... Take That's, PatienceEvery morning, no matter what time I open my eyes, there is always some random song or a tune playing at full belt ( on 11!) in my head; sometimes it's a pop tune, other times it's something from an opera. Quite often, I don't even know the name of the piece of music that's rattling around my brain, turning my grey matter ( Read more... )

I have a touch of the blues today. I s'pose it started this weekend with the house sale falling through. Now, as so often happens, other troubles are flocking to sip blood from the open wound.

In no particular order, here are my woes:( Read more... )

I'm talking about drink, of course. What did you think I meant? :D

Unfortunately, the hard stuff is still packed away, buried beneath some far-flung, leaning box tower (Shut up Jimi!!) and I had to make do with a large Zinfandel instead - hardly what my inner doctor prescribed! Pretty and pink as it is, Zinny didn't quite hit the mark for me ( Read more... )

... slurping my first cup of coffee of the day, quietly contemplating whether I should attempt to clean the house, or just continue trashing it, when suddenly I was violently roused from my reverie by an unholy commotion from outside. Now I am no twitcher (aka bird enthusiast), but I know the panic call when I hear one.In fact, that squawking ( Read more... )

It seems ages since I last posted anything. What can I say? Life is so busy for us right now. Not only is the portly chap in the red suit on his final approach, but we are in the midst of attacking this - lovely - wreck of a house from the top end down. There be wiring, plaster and power tools lying about, in various poses, all over the place - and ( Read more... )

Only it isn't a woodshed - more like a tatty old garden shed. And it's not a nasty something, more of a surprising, and incredibly beautiful, something.

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...when the new house owner begins to look further afield than the four (damp and rather moldy in places!) walls of their newest purchase. For me, today was that day ( Read more... )

...is slowly falling back to normal following the house move. I'm currently on dial-up (how deliciously primitive!) because AOL cocked-up my broadband order so I'll attempt to keep this brief ( Read more... )

...and now just getting from one room to another is like a quick trip round one of those fancy mazes you get at stately homes - only a much more down market one! The owners of those places had the good sense to build their mazes out of doors; what a pity we couldn't do the same thing, but the British climate is not kind to cardboard. No matter how ( Read more... )

And what a fabulous trip we've had! We arrived back home monday evening but I didn't feel up to blogging due to the still-going-seventy-mph sensation in my skull. I always get this after a long motorway journey, don't know why!

( Picture heavy post ahoy! )