Tuesday, December 30
Monday, December 29
Out and About
Introducing Tinkerbell
Global Warming?!?
Wednesday, December 24
That was the year that was...
...OK, it's not over yet, but I was having a review in my mind last night:
Adam aka The Boy
2008 marked 19 years since we met, I've now known him for longer than I didn't know him.
It's 10 years since we were married.
It's 9 years lsince we moved into no29 (it'll be 10 in May) .
Family
Gertie, my grandmother celebrated her 100 birthday (sadly dying less than 3 weeks later).
My niece Zoe was born.
I caught up with a ploethra of Danish relatives.
Work
In October I left RM, after just over 7 years.
Travel
I went on trips to: Madeira, Burgundy, Denmark, Turkey (inc. a fabulous few days in Istanbul) and Berlin.
However, when I think about this year, I think about my FRIENDS (including Adam, my best friend) - both near and far, old and new - who have sustained, supported, renewed, delighted, suprised (and best of all), amused me throughout this year.
I hope you all have a Happy Christmas (or religious/non-religious celebration of your choice :-)) - and that 2009 will be full of joy and laughter. I send you all my love.
Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What you too? I though I was the only one'.
C.S.Lewis
Adam aka The Boy
2008 marked 19 years since we met, I've now known him for longer than I didn't know him.
It's 10 years since we were married.
It's 9 years lsince we moved into no29 (it'll be 10 in May) .
Family
Gertie, my grandmother celebrated her 100 birthday (sadly dying less than 3 weeks later).
My niece Zoe was born.
I caught up with a ploethra of Danish relatives.
Work
In October I left RM, after just over 7 years.
Travel
I went on trips to: Madeira, Burgundy, Denmark, Turkey (inc. a fabulous few days in Istanbul) and Berlin.
However, when I think about this year, I think about my FRIENDS (including Adam, my best friend) - both near and far, old and new - who have sustained, supported, renewed, delighted, suprised (and best of all), amused me throughout this year.
I hope you all have a Happy Christmas (or religious/non-religious celebration of your choice :-)) - and that 2009 will be full of joy and laughter. I send you all my love.
Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What you too? I though I was the only one'.
C.S.Lewis
Tuesday, December 23
View from the Heights
Tuesday, December 16
Crimes Against Canines
Monday, December 15
La Luna continued...
Sunday, December 14
Hair Scare...
Saturday, December 13
St Lucy's Day

In Scandinavia and Italy there are lots of traditions associated with the day - many, like the St Lucy's Day fires, are obvious adaptions of earlier solstice celebrations.
Images of St Lucy tend to include her holding a pair of eyes on a plate, other images show her holding a lantern. I really like this more modern take.
Thursday, December 11
Corgi Power
This picture has nothing to do with my post...but I think endless posts without pictures can get a bit dull :-).
The boiler whisperer came round this morning. I missed him, but The Boy tells me that he put his hand on the boiler while diagnosing it, sort of boiler faith healing! A part is on order, and with luck we'll have heat and hot water tomorrow.
UPDATE
The gas man cometh - bless him, he came back this evening, and we now have heating and hot water! Hurrah!
Wednesday, December 10
MissT is stinky!
Brrrrr...it's cold! The combi boiler isn't igniting, so no heating and no hot water! MissT hasn't been this cold since she left her childhood abode to go to college, as her cruel APs didn't get central heating until the kids left home (or telly for that matter).
At The Boy's suggestion I brought the fan heater down from the attic, and stupidly plugged it into the extension socket (which you shouldn't do anyway - and I'd forgotten that the fuse in it is only working cos it was mended with some silver paper). The extension socket then became v. hot, scorched the rug and fused the sockets.
I minced off to the pub in disgust - anyone would think I lived on a boat!
(A nice boiler engineer who Marmaladekiss swears by is coming tomorrow - hurrah!)
Tuesday, December 9
Religious Scene
Things that make MissT CROSS...
I should be very happy ce moment, as I have a lovely new laptop (well, it's a refurb. but it's as new)...but...
./rant
I am annoyed about (in no particular order):
- my cough which won't go away
- friends who make the most incredibly tactless remarks, then have incredibly thin skins about anything I might say
- women who dump their female friends when male company appears
- my camera which has a dust particle I just can't get out
- people who don't even acknowledge job applications, let alone tell you if you're not successful
- Robert Mugabe
- that someone I love lives too far away for me to support her properly
- pissed up teenagers who keep me awake then throw cans of 'wife beater' into our front garden
- me
./rant off
UPDATE
That said, a grumpy guts like me is lucky to have any friends at all....
Monday, December 8
Looking Up...

There was a clear, blue sky, so I looked up to enjoy it. I'd never noticed the bull on top of the Town Hall...
[Please forgive the image quality - I had to take quick snaps with my phone will being jostled by stressed shoppers :-)]
Thursday, December 4
Note to self...
...boiling the kettle with out any water in it is foolish, on many levels.
Still, my many years in IT support meant that I did a 'hard reboot' on everything, and soon sorted out why all our sockets had tripped.
Although, had I followed up why 'the kettle was making a funny noise' earlier, The Boy wouldn't have had to dash out of the technogarret like a scalded cat.
Historia est vitae magistra...and all that jazz...
Technogarret Sunset

Overachiever....

Tuesday, December 2
Sinister Billy

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