Swings and roundabouts on ice
Jan. 15th, 2010 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustThe thaw continues. I actually went into town yesterday - no, that's overstating it. But ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
durham_rambler took me into town yesterday, and I made my own way home. Net result: some necessary shopping (vegetables, fruit, caffeine, rather overdue birthday present!) and some unnecessary shopping (Unseen Academicals reduced to half price in the sale and therefore probably costing about the same as it would from Amazon), some fresh air and a sense of moderate achievement (walking back up the hill confirmed my reluctance to try walking down it).
Encouraged by this, we decided to take a step back towards normality, and go swimming first thing (for values of 'first thing' which do not involve setting the alarm clock and venturing out into the darkness. Wake up whenever we wake up, we reckoned, let the dawn pass and any overnight frost clear first, but then swim before breakfast). We were thwarted by the pool being closed all morning for a schools gala (yes, we should have noticed the warning signs, but we don't usually swim on Fridays). Went back to the pool this afternoon, and managed to swim, but it was very crowded. Net result: some wasted time, and a renewed determination to try Plan A next week - not agreeable, exactly, but no doubt good for me.
I have a virtual Valentine's gift! From Frank! (Shouldn't Valentine's gifts be anonymous? But the card with this gift says "Frank sends his love.") This came about because there was a challenge in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
news to comment saying what mysterious object was in the box, first 25 commenters to receive a gift, and since I was there, and it was obvious (what's in the box? Schrödinger's goat, of course), I commented. I've never received a virtual gift before (real money, virtual gift? I think not), so I'm quite pleased - but on the other hand, Valentine's already? It's not even Burns Night yet! (Since the gift is captioned 'Opens Feb 14' and the accompanying e-mail says that it will show on my profile page for the next two weeks, I may never find out whether the goat is or is not alive: which is, I suppose, as it should be).
And, oh, joy, the students return this weekend! A group of them were hovering around their car as we drove back from the pool. Picture, if you will, twilight,durham_rambler driving very carefully on ice, trying to maintain enough momentum to keep going up the hill, and a young man wandering across in front of us, talking on the phone - wearing camouflage trousers in shades of white and grey. Death wish, surely?
Still no rubbish collection, but you can't have everything.
durham_rambler took me into town yesterday, and I made my own way home. Net result: some necessary shopping (vegetables, fruit, caffeine, rather overdue birthday present!) and some unnecessary shopping (Unseen Academicals reduced to half price in the sale and therefore probably costing about the same as it would from Amazon), some fresh air and a sense of moderate achievement (walking back up the hill confirmed my reluctance to try walking down it).Encouraged by this, we decided to take a step back towards normality, and go swimming first thing (for values of 'first thing' which do not involve setting the alarm clock and venturing out into the darkness. Wake up whenever we wake up, we reckoned, let the dawn pass and any overnight frost clear first, but then swim before breakfast). We were thwarted by the pool being closed all morning for a schools gala (yes, we should have noticed the warning signs, but we don't usually swim on Fridays). Went back to the pool this afternoon, and managed to swim, but it was very crowded. Net result: some wasted time, and a renewed determination to try Plan A next week - not agreeable, exactly, but no doubt good for me.
I have a virtual Valentine's gift! From Frank! (Shouldn't Valentine's gifts be anonymous? But the card with this gift says "Frank sends his love.") This came about because there was a challenge in
news to comment saying what mysterious object was in the box, first 25 commenters to receive a gift, and since I was there, and it was obvious (what's in the box? Schrödinger's goat, of course), I commented. I've never received a virtual gift before (real money, virtual gift? I think not), so I'm quite pleased - but on the other hand, Valentine's already? It's not even Burns Night yet! (Since the gift is captioned 'Opens Feb 14' and the accompanying e-mail says that it will show on my profile page for the next two weeks, I may never find out whether the goat is or is not alive: which is, I suppose, as it should be). And, oh, joy, the students return this weekend! A group of them were hovering around their car as we drove back from the pool. Picture, if you will, twilight,
durham_rambler driving very carefully on ice, trying to maintain enough momentum to keep going up the hill, and a young man wandering across in front of us, talking on the phone - wearing camouflage trousers in shades of white and grey. Death wish, surely?Still no rubbish collection, but you can't have everything.
