Les Lamas de l'Aubaine

The snow has brought with it a freeze on action. No Things get done. We do the usual daily tasks, and then retreat to the warm safety of our little house along with all the cats and dogs. It’s even difficult to get stuff done inside the house when it is full of animals. Dogs think sweeping is a game. Cats think dust-sheets to protect furniture from dripping paint are an even better game. And so we wait. We sit and wait for the rain to arrive and wash away this cold white stuff that has us and our little farm paralysed.

In the absence of any Happening Things to write about, here, to fill a space where an interesting blog post ought to be, are a few Thoughts and Observations. Continue reading →

(* Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition)

I have spent an inordinate amount of time over the last few days reading other peoples’ blogs. Shame on me, when I should have (could have) been writing my own. But the thing is, there are loads of them out there, and I keep stumbling across them when I’m looking for other things, and some of them turn out to be really pretty interesting, and just a teensy bit addictive. Clearly I have too much time on my hands.

Which brings me to my next point. Continue reading →

Well here we are. It is 2010. A year which still sounds to me as if it belongs in a science fiction future. But, somewhat surprisingly, it seems to have turned up here and now, on this very day. And I can’t help feeling a little buzz of excitement at the prospect of all the unthought-of possibilities that might be lurking in the first twelve months of the brand new decade that lies ahead. I’m not sure if that makes me an optimist or a naive fool. Either way, it makes me happy. Continue reading →

I’m not really one for New Year Resolutions.

Actually, I’m a bit of a sceptic about to-do lists in general. Not that this stops me occasionally creating one, when I come across some new computer tool with an indispensable feature to create all-singing, all-dancing lists that promise to make me so much more efficient, but end up merely providing a few minutes interest some months later when I come across the never-updated fragments of good intentions.

I said to Val yesterday that I had a huge list of jobs to do. Continue reading →