Goodbye Saffy

When you look at it like that, it hardly seems any distance at all… 🙂

There have been doubts cast on MrPloppy’s ability to fit into such a small space in that photo yesterday.  No, he’s not a hobbit (he’d be much better cast as an elf), but he does have an almost inhuman ability to draw his knees up to his chin while sleeping, especially if forced to by…

Well, we’ve survived the first few days of the visit. The Outlaws are almost over their jetlag, I’m almost used to sleeping on a camp stretcher (we’ve given them our bed, so we’re in the spare room on stretchers), the cats are almost used to having strange people in the house, and the weather has…

Happy Boxing Day! (And Happy Christmas to those of you in the Western hemisphere still stuck in the past ;-)) We had a very quiet Christmas, as is our wont. After a hectic few weeks of work (a couple of big last minute projects, plus trying to catch up on all the work I hadn’t…

The dreaded jury duty this week… actually, I wasn’t really dreading it, although it’s one of those things you’re supposed to moan about. I was kind of looking forward to it, actually. The whole process of how justice works interests me, and I’d love to see the jury process from the inside, but this is…