And the books smell booky! ( I seem to be channelling Russel Brand today )

To be honest at present I am at the stage where I can read still in low light but its harder work and I am apt to put the book to one side. Daylight is fine and a good reading light too. Also some cheap magnifying glasses do the trick but they feel alien and I don't need them for other things so create as many problemns as they solve.

I will have a look at the Mightly Bright book light. It sounds like a present idea for future reference.

Hi Russell *waves* YES!!!!! love the booky smell!!!

Can recommend the mighty bright, it was so light (in weight) it even clipped onto magazines successfully!! Also during the power cuts it meant i could at least read at night without spilling candle wax everywhere!

Been reading about tk's homeland getting it bad today - hope you are ok x

Hope all the cows and animals are OK too

Hello all, happy NYE Eve! Well that was an interesting 24+ hours, this time yesterday I was sure we were in for it, then Frank veered south again and we were let off the worst. Only lost a few branches, and had to spend the day mending some holes in the cows' big shed, we were lucky. Now awaiting Gertrude

While we have power, I must get some dinner x

Hope you are all ok and dry x

hoorah!!! glad to hear you are all safe and dry...and that Giles' wee hooose is keeping him safe and warm *passes large crate of pain au chocolat*

Gertrude???? There's ANOTHER one??

Frank hasn't left here yet ... they are queuing up now

Cripes! It's just a bit windy here....us southerners have got off lightly!

you enjoying a late evening sunbathe?

This whole business of giving the damned things names seems like adding insult to injury to me.

Not to mention all the Franks feeling insulted.

before they were named it was just a week of shitty weather...now it's a gang... with names..... queuing up to break our stuff
bah
*switches on buddy cop movie voice over guy voice* this time it's personal

Not to mention it being worse for the guvmint. As you say, they would once just have had to take the flak for more or less one event. Now it's three separate ones that they can be beaten over the head for.

I'm firebathing in front of the woodburner as it happens!!


It's like ENABLING them


And the Gertrudes! Don't forget the Gerties!!

mind your marshmallows don't burn

Anyone watching the Royal Institution Christmas lectures.? Do you think maybe the technicians messed that last experiment up?

can't say i'm bothered by that.

my sympathies lie with the poor buggers who have been flooded out three times in as many weeks and for all the chat and pr nonsense about aid budgets they are still waiting for their insurance claims from the floods six years ago to be paid. it's a disgrace.

^^^ This. It's shocking and we need to look after all the flood victims in this country. If there's money to bomb Syria there's money for floods!!!

Giles says thank you and has shared them with his ladies, feel a bit guilty that our animals are all warm, dry and well (mind you it takes year round planning) and we have just finished a big dinner. Roast beef and gravy, with veg, Yorkshires and roasties for any veggies present.

Opened the first Quality Street of the season, pile in everyone

I see that Sainsbury's has reduced Quality Street to £4.

Unless it comes with a voucher for free denatl work, i'm not interested.

just had my lunchtime cheesey scone.
i realise i am now an addict.
I won't be giving them up in a New Year's Resolution.

What won't you be giving up this new year?

Happy Hogmany peeps and all the best for 2016!
Thank you to whomever it was said about the Detectorists. Excellent TV. I've seen them all online.

Happy Hogmany to you too Chins - it was probably me about Detectorists i LOVED it and went on about it to everyone glad you enjoyed it i thought it was superb, beautifully written and executed. Fingers crossed there's a third series!