A holiday at home

Matthias and I were supposed to be spending Easter in Germany with his family. That obviously didn't happen, but as my managers in particular are not keen for people to bank all their holiday leave if they'd previously planned to take time off work, we've stuck to our original plan of being on holiday from Friday last week until Wednesday this week. To be honest, a holiday at home seems to have been just what I needed.

The weather was absolutely gorgeous on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It rained last night and has now become freezing cold again, but at least we got three days of being able to enjoy the sunshine (the UK still allows people to go out once a day for exercise, and we also have a small courtyard garden with a table and chairs, so we're lucky enough to be able to take advantage of the good weather).

( Recap of the last three days )

( TV and books )

Wow, this post has become ridiculously long: congratulations if you managed to stick with it to this point! I will leave you with a link to some photos I took of all the gorgeous flowers and other growing things in my neighbourhood and backyards.

'Women's work'

It's fandom meme time, and we're up to Day Eleven:

K: What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

The obvious answer would be any of the main characters from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Honestly, I often want to sit all writers of serialised fiction down and make them watch the series from beginning to end, because I remain staggered at how good its characterisation and character development was.

But instead I'm going to talk about Mai, my favourite character from Kate Elliott's Crossroads trilogy.

( Some spoilers )

Which character arcs do you like the best?

( The other days )