The worst of the storm is over now. The wind first woke me around 4am, and was so noisy when I woke at 7am that it was easier to just get up ( Read more... )

Christmas sort of got in the way of this chapter - I had the beginning written but then stopped - and it took me a while to get back into it. Hopefully the next one won't take so long. It will probably be the last one - but you know what the characters can be like ( Read more... )

I haven't posted for a week... I have been doing things, honestly ( Read more... )

I have a new toy! My old Nikon camera was really on it's last legs. It had, for example, forgotten how to format a new memory card, but could no longer store anything on the older one. And the focus could be a bit fuzzy ( Read more... )

Last Thursday, before the weather turned cold and frosty, S2C and I went up to D-d's to take the desktop computer, that he had just replaced with a new one, and install it in NYK2's room. Her brother got the last one - my husband replaces his computer every 3 years or so, and NYK's was definitely the oldest by now as it was the one her brother had ( Read more... )

I have finished boxing up all the Christmas decorations today and putting them into the garage, with a little help from S2C. We are all very traditional in the village; the street decorations were all lit until 12th Night, but not since; and as I drove along our road on Monday almost every house still had all their lights lit, but on Tuesday only ( Read more... )

D-d and I got together in my kitchen yesterday to make some festive things that use natural materials ( Read more... )

I have decided that the advice from last Christmas is just as apt this one - especially with the stormy weather -


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The days hurry by ( Read more... )

This week has not been as organised as planned - on Tuesday I managed to slip, with my good leg, on a piece of clear plastic I had knocked onto the kitchen floor myself. As I tried not to fall I managed to twist the arthritic left knee ( Read more... )