Car troubles

I've had a new lamda probe fitted...or, at least, my car has! What, you may ask, is a lamda probe? Well, for those of you who don't know, it is attached to your exhaust and monitors fuel emissions. I learned something new there! More importantly, it cost me £235 to have it replaced- I think I've been had. At least my car got a complimentary valet...perhaps the real reason for the expense was that my car was so dirty!

Bank Holiday frolics

We went on our customary bank holiday jaunt to Manchester yesterday. I wouldn't like to say that we are at all predictable in our choice of destination, but this has been at least the sixth year running that we have whiled away our time in this fashion. Not that I am complaining, I had a great time. We just need to hone our decision-making skills over eating establishments before we spend five days away together in Barcelona later this year or we may well come back not speaking!

Summer's here!

I've been sitting out in the garden reading my book. I am not a lover of the sun, but it is beautiful today- about time. We're having a barbecue later, which is usually a sure fire way of ensuring it rains!

I'm reading Haruki Murakami's 'Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'- it's very good, if a little bizarre, but then his books are often a little surreal. I've been a fan since reading 'Norwegian Wood'.

Thought I'd add a couple of photos of the garden!

They're back!

Our foxes at work are back again this year! They are nowhere near as tame as they used to be so we hardly ever see them but they are definitely about. Here are some photos from our previous fox families.

The good old Staffordshire oatcake

Are they not one of the best foods available? Lunch is calling me and I think oatcakes with cheese it will be...and not the small biscuit type of oatcake, the proper Staffordshire kind. Mmmm.

Agony Aren't

More troubles to sort last night, this time teenage relationship problems...and they think I have the necessary skills and experience to offer them advice?! They went away happy though so perhaps that re-training isn't out of the question after all.

Well, this is going well....

It would seem that my capacity for waffling isn't as endless as I thought! Having said that, my day has been fairly mind-numbing, the highlight being buying a new vacuum cleaner for work- yes, it's been that tedious. We bought the female version of a Henry (who did us proud at university- or was that George?), a Hetty, purely out of devilment as it is pink with eyelashes and we thought it would be amusing to watch our male staff members using it. I said it had been a boring day.
Aside from purchasing vacuum cleaners, I seem to have attracted yet another stream of troubled people who wish to use me as an alternative to ringing the Samaritans. What is it about me that says, "Please ring me and tell me all your problems"?- perhaps I should retrain as a counsellor. Or not.

Here goes...

Well, I've finally got round to starting a blog. Not sure yet what form my blog will take, we'll just go with the flow. For one who has an endless capacity for waffling, I find putting things down on paper quite difficult, so it may take me a while to get into this. Time will tell.