As usual I have so much to say that I’m running out of brain to process it all.
It rained this morning. It was heavy, it was windy and, apart from the temperature looked very much like a gusting tropical storm. And it was dark – more like evening than morning.
I had coffee in the garden with Julia in a cold metal container with no lighting and took several photographs. They have removed the bicycle and put up a Christmas Tree.
This is Julia’s work. Cold, wet and dark.
After that I went to work, packed some parcels, added some more items to the eBay shop and went home. There was slightly more to it than that, but nothing that I haven’t said before.
This is what my work involves – it’s warmer and drier but I can feel my will to live ebbing away. It’s also what the Queen does for a living. I think she probably comes out of this better than me and Julia.
Oh, gosh!!!!
🙂
With a weather change, so will your attitude!
Yes, only another four months to go…
Whoa!
🙂
Her Majesty does look warmer. The Factories Act probably wouldn’t approve of the temperature in Julia’s office
I don’t approve either, and I am well protected by blubber. 🙂
I once closed my Social Services office because there was no heating and the rooms were below the minimum temperature required. This, as you may imagine, was after battling for two years to have it installed. My action didn’t go down two well with Shirley Porter (the disgraced leader of the Council)
If you upset Shirley Porter your life hasn’t been wasted. In an ideal world she would have spent several years behind bars.
I upset her more than once – that’s why I never got any further, I’m happy to say.
🙂
Why are there no lights?
They have no electricity and no running water. Gas lights are a bit of a safety hazard. 🙂
Wow! That’s pretty crazy…
They have a very long hosepipe that stretches across to the school. 🙂
And walkie talkies for when they want to turn it on?
No, they have to unroll it, fill their water butts and then coil it all away.
Oh man…
It’s character forming, as I tell her as she gradually thaws during the evening.
Sounds like having a freshly formed and strengthened character is a necessity at your house… :p
That may be partly due to the effort needed to
…ooops… be married to me for 30 years. 🙂
Darkness can sap you, that’s for sure; as can a cold rain. I hope things look up, at least weather-wise, soon. We’re supposed to have a storm to the south this weekend, but it’s been cold and sunny, which helps a lot!
Only 13 days until daylight starts to increase again!
Hang in there, Quercus and Julia! Spring is not far off. 🙂
That’s what I keep telling myself…
It would be more interesting to meet you and Julia than the Queen. (Nice compost bin.)
Thank you. The bins are part of the scheme to make the garden welcoming. They have other, less decorative, bins behind the polytunnels.
I’m sure the Queen has a fund of interesting stories about living with a bad-tempered old man with poor social skills. Julia certainly does. 🙂
I hope the sun shines tomorrow and cheers you up!
It would be nice if it did. 🙂