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shewhomustMost of the snow was gone by the end of the day, because it rained all that afternoon. But it froze overnight, and has been as cold ever since, so what snow survived the day has survived until now. The road is clear, and not actually icy, though it glitters ominously. Still, I made it down to the Elm Tree for the quiz: and since the First Reserve Quizmaster was asking the questions, we had the Quizmaster on our team, accompanied by a visitor (who just happens to be the Master of Another Quiz) and perhaps that explains why we not only triumphed but did so by quite a measure.
We have set in motion building work to replace the windows at the front of the house. This will happen later this year, sodurham_rambler took advantage of the quiet days to weed out his collection of defunct and discarded computers. The time-consuming bit was destroying any lurking data, which he seems to have achieved by installing Linux on everything (this much I understand, but don't ask me to explain further...); having done this, he found an organisation which has a use for obsolete computers, and yesterday their representative called to collect half a dozen assorted computers. There is now a lot more space in durham_rambler's study: the path to the window is not yet clear, but it is visible. The builder comes on Monday, so that's a deadline to aim for. There are boxes to be moved away from the bay window in the sitting room, too, but not before S., has visited after her meeting tomorrow.
This morning, as promised, the plumber arrived. He has repaired the flush on the upstairs toilet, and replaced the kitchen tap. This, Dreamwidth informs me is the third tap of this journal: it is not as pretty as either of its predecessors, but it is not dripping, for which I am grateful. Time to make use of it (washing up! cooking dinner!)...
We have set in motion building work to replace the windows at the front of the house. This will happen later this year, so
durham_rambler took advantage of the quiet days to weed out his collection of defunct and discarded computers. The time-consuming bit was destroying any lurking data, which he seems to have achieved by installing Linux on everything (this much I understand, but don't ask me to explain further...); having done this, he found an organisation which has a use for obsolete computers, and yesterday their representative called to collect half a dozen assorted computers. There is now a lot more space in durham_rambler's study: the path to the window is not yet clear, but it is visible. The builder comes on Monday, so that's a deadline to aim for. There are boxes to be moved away from the bay window in the sitting room, too, but not before S., has visited after her meeting tomorrow. This morning, as promised, the plumber arrived. He has repaired the flush on the upstairs toilet, and replaced the kitchen tap. This, Dreamwidth informs me is the third tap of this journal: it is not as pretty as either of its predecessors, but it is not dripping, for which I am grateful. Time to make use of it (washing up! cooking dinner!)...
