I hope that’s true, and that our run of bad luck with things mechanical/electrical is over.

1. The web servers, requiring us to spend a frantic weekend and bursts of frenetic activity over the next few days while we built new ones
2. Followed by the car which, as detailed here, shat itself spectacularly at its MOT, with repairs costing pretty much the ( Read more... )

I just nipped (or popped) to the farm shop at the end of the village (for celery, lemons, bacon, milk and mushrooms, should you care).

and the duck pond is virtually frozen over, and the poor chaps are skidding about all over the shop. It's not often *that* cold here in the balmy south west; I wonder if we shall get snow ...

should anyone wonder where I've been for the past ten days - well, I'm sorry, I have a cold.

I woke up on Sunday 2nd feeling very groo, but I put that down to over-carousing with agc the night before. Mind you, I don't often suffer with hangovers, but ( Read more... )

it's now reached the balmy heights of -1˚ out there - and the window cleaner is his ladder, doing his stuff - he must be *frozen*.

I offered him a hot drink, but he declined.