Hi, I'm here, I'm okay! Our weather is at last consistently staying above 70F: prior to last week we'd had five whole hours in that range during the year to date. Of course it is hot TODAY, when we were loading the truck for the Rotary auction. (It's 33C/87F right now - all the blinds are down and my herbs are finally happy ( Read more... )

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I hadn't realised the story had made CNN. P. and I were out for supper and then at the observatory with Neighbours P. and M. when things kicked off; as there's no mobile signal out there, we had no idea what was happening until we came home at 10.30 to a frantic message from Dear Friend S. It was not a peaceful night: we could see the police ( Read more... )

Every so often I doubt my ability to properly "fit" here, and every time it's gotten bad something has happened to chase the doubts off, generally with laughter. The most recent was last weekend, after the plod that was cleaning the office - DS exclaimed "How could it have taken all day, Mum? It's not that big a room ( Read more... )