Recent Happenings

[margaret_r]

My life seems to have become a bit more complicated lately. Hubby has just taken extended leave prior to his retirement. That’s good because I now get home from work to an already cooked, or in the process of being cooked, dinner. The downside is that I have a near-enough-to retiree underfoot whenever I’m at home!  I have to say I do miss those few precious moments of peace and quiet I used to enjoy from time to time when he was working.

Then, yesterday, some delightful person hacked into my Yahoo email account and delivered spam to various contacts. Unfortunately Yahoo has decided that because of recent ‘suspicious activity’ on my account they should bar me from sending any emails so I can’t actually send explanatory notes to any victims. So, if anyone on my f’list has received a spammy email from me I apologise and I trust you have deleted it! Fortunately, although I can’t send any emails at the moment I can read anything that comes in and access my folders.

Better news is that I’ll be off to Canberra again for a few days at the end of April. It will be good to see how much the youngest grandson has grown over the last few weeks. He’ll be six weeks old when I see him again!

More good news is that I have done some writing lately and finally finished the Being Human fic that I had promised moth2fic so long ago it had become a dim, distant memory for her. It’s up on AO3 if anyone is interested in reading: La Lune 

Many, many thanks to kat_lair for providing a great beta and showing me where I was going wrong.

It’s wonderful weather here at the moment, lovely and sunny and warm. But that obviously won’t last as we head into winter. Last winter I stopped on the way to work and took a photo of the small lake not far from my office.



It was a foggy day and a little eerie. Can’t say I’m looking forward to winter this year and the fogs but then after the extreme summer it will almost be a relief.

Comments

[cerisaye.livejournal.com]

Can't say as I am particularly looking forward to the having hubby home underfoot all the time part of retirement either, thank goodness for golf! Lovely pic, very atmospheric like looking through gauze. Enjoy your trip to see the grandchild- they grow so fast at that age.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

See! You had quite a lot of interesting things to say after all!!

I shall email later - to the gmail address. How is anyone supposed to deal with hacking if they can't contact their contacts?? Stupid Yahoo!! (You could maybe ask Rob or Chris for their experiences with this. They both suffered.)

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I feel with you!
Those moments of peace and loneliness are so wonderful.
And being hacked is really in part like being robbed, aweful feeling.

Good that you get to see your grandsons soon, and good luck with the weather!
We have finally some spring over here.

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Lovely to hear news from you!

Glad there are cooked dinners waiting for you but sorry to hear about loss of private time. Maybe you can get into habit of stopping at a cafe or library or something after work, just for 30mins to sit and read and think on your own a bit?

Rubbish about being hacked. Nothing's come my way at least.

Have fun seeing your grandchild and I hope the autumn is less cruel than the spring has been here.

I shall now go and read the post-beta version of the fic :)

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

Pfff, Yahoo is owing you a bunch of flowers with apologies.

Best Birthday wishes! :)