Snow, glorious snow. I love snow, preferably from behind a picture window with a large cup of Gluehwein in my hand. The chickens are not convinced by the white stuff, however, and are trying to work out how to open the cat-flap and join us inside. Sent the kids off sledging with DH, that's what dads are for, while I dug through my glass box and ( Read more... )

grey, wet and windy - not an enticement to go out today. I also need to bake stupid quanties of brownies for S.'s ceilidh. What I want to do is lie in bed all day reading. Sniffs.

First day back at work after operation and I feel quite disconnected from it all. My colleagues are lovely, but it is still not a job I am sure I want to do until I am 67.

Despite crappy, foggy weather,  I am feeling rather more the thing today. Went and wandered around the Han exhibition at the Fitz today. Lots of nice things to look at though the info signs were weak and lacked context. The jade suits were astonishing, http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/may/03/han-dynasty-immortality-suits-show the little ( Read more... )

Just watched someone jumping out of a basket 24 miles above the earth. By choice. What drives someone to do something like this? I understand pushing yourself, but how far must you have already come to feel that this would be the next step? [boggles]

So, it's been almost a year since I wrote anything in here ( Read more... )

Woo-hoo, November. It is dark early now and we have ages before it gets lighter again. Work is p-ing me off hugely, but home life is good.

It may be May, but it is bloomin' freezing. Have lit fire and am now defrosting toes. The cat is stretched out like a mini-tiger skin rug and the chickens are all fluffed up outside. Hope it warms up before inaugural tent experience in a fortnight. Bah.

Planted Busy Lizzies out this morning, guaranteeing snow by then end of the week, no doubt. The chickens are now confined to the pseudoSomme at the end of the garden. They are NOT happy about this and are studying the new tasty greens with a covetous eye. They are surprisingly creative about escaping, given that their collective brain power adds up ( Read more... )

Well, after a fairly productive few days, bit of work, bit of DIY, my Wednesday is being rounded off by Spouse trying to scrub a full mug of cocoa out of the carpet. He is slapdash about cleaning and I have the sinking (stinking?) feeling that it will stink within a week. Probably sooner with the central heating on. However, his mess, he has to ( Read more... )