Blue Monday

Cold blue sky, silver jets drifting across on silent lines of vapour. Mist nestling in folds of the hills.

Crouching Striker Hidden Talent

Amazingly Peter Crouch has scored again. Twice. And in a chilly looking Japan, Liverpool easily beat their puny Costa Rican opponents in the World Club Championship semi final.

Have been reading and enjoying a number of Stay At Home Dad blogs lately, mostly American.

Weather milder the last few days.

Heron

Mr BT man back to work today.

Tree lopping gang still in the neighbourhood, but not right outside, so cat less scared than last Friday.

When we got home yesterday afternoon, there was a heron perched on our roof like a graceful gargoyle.

Weather good - sun and blue sky.

The shed wins

Pale watery sunshine this morning as I walked into town. Attended doc's for blood test, and did some errands. Feeling OK.

J. is off school today as he felt unwell this morning.

Wrapped some Christmas presents.

The guy with the shed won the Turner prize. Hurrah.

Brrr

Bitterly cold today, with a frost for the first hour or two this morning.

Feeling OK.

Mr BT man still off work.

Weekend over

Everyone back to work and school, apart from me.

Had a reasonable weekend, apart from Forest loosing excruciatingly to Chester in the FA Cup, thus increasing calls from the Forest blogs and on 606, for Megson to go... still at least they're free to concentrate on the league now.

And another thing

When trawling through blogs, I dislike greatly those ones with lots of baby pictures, and also ones which feature love stuck teenagers from Malaysia, annoying music, and zany designs.

Bad Timing

Tipping it down most of morning. Nearly dark by lunchtime again.

Went into town, and got soaked as umbrella jammed just as heavens opened. Not pleased!

Civilised World

As the leader of the civilised world, America must be very proud of itself today, having carried out its 1,000th execution since capital punishment was reintroduced in 1976.

Kenneth Boyd, a convicted killer, was put to death by lethal injection in North Carolina for the murder of his estranged wife and her father in 1988.

USA.

Just in time.

Strong, blustery wind, suddenly heavy rain, and a gloomy morning almost becoming dark by midday.

Blood test first thing.

Returned from walk, just in time to avoid the rain.

December is here, and the end of the year, a year which hasn't been good for me.