Making money off the past.
People are funny. We are selling snow shovels at work in at least 4 different flavours, at varying prices. They are selling because people remember the last two years, and the snow and ice, and think, I can only presume, that these snow shovels will make it all go away.
It won't of course. Yes, it will make clearing a drive a bit easier, but frankly I can't imagine most people couldn't wield a broom, or a normal shovel, or, you know, a big bit of card or plastic bent over?
Anyway - this year has been very warm here. Yes, its about freezing outside at the moment sure, but its the middle of December in Scotland. Its not unreasonable to freeze!
We have finished virtually all Christmas card and present manufacture and posting. Its showed us yet again that we really should organise a decent centralised address system. We have muddled through however, so all things considered at least we are pretty sure most people we need to get a card to we have managed.
The bees are all dead. We went up today to check on them, and they have died from cold. There weren't really enough of them going into the winter, and we are seriously reconsidering whether we do this, not through lack of interest but straight financial commitment. That colony cost us £80 and has died in less than 6 months. Fiona and I just don't get a combination of the time and the car and the weather being ok it would seem.
So its a somewhat mixed week. Work will be nuts for me and relatively normal for Fi, and we don't really know what we can do better in 2012. We try quite hard not to make mistakes, but it doesn't really seem to help.
It won't of course. Yes, it will make clearing a drive a bit easier, but frankly I can't imagine most people couldn't wield a broom, or a normal shovel, or, you know, a big bit of card or plastic bent over?
Anyway - this year has been very warm here. Yes, its about freezing outside at the moment sure, but its the middle of December in Scotland. Its not unreasonable to freeze!
We have finished virtually all Christmas card and present manufacture and posting. Its showed us yet again that we really should organise a decent centralised address system. We have muddled through however, so all things considered at least we are pretty sure most people we need to get a card to we have managed.
The bees are all dead. We went up today to check on them, and they have died from cold. There weren't really enough of them going into the winter, and we are seriously reconsidering whether we do this, not through lack of interest but straight financial commitment. That colony cost us £80 and has died in less than 6 months. Fiona and I just don't get a combination of the time and the car and the weather being ok it would seem.
So its a somewhat mixed week. Work will be nuts for me and relatively normal for Fi, and we don't really know what we can do better in 2012. We try quite hard not to make mistakes, but it doesn't really seem to help.