damn - they've found me

this morning brought the first spam to my Gmail account ... although Gmail did correctly identify it as spam, so that's something.

out of the closet

my daughter, kalunina, has made her very first LJ post today. Let's see if she can keep it up :)

winter draws on

the tumble dryer packed up ... ages ago. April or May, probably. We decided to be green, and manage without for the summer, and by and large it was ok. We occasionally had to dry things on a clothes horse, and once we had to leave the pure cotton bed linen on the line for four days until it stopped raining, but we coped.

however, the arrival of the shorter days, *more* rain, and yet another load of sodden linen made me Get A Little Man In. He arrived this morning, charged the outrageous sum of £46.20 to fit a new thermostat, and we loaded the duvet cover, etc, into the dryer and pressed the button.

needless to say, the sun is now shining, and there's a nice breeze ...