muuranker

Hi Alex,

I have failed to send you an email .... and now it is Too Late. Many apologies.

I will (in the way of Anne Shirley) <i>imagine</i> that you have sent me a beautiful card.

When (very soon, oh, let it be very soon) we are Moved, and I am no longer in the position where I re-read the entire history Anne of Green Gables (except Anne's House of Dreams, which I don't think I ever had) because Everything Else is in Boxes, I will let everyone know where we are going.

Thumbs firmly held for 2nd January for exchange ....

And that someone has bought me a book for Christmas. I have now finished Anne of Ingleside, and am trying to make my last new book, _Sold Down the River_ last all day.

Current Mood: The cats now wake earlier
Current Location: home
Current Music: Divorce Court

To answer

lynn_maudlin's question: no, we haven't moved yet. So christmas cards to the usual address are arriving just fine. We will have a re-direct put on when we do move, so don't worry.

It has all gone Very Slow. And the Yorkshire Building Society is being awful.

More positively, my cold has remained my cold, and not turned into ExMemSec's cold, which had him prostrate for 2 days.

And I have had some very positive reactions to my paper at the conference, which is a Very Positive thing, both for me personally, and for my work.

For those of you who like looking at pictures of TS events .... I have now made a set on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8268197@N02/sets/72157603425606449/ If I've got a picture of you up there that you want me to make 'family' only or 'private', please let me know (if you want to be 'family', let me know).

Current Mood: sneezing a bit

Woke up at five, blood glucose meter shows "Error E4". Can I find the booklet? Can I heck. It's probably in storage. I can find the booklet for the second meter I ever had which was retired ten years ago. I think it means the battery needs changing. I go to find my back up meter. By this time thoroughly awake, so make coffee at six and go to bed with ExMemSec (during pain, we sleep apart - that way he can get sleep). I expect him to be sleepy (he is), so I take new book with me: Farthing by

papersky. At nine, I drag myself out for more coffee, and to make bacon butties (Not Allowed, but I am Poorly). At eleven thirty I give up wrestling with TimeMap, and go back to bed with Farthing. Finally get up at something past one, with Farthing finished, feeling slightly shell-shocked. It's very good - somewhat along the lines of Sayers, in that it is a murder-mystery which is also a love story (albeit an after-the-marriage one, so closer toThrones, dominations which was finished by Jean Patton Walsh), and also something much bigger.

I have two of LibraryThing's unsuggestions (books that people who have Farthing are unlikely to have):

The devil wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (expected 17, found 0; unsuggestions)
For whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway (expected 16.8, found 0; unsuggestions)
A midsummer night's dream by William Shakespeare (expected 16, found 0; unsuggestions)

This is not typical of unsuggestions (for example, I own none of the 71 unsuggestions for Thrones, dominations). This owning-of-unsuggestions is surprising, as I would have thought that Farthing is a pretty typical book for me.

I read somewhere that Farthing was written in 17 days, so a couple of posts about

picowrimo and my current situation lead me to sign up. I will try for a day of the Japan log each day, plus 1000 words of the Thesis. But ALL this will be done with the dictation programme, and not in front of tv with fingers.

Afternoon spent getting TimeMap to the point where I could send the help emails to Australia, and email to the guy who reprojected the maps for me at York, and dealing withone or two little things (including an enquiry I last properly dealt with in March - ouch). Wrote list for what needs doing re Moves next week. We have accepted an offer on our house, and had an offer accepted on a maisonette in Woking, and an offer on a house in York rejected.

Current Mood: mellow
Current Location: at home

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