"Kof Kof!"

A week of unalloyed pleasure, not! Sunday and Monday with a fever - not pleasant on a hot day - and Tuesday sleeping it off while turning into a chesty cough. The cough is still with me and seems likely to continue until the end of the weekend. I have, however, managed to clear a fair few logs this week so my averages are up to normal again. I also managed to begin my Christmas shopping and have already procured four presents with plans for three more.

Hazel has been pretty good until this morning and is even beginning to pick up again now. She is still changing her drug levels though so nothing is safe yet. Like me, most of her medications are not intended to be taken with any of the others. Dispensers cringe when we walk in to the shop.

but looks as though she might!

Thanks Max, always one of my favourites.

It's been a busy day already with several major jobs finished and packed away. My eye is still a bit painful but much better than yesterday so I live in hopes of tomorrow. Hazel was good again this morning, if only we could find out what causes either the good or the bad days we could do something about her pain. I had the unusual pleasure this morning of sitting in an office with a good view over the main campus and watching the university wake up. It was fascinating to see how the various groups arrived and began their day. The workmen from the building site first, then the staff of the union shop followed by huge swathes of school children on guided tours and, eventually, a few bleary eyed students.

Is the girl who says she never does.....................

One more day!

It's sad really, I'm getting more fun out of the poem than I am from anything else at the moment. Hazel was not well this morning and, due to changing my eye drops, I have been in some pain as well. Not the greatest day of our lives. The final roofing project is just brilliant though, I was moved to say that it looked beautiful. It's a very light grey and just stunning as a very large area. Once the cats get at it, however, it will quickly turn to dark brown spots. The job yesterday was tiring but ultimately satisfying until I checked one of the modules this morning. I then began to notice just how much was missing from the front page. I tried to pull it back but gave up and have handed the mess to the web team.

And I think you'll say I'm right.....

It's coming.............

I have just spent about half a day correcting a mistake made by one of our lecturers on a module site. The thing that really got to me is not that she made the mistake but that the software was not protected so that she couldn't do it. When a site is created for a module site, a few very important parts of it are coded into it. These parts are not always where the new owners of the site want them but, as they don't work anywhere else, tough! Until they try to move them..................... Then the small cuddly bear hits the windmill. The parts can not only be moved, they can be cut and pasted. This makes them totally useless immediately. Well done guys, instantly useless web site. Even after we worked out how it had happened, we had to work out how to reinstate the code in such a way that it worked and didn't interfere with any of the code still in place. This took a lot of thought and clenched buttocks to test it out. Fortunately, we got it right and were able to document the whole sorry mess in case, or when, it happens again. There must be some way of stopping access to this code, surely?

But the girl I like the best.....

Still Maxey.

Well, what a turn up for the books, Hazel felt better this morning and is much more comfortable at present, let's hope this is a trend. I managed to clear more than ten logs this morning thanks to a run of logs in the same area and my list is now looking more manageable at last. Also, Hazels doctor completed her various official forms for insurance and DLA this morning so she is now just waiting for money in one case and an allowance in the other. If she gets the allowance, then we will use it to get a car and then, sadly, sell janis.

I hate the girl who says she will and then she says she won't......

Third line.
An interesting weekend, a lot done but not much to show for it.

I went through the house and re-batteried all the clocks and also moved some around for better sightlines. I now have the very elegant clock with Roman numerals above the TV and Hazel finally has a clock in her current bedroom. I also spent some time communing with the bunny. He is beginning to accept me as a friendly being and has sniffed me all over on Saturday. He has even allowed me to touch his back without running away a couple of time now. Sally has a job this week working as a bunny as part of a corporate day here in the university so she is working up an act about her being a stage struck bunny who got a job with a magician and is now fed up with having to spend most of her time on stage inside a top hat. I admit to being biased but it's hilarious. She really should do more stand up.

I like the girls who don't...

Cover via Amazon

Second line etc.

Yesterday the new Kindle arrived for Sally. It had a much later OS than the one that the first two have just upgraded to?????? However, she is over the moon with it as she will be doing a lot of travelling soon and it will keep her sane on the long journeys. Yesterday also, I bought a large rodent cage in order to turn it into a run for the bunny. I thought it was a good idea and so did Hazel. Sally said"It's much too small and I don't want him outside from now on as it's going to be too cold....................". Collapse of parents.

I like the girls who do.....

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First line from a Max Miller verse. Second line next time.

Life is just plain hard work at the moment. Both of us are feeling very tired and having to wake early and go to bed later than we want to. We are just killing time until Hazel has her next specialist appointment and, following that, her next Drs appointment.

One third of the wall is done!!!

Still some tarting up to do but now covered in a layer of new render that will be easier to keep clean and won't harbour small animals. It also means that I can set up the wind break and move the bunny hutch over to it's proper position. I will construct a gated doorway in the hutch and then the bunny can move in.

I shall then clean the floor along the rest of the wall and build the bunn runn for Rodney.

You know that feeling.............

Not really depressed, just a trifle, sort of, well ......... widdled off, if you know what I mean. I have spent two days doing repetitive jobs on computers to slight avail. The job I started yesterday has gone a bit sour because I was asked to re-image a PC that shouldn't have been and I can't finish off the main job until we have a decision  about what to do next. So, today, I have been doing some fairly simple jobs on three lectern computers that have required thawing and then freezing again. If you have ever had to do that, you will know why I am so widdled!

Long Weekend

Well, we went to Paignton for the family reunion and drove up in the hired Ford Fiesta once I had taxed the van online, as the new Registration document arrived very early. A very nice car but a trifle small for my taste. For the trip to Torbay and back, it was fine but any longer in such a small car and I think I might have got a bit claustrophobic. Not all the party didn't find it perfect though. Samuel went with us and thought it was brilliant! Mind you, he also enjoyed sleeping on the floor of our room in a sleeping bag because they had run out of family rooms. The sun was deceptively bright on Friday and, playing golf with Samuel, I ended up with a bad case of heat exhaustion. I managed to hold out until Philip and Kristie had left and then retired to bed until the following morning. I caught up with Russ on Saturday but was so tired, I ended up finishing early and falling into bed before ten. By Sunday I felt a lot better and did the taxi run for the whole family in the Fiesta.