New Road, Edward!

perlmonger and I went to Swansea today, to pick up these speaker stands from eBay. We were not pleased, when we returned from a 160 mile round trip, to find that the carpet spikes, which should be supplied with the stands, are missing. No doubt there will be protracted wrangling with the vendor, and we'll end up without the damn things, and the stands are unusable without.

Still while we were in Welsh Wales, we picked up kalunina's cashmas gift, with which we are well pleased. And we did something we very rarely do - we had a Burger King. I feel ashamed really, but I'd only had a bowl of porridge all day, and it was cold, and there it was. We had a Three Pepper thing, which actually wasn't too bad. And we drove home across the Brecons in the winter sun, and to a spectacular sunset across the Severn Bridge, which was also nice.

Yesterday, we blitzed the living room which was an absolute *tip*, and took a car load of stuff to the tip - all the boxes from the new equipment, which I didn't want to leave out for the recyclers, the plastic bottles, etc. Then over to Woolworths for a couple of bits, and a quick trip into Next, where perlmonger *bought some new trousers* - and a shirt! And I bought a nice green woolly sweater. Then off to our favourite local restaurant for .. well, not lunch really, but a 4 p.m. meal.

Should anyone care about the rest of the week... ( it's here )

So that's it, really - I'm going to give Cranford a go tonight, and see if it's as good as everyone says. Off to put my feet up!