Had a lovely afternoon yesterday, pottering around Covent Garden with the other g-d. We bought some design books in Dover Books and had hot chocolate, then I went into Lush to spend like a drunken sailor. One thing I like about buying stuff in Lush shops is that you can't actually smell anything until you get it home, but it is usually a pleasant ( Read more... )

Oh dear - I see that I have not posted here, or indeed done anything else at all, apart from sleep, for at least a fortnight. I have done an awful lot of sleeping* and feeling a bit wobbly, so maybe I'm sickening for something. At least the snow has gone, leaving everything a bit grubby and sordid, but with the feeling that at any moment daffodil ( Read more... )

I can't muster up much enthusiasm for the new year celebrations this year, although (or perhaps because) I'll be so very glad to see the back of 2009, which was definitely of my less favourite years. I'm slightly minded to go to bed early with a hot-water bottle and a detective story, but the celebratory explosions have already started, so I'll ( Read more... )

Woke late again, and saw with mixed feelings that the weather had turned to something a bit more normal for Christmas, i.e. pouring rain and black as the inside of a cow, with none of the snow remaining apart from a few patches in the park. I think we should have more genuinely seasonal winter imagery at Christmas - silver raindrops and little ( Read more... )

Gradually recovering, I think, with my temperature decreasing nicely, although readings are complicated because my normal temperature seems to be lower than normal* - nearer 35 than the average of 37 degrees. Or maybe I just need to calibrate the thermometer, but that would involve kidnapping a normal person off the street and forcing them to put ( Read more... )

Very hot and humid today, and I've been very hot and irritable all day, doing a lot of very dusty and annoying housework, and snapping peevishly at the g-d and boyfriend, who both seem to have moved in until the weekend. How much am I prepared to put up with for a free weekend in Paris?

today was mildly disappointing. I had planned to spend a pleasant afternoon visiting the zoo in Battersea Park with the g-d and boyfriend (who had heard that it contains monkeys), but when I got to Victoria station to meet them I was greeted by a message saying that his grandmother had been taken very ill, and they had to go to Bornemouth, where ( Read more... )

Humph - it's the middle of June and I'm sitting here in a cardigan I bought to wear in Cracow in December.

The weather has been lovely all weekend - sunny, warm and with a light breeze. Soon I will be able to move into my usual summer mode of complaining about it being too hot. On Friday, I crawled home after a busy (4-day) week, to dinner with the g-d and friends which, although delightful, prolonged the tiredness into the middle of Saturday. She ( Read more... )

I spent most of a really beautiful day lying on a marble floor poking at skirting boards with a scalpel again - far more comfortable than on my last visit to the same house, when it was snowing outside. No more work this week, but the Hampshire job is definitely on, so two days next week packing up the lab to take down there, then most of the ( Read more... )