Readers who've been in Europe this week (waves to annelaure, Oxfordia, Missy and Scott) will know that it has been kinda warm ( Read more... )

It's warm today.  Not as warm as in New York I expect, but warm.  Apparently in New York people are shoplifting cartons of ice-cream, which they'll then supply to smaller shops ('bodegas') for resale ( Read more... )

At last!  I would have blogged sooner but either the computer was in use, by H, or I just couldn't get DSL, or Ethernet.  In fact it took quite a few tries this morning, having pushed all plugs in and connectors together, then given everything a rest, twice, to get any connection at all.  Such is lif ( Read more... )

It's NOT hot!

Honestly, it isn't.  Well, not hot hot hot as it has been.  Just that we were getting reaccustomed to temperatures in the lower 20s°C.  Today the northerly breeze has veered  more westerly. w00t!  We can benefit from that.  (Our house will catch breezes from South East & West, not North, except in the depths of winterrrrr!)   The ( Read more... )