Thursday 7th February

You know how sometimes you hear about those households that run out of heating oil…..and you say “how could anyone be so stupid as to not know there’s no oil in the tank?”….yes, that’s us this evening. We’ve never been so pleased to have an Aga in the kitchen….the strange thing was that we’d all said to each other today how much colder it felt. It was only this evening when we were arguing about who’s turn it was to wash and dry that we realised that actually there wasn’t any hot water. Then we had much laughter about “wearing plastic gloves”, and then more shouts and swearing as the plastic glove covered hands were thrust deep into the water that had just been poured in to the sink out of the kettle…….isn’t it surprising just how hot boiling water is? …..must be almost 100 degrees I’d guess.
More training for the pup tonight….she’ll be so well trained soon that maybe we can get HER to do the dishes.
The tall one is “on nights” this evening….so he wasn’t involved in teatime conversations….tonight we concentrated on the phonetic alphabet. The lifeboatman is taking a radio course on Saturday and needs to know all sorts of interesting stuff. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta….Hotel, India, Juliet….Xray, Yankee, Zulu. Other subjects covered included whether there would be a rent rebate for those living in bedrooms without heating this evening…indeed we actually discovered that the noisiest complainant hadn’t paid any rent for three weeks…..bet he wished he’d kept his mouth shut. We also chatted about the bribery techniques that Father will have to use tomorrow in a vain hope that we might get some diesel delivered before the week-end….here’s hoping.
Half term starts tomorrow, so we’re wondering if there will be anyone left on the rock to read this over the next 10 days……
The rabbit food muncher has an update for everyone, so we’re signing off now so as to allow her a couple of hours to write her 5 lines. Back tomoz!

How on earth does one follow that.......

We have a well used familiar saying in our house- "never believe what you read in the paper", the same could be applied to this blog. No longer my blog, but hi-jacked by the rest of the family!!  

I do have two snippets of news, I have had a very brief email from my Dr H to say my consultant and the Marsden did chat about me on Tuesday, and they are all in agreement. I am now on three monthly check ups. However I would still like to see it in writing!

My daughter and I have signed up for the 'Race for Life' again this year- I have been fine tuning the 'Just giving' page this evening (before dog training) and when I have it sorted will post the link.

By the way, the dog was exceptionally good at training this evening, and exceptionally bad!!!!

 Men are like...Placemats. They only show up when there's food on the table.