Today I has mostly been....

[Serial_Apologist]

I was thinking more of Serial's inequality and injustice &c, rather than Dinky toys

Of which I have just one: a Dinky model of the Hillman Minx of 1960 - the year my parents acquired their first-ever motor, which was a Hillman Minx "in sea-crest green", a sort of turquoise! The model though is in twin-tone yellow and lime green.

[vinteuil]

Well I have to say in my case a feeling of "been there, seen that, done this", which seems to have come with, erm, advancing years, means that it is the emotions that come unawares, unexpectedly, triggered from an unforseen event or connection, that nowadays evoke the greatest joys... or indeed despair, as I succumb to disillusionment at being let down by another. And that can be a case of another letting himself or herself down.

... amazingly Proust captured this all so well in what he was writing in his late thirties - preternaturally 'mature'. Just as well he encapsulated it all while relatively young - he died aged 51.

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[eighthobstruction]

I suspect my daily routine is idiosyncratic

I rejoice in the idiocyncratic....though I too have a structured day to some extent (no need to keep on inventing the wheel) but then I improvise. I think idiocyncratic (for me) is the oil that keeps the machinery moving....it is great to know you are viewing from slightly different angle (in amongst 7 billion of you all)
Two of my main occupations - ceramics and oil painting are unavailable at moment due to illness and allergic reactions to turps etc....so I am topsy turvy at the minute....

[Serial_Apologist]

I rejoice in the idiocyncratic....though I too have a structured day to some extent (no need to keep on inventing the wheel) but then I improvise. I think idiocyncratic (for me) is the oil that keeps the machinery moving....it is great to know you are viewing from slightly different angle (in amongst 7 billion of you all)
Two of my main occupations - ceramics and oil painting are unavailable at moment due to illness and allergic reactions to turps etc....so I am topsy turvy at the minute....

So, co-presenting with Grayson Perry and Phillippa is ruled out then. Seriously though, I'm very sorry to hear that, eighth.

[Joseph K]

My daily routine, recently remade and refined -

7:00 AM: Get up, go downstairs, make and bring up tea for mother if she hasn't already risen and done it herself. Have breakfast - either cereal and fruit or egg/mushroom etc. on toast.
7:45 - go upstairs to room, switch on laptop and some music.
8:25 - shower
9:00 - guitar - warm up, etudes (mostly an arpeggio study by Giuliani)
10:00 - either study counterpoint or empty dishwasher, depending on the day
10:30 - guitar - tremolo: 'Una limosna pour amor de dios' by Barrios + rasgueados
11:15 - press ups, clean teeth
11:30 - go on walk
12:30 PM - return home, lunch; either soup or sandwich
12:50 - upstairs, listen to music, read forum, possibly look for work, possibly read misc. other stuff online like trip reports
1:30 - guitar - Bach Prelude BWV 998 - 15 minutes per page of piece
2:15 - study harmony (Robert Gauldin)
2:45 - guitar - Bach Fugue BWV 998
3:30 - study German
4:15 - guitar - Bach Allegro BWV 998
5:00 - exercise - sit ups; dinner, clear up, load dishwasher etc.
5:50 - listen to music, surf forum etc.
6:30 - guitar - Sor op. 6 no. 11
7:15 - study either counterpoint (Salzer & Schachter) or harmony (Gauldin)
8:00 - more German
8:30 - listen to music
9:30 - bedtime; read
10:30 - light off

This is my basic routine, but if I'm cooking tea or looking after little nieces on monday, it's not slavishly adhered to, also grab 5 min here and there to look at forum.

I personally quite like this description of Schopenhauer's routine:

'From the age of 45 until his death 27 years later Schopenhauer lived in Frankfurt-am-Main. He lived alone, in ‘rooms’, and every day for 27 years he followed an identical routine. He rose every morning a seven and had a bath but no breakfast: he drank a cup of strong coffee before sitting down at his desk and writing until noon. At noon he ceased work for the day and spent half-an-hour practicing the flute, on which he became quite a skilled performer. Then he went out for lunch at the Englischer Hof. After lunch he returned home and read until four, when he left for his daily walk: he walked for two hours no matter what the weather. At six o’clock he visited the reading room of the library and read The Times. In the evening he attended the theatre or a concert, after which he had dinner at a hotel or restaurant. He got back home between nine and ten and went early to bed. He was willing to deviate from this routine in order to receive visitors.'

https://rhystranter.com/2015/04/16/a-day-in-the-life-of-arthur-schopenhauer/

[Serial_Apologist]

I personally quite like this description of Schopenhauer's routine:

