Au jour d'hui le soleil brillait.  Quick, do some washing and get it pegged out to dry, or something!  Re: yesterday's blog - apparently there is a kind of Fair Trade mark available for milk.  Does anyone sell it locally?  Or is it like Green electricity - it all comes from the same basic source, you just get to pay a bit more for it?  Hmmm, sounds ( Read more... )

I mentioned the Geminid meteor shower recently.  Did you go looking, Dear Reader? Have a picture anyway.  Don't think we'll be doing much astronomising round here the next couple of days.  No, not cos we're crazy busy with pre-Christmas stuff.  It's raining, and windy.  Very windy.  There's a weather warning out today - winds and rain possibly ( Read more... )

I'm Not THAT Much of a Feminist*.

Thanks are due to the young man who, seeing me struggling with Val on the railway footbridge, promptly offered help.  Did I want help getting the bike down those steps?  Yes, Please!  What a nice young man!  I sometimes wonder why I take Val to Embroiderers' Guild in the first place (mainly when faced with ( Read more... )