It's been quite chilly here (yesterday, on the evening weather forecast, they mentioned that the afternoon had been sunny with a high of 13 in Scotland, and sunny with a high of 1 in Kent...), and we think that last night may have been the coldest since we moved here: the ducks' water bucket, inside the duck house inside the stable, was frozen over ( Read more... )

Novacon was mostly nice, and fairly quiet, but involved late nights (as ever ( Read more... )

The Horse Next Door is gone, so I suspect that that means Mrs Next Door is gone as well.

This afternoon, I have mostly been making chilli jelly with the majority of the remaining home-grown chillis. Chopping the chillis took as long as the actual jelly making part, but I think it's going to be ok. The jars look pretty, at any rate.

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I'm, finally, much better: basically fine other than occasionally trying to cough my guts up. Annoyingly, that's still happening most often when I lie down to go to sleep ( Read more... )

Baby Next Door's birthday present (he's a bit obsessive about our ducks):

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We managed to get the horses into the field yesterday, but then it rained again overnight / this morning, so they've had to make do with a couple of hours in the stableyard this afternoon. The ducks are unhappy about this, because it's keeping them away from their pond.... Still, the sun's out now and we've no serious rain forecast for the next ( Read more... )

1) Today, Post Man Rob (after I put my boots on and ran out to save him having to go in the lake at the bottom of the drive, and before he confessed that he was a little worried about his cellar but hadn't quite dared to go down and check on it) handed me a letter dated 31 December from Parcelforce, saying that they had a parcel for me and would ( Read more... )

We've had a lovely New Year, but Mike is somewhat sick of cooking, and I am somewhat sick of washing up, running the dishwasher, and doing laundry.... I'm also incredibly knackered, but we're going out to see ISIHAC this evening, so that should be fun ( Read more... )

We'd heard, from Darren-the-DPD-man and Yodle Guy* via TWWOTV, that the local Hermes driver quit in a huff and with a house full of parcels, which was unfortunate timing ( Read more... )