As I went to bed last night I could hear rain starting to blow against the window, and when I got up most of the snow had gone, and we had reverted to proper English Christmas weather, i.e. grey and damp. The temperature has risen to a balmy 4 degrees (39 F), and I even went out without my wooly hat ( Read more... )

Oddly enough, all that gym work on Wednesday left me feeling fine yesterday, but even though I spent yesterday huddling at home, doing nothing in particular, today I feel stiff all over, especially in the knee. Looking out this morning I'm a little disappointed to see that the snow is still there. Meanwhile, on the radio, in a dramatisation of ( Read more... )

Hooray! the plumber has been and now my sink drains properly! He's coming next week to fix the non-functioning hot tap (which may have been the original reason for the blasted thing blocking in the first place). Now I'm off to do several day's worth of washing-up.

Feeling a good deal better since Monday, mainly because I've started to do things, rather than sit here numbly playing solitaire ( Read more... )

On the grand principle of good or bad things going in threes, the hot-water tap in the kitchen is refusing to work, the curtains in both bedrooms have fallen down, and my internet connection has become patchy or worse. At first, I tried to ignore the tap thing, on the grounds that heating water in a pan and only doing the washing-up once every day ( Read more... )