Originally Posted by
jra:
“6 degrees centigrade in June.
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It's a bit chilly here too, only 26C today ..... brrrrrrrrrrrr bloody winter chills
I was watching the boat thingy down the Thames on the news this morning, I came over all nostalgic and wished I were there, but truth be told, even if I were back in London, I doubt very much we would have gone up there to watch!

Lovely to see all the celebrations that are going on, not much happening here .... and when I say "not much" I haven't actually noticed anything!
On the home front, we should be moving out in a couple of days and so will begin another chapter in the Plum Odyssey. I picked up the Pumpkin-mobile on Saturday and it's a thing of great beauty and orange-ness. I am yet to comprehend why I am loving an orange car, so far all I've come up with is (a) insanity, which is quite likely (b) a tribute to batty and me@home in it's amsterdam/netherland orange-ness, which is unlikely, but hey it's better than being mad or (c) ......... Ok I haven't come up with a (c) yet but there is time! I said to LittlePlum that we should get a cuddly pumpkin and put it on the rear parcel shelf but we might have to wait til Hallowe'en so she suggested that in the meantime we get a tin of Pumpkin soup and velcro it on - she really is a chip off the old block!
Just at a point when I need as much work as possible, work has cut my hours - eeeeep! We'll be living on student rations, cup noodles and beans on toast! Speaking of students, the social worker at the aussie version of the DHSS (or whatever they call it these days) is trying to persuade me that I should go to Uni. Too late for this years mid-year intake but if work doesn't pick up between now and the end of the year, I might very well give it serious consideration.
Did I tell you that LittlePlum is doing a book review for the newspaper? My girl is a journalist-to-be! Looking forward to seeing her name in print, I shall be sending copies everywhere
Well I better get back to the bombsite that is otherwise known as LittlePlum's room and try and work out how to transfer the contents to another house. I'm getting desperate so I might just shovel it all in to big black binbags and take it all with us and sort it out when we get there! or put her "treasures" in a bin on the way
Still not sure what my internet situation is going to be after this week. I'm hoping that I will be able to connect to their internet, failing that I'm not sure I can afford mobile broadband, so will have to wait and see. One thing is certain though, Arnold Schwarzenegger styleeee "I'll be back!"