Revolutionary Rants

Since we woke at 7:00, throughout walking Ferris and filling the washing machine, the village has been shrouded in mist. Pressing up to the kitchen window is a opaque wall of almost white, with the detached, displaced sound of birds singing through it. There is bright light coming from somewhere, like a filmic Heaven.

It is like a physical manifestation of the January blues; a weatherification, perhaps. It is half not there at all; you can walk through it. It is somehow both oppressive and light. The beginning of a new year, the death of the old; new things coming, the same old thing over again. The first flowers of the year – snowdrops – are pelted with rain, hidden by a fog.

The sun tries to shine through, February is coming; the Tuesday of the year, worse than the Monday really. Everyone waiting for March…

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Despite not finding a fiver outside the gym,

despite not sleeping more than five or six hours for the second night in a row,

despite is being grey and rain floating and flooding from the sky all afternoon,

today was a better day.

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I am rather keen on WiiFit at the moment, since I got it for Christmas. I do love the yoga! And this site has a rather good BMI calculator

Have had a rather stressful day, time for sofa, stir fry veg and hopefully a good long sleep!

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Well, I am now officially twenty-six. I had a couple of nights in Glastonbury to celebrate; we went to Wells, Chedder Gorge and walked up to Glastonbury Tor. It was very nice, although the walk up to the Tor just prior to last Saturday’s gales was less pleasant than my first trip up on a beautiful sunny day with Dad many years ago…

We both had a day off for my birthday. I got some lovely things; funky wellies, Mr Benn and Trapdoor on DVD, PJs, chocs, bath smellies, gardening tools, capitalