Having gone to bed with the chaos of packing (and all the chaos of having bought a wardrobe and brought it home from Ikea by myself, ready to put together in Somerset), I woke up to the magic of this view out the window...
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Okay, despite this morning there have to have been moments of happiness, and there were. How about glancing down the driveway as I went across to work, and seeing a huge moon hanging in pale pink over the horizon. Even though it was early, the parents (who were leaving early for work) had woken the girls, and although R was slumping in bed, A was ( Read more... )

Today has been an odd day... I thought I was up early as usual for work, only to realise that of course it was Tuesday start that I should be going over for (7.30am), not a Monday start (8am...). So I scraped together a quick breakfast, took my coffee with me... and of course when Mrs came down she was surprised I was there at the early time - grrr ( Read more... )

I've been starting this since last weekend, but I'm determined to post it now, because blimey and yes! Okay, it's going to be interesting times, but I've got some of my faith back in the UK electorate, who did not overwhelmingly vote for a party that has been secretive, that has been aggressive (and secretive) about Brexit, and fairly openly out ( Read more... )

So much for going excavating this weekend - I couldn't make contact in the end, and then by Friday I had what felt like a niggly cold (desperately hoping it wasn't that tooth being infected or anything horrid like that), and then Friday was upon me and I'd not made plans... so I'm at home being lazy/trying to get the Dairy more livable. It still ( Read more... )

It feels like forever since I was properly on lj (ie, wittering away... *g*) but today is a gorgeously blue-skyed Sunday when I should be outside doing useful things, and I am feeling lazy enough to look forward to spending it inside doing random things. *g* Well, there may be a garden centre visit later, and there will probably be finally- ( Read more... )