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It is a grey and dreary day outside, I have failed to organize myself to go to Cambridge one weekend in December, I am exhausted and have a painful cricked neck, and I won’t get to see David Tennant in Hamlet as he’s having surgery on his back. I am therefore going to list some minor things to be cheerful about that should outweigh the gripes.

(1) It’s not my back that needs surgery.

(2) I have done a little more of my Christmas shopping. This is a great relief.

(3) The organic butcher in the market had just short of two dozen rabbits, 6 hare, several deer and parts of deer, one wild board, and various game birds hanging by their feet. I don’t get to buy the more exciting game much (what would I do with most of a hare?), but I love seeing it.
(4) My flat is fairly tidy, so I won’t have to do significant housework this weekend (although I do need to sit down and go through some personal finance filing).

(5) My new trousers have arrived. It took one pair that didn’t fit, and a replacement in the wrong colour, but they are here, they are in the right colour, they fit, and being wool and lined they should be both smart and warm.

(6) I have a bit more potential plot for my Yuletide fic. I may even have time in the next week to sit down and apply myself to writing it.

(7) The library has the Phantom of the Opera DVD and I am going to acquire it after work. Yes, I know, but sometimes one feels like wallowing.

(8) The England cricket team are managing not to disgrace themselves, and tomorrow morning I shall lie in bed and listen to TMS, after which I shall eat breakfast and listen to TMS, followed by a bath as I listen to TMS.

(9) Certain events in a place I was recently working are giving me enormous entertainment. Oh, and the RAE comes out next week. I do love Schadenfreude.

(10) I have only 4 1/2 days left at work and then a fortnight off in the north.

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Wishing you a belated Happy Birthday!

Thank you!

I hope you'll go see Hamlet anyway. The understudy is getting rave reviews. Plus there's still Jean-Luc Picard playing Claudius.

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I promise to report on her, too.

I am definitely going anyway - as you say, it's not a one-note production. I'm disappointed not to get to see Tennant on stage, as I never have, but I'm not particularly a Tennant fangirl, so it's more disappointment not to see a really good actor doing something than woe at no Who.

I always liked seeing the game in the Covered Market as well, which is odd for a longtime vegetarian. I think it's because people who buy it are thoroughly accepting of the fact that they eat dead animals, rather than pink shapes that come in plastic trays from the supermarket.

Of course, I could be spending the hours in which I think I'm asleep as a ravening werewolf or something.

tickled by the idea of a wild board!

And the cricket sounds to have gone well again, so you will have had a good morning with TMS.

I'm not sure what it is - I am unlikely to be eating them in particular. Perhaps it's an Olde Tudor Things image that was in childhood picture books or something. Or morbid fascination. I think it's unlikely that you are a ravening werewolf - surely the neighbours would have noticed?

I had an excellent morning with TMS.

I am incredibly jealous of your ready access to the covered market (although even without it, I still managed to eat game eight days in a row earlier this autumn!)

I love wandering round the place at lunchtime. I do wish that just one of the butchers might be a decent baker, though!