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The Snake Prince and Other Stories: Burmese Folk Tales by Edna Ledgard

A varied collection. I think a little overwritten, but the tales are a new slice, fitting a new culture. Fairy tales, including a kind and unkind girls featuring a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and a unique take on burning the skin of the shape-shifted: the Naga prince is not killed but he is rendered mortal to live and grow old and die with his bride.

Also tales of fools and clever men, and animal tales.

Most are recognizable types, but not close to other variants.

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3_good_things_a_day

1) Listening to good music while working

2) Getting some things done during lunch break instead of postponing it again

3) Going to work on my 2025 photo album this evening :-)

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3_good_things_a_day

1) Sunshine! It makes such a huge difference

2) Breakfast on my balcony amongst flowers that smell divine

3) Time on the canopied swinging bench (without canopy) in my parents’s garden

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Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

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1) Visit to the library

2) My shoulders feel painful so it must mean the new workout I tried yesterday is effective ^^

3) Clean bedlinen for tonight

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Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz

A light discussion of Egypt. Admittedly covering a long period of history and so necessarily cursory in place. Discusses what records we have and what archeological evidence we have found, and various Pharaohs and changes.

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3_good_things_a_day

1) brought my daughter to school with the bus, she has been asking the entire week if we could go to school with the bus. And seeing it was raining today ^^ She loved it. Also, to support ill children who can't go to school, it was pyjama day at school today. No need to say our daughter loved that as well I guess :-)

2) tea and bingewatching season 2 of The Musketeers today

3) I'm going to babysit my sister's children this evening ^^

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3_good_things_a_day

1) working from home

2) sunshine

3) hopefully a library visit to pick up some ordered books for our daughter

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3_good_things_a_day

1) It had stopped raining when I had to go outside

2) The first fresh local asparagus this year :P

3) I combined one of my shores with a lovely stroll outside

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3_good_things_a_day

1) read a good book

2) working on my 2025 photo album

3) tea

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3_good_things_a_day

1) Glorious sunshine

2) Re-reading a happy book

3) Yummy leftovers for dinner

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books

Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits, Vol. 11 by Waco Ioka

And so we begin in medias res -- spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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3_good_things_a_day

1) Finished reading a good book last night. It was heavy but there was hope in the end (The Women by Kristin Hannah if you’re wondering)

2) Home made strawberry yoghurt for breakfast

3) Rediscovered an old necklace in my wardrobe ^^

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The Way to a Beautiful World by James Norbury

Another collection of cartoons, loosely woven into a tale. A little more loosely than in Journey, which benefitted it. Most could work as stand-alones, and are the strongest.

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3_good_things_a_day

1) Enjoyed a long lie in this morning ^_^

2) Soup for lunch in the veiled sunshine

3) Clean bedlinen for tonight

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3_good_things_a_day

1) Delicious lunch with Kana

2) Chance encounter with my mum afterwards and I stayed for a drink

3) Yummy strawberries

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3_good_things_a_day

1) Working at home and listening to good music

2) Quick library visit during my lunch break

3) Lazy evening and a nice long hot shower

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3_good_things_a_day

1) delicious yoghurt with granola

2) reading during lunchbreak

3) hubby's mum is staying for dinner

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Kill the Villainess, Vol. 5 by Haegi

Spoilers ahead for the earlier ones.

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3_good_things_a_day

1) Going out for a walk in the sunshine with a colleague

2) My parents are coming over dinner

3) If I still have some time afterwards, I'm going to work on my photo's of 2025

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Reading

The Snake Prince and Other Stories

Monday 16/03/2026

Sunday 15/03/2026

Performing some traffic maintenance today

Saturday 14/03/2026

Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt

Friday 13/03/2026

Thursday 12/03/2026

Wednesday 11/03/2026

Tuesday 10/03/2026

Monday 09/03/2026

Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits, Vol. 11

Sunday 08/03/3026

The Way to a Beautiful World

Saturday 07/03/2026

Friday 06/03/2026

Thursday 05/03/2026

Wednesday 04/03/2026

Kill the Villainess, Vol. 5

Tuesday 03/03/2026

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