What's On Your Workdesk - Week 518

Morning Everyone,

WOYWW Whizzday again and I'm not really ready for it. It's been a busy week so far and we are only half way through. And it's only a few more weeks, 21 days in fact, until we leave here on our way to WOYWW's tenth anniversary crop. I'm so looking forward to it but I'm also aware that I have a lot to do before then too - none of which is evident on my desk today!!!

Sorry, the light is poor - the weather is dismal and it's too cold to do anything other than take refuge in the craft room. I admit that I have had a bit of a tidy up - I can't work in a muddle and it was an awful muddle after Sunday's crop. So not much to show really - the usual box of scrappy delights in the background, a couple of albums and a layout from the top one in need of some repair to the front. I decided to put file away the layouts that had piled up in here and whilst moving pages about - I try to keep them in chronological order, more or less - I discovered that the bunting on this one was coming adrift. I'd used what was supposed to be a permanent glue tape but clearly it isn't - lesson learned!

The pile - not as man, I believe, as some folk have waiting to be filed away but more than I like. The black and white album on my desk is one I'm putting together for my son's birthday later this year. He'll be fifty - hard to believe. There's no chance that he will read this so I'm safe mentioning it. Of course that's another project sitting on my desk, remember the garden album, to nag me. I'm surrounding myself with nagging WIPs!

To the WOYWWer, I think it was Stacy, who expressed concern for my keyboard being out on my craft desk. Fear not. I always put the keyboard well out of the way when I'm messing with anything wet, inky or painty!

And now the book bit, and I have a great read for you this week.

'State of Wonder' by Ann Patchett is engrossing and hard to put down. Marina Singh, employee of a large pharmaceutical company, is sent into the isolated regions of the Amazon rain forest to investigate the death, and to hopefully bring back the body, of one colleague and meet up with her former professor and team leader Dr Annick Swenson. Dr Swenson has been developing a drug which could make it possible for women to remain fertile way past the menopause. I must admit I did find the idea of women still fertile and continuing to give birth well into their seventies somewhat alarming, and maybe just a bit far-fetched. But then I'm in my seventies! That aside, the descriptions of the humidity of the insect infested jungle, the hidden tribes, some still cannibalistic, with their own rituals and cultures, I found fascinating. I'd say this is a good summer read.

That's it for this week and, besides, it's time for lunch so I better go but I'll be back to check out your desks and leave a comment where I can ... sadly, that's not always possible for some reason, especially if I'm using my mobile phone. 

Take care everyone. Have a great WOYWW and a fabulous week ahead.