Summer!!

Saw two swallows last night, swooping though the blue at 7pm. Intimations of Summer!

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Dargen Dig!

We spent most of today outside; Mouse got muddier and happier and more and more enthused by the whole proceedings. He has the most cunning little watering can and a set of tools of his own, but of course mummy’s are more fun. He went up and down the path with bamboo canes, and to and [...]

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Trudging on

Back on the treadmill, facing the via dolorosa of the pile a crap on the desk, collected over the last week of absence, and the teetering inbox of emails unresponded to. 11.30am and I’m nearly through it and onto the real work for the day. Seems unbelievable that I haven’t been here for a week.
Last [...]

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DuvetHog

Still here, listeners - snorting and flapping the covers and fussing with tissues, whiling away the time and shouting at the radio when it all gets too controversial. Not that my shout would travel far… more of an etoliated squeak, really.
I have bought myself a bracelet off a friend’s site, to cheer myself up. She’s [...]

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This is turning into a duvet week…

Still in bed, and determined to count my blessings!
I can’t talk (a blessing for some)
Listening to Melvyn Bragg on WB Yeats (hurrah, such lyricism)
Looking at a jam sandwich with longing but not sure if I can eat it.
Truce said a true thing - flu makes you feel like an utter Jeanne d’Arc, martyrdom looming o’er [...]

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Comfortable in spite of it all!

Spent today largely in bed, with my little radio on, listening to R4 and reading / snoozing / waking up / drifting. I have eaten 1 piece of toast, one Mullerlight and shamefully, a Pot Noodle (beef and tomato). I have read 2/3rds of a Bill Bryson about how mad Britain is. I have blogged. [...]

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Woe…

Feeling utterly vile, sweating and choking. Hideous night in the spare room, trying not to cough too much and wake everyone up!
Just waiting till the doctors opens and I’m going to try and get an appointment. Urgh. No question of ’soldiering on’ or any such crip-crap - I’m staying in bed.

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Thanks, oh my great leaders!

The bosses are both off sick today with flu. Luckily for them; they’ve given it to me. I am feeling like hammered s**t and not looking much better, by all accounts. Cough, cough, splutter.

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Who’s for TV you can rewind…!!

ME!!
Sky+ installed today - it’s so infernally clever and cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.
I have managed to set it to record every episode of House MD for the remainder of the series.
And if you miss something important on The X-Files because Mulder’s muttering, you can rewind it [...]

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Gok’s Bak!

You can tell, cause there’s been15 searches in 2 days that have hit my blog about him!
How To Look Good Naked aired its first episode of the new series last night - required watching from my point of view!

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