Tuesday

Housework plan is to hoover tonight and concentrate on the kitchen tommorow.

Put a couple of bids on e bay for items for my birthday - following my golden rule "never bid more than a fiver for anything". A little silver butterfly brooch and a green jade bowl. Also bought a snuff bottle for about £6. I bet it is not remotley as rare and as made of jade as they say it is but it looked a sweet little thing anyway. Probably dyed serpentine or onyx.

Will look nice on my trinket table anyway (if it turns up - this is ebay - don't count on anything until it lands on your doormat)

Later edit: Got the butterfly brooch. Someone else but a bid on in the last minute but it was 60p less than the bid I had put on.

Back on home soil

Couldn't update my blog in France as much as I would have liked to as my parents net connection kept going down.

Did get to go to the Roman ruins at Sanxay in the end. Went to Vouvant and Mervent as well.

Terrible journey home on Monday because of the tube strike. Had to catch a bus from Liverpool St to Victoria and that took about an hour.

Back at work now. It sucks as much as ever. Another person in my dept of 7 has resigned - after only 6 months.

Mom called up last night. Pool still is not finished. Cover not on and pump for the cleaning robot still not installed.