Ordinary days

[smokingboot]

Fine weekend with velvet_the_cat and Dan sans lj. I do like Stroud, with its artsy/crafty vibe and its pretty mills and cottages. The stars are brighter on the hills, the air is more clear. Return brought larians his flight to Sweden, and me a pleasant evening with teacher training chum,whose whole world has been turned brighter by his new career. The street is full of Christmas decorations, in fact all of England seems to be clutching desperately for Xmas cheer at the end of a year when people humoured their inner nasty and then wondered why everything around them was so miserable.

Mephistopheles has changed colour, in fact they are both patrolling diligently, so it seems spawning may have happened; but I do not see any eggs. Still, they seem very content by which I mean they have not killed each other or any other fish, so hurrah!

Watched Pilger's 'The Coming War With China,' late last night. Christ almighty.