Hooray, the boiler is now working again! The bloke is coming back next Saturday (between 10 and 12 so at least I won't have to wait in all day again) with a part for it, but it's only a minor part and it should work fine in the meantime. Oh, the joy of being able to have a nice HOT bath again. Whatever EBD might say, cold baths/showers are ( Read more... )

B-day now nearly over! Actually, seeing as I was born at 20 to 7 in the evening I'm not officially a year older for another 1/4 hour ish. But anyway ( Read more... )

Having said that I was trying to forget all about the nasty b-word tomorrow, I very hypocritically got upset when the post came this morning and several people seemed to've forgotten. But then 4 cards got personally delivered this afternoon. However, I'm still trying not to think pre-b-word thoughts or I will end up drinking lots of vodka and then ( Read more... )

Roll on Saturday when I'm having my hair cut! I look like some sort of weird hair monster at the moment. The cold sore doesn't help either, although it's not as bad as the last one. Oh well ( Read more... )

OK, I have finally decided! On Krakow, plus various other bits of Poland. I wonder if 70 years of Austrian rule was enough for things like strudel and cream cakes to become ingrained in Krakovian (?) culture. And there should definitely be lots of nice vodka in Poland. Er, yes, I am really going there to visit historic places, not to stuff my face ( Read more... )