'From the age of 45 until his death 27 years later Schopenhauer lived in Frankfurt-am-Main. He lived alone, in ‘rooms’, and every day for 27 years he followed an identical routine. He rose every morning a seven and had a bath but no breakfast: he drank a cup of strong coffee before sitting down at his desk and writing until noon. At noon he ceased work for the day and spent half-an-hour practicing the flute, on which he became quite a skilled performer. Then he went out for lunch at the Englischer Hof. After lunch he returned home and read until four, when he left for his daily walk: he walked for two hours no matter what the weather. At six o’clock he visited the reading room of the library and read The Times. In the evening he attended the theatre or a concert, after which he had dinner at a hotel or restaurant. He got back home between nine and ten and went early to bed. He was willing to deviate from this routine in order to receive visitors.'

https://rhystranter.com/2015/04/16/a...-schopenhauer/

I wonder when was his shopping hour!

[HighlandDougie]

Reading all the above posts - with admiration at the industrious ways in which forumistas fill their days - I can’t help feeling ever so slightly unfairly that the spirit of, “Diary of a Nobody”, is hovering somewhere in the background.

[teamsaint]

My daily routine, recently remade and refined -

7:00 AM: Get up, go downstairs, make and bring up tea for mother if she hasn't already risen and done it herself. Have breakfast - either cereal and fruit or egg/mushroom etc. on toast.
7:45 - go upstairs to room, switch on laptop and some music.
8:25 - shower
9:00 - guitar - warm up, etudes (mostly an arpeggio study by Giuliani)
10:00 - either study counterpoint or empty dishwasher, depending on the day
10:30 - guitar - tremolo: 'Una limosna pour amor de dios' by Barrios + rasgueados
11:15 - press ups, clean teeth
11:30 - go on walk
12:30 PM - return home, lunch; either soup or sandwich
12:50 - upstairs, listen to music, read forum, possibly look for work, possibly read misc. other stuff online like trip reports
1:30 - guitar - Bach Prelude BWV 998 - 15 minutes per page of piece
2:15 - study harmony (Robert Gauldin)
2:45 - guitar - Bach Fugue BWV 998
3:30 - study German
4:15 - guitar - Bach Allegro BWV 998
5:00 - exercise - sit ups; dinner, clear up, load dishwasher etc.
5:50 - listen to music, surf forum etc.
6:30 - guitar - Sor op. 6 no. 11
7:15 - study either counterpoint (Salzer & Schachter) or harmony (Gauldin)
8:00 - more German
8:30 - listen to music
9:30 - bedtime; read
10:30 - light off

This is my basic routine, but if I'm cooking tea or looking after little nieces on monday, it's not slavishly adhered to, also grab 5 min here and there to look at forum.

I personally quite like this description of Schopenhauer's routine:

'From the age of 45 until his death 27 years later Schopenhauer lived in Frankfurt-am-Main. He lived alone, in ‘rooms’, and every day for 27 years he followed an identical routine. He rose every morning a seven and had a bath but no breakfast: he drank a cup of strong coffee before sitting down at his desk and writing until noon. At noon he ceased work for the day and spent half-an-hour practicing the flute, on which he became quite a skilled performer. Then he went out for lunch at the Englischer Hof. After lunch he returned home and read until four, when he left for his daily walk: he walked for two hours no matter what the weather. At six o’clock he visited the reading room of the library and read The Times. In the evening he attended the theatre or a concert, after which he had dinner at a hotel or restaurant. He got back home between nine and ten and went early to bed. He was willing to deviate from this routine in order to receive visitors.'

https://rhystranter.com/2015/04/16/a...-schopenhauer/

No wonder you are ready for bed by 10.30

[vinteuil]

Reading all the above posts - with admiration at the industrious ways in which forumistas fill their days - I can’t help feeling ever so slightly unfairly that the spirit of, “Diary of a Nobody”, is hovering somewhere in the background.

... haven't painted the bath. Yet.


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[Nick Armstrong]

... haven't painted the bath. Yet.

Damn I knew I’d forgotten something

[gradus]

... haven't painted the bath. Yet.


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Today, I tidied the shrubbery. This afternoon friends came for tea then went.

[eighthobstruction]

... haven't painted the bath. Yet.


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....there's a utube for everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYb-tCaeTh0

[Edgy 2]

Well our latest rescued Labrador, after a year of neglect under previous owners, has turned into a 16 month old bag of energy, noise and mischief and needs a lot of excercise and attention.
Taking up a lot of our time but it's great fun.

[eighthobstruction]

Well our latest rescued Labrador, after a year of neglect under previous owners, has turned into a 16 month old bag of energy, noise and mischief and needs a lot of excercise and attention.
Taking up a lot of our time but it's great fun.

[Nick Armstrong]

Today, I tidied the shrubbery. This afternoon friends came for tea then went.

Happily for latterday Pooters, the only Lupin is a rather fun new French series on Netflix