Right, upbeat post required
will see how I can do!
the BT man cometh again today. Then the digger men came and filled in our hole so now I can reverse out of my drive without fearing plummeting into the hole (it’s right at the edge of teh drive and I’m not the world’s best reverser!) This BT man decided it wasn’t anything to do with the junction in the road (which, incidentally the hole was in teh wrong place to get at anyway 
) but down to a loose wire in the box on teh wall. We now have a speed of 4Gig on the internet and a phone with only a little crackle so much improoved even if Duke doesn’t think it’s as good as it could be (hey, I’ll take good enough over not working any day!!!)
We had a very pleasant swim today, the water seemed to be extra warm and soothing on tired limbs although not condusive to any genuine excercise (think huge bath but without bubbles!)
I got my set texts for my next course in the post and did that sharp intake of breath thing at the size of one of them! Turned out I was crying before I was hurt, it’s only (only???) 800 pages but thick paper so it looked more. May need a magnifyer for the font size mind you 
I shall be playing with my book scanner some time soon to digitise a chapter at a time for easy reading and pasting of references into essays. First I will find the instructions for how to digitise whole books whilst keeping chapters "bookmarked" with my scanner - can’t be too hard surely?
Aprilia’s Christmas gifts are all now stowed away, she’s got her DS plus a Suduko game and Big Brain Academy to go with it. Likewise Duke’s pressie (books from Amazon and a clever little torch to clip onto his uniform) I’ve picked out something for his sister but want to browse a bit more in case I find anything else from the same site, his mum is sorted, my mum is half sorted (sigh aparently I can’t give her stricknin laces chocolates…) the small neices are sorted. I suspect i could get there on time if I keep this up.
There have been concerted attempts at Sonlighting, it struck me that we have just about finished week 9 which is not far off right really so I need to stop fretting don’t I.
the house is disapearing under a blizard of paper snowflakes. We need to decide what to do with them all, i don’t think we have enough window space….
There, upbeat. Not a wail in sight. That’s better.
