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4/52 dancing…

Well it was a huge week – as expected – but it finished and was successful and now it’s a long weekend which I’m most happy about.

And last night was dancing. To wit:

It was beautiful. Breath-taking. Inspirational.

My Mum and I took Miss18. And prior to the show, we had decided we were most curious about the Cheshire Cat’s wont to appear and disappear… and how they would transfer this to the stage. That and the fact that they were setting it in the 1920’s!

But with both? Very impressive. The transfer from text to stage was masterful, and from one culture / generation to a different one was also most cleverly done.

So this morning Miss18 and I were continuing to analyse it – and also the process behind it. Comparing and contrasting one aspect of last night’s ballet – the choreography – with her animation, and my writing. It’s all art, after all, with both a process and a product to be considered 🙂

What a brilliant weekend. And it continues through until tomorrow evening! How wonderful 🙂

Have a great week ahead, dear Reader!

KRidwyn

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34/52 all over bar the pizza party…

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!

  • KRidwyn
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32/52 sunset

I did the big car-trip-weekend with my Miss 20 back when she was on her Learner license. Then again with Miss 17 earlier this year.

This weekend it’s been Master 16’s turn. Not Yeppoon, nor Agnes Waters, but this time it was to Emu Park… in the rain!

Back on the Sunshine Coast it was forecast to pour all weekend. And my boy drove through over 4 hours of it. But by the time we got to Rockhampton, there were blue skies above us. And check out the amazing photo he took when we finally arrived at Emu Park!

Oh, what a privilege it is to be spending such quality time with my cherubs and watching them learn to drive at the same time.

I love it! Thank you, Lord, for my children!

Have a blessed week yourself, dear Reader 🙂

KRIdwyn

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26/52 and what a halfway it is!

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

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21/52 sunshine

I’m sitting in some.

I’m enjoying it.

Considering Queensland is known as ‘the Sunshine State’ and my district is named ‘the Sunshine Coast’ you’d think there’d be a lot of it.

But no, not this year.

We’re the final weekend in May and I think I can count on one hand the number of rain-free weekends we’ve had. But this weekend? Right now?

Loving it!

Here’s hoping the weather is being beautiful for you too, dear Reader!

  • KRidwyn

PS Twelfth Night was AMAZING!!!

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17/52 … and I’ve caught up (again)

I’m sitting on the bed in apartment 2B in a hotel in the township of Agnes Water. It’s 7.37am and I’ve just returned from a beach walk with Miss17, who drove for nearly 6 hours yesterday to get us here – part of the mission to get her to 100 hours as per our state’s requirements of learner drivers.

 

A bush turkey has just walked past the door. The books on the shelves are inspirational. Original copies, not pre-loved library ones, and classics. Good taste, I think, as I wonder if the titles are replicated in all apartments in the hotel… or if we just lucked in due to the apartment number.

There’s legit two bees on the room number plaque too, which is also pretty cool.

But the thing making me happiest right at the moment? That I can sit and write. It’s been a month of either busy-ness or lack of internet coverage, and the fact that this is the first I can actually update my blog with words rather than just photos is SO incredibly satisifying. I’ve missed it, dear Reader, and that also makes me smile.

So. I hope you’ve been well, as I have, and that you find things (a bookshelf, a room number plaque, a bird, time with one of your loved ones) to make you as happy today as I am.

Have a blessed week, dear Reader!
– KRidwyn

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13/52 happiness is… the end of a series

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

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12/52 furniture choices, the new wheels, and a family pic

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

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12/52 furniture choices, the new wheels. and a family pic

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

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9/52 on reading

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