This time last year I was getting reflective about St Bride's and relationships in general, and enjoying DAV. 

It feels like a VERY long time since I got up, but the day hasn't dragged at all.

Today began with a bath. The luxury of that much hot water that will just go down the drain...

After breakfast, I took the deccies down. I'm not sure which takes longer... Especially when you forget to put stuff away :D But everything is put away now for another year.

Next up was washing - putting dry stuff away and hanging wet stuff out to dry. I also changed my bed, including turning the mattress.

I played quite a lot of GoY today and I'm definitely 'into' it, now, to the point where I got in an extra hour before bed. I have a very fancy armour decorated with lilies, which I've dyed purple. To get it, I had to find four keys, one of which was in the type of maze where going down the wrong path takes you back to the start. Atsu gave me a couple of hints about the right path - before outright telling me :D Well done, game. I clearly wasn't paying attention but, obviously, the game wants me to succeed. I also have a spear, now, but I still get tangled up with the lower shoulder buttons - when you press them, you can select your weapon but you have to press them again to use it, and sometimes they just don't go away! Thank goodness for Story mode. As well as the story-related quests, there are plenty of random NPCs who need help. When I was at a bamboo stand (not today but I forgot to mention it when it happened), a fox, a bear, and (I think) a wolf were watching me - the fox was VERY excited :D The golden bird is much easier to follow than in GoT, too.

To finish off the night, I watched a video about 15 single player RPGs coming in 2026 - a couple could be interesting: Tales of Berseria Remake and Exodus. I've also added Granblue Fantasy and Skate Story to my library. And finally I watched Rob Words explain the fascinating story of how we learn to talk. 

I managed another day indoors and didn't spend any money (paying the credit card doesn't count!). I think I need to venture into town tomorrow, though.

I'm not enjoying Sourcery as much as the other Discworld books - it feels like a rehash of Equal Rites but with a boy instead of a girl. I dunno - I'll keep going with it, anyway.

A year ago I was having a relaxing day playing DAV and watching Star Trek Prodigy (I didn't go back to it), and wondering why Square Enix don't seem to understand the need for a FFVIII remake!

Today began with a bath followed by breakfast. I did some washing over the course of the morning.

After slicing up the turkey yesterday, I boiled the bones to make stock then left it to cool overnight. Today, the fat had all floated to the top and the scummy bits had sunk to the bottom, leaving me with about a pint and a half of nice stock. I threw in some veg and mash from the freezer, and left over cold chicken and ham from the fridge and made a very nice soup. Husband and I both felt it would have been nicer with barley, though. Well, we live and learn.

I played a couple of hours of GoY. The story is really just a framework for the game, which is mostly wandering around finding points of interest and collecting bounties on the heads of the baddies. I found my first fox, today!

Daughter & co went for a walk in their local park and both grandbabies managed to get covered in mud. So cute!

Tea was more of a picky/picnic type thing with cheese on crackers and left over salad. I'm determined to throw away as little as possible.

Now I'm watching My Neighbour Totoro by Studio Ghibli. I've heard so much about their films (and, of course, I loved the Ni No Kuni games) and they're on Netflix, so I feel I really should watch at least some of them!