Random things make a post

[nineveh_uk]

* Given how cold it is, I suppose it is not entirely surprising that the Cairngorm ski resort is still open. But it is the 20th May. I'll believe the forecast temperatures of 20 degrees this week when I feel them.

* Having applied my bum to my chair this afternoon and forced it to stay there, I have 600 words of fic. It isn't a lot, but it is a start. This was grind-it-out stuff necessary for the continuing movement from A to Z, but it is OK even if the couple of important plot points do go "da, da, daahhhh" a bit loudly. The fic has now reached 30,000 words, which is nice.

* It is only economical to make a cake to use up some running out of date eggs if you do not have to buy the rest of the ingredients specially. Still, the cake is nice.

* Where is the shoe cleaner I bought on Friday? Perhaps I bought it on Thursday and it is in my desk drawer because I forgot to take it out of my handbag on Thursday evening. Hope so - it was expensive, and my shoes need cleaning. ETA: It was definitely Friday. So where is it?

* Half my television channels appear to have vanished. This happens every so often in, I assume, an evil combination of the transmitter and the weather, but it is very annoying.

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

I was scoring for a cricket match yesterday, wrapped up in a blanket, and it took me three hours to feel properly warm again after stumps were drawn.

[nineveh_uk]

I have been feeling quite sorry for the West Indian cricketers (well, until today).

[antisoppist]

Daughter was one of 6 shivering children today starting the first of five lessons in the open-air pool at 9.30 on Sunday mornings. Parents were all feeling rather guilty about having assumed that by now it would be summer. The pool opened on Friday. My resolution to go before breakfast once a week is flagging before it has even begun. We went again in the afternoon and the bitter wind had dropped and I did go in briefly but the shop selling cups of tea afterwards is rather essential.

[nineveh_uk]

We went again in the afternoon

Clearly there is nothing to be done with you. Though they say it is healthy.

[antisoppist]

It is children. They begged and fluttered their eyelashes at me (well one of them did) and then once I'd got there, it felt so much warmer than it had done in the morning, comparatively, that I decided I might as well get in.

[nineveh_uk]

I have applied the same logic to swimming off the British and Irish coast.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

You'd be even less surprised about the ski resort if you lived in the North East of Scotland - it hadn't been into double figures temperature-wise here for weeks until yesterday!

The rest of the cake ingredients will keep longer though, won't they? Assuming there are any left... ;)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It does strike me as a bit ironic after they had a poor season that there's so much snow in late May!

The cake ingredients will keep - but I make cakes so seldom they could well go off before I use them.