Summer cold

Is it me or has it been really cold in the night? I go to bed quite snug, and very comfy under my summer weight quilt and pretty quilted bedspread but I wake up freezing in the early hours! This morning I added a layer of throw on the top and slept through til 5 but was woken up by the cold and a noisy waterfall from an over flowing gutter outside my bedroom window. Shutting the window diminished the sounds but I didn't get cosy enough to go back to sleep till I'd pulled a thick fluffy dressing gown over the top of me as well. I'm still grateful I managed to find a summer home for my winter duvet and look forward to putting this wintry weather away as well!

I'm grateful (Oh so grateful!) that I've managed to win a bit of a battle that I've been having with my printer the last few weeks. I'd been thinking I might have to get a new one which I don't really mind as, in the few years since I bought this one they have got smaller, cheaper and more often work wirelessly. However, I resented wasting the ink cartridges I've got as I hadn't seen a new machine readily available using the same ones...and then I remembered that they'd been bought on a disabled student's allowance anyway so should my scrooge-ish feelings were quite irrelevant. Even so, I dislike waste so I hoped a charity shop might take any leftovers. Well, today I've been though all the maintenance utilities again and, as you do, used a bit of ink in the process so that I needed to change a couple of cartridges. In the process of that I realised that these spare cartridges were well over a year past their use by date. So that might explain some of their reluctance to print...and also means they could only be used by me or given away. But anyway, after a good deal of print head cleaning and realignment and a shake up of remaining elderly ink, the printer has consented to carry on working for now...Woohoo...oh and that reminds me Andy Murray is playing Nicholas Mahut in a little while. I must go and have a shower and get some clean clothes on. It would be rude to greet them like this...

Mmmm...and I'm grateful for my shower. Being able to get my back wet (and properly warm) is such a wonderful treat!

I'm grateful that Jared's coming over this evening and has agreed it's time we went to the tapas bar again. It's an ideal eating place for me as the nibbly nature of the food gets rid of any appetite problems and it's none of it stuff that requires a knife as well as a fork which I struggle to do daintily these days. It's also a popular place to eat and socialise but not especially to be seen if you know what I mean, so you don't feel you need your best bib and tucker, or to be mortified if you pour something down its front and there are some quiet nooks to be out of the way if there is a large party dining in the middle of the room. I'm grateful for their delicious menu that means even mostly vegetarians can have a choice...