And no, I don't mean them darkening early in winter. Actually, we have no light at least an hour longer than, say, in early December. But the usable hours fly by with such a frightening speed - how is it Thursday evening again ( Read more... )

... of the disappearing cleaning lady. After several days of failed attempts to reach her on the phone, I got the nagging suspicion that she might be blocking our number. So I asked Mum's friend - the very one who had originally found this lady's ad in the local newspaper - to call her and pretend being interested in hiring some cleaning help. And ( Read more... )

I didn't go to choir practice today. Again. I just didn't feel like going out in this dreary weather in the late afternoon when it's already dark. They're practicing for a gig in which I won't participate anyway, so no big loss there ( Read more... )

He still doesn't have his cap, as I haven't managed to wrap my tired old brain around the intimidatingly complicated process of making one, but I thought I'd post a pic, just so that you all can decide whether he resembles a monkey or not. *g*

Here we go:


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The physiotherapist lady took a look at my as-yet unfinished little monkey rag doll and commented that he looks like the older brother of the Polish animated series for children, Bolek and Lolek. And she was actually right! The series was a great favourite in my childhood and had a renessaince in her childhood, so we both realized the similarity. ( Read more... )

We had a visit from the talkative chiropodist lady. It drained us both completely, so we had to take extensive naps in the afternoon. There went a lot of time that could have been put to good use - but not without any functioning brain cells ( Read more... )

... was my main agenda today. I had difficulties falling asleep last night; when you're still awake at 2am and have to get up at 6:30, taking naps during the next day is life saving. So that's what I did today. Two hour-long naps basically saved my life and what's left of my sanity. I can be very uncoordinated when sleep-deprived ( Read more... )

We had laundry day, which always means a lot of moving things around - Louise (our washing machine) opens on the top, and said top has all sorts of things stored upon it during the week. It would have been the day for Mum's weekly shower as well, she didn't feel like it. The recent warm front and then wet weather was bad for her joints; she's a bit ( Read more... )

... for the time being. (Ex-)colleague Kate promised to drop by and take a look at the state of things, especially those that might block my access to the dratted customer's gateway. It might not be entirely my fault, as the physiotherapist lady apparently has the same problems, and she's way more technically savvy than I am. We'll see ( Read more... )

... was done by Mum today. We had three moderately germinating potatoes that needed to be processed, so we decided that Kartoffelauflauf was the needful thing to make. Namely, the boiled and sliced potatoes, a hard-boiled and sliced eggs, the remains of yesterday's boiled pasta and grated case and some leftover creme freche that was approaching to ( Read more... )