... is really the only word for it.  Cold outside, and it keeps drizzling with rain, and I seem to have done things every night last week to the point where I just curled up next to the fire for the whole weekend.

Well, almost.  There was the tree to put up, and a mad search for another gang plug so that we could have white and coloured lights on ( Read more... )

Well, that's one way of easing back into work gradually... the hacking cough i flew back with has settled in nicely now, so that's most mornings and evenings out for the count.  I made it into work for the afternoon on Thurs/Friday but was mostly minus most of my voice, which didn't help much with answering the phone...!  It was mostly for various ( Read more... )

Ok, now I'm sat next to a radiator, with a Demon Kitten curled up beside me (she likes the laptop fan blowing in her ear, go figure), and brainless cookery comfort programming (Barefoot Contessa does Paris, apparently.  Again, go figure.) on in the background, today doesn't seem so bad after all.

I could happily have done without most of the crap ( Read more... )

Heh.  I feel like a slight spoilsport, but this year's Pratchett adaptation just isn't... grabbing me, thus far.  I never managed to finish Colour of Magic when I tried reading it way back when, and I've spent the last half hour with it on in the background, mainly.  It does look beautiful, and it's faintly amusing every few lines, but... just not ( Read more... )

Any minute now, I really need to clear up the sixteen balls of yarn, three lots of needles, half the weekend papers I still haven't read and several books (oh, and the penguin of death bed warmer, natch) and go to bed.

Not exactly a productive weekend, although I did manage to consume my own weight in Green & Black's white chocolate yet again, ( Read more... )

  Aw, the Demon Kitten climbed her first tree today.

Not that she had any idea how to get down again afterwards, but hey, she's only a touch over five months old, give a girl a chance...

Odd weekend, away with family at a rented cottage near Cheltenham... Family managed to do no more than vaguely threaten to murder one-another, so that was an improvement on the usual.  Much blustery, freezing hill walking and viewing of famous race course was had, and I think we spent the vast majority of Saturday afternoon wandering around the ( Read more... )

Demon kitten is uncharacteristically snoozing on my lap, which at least makes a nice change from 
a) chewing and scratching my hands to bits (I keep having to tell people I have a demon kitten as they seem to leap to the strange conclusion that the mass of scratches that used to be the back of  my hands is self-inflicted. Go figure. I'm really not ( Read more... )

Hmmm... finding a wikihow on 'how to communicate with your cat' I thought, hey, maybe I can talk the demon Kit down into some semblance of calm.

'Cats love people blinking slowly at them; it's a sign of great affection!'.  Allegedly.

So I wait for kit to settle down, try the slow blinking thang...and then had to dodge rather hastily out of the way as ( Read more... )

Having two jobs is not wise, I have decided.  Going back to the job I left 18 months ago, however briefly, might mean I have money coming in, but it's also making me revisit a hell of a lot of stuff I thought I'd managed to ditch back then.  Come January, it looks like I'll be working two days at parliament and three days back at the hospital, ( Read more... )