I’m nervous of jinxing myself by saying so, but things seem to be looking up a bit for me,  Not only is it definitely spring now, with daffodils and everything, but I now have my Transport for London pass so that I can travel to see those daffodils and such in distant parts of the city for nothing.  I was moaning a lot about not getting my free ( Read more... )

Definitely spring now, with snowdrops and winter aconite already flowering, and actual sunshine, and even I have been feeling a bit perkier. So far, I have changed the windowbox of struggling pelargoniums that has been in place all winter for the one of madly sprouting bulbs, and planted a load of bulbs left over from last year. I also made a ( Read more... )

Bit of a mixed batch today;

BadHaven't seen the lodger for a couple of days - he was at the girlfriend's last night, and got in at about 4 am, and was off to work before I got up. He also seems to have stopped any sort of food shopping, let alone preparation or washing-up. I could put my footdown and get him to cook, but the thought of what he ( Read more... )

The Mystery Virus has been lurking about all week, although today I feel pretty ok (for the moment). I did (just) make it to the doctor on Thursday morning*, and he told me that I "must have a very strong immune system" and that anyone else would have just succumbed and got it over with weeks ago, which was a sort of back-handed compliment I ( Read more... )

Yet another not-very-busy week, filled with aimless pottering. I spent most of the weekend flat out with what seems to have been a return of the Mystery Virus. This put me into bed at nine-o'clock on Saturday evening with a temperature of 40 degrees, and saw me feeling perfectly well by Sunday afternoon. I'm seeing the doctor about it tomorrow ( Read more... )

I’ve been having a rather poor couple of weeks, but the sun has come out, the g-d is visiting next week and I have a couple of day’s worth of work, so I’ve perked up a bit, which rather suggests that I’m depressed for lack of occupation as much as anything else. Maybe I should get back onto the anti-depressants, though, as the excess sleeping ( Read more... )

Wednesday was mostly spent at the National Portrait Gallery, with Lauren, looking at their current exhibition of Indian portraits. I wouldn’t have thought of going to see this myself, although I did hear a radio programme about it last week, but it was very interesting indeed, and not too big, which is an excellent thing in any exhibition. I had ( Read more... )

After two days of clear skies and frost, today was cloudy and a little warmer. I got out to the park, and photographed some winter aconites, and then went to the library. Busy, busy...


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Half a day's work today and I managed to get in on time, despite usually being still asleep at 9 am. Only a little job, but there is the possibility of something a bit bigger in the future. I spent a pleasant morning hitting bits of iron railing with a little hammer, and doing Dart Vader impressions in the air-filter mask I have to wear when I ( Read more... )

In an attempt to shed the winter torpor, I decided to bravely walk to the shops, then bus it back with my shopping, rather than getting the bus each way. It's about a mile, up a fairly steep hill, and I was rather pleased with myself for managing it, and felt a lot better afterwards, although now I'm completely knackered (despite having slept in ( Read more... )