The Way of the Wombat

Saturday was the first day it was warm enough to walk Mum's doglet on the Ayres without a coat.

Yesterday was a good day to hang out washing - except that my clothes pole had broken over the winter... D-d came for dinner and we had roast duck, courtesy of my mum, and I made rhubarb fool. This reminded me that there was a problem with my hand mixer - the clash of metal on metal, blade hitting blade, is good in a fight scene - but not so good when the mixer makes it!

Today was a public holiday and so S2C and I set off and achieved the following;

broken garden chair and garden umbrella to the Amenity site - along with a few other bits of rubbish.

new clothes pole from B&Q.

new phone for Mum from Currys

new Blue-ray player for us ditto.

new mixer from local electronics shop

new sound bar thing for TV ditto (guess which one of us wanted that...)

Also today I changed our bed and washed the bedding, and cleaned the window frames in the bedroom.

It definitely all sounds like spring!

The weather has been so much nicer this week too - back to the nice clear weather we had in March - but warmer.

( I've taken a few pictures... )

I haven't been around much for the last few days,my laptop has been infor repair... actually it still is, but they have found the problem to be fairly minor and S2C is picking it up when he's in the compter shop tomorrow.

Of course it's my own fault - at the end of last week I bought myself one of these - mainly for when I travel, or go to Mum's and so on. But I think the laptop noticed and went into a decline... (That is, clearly, what happens when you give something with that much logical capacity a web cam so it can see what's going on around it.)

If, as seemed quite possible, the netbook was going to have to play a larger role than expected and as, also, S2C was so taken with it he was thinking of buying something similar, I bought an external DVD drive when I took the laptop in to see if it was repairable. Guess what? It doesn't work. S2C is taking it back on that trip tomorrow.

Then the coffee machine has developed a fsult and is now leaking so badly I've just binned it...

I am now looking suspiciously at all the other elecrical devices now!

In better news, D-d got her results for her Graduate Diploma in Law yesterday - she got distinctions! Yay! I took her out for a celebratory meal last night - poor S2C couldn't come as he was at work.