New desk diary
I don’t know why I have a desk diary rather than a smaller pocket diary. I haven't even got a desk! I suppose it stems from my working days when important dates were filled in at the beginning of the academic year and added to as the terms wore on.
It is now January 2nd and I have yet to write in my journal. I’d better get a move on before I forget all the exciting things I’ve done so far this year.
It’s grey and dreary and very windy today. We drew back the curtains earlier to let in what little light there was – it gets quite depressing to have the world shut out all the time and we were rewarded by the antics of the blue tits pursuing each other across the garden.
Barry saw a rat cross the patio a couple of days ago and Herschel and Jellicoe have been absorbed by activity out there. The patio lies one step below the level of the sitting room and so they sit at the patio doors and gaze down, tails twitching, ears pricked, observing the comings and goings of wild rodents. Roxy and Gilbert have become interested in specific areas of the patio, as well, pushing their snuffling noses between the rustling, dead stems of asters. We hadn’t seen rats for a very long time until recently and, while each creature deserves its space in the universe, we don’t want to oversee a rise in the population.
Maybe the sun will shine tomorrow. Maybe the gale we’re promised will not materialise. Maybe – a wonderful word, full of promise.
I love having a planner not that I plan much, but I try to write down a meal plan for the week and when I'm sorting through photos I mark down when I've done them. I love the rabbit - I think I have one like that to cross stitch.
ReplyDeleteWe don't see many rats here, more mice than anything. That's bad enough!
It's nice to have the feeling of being organised and efficient and a desk diary helps that.
DeleteI have a desk diary too this year, a gift from "no-one", now all I need is a desk and some inspiration as to what I should put in there.
ReplyDeleteInspiration will soon come, I'm sure . . .
DeleteI got a small planner myself. I do love yours though, with that picture of the hare. Who is the artist?
ReplyDeleteHannah Dale. Wrendale Studio!
DeleteI like Hannah Dale's designs.
DeleteBefore I retired, I put all times, meeting places, participants and dates in a hand written diary, sometimes with some reminders about what I might be presenting.
ReplyDeleteSince retirement, the mobile telephone acts as the diary with a minimum of words eg coffee, FG, noon.
I don't use my mobile to its full extent but some members of my family have their entire lives in theirs.
DeleteWe should use Google Calendar on our phones but we don't. We write appointments etc on a wall calendar and take a phone photo of the particular month.
ReplyDeletePhones are useful, but the screens are small and the keyboards fiddly. I'm such a Luddite!
ReplyDeleteI fully retired a couple years but still like
ReplyDeletea desk diary, l usually get one in a charity
shop, there usually half price by now, l'll
find one tomorrow in town...!
And, l always have a BBC Country File
calendar on the dinning room wall, among
the other eleven l have around my home,
as not only writing in my diary, l also write
reminders, birthdays etc on the calendar....
So, l'm fully covered, though my memory is
still fully sound..."Who said that"..? :O).
And we've had two days of wind and gales,
quieter to~day and a little sunshine, just
coming out...hopefully, the same tomorrow,
as l have a busy day...!
🍁🍂🍃🍁🍂🍃🍁 🍂🍃🍁🍂🍃🍁
Our sky was quite sulphurous earlier but looks better now.We have a severe weather warning for the next couple of days - what fun!
DeleteI have a very cheap, basic wall calendar that hangs in my kitchen. There is just enough space to write in birthdays ( already done!) and appointments etc. I just need to remember to look at it!
ReplyDeleteThat's the problem. Writing things down is all very well but absolutely no help at all if you don't read them.
DeleteDull and grey does not describe the days, the wind and rain is relentless, as for rats, they are everywhere, we are hoping the garden revamp will stop them coming so close to our home. I have a wall calendar, which I like to write on, I can glance at it through out the day, daughter and hubby laughs at me, I don't care.
ReplyDeleteI bet you're the one they ask for information, though . . . ;-)
ReplyDeleteI have a small daily pocket calendar that I simply keep track of the crummy weather, once in a while I get to write down the word sunshine. But not very often. And I keep track of how many miles I walk or bicycle. I only have a couple birthdays to keep track of anymore. Things happen when you get older, don't they. But as far as your diary goes I absolutely love the Tulips on the cover. Hope your weather gets better. Winter is just a crummy time.
ReplyDeleteOlder relatives and friends travel on but the young ones procreate happily . . .
DeleteI've marked up my 2024 diary already. Like you it's a job I don't like. Once I've made the first mistake in the birthday transfers (which is inevitable) I'm okay though.
ReplyDeleteThe first mistake is the open sesame, really!
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ReplyDeleteI love all stationary - well, particularly notebooks, diaries, planners 😀
ReplyDeleteToo often rather too many pages remain pristine don't they, although my ' little book of big ideas ' notebook is nearly full, can't wait to feel justified in choosing a brand new one......now that could sound rather pretentious, but really it's just notes about my hobbies and the odd recipe or crochet pattern!
I love those tulips by the way.
Yesterday I bought a calendar half price.......all the golden lab ones had gone, so I got the Westie one ( we do have a westie ) Jas is not impressed 😄
Alison in Wales x
You need a custom calendar featuring labs and westies . . .
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to have a dedicated notebook - I've got an address book that I use as a commonplace book for 'inspirational' quotations.
I haven't had a diary - desk or otherwise - for absolutely ages! xxx
ReplyDeleteAnn, you don't know what you're missing . . . another task to taunt you;-) x x x
DeleteI am trying to decide if I want to continue an electric calendar, or return to paper.
ReplyDeleteThere is something rather pleasing about using a pen to write on paper rather than digits to depress keys.
DeleteThat is a lovely colourful diary.
ReplyDeleteI must say mine are always a plain colour usually either blue or black.
Perhaps in 2025 I'll go for one like yours ... watch this space :)
All the best Jan
I'm watching . . .
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