Shifted work to a bloc; M-W. Leaves me Thursday for Dad now - good all round because it lets sister off to catch the community bus to Queanbeyan when she needs to, and good (selfishly) because personal carer comes that day anyway & I can use some of the time for hubby's business, hopefully. He's had to grin and bear a lot of neglect lately ( Read more... )

Whacked self on head with hawthorn pruning today - hurts like crazy, didn't realise till later there was 7mm of thorn embedded in it! Ow.

Haven't done much over the holiday, I must admit - lots of Lego Technic; finished my Tractor, and - having blown the budget a bit, to cheer ourselves up - started the new model (Mobile crane, but I really only ( Read more... )

I am spending *far* too much time on thequestionclub; an equally amusing and infuriating place. Keep meaning to "just check this out first" but tbh I haven't read an entry from anyone else for days. Sorry, flist - I *will* catch up. Really ( Read more... )

Slightly insomniac at the moment - can't bear it, lying there trying to relax & just getting twitchy. All that inner Do Something Constructive talk wakes up, ugh. So, up early ( Read more... )

Sorted/tagged all random images in Scrapbook: check

Sugar-soaped the laundry, including the inch of black gunk, old cat food (eaten and otherwise) under the washing machine: check

Talked hubby through my appalling handwriting on the berbere/injera/t'ibs wet recipe: check

Watching - or trying to, anyway - Evolution of the Daleks: with the best will in the world, it's incredibly hard to concentrate on. Not keeping my interest at all, and that's the first time a pepperpot story's ever done that. Gawd. Martha and Daleks *should* be irresistible and not just because she has balls and a brane and a sexy tatt. ( Read more... )