Day 18: The charm of hotels, books and Avocado Bath Bombs

Rest day today so get ready for total randomness of thought.

Question: do you think spending time in hotel lobbies, having tea or coffee in their comfy armchairs, reading, writing, sorting through things...can be considered a hobby? If so, I am quite taken with it. The problem with many Coffee Shops at the weekends is that they are magically transformed into crèches and/or teen show rooms which as endearing as it might be for some, it really doesn't create much in terms of a creative environment as I crave it.
Hotels on the other hand...they have just the right amount of buzz and goings-on without additional distractions. Love them.
An additional bonus is that they don't close early on Sundays!

If you are into genetics (and/or epigenetics) and you haven't yet read the Inheritance by Sharon Moalem - go and grab it, I think you would love it. I forgot to mention it earlier but I have finished it and it was one of the best non-fiction books I have read (if not the best). It reads a bit like a video documentary! There is not a boring moment in an entire book.

In my teens I was fascinated with genetics, admittedly animal genetics - mainly dogs and horses. If I had a teacher like Sharon during my bio-chemistry focused high school who knows what I would be up to now! ;)

My current non-horsey reading is a little book titled Cider with Rosie which I got from a friend. I shall report on it when done.

I've been mostly trying not to do much work related tasks on the rest day but I failed on that today. I find it almost impossible to switch off, hopefully it will become easier to do so with time. It's possibly rather important to have a brain space saved for other areas of life, right now most of my brain cells must have a shape of a horse's head ;)

Oh, and this lovely, incredibly scented bath bomb awaits its sizzle time tomorrow I had a Lush gift card left from Christmas and finally popped to the shop to redeem it. The whole room smells of this stuff right now ;)



My internet connection is very fragile tonight so I am going to press publish before it dies.
Until tomorrow :)
Wiola

Recharging :)

Just like this...

Reclaiming Sundays

When you work with horses and especially if you teach, weekends are your prime time, busiest time. For many years I never had Sundays off work and although I never usually minded that, I would like to reclaim at least some Sundays this year.

As many of you know I don't drive so getting places on Sundays is a challenge since trains hit slow lane and there are big gaps between them. Shops close at silly hours and there is just this general laziness in the air that wants one join in and relax!

I don't think I will ever have Sundays fully free but I will work towards them being shorter work wise and work free at times..like today.

Brilliant book I am reading now, a Santa gift from my Other Half. I will tell you more about my experience with it once I've finished :) 

Now, I do have that incurable dream of having own little centre one day so when I saw this new book, I just had to buy it. At £3.72 if bought as an e-book for Kindle it's beautifully affordable. I don't own a Kindle as such but use Amazon's Kindle for PC which is not as fantastically portable but saves the expense.

What books are you reading now? :)