November - not nice

Morning. Dull and cold. Day to snuggle in and knit.
Keep smiling!

Greetings, villagers, from cool and bright Oxfordshire.

I stayed up too late again hoping to hear news from the USA, and then couldn't sleep properly until quite late. OH left me in bed and started on his weekend jobs of cleaning the cars and the Eglu. He's now cutting the grass. I am feeling a bit guilty. My friend came to pick up the red yarn I'd promised and I wasn't awake.

The laptop has been playing up and I've had to reboot it twice, making me even later in here.

Another quick drawing by YD of her role play character when younger: tinyurl.com/y3rkpygs

A logo for a friend of hers "Beedrasil" based on Yggdrasil : tinyurl.com/y2zjxtqq

Chicken report: two eggs, from Griselda and Dottie.

Stay safe.

Morning, villagers. It's a foggy November morning.

Greetings, villagers, from cool, grey and damp Oxfordshire.

I had a couple of glasses of wine last night to celebrate the events across the Pond. DiL2 said she'd been drinking mimosas (like buck's fizz).

A quiet day is planned. Looking at the weather I'm glad we got outdoor things done yesterday. OH had cleaned the Eglu, washed the cars and cut the grass (probably for the last time this year). I'd done some pruning and clearing.

Chicken report: the hens are under the trampoline hiding from the rain. Griselda has laid an egg.

Stay safe.

After a few unseasonal warm days it is now raining and miserable.
I at last heard from the Plasterer to say he can come this week to do my ceilings! Only been waiting since February but I am sure it will be worth it. When that’s done I can get the painting and decorating sorted although will have to wait for plaster to dry.

I am wondering too if I should get my kitchen tiled as when I had it put in I went for a wall paint. Beginning to regret this as walls not so easy to keep clean.

Just wanted to add that Joe Biden HAS made America Great Again! And there is an interview with Joe by the late David Frost on BBC Sounds circa 1980’s on another Run & he seems such a straightforward honest man. I do recommend it and it’s just a short version.

I don’t know how calm it’s going to be in the USA as the vote was pretty tight but I am reminded of how tight the Brexit vote was and how I felt about that so have some sympathy. I don’t believe anyone called the Leave Vote a Fraud though

Greetings, villagers, from cool and rainy Oxfordshire. The weather forecast says there's a chance of thundery showers!

I was woken earlier than I would have liked, by a phone call from the dentist. I have an appointment at 2.30 (!) tomorrow afternoon with the hygienist. They wanted to run through the Covid questions beforehand.

OH has cleaned the hallway floor where one of the cats had dismembered some kind of small rodent.

Chicken report: Dottie has laid an egg. When I went to check on the hens last night the rain had stopped but the grass was still very wet. Four of the five hens were locked out of the Eglu because they had stayed under the trampoline until too late. Pearl was in and settled already, Lottie, Lilith and Griselda were in the run and standing on the Eglu steps, but Dottie was on the other side of the garden by the kitchen window. She came strolling across after I'd opened the door to let the others in, but she wouldn’t go into the run. I had to catch her by the tail and she made such a racket that YD stuck her head out of her bedroom window thinking that there was a fox in the garden! I was trying to catch Dottie one-handed because I was holding the torch in the other hand as it was pitch black by then. Having succeeded in shoving Dottie into the run and shutting it some of the other hens had come out of the Eglu. Most went indoors but I had to poke Griselda with a fennel stalk I'd cut when pruning earlier to make her go in again. They all settled down eventually.

Stay safe.