2009: a year of going out ...

Culture 2009

... more than usually patchy, as I've been to a lot of free events, and don't tend to have tickets for those. Also, my LJ tagging fails.
( 5 gigs, 10 films, 22 classical concerts, 3 operas, 2 theatre, various other stuff )

So how does 2009 compare to earlier years? (And how would I know if not for lovely LJ and my year-in-summary tag, eh?)
Over the last 6 years, the ranges have been:
* 4 - 20 films (10 this year)
* 1 - 8 theatre trips (2 this year)
* 2 - 12 classical concerts (22 this year, oops; but then haven't (a) been to or (b) counted free Kettle's Yard concerts 'til this year)
* 2 - 6 operas (3 this year)
* 0 - 6 gigs (5 this year)
* 49 - 107 books (75 this year)

2009: a year of staying in

What I read in 2009:
75 books, all reviewed with this tag
- 40 by women and 35 by men
- 19 sf, 12 historical, 4 non-fiction, 21 fantasy, 10 crime, 4 horror (some books fall into more than one category)
( booklist )

One of my resolutions is to finish the unfinished: which leaves me set to continue reading Transition (Banks), Retribution Falls (Wooding), The Child's Book (Byatt), Beloved and God (Lambert), Generation Kill (Wright) and To The Ends of the Earth (Golding).

What am I looking forward to?
The Demon's Covenant (Brennan)
[unknown title] (Wilce)
Iorich (Brust)
... suspect many more, but these are the ones I can think of without recourse to 'coming soon' lists!

Snowy woods and sunshine

Today was such a glorious day I googled some woods and went and walked in them. (Sawtry ancient woodland walk). And wrote a couple of haiku in my head, including:
Frosty Ice Age woodland
sunlight flickers through bare trees
motorway roars close

Then I came home, wrote off up 2009, and did my share of deChristmassing the house, which is always rather sad (but let's face it, the festive season ends when werk starts up again).

The walk (maybe even the drive) helped my sore head and shoulder: the remaining discomfort seems to have settled at the base of my spine. Thank heavens bugshaw for codeine!

*floats merrily away*