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 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
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
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!
PS Twelfth Night was AMAZING!!!
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
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 sounds like the start of a riddle, doesn’t it? “What do dogs and libraries have in common?” And I must admit to not being witty enough to solve this one, sorry… my blogpost title just refers to these as the two main themes of this last week’s photos!
You see, my girl Kiya turned 2 on Wednesday. This was her on the beach the day before:
And then on her birthday itself (photo taken by Miss17, on whose birthday Kiya was born!) Check out that tongue and the ear curled back 🙂
It was also the week that I started, officially, back at school. New year, new job – Head of Library at Nambour Christian College! So I’ve been thinking all things ‘library’ this week, as I’m out and about, both online and IRL. Proof from my camera roll:
I’ve been back on Pinterest and saving inspirational pins like this:
And from Facebook, an idea that will mean I can keep a ‘live’ plant in my office without potentially killing it:
And for the library floor itself, check out these plants I saw when in Cooroy Pharmacy on Monday afternoon. Don’t you think they’d look good spread out around the library floor, near shelving or book displays?
Anyway, that’s been my week. And today it’s Bloxham Birthday Party day, to celebrate Hubby and both daughters… it’s our eldest’s last day of being a teenager today… now is that a milestone or what!
Have a wonderful week, dear Reader 🙂
KRidwyn