made more mistakes than I’d like to think about… but praise God for sustaining me to reach this morning, this day, this weekend!
A day in which to reconsider priorities, rather than just paddle, paddle, paddle furiously like that duck who seems to be swimming serenely but underneath the surface, the legs are flailing relentlessly.
And this is where I’m thinking I’ll start. This post, which came across my feed the other week, and had me thinking about the spectrum of ‘focus’ to ‘scattered mindset’:
You see, when there’s multiple things pulling at your attention, it’s easy to do the ‘fun’ thing. To mix the ‘important’ with the ‘urgent’ and focus on the wrong thing. To allow distractions to take over, to move you off course. Or maybe that’s just me?
So today, this morning? A reset. A chance to sit back and look. And think. And re-prioritise. Circle those 5 things and – more importantly – identify those 20 distractions.
Here’s hoping for quite a lot more clarity by the end of it! And for you too as well, dear Reader!
KRidwyn