Here are my (not) Ten Things of Thankfulness for my week ending Friday Oct 24 2025.
- I found a new shop selling delicious boiled chicken. Its a short walk away.
2. My plumber may have identified the origin of a leak. This is a big gratitude although the cost of repair isn’t. Its to be a large bill with hacking, pipe replacement and re-tiling the hacked portions.
3. We discovered a new mall in another neighborhood. It has a supermarket but no bookstore. We can’t have everything.
4. We visited a textile store which was celebrating its anniversary so we enjoyed nearly 50% discount on the final bill and received a souvenir canvas shopping bag.
5. I found some suggestions on books to be read.
6. Rain. I’m always thankful for saved rain water, to water plants on dry days.
7. Thankful a book was in stock so that I didn’t need to order online and saved shipping cost. The novel is The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai. I’m only about 202 pages in and I don’t expect it to win the Booker Prize 2025 for Ms Desai.
If anyone is interested, here are the feedback/ reviews:
- https://artmater.com/explaining-the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny/ (This is the main review webpage with links to other reviews)
8. I accompanied my family member to a medical appointment. It was a minor procedure. All went well. We dropped into a bookstore on our way out of town. I bought 2 books. Yay.
I don’t have exactly Ten Things but its all right. You can join us if you have a shorter list too.
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Excellent news about the leak. They can be so difficult to track down. I hope all goes well, and that your week is a joy.
Oh, I am so hoping you get the leak taken care of! Have a family member that didn’t catch one, a rather pronounced mess upstairs, with lots of repairs! 😛 Books! Hooray! 🙂
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It’s very good they found the leak. Like you, I’m thankful when I do find bookstores, and books I want in them.
I’m with the others… getting a leak fixed is always a Grat.
(while I’m handy with landscaping and light carpentry) there are two categories of home repairs I am not even tempted to undertake: plumbing and electrical
Grat #8 always a great grat
we’re not overly focused on the number 10 (it’s the story rather than the number of items that, imo, matter in a TToT post)… don’t forget, if you want to use it, Secret Rule 1.3 is always available As a matter of fact I referenced it in my TToT (#9) this week (which, now that I think of it, makes it a Secret Rule2!)
how fun!
I can resonate with a lot of your gratitudes – we had a fifty-year-old retrained plumber when we converted an old stable into a house and because he hadn’t gone to work under an experienced plumber after college (too proud to take advice) – he made a lot of mistakes, so we have had to cut into the walls at least six times!
I buy most of my books secondhand from World of Books and discovered you can sell books back to them and since Barbara is always on at me about having too many books, I went through the two bookcases in my study and fished out 25 of which WOB took 9 (for a mere £5) and the rest went back to the charity book table at the supermarket – so my bookcases are much neater and ordered but my TBR pike is still teetering perilously…
I am fascinated by fabrics and will be writing about them in April’s A to Z Challenge next year. I have been compiling a list of as many as I could find – 209!!!
Youtr #1 made me laugh – simple pleasures…
Pre-loved things don’t fetch reasonable amount of money. But when they are labeled for selling again, they maybe asking for quite a sum.
What are specific types of fabrics good for? Will you be covering this topic in your blog posts? My friend wanted to buy a suitable cloth to sew a formal looking blouse and she didn’t know what type of fabric to look for. Definitely not polyester nor nylon.
Before April this year, I tried to gather some bloggers who might join A-Z but the suggestion fell flat. They were too busy or didn’t derive much benefit from that challenge.