Week in review: Week to 11 April
Apr. 13th, 2026 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedanther. It's been a social whirlwind by my usual standards. On the long weekend, all the family members who live in the vicinity had lunch together and watched The Princess Bride. Later in the week, another family member came to visit and we all got together again for a breakfast in the park, where we admired the varieties of waterfowl, which included several kinds of duck (including a striking one with a black head and a brown front that I think from subsequent research was probably a chestnut-breasted shelduck) and some large white ones with red faces that might have been some kind of goose. I also went to a concert (the kind that exists largely as an excuse for a social event, and on that basis I'm inclined to be charitable about the quality of the music), and toward the end of the week one of my friends from the board game club had a dinner party.
. As usual there was also the weekly board game club meet, where we played Betrayal at House on the Hill, Guillotine, Forbidden Desert, and Uno: All Wild. In Betrayal, we successfully fought a giant snake. In Forbidden Desert, we wound up being buried by sand a couple of turns before we would have made good our escape. It was the first time I've played Uno: All Wild, which despite the name is significantly duller than the usual version of the game.
. Later in the week, I went for an early morning walk and saw a lot of birds that I wouldn't normally see about the place later in the day.
. Rehearsals of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown are continuing. At our most recent rehearsal, we got as far as fitting together the various harmony parts on one of the songs, and it sounded really nice.
. The way I've chosen to shelve my library, with all the unread books together on one bookcase, means I have a visual indicator of how large the to-read collection is. Over the past couple of years I've been focusing on reading books I've already got rather than acquiring new books (and also trying to get better at looking at a book I've been holding onto for years and deciding I'm never going to actually read it), and as of this week I've cleared an entire shelf's worth. The shelf is now being used for part of my DVD collection. We will, for the moment, overlook the fact that many of the books that were on the shelf are still in the room, in a big pile on the floor composed of books I've decided to get rid of but not yet decided how.
. Due to time zones, I had to choose between going to Parkrun or staying put to watch the Artemis II splashdown. I decided to assume that everything would go uneventfully, and went to Parkrun.
. On the weekend, there was a busy bee at our old and increasingly ramshackle community theatre to deal with a number of maintenance issues. I got to wield a hedge trimmer and took a hand at helping to re-paint a ceiling. I did not entirely get the hang of removing excess paint off the brush before lifting it above my head, and wound up with a large white deposit dripping down my temple that made it look rather as if we had giant pigeons to deal with on top of everything else.
. As usual there was also the weekly board game club meet, where we played Betrayal at House on the Hill, Guillotine, Forbidden Desert, and Uno: All Wild. In Betrayal, we successfully fought a giant snake. In Forbidden Desert, we wound up being buried by sand a couple of turns before we would have made good our escape. It was the first time I've played Uno: All Wild, which despite the name is significantly duller than the usual version of the game.
. Later in the week, I went for an early morning walk and saw a lot of birds that I wouldn't normally see about the place later in the day.
. Rehearsals of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown are continuing. At our most recent rehearsal, we got as far as fitting together the various harmony parts on one of the songs, and it sounded really nice.
. The way I've chosen to shelve my library, with all the unread books together on one bookcase, means I have a visual indicator of how large the to-read collection is. Over the past couple of years I've been focusing on reading books I've already got rather than acquiring new books (and also trying to get better at looking at a book I've been holding onto for years and deciding I'm never going to actually read it), and as of this week I've cleared an entire shelf's worth. The shelf is now being used for part of my DVD collection. We will, for the moment, overlook the fact that many of the books that were on the shelf are still in the room, in a big pile on the floor composed of books I've decided to get rid of but not yet decided how.
. Due to time zones, I had to choose between going to Parkrun or staying put to watch the Artemis II splashdown. I decided to assume that everything would go uneventfully, and went to Parkrun.
. On the weekend, there was a busy bee at our old and increasingly ramshackle community theatre to deal with a number of maintenance issues. I got to wield a hedge trimmer and took a hand at helping to re-paint a ceiling. I did not entirely get the hang of removing excess paint off the brush before lifting it above my head, and wound up with a large white deposit dripping down my temple that made it look rather as if we had giant pigeons to deal with on top of everything else.
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