It was hot yesterday; today was cooler, but wet, humid and sticky, and I just didn't feel like dealing with Nutmeg's daily fitzy behaviour when going out for a walk (after 9 years, she still hasn't learned not to cross behind me when on the lead ( Read more... )

So it's February 13th again, and it's 11 years today since my father, Peter died. Today the hot weather broke at about 5am, and it started raining. Raining enough that my empty rainwater tank is almost full. The garden is full of plants slowly reviving out of defensive wilts. It's cool rather than cold, and I spent nearly an hour out in it, ( Read more... )

Some seven or eight years ago, I bought my first ever brand-new-to-me laptop, after years of second hand and hand-me-downs. Raedbert the cherrywood red topped laptop has done stirling service over the years, but I fear laptops are like very big dogs - they have a short life span. Raedbert's mouse pad stopped working about 10 months ago; I bought a ( Read more... )

Furniture Tetris, how I hate it! This annoying game whereby I have to move three to seven different things to make room for the thing I want. It would be less infuriating if half the stuff I'm moving wasn't stuff I can't get to where I need to put them, because I have - or more frequently someone else has - Tetris'd in the place where I need to put ( Read more... )