So, well, yes we are going to do this thing.

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I know you decided weeks* ago that the New Blog was all some kind of strange joke and that I’d be on lj till I was ninety-two and finally decided to append* my blog to my web site after all.  No, I’m just disorganised and absent-minded and easily distracted and web- ( Read more... )

 
I have my piano lesson in the afternoon and sacred* home tower bell practise in the evening. **

I told you about my Song-my first-ever complete piece of composed music with two hands and everything, even though it’s only twelve bars long-and the Sonatina-ette.  I also told you that Oisin, in that tiresome way of teachers who are forever ( Read more... )

 
So far so good.  We’ve now had four, enzyme-laced, meals in a row-two lunches and two suppers-where hellhounds simply ate, you know, like dogs.  Put food down, food disappears.  Sigh.  Magic.  I’m also looking forward to being able to walk around town without worrying about the sort of sudden . . . hmm . . . extrusion . . . that cannot be picked ( Read more... )

 
I’ve been downstairs at the cottage most of the evening struggling with the Downstairs Laptop.  (Peter played bridge tonight so I came back here from Almost Sacred Wednesday Bell Practise*).  I don’t feel it has any call to be as tiresome as it has chosen to be tonight, but I have one or two moral imperatives left and one of them says that you don ( Read more... )

 
We went to the vet this morning-again.  Although this was the homeopathic vet*, and we haven’t been there since last autumn-although there have been a few emails between.**

It is surprisingly easy to convince yourself you’re just being neurotic unless someone is conspicuously bleeding.  Chaos-as long term readers of this blog know-was ( Read more... )

Lj is intolerably insane tonight--it's taking minutes to click through to 'reply' to a comment and half the time at the end of all the waiting it says 'cannot display this page'.  THANKS A LOT.  And it's fine out on the Greater Web, so this is just lovely lj.
        So I'll try to catch up on the comments tomorrow.  Right now I'm going to go play ( Read more... )

It’s been another bad day.*  The microphone for the built in web cam arrived (finally), was installed and I wasted about an hour experimenting, and . . . the first try after the Computer Man left went fine, aside from the fact that I look ninety-four years old and mental, but apparently the technology was hoping for someone young and cute and ( Read more... )

 
HAPPY $%^&*!!!!! APRIL.

When I fumbled out of bed this morning there was a Strange Light Shining (Murkily) through the Windows.  Sunday mornings I get up what passes as early for me and I’m never at my best in the first five minutes of my feet hitting the floor anyway.*   That ominous grey-but-dazzling brilliance was awakening brutal ( Read more... )

 
I probably shouldn’t even be telling this one, but it’s so striking, to me at least,* about . . . well, dogs, and human frailty.  Also that Chaos is nuts, even as sighthounds go.

I have not been keeping you up to date about the hellhounds’ latest cycle of digestive mayhem.  I think I told you about taking them to the (standard) vet a ( Read more... )

 
. . . just does not organise itself into a blog shape.*  Today has been one of those days.              
            The phone went at a few minutes before eight this morning.  I was of course asleep.  However I was out of bed and most of the way across my office before consciousness attempted to kick in and tell me that the reason why I was ( Read more... )