Pleased to meet you...

You know what I like most about my funky new people-counter thingy? Down on the right, keep going, bit lower, looks like an iPhone...that's the bunny. Anyway, know what I really like about it?

It tells me where all the lovely, lovely readers are.

Mostly in the UK, but far more than just my family and friends would account for, so yay for that. But the most exciting part is all the people from Other Places. Bermuda for example. Sri Lanka. Switzerland.

It's amazing. Who are you all? How did you find me? Are you a regular, or a once-only visitor? Although, clearly, if you're a once-only you won't see this post, so I'll never get an answer. Heh.

Drop me a comment and tell me, I am nosy and bored.

Thank you.

Other news: The fool who disrupted every train in the West of England apparently wasn't flattened in the accident. But his car was.

Glorious

This weekend I have been mostly enjoying the fantastic weather, making cupcakes and going sightseeing.

A mate has been over for the weekend and so I have done the hostess thing and shown them the sights of the local area. We went for a walk around the village on Friday afternoon, as it was all looking rather lovely in the sunshine. I took some old bread to feed any ducks we might see hanging about on the river.

We spotted a very large group of ducks in the distance, away downstream, and I lobbed some little scraps of bread into the river to entice them our way. The ducks more or less completely ignored us. The trout though...well, they went loopy.

I have never seen anything like it, outside of a BBC documentary about the kinds of fish that can strip a cow to the bone in 5 seconds. The water boiled. Not literally. It's not quite that warm. Next time I take bread over there I am also taking a big net.

On Saturday we went over to Old Wardour Castle, a place I have a great fondness for. I took pictures, and will post them up in a bit.

When I get back from Bristol. Again.

Weekend plans

Hurrah! Middle Sis and family are due here tonight for the weekend, which I am very much looking forward to. Been bloody months since we last met up so it will be great to catch up.

The new carpet looks very nice, albeit not the colour I thought it was going to be. I might take a scrap of the leftover stuff to the shop to compare with the sample, just to check I am not going mad.

Mind you, if it is the wrong colour, what will I do? Have it all ripped up and replaced? Can't bear the thought of all that disruption.

And it looks fine. Really. A bit beiger than I anticipated, but not too bad at all.

The entire house is full of carpet fluff though. I reckon it'll be the other side of Christmas before we get rid of it all. Still, makes finding dust bunnies more exciting. Dust Elephants.