Approved!

It’s been a long week, made even longer by the fact that I had to stay late for one of those work social functions that aren’t compulsory, but somehow are almost impossible to get out of. But that’s ok, I’ve got the art down to a tee of staying the minimum amount of time to…

Most important things first: MrPloppy made it home safely a couple of weeks ago – no hassles at all on the return trip, thankfully. He still says he’s never flying long-haul again though. Anyway, since he’s been back, it’s been all go. My brother and his family came to stay over Queen’s Birthday weekend –…

I sat down to register some books this morning, and my camera was sitting next to the computer, so I thought I’d try a little photographic demonstration of how I get my books ready to go out in the big wide world: So, here’s our book about to be dressed – it’s one of the…

I felt a bit guilty yesterday that I wasn’t more upset than I was, but really, I’ve known this was coming for a few months, so I’d already said my goodbyes to Saffy in my head, and yesterday was just the final step of the journey. She’d lost a lot of weight over the winter…

Yayyy!!!! We’ve got the internet back again!!! Oh, and the phone, but that’s not so important. Apparently the phone line across the street was broken, but when they fixed that, the phone still didn’t work – it turned out that our phone had broken as well. Presumably when the line broke it sent a surge…

Another big aftershock this morning. 5.5 – big enough to shake half the CDs off their shelf, but no damage. George, as usual, slept through it while MrPloppy and I cowered under the doorway. I’ve had a very constructive weekend, for a change. Managed to get a whole load of little jobs done that have…