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Sunday on the couch with a book

I spent this afternoon in the most perfect way imaginable on a cold miserable Sunday - on the couch, under a doona, reading a fantastic book.

Elizabeth Moon is releasing the newest instalment of my favourite series - The Vatta War series, so in preparation for when the new book finally comes out in Australia, I am re-reading all the previous books. Today, around midday, I started upon the final book, “Command Decision” and five hours later, I finished it. It was so lovely to be stretched out on the couch lost in a good book for hours on end.

Near the end of my reading marathon Caleb decided to join me. Now Caleb is a large German Shepherd cross and unlike Rory (my beagle), you can’t share the couch with him whilst you are all stretched out. Caleb is a good dog and won’t jump up and lie on your legs (thank god), but he will take any space he can find and expand himself. When he hopped up on the couch, he was lying on my feet and very slowly I lost all space on the couch as he slowly expanded himself. Caleb, meanwhile, was in heaven - he was on the couch snuggled with a human. This is apparently pure big dog bliss. I let him stay as it is so rare he gets human snuggle time unlike Rory who gets it all the time as she is small and compact. I must admit that whilst I didn’t have much space, it was nice to sit and read with my boy curled up beside me.

Now I am all relaxed and really to tackle another week at work. This week will be a short week since Friday is ANZAC Day and hence a public holiday. I am really looking forward to my three day weekend.

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