After three blistering hot days, yesterday was gloomy, wet and cold. Today the sun shines again. One never knows what to wear. There could be a cold wind, it could be swelteringly hot, it could rain. The weather is daft.
And on top of all that the black dog nips at my heels (again) as I try [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Strange weather
Posted in melancholy, tagged depression, weather on 27 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A successful morning
Posted in home, tagged LCD monitor, music, speakers, town on 25 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well Saturday saw a successful trip to town. I left early to get a warrant of fitness for the car (as I know the queue builds up quickly). I’m always nervous that the car will fail the test and then will involve an expensive trip to a mechanic. However, the car passed – yippee. Next [...]
New blog
Posted in interests, tagged 1952, diary on 18 January, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A friend of mine has started a blog about old postcards she collects – particularly the messages on the back of them which are quite fascinating. It got me thinking and gave me the idea of having a blog of my grandmother’s diary of 1952. Years ago I had typewritten her diary out (for ease [...]
Comp back up and running
Posted in visits, tagged hills, Mount Maunganui, view on 6 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to one of those useful blokes who can do stuff and happen to have spare computer parts lying around, my computer is back up and running (reasonably well). It does make an awful noise when it starts up though so I’m not sure it’s completely healthy. Time will tell…
A couple of pics from my [...]
Introducing Jasmine
Posted in home, tagged cats, kitten, tortoiseshell on 3 January, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Our new pet was just sitting beside this laptop on the table and I realised that in this non-diary, irregularly-updated blog that I hadn’t mentioned her at all. She’s a gorgeous tortoiseshell kitten who acquired the name Jasmine after two weeks of agreeing and disagreeing over a list of possible names with three other people [...]
That’s that then
Posted in melancholy, visits, tagged friends, Mount Maunganui, New Year's Eve on 3 January, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Xmas/New Year done for another year. It was a fairly quiet one at my friend’s place. Of course I drank too much (I blame the red wine which my friend’s partner kept pouring in my glass). When will I learn? However, I remembered everything and everyone else danced to the blues music as well, so [...]
