Senses working overtime #564

1 The feeling this week: Autumn is here

Fading hydrangeas tell the story of a weakening summer sun and an impending autumn.

2 Reading: Haruki Murakami - The Elephant Vanishes

3 Watching: The Night Agent (season 3)

4 Listening: Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround Part One

Just one track? Try This Time Tomorrow

5 Reading: Blogpost of the week - I dreamed of two blue orchids

Overtime: Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

Senses working overtime #563

1 The feeling this week:

2 Reading: The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin

3 Listening: The Hollies - Another Night

I'm thoroughly enjoying my Hollies-a-thon for my Goo Goo G'Joob blog. Rediscovering the joys of all those seventies albums. Another Night is a five-star effort.

4 Watched: Deeper on Netflix

Jacky's choice and it turned into a brilliant one.

5 Listening: WTWMC - Fresh finds

Our latest playlist is done and dusted!

Overtime: Marsha Petrie Sue

Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.

Senses working overtime #562

1 My week in weblogs

Photo by Florian Klauer on Unsplash

It's been a long week - split by a visit to Palmerston North (phase one of the root canal). It included a meet the teachers' evening and swimming sports on Saturday. 

So, here's a recap of my blogging this week (didn't quite get to a new post on Destination Records unfortunately).

2 Baggy Trousers - mea culpa

3 Wozza's Place - pay up

4 Goo Goo G'Joob - Edgar Winter

5 The Purdzilla Show - moments

Overtime: WTWMC - Fresh finds (now at 90 songs)

Senses working overtime #561

1 Year 9 camp week at Atiamuri

The view from my cabin. Loads of lily pads but didn't hear any frogs.

2 Listening: The Guess Who - Canned Wheat

Time for just one - the original version of No Time.

3 Watching - Hugo

Not much time for viewing TV this week while at camp, but we watched this film on Netflix when I got back. It's supposedly a kids' film but it's directed by Martin Scorsese and filmed brilliantly.

Rotten Tomatoes sums it up well: Hugo is an extravagant, elegant fantasy with an innocence lacking in many modern kids' movies, and one that emanates an unabashed love for the magic of cinema.

4 Reading: Joan Didion - The White Album.

I did take the book with me on camp and had a few down times to read it. Section 4 - Sojourns is my favourite section so far.

5 Listening: WTWMC - Fresh finds

We're up to 75 songs to this point.

Overtime: Ruth Gordon

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Senses working overtime #560

1 Week one at Iona College is in the books 

The new kids on the block head off to an official welcome in the gym
(I'm way at the back, out of shot, after the parents of the new girls
with the other 8 new staff members)

An exhausting but rewarding week - learning new names, planning courses, figuring out where to go and what to do. All of that can tax the brain after a six-week break. 

2 Reading: Truman

Truman announcing the Japanese
surrender in the Oval Office.

I'm up to page 467 (of 1,000), nearly halfway. World War 2 has just ended with the surrender of Japan (after the second atomic bomb obliterated Nagasaki).

3 Listening: WTWMC - Fresh finds

We have 60 songs at this stage.

4 Watching: The Brokenwood Mysteries

We've continued to enjoy this gentle way to finish each day, although we need to watch each episode over 2 nights. We're up to season 2 now.

5 Listening: The Frames - Longitude

This has been on high rotate at Maple Grove for the week. Basically, because I put it on and do other things and so miss a lot of it each time.

Overtime: Rosa Parks

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Senses working overtime #559

1 Induction Day at Iona College

More about this on Baggy Trousers.

2 Watching: The Brokenwood Mysteries

Watching an episode every couple of days via Netflix, rather than bingeing. The soundtrack is very cool and the stories are at a gentle pace.

3 Listening: The Clash - London Calling

4 Reading: The White Album and Truman

I was sidetracked by the latest Mojo magazine this week, but I'm back into reading these two again.

5 Listening: WTWMC - Fresh finds

Now with 45 entries.

Overtime: Connie Chung

You can't juggle it all 100%. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to do everything.

Senses working overtime #558

1 Wellington mini-break

Love a mini break with my best girl to suss out regular haunts and have tacos at Hot Like a Mexican!

2 Reading: Joan Didion - The White Album

One of my Unity Books' purchases. Finally found some of JD's books.

3 Watching: Swallows & Amazons (TV on demand)

A recent BBC version of a book I loved from my childhood. Lovely version.

4 Listening: WTWMC - Fresh finds

Two weeks done - so 30 songs in the playlist so far.

5 Reading: Truman

I'm really enjoying this biography (reading a few pages each morning at breakfast). Two hundred pages in. I like him and Bess a lot!

Overtime: Anne Baxter

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.