A quick glance at my travel guidebook to Chile suggests that the city of La Serena and the nearby Elqui Valley are interesting enough to while away a week in. I'd forgotten about there. Observatories, pisco sour, UFOs, and hippies. Mmmm ( Read more... )

While at work today, one of my colleagues was given a couple of dried chili peppers. His aim is to grow them. However, he gave one to me. Crumbs were broken off by my colleague, and passed around the department ( Read more... )

A couple of hours was spent this afternoon applying the first coat of paint to the walls of the second bedroom. Light orange. Well, I *think* the paintpots said 'warm peach' but ... Anyhoo. The light in that room isn't really that great, so it's hard to see just how badly I've painted it, but it appears that one wall is much better painted than ( Read more... )

gaah. The Met Office website (homesite of wind and rain) says that it is not raining, and that it isnt going to rain for the next day. It also says there are no rain-producing clouds anywhere near me. However ... on the website it does also say that these radar images only tend to pick up rainclouds; they don't pick up misty rain and drizzle. ( Read more... )

Apart from a short rainshower (by which time they were almost dry anyway), the weather today has proved it is still warm enough to dry my clothes outside. Always good ( Read more... )

Tonight's curry was brought to you by parsnips, sweet potato, yellow pepper, aubergine, cauliflower, broccoli, and four bird-eye chillis. Nicely spicy. And I could still taste it. Also ended up making rather a lot of it so tomorrow's half-baguette might be a bit packed ( Read more... )

Today it rained. And rained. And then it started to rain. Although interestingly, when I let the dog out for his business around 10pm, it was a virtually cloudless starry sky. British weather is quite odd, yes.

As a result I haven't done a lot. Did a very brief bit of tidyng up so that the pictures I took of the inside of my house for annelaure didn't ( Read more... )

Another quiet Friday at work, not too many people in. We raised our prices today but it barely even registered on the BBC Website. Guess that's what happens when everyone expects these things to happen ( Read more... )

got up, went to work, blew my nose a bit, went shopping, came home, cooked, ate, "chilled" as much as possible in this humidity ( Read more... )

#1: Just because you have a large chili doesn't mean you have to use it all ( Read more... )