The BeenThere-DoneThat Blog

Actually the New Year started with a number of bangs when some people around here set off fireworks at midnight last night but it didn’t last for long. However the significant bang was at 9:30 this morning. The power supply unit in my computer went off bang together with a flash and a puff of smoke.

So I’m going to be off air for an indeterminate time until I can get it sorted out especially as it appears that the computer’s main board may have also been fried.

I’m doing this post from my Internet Tablet. Back sometime!

I'm typing this on my Android tablet sitting in front of a roaring log fire in our new woodburner. Last night the temperature went down to around 22F and there was a heavy frost this morning over the trees as well as the ground. Even though the sun was out for most of the morning not all the frost has gone.

I also have a very bad cold and cough.  Luckily I finished the web site update to the Barbican pages yesterday but didn't upload it so even though my thinking processes aren't working as well as they might the uploading isn't difficult so I did that today.

Ho hum, it`s a hard life.

Most of the country seems to be under water (again) at the moment with hundreds of flood warnings in place and although it doesn't really affect us, we're on top of a hill, our garden is once again thoroughly waterlogged.

So it's nice to have a wife who enjoys grovelling in the ditch to clean out the obstructions and keep the water flowing.

Everyone should have one.

Any visitors planning to visit parts of Britain are advised to bring their wellies or possibly a rubber dinghy.

 

We are siamese if you don't please ….

We now have two new members in our household. Our neighbour is moving away and he can't take his cats with him so we have volunteered to take them on.

There are actually two house cats and four outside cats. The outside cats are not tame and won't come near enough to touch so all we need to do for those is provide food.

The two house cats are a siamese/tabby cross and are sisters.

They arrived on Wednesday evening and, so far, are settling in well. They are going to be confined to the house for a few days so that when they can go outside they will come back here, we hope, and not stay in our neighbours. They can no longer get into that house anyway.

I haven't been able to get a good portrait of the sleeping one yet but she has a much more siamese shaped head and she is cross-eyed. They both have blue eyes.

It's about five years since we last had a cat so we'd better start getting used to it again.

It's a number of years now since we had our own cats so their scent around the garden has worn off and our neighbours cats now treat it as part of their territory.

They do push their luck a little though but it's not unusual to find them in a greenhouse. This one was on the bench but has now moved down to the boards on the floor in the shade.

She has blue eyes and a squint.