I wanted to stop in bed today

Everything here seems to be two steps forward and then one back again. Things keep breaking. The latest is my PC. It appears to have a corrupted boot sector on the HDD. No. I do not have backups. I thought that I did but apparently we no longer run a server. Vincent makes progress but …

Comfort Food

That moment when you understand that you might not be feeling at your best just now… and you are in the kitchen, making Bubble & Squeak from scratch and acting like that is normal. Yeah. That.

Outlook: Dull

Sorry, still nothing much to report here and very little time to do that in. Mr L gave up on the central heating boiler after fitting a new jet and oil filter and he called somebody in to look at it. The verdict was that a new controller was needed and the boiler man went …

We might have expected it

It was honestly a surprise when we arrived home after seven months away and everything turned on with no problems. Even the Central Heating boiler fired up first time of asking, as did the car – once we had purchased a new battery. However… After a week the Central heating packed in. We sent for …

A small window in my personal time-space continuum

The soup is made for lunch, a batch of chocolate brownies is cooling, as is a dish of sage and onion stuffing, and a tray of soft white rolls is proving ready to bake. The washing is on the line. I appear to have two moments to myself. Yes, it has been a while. I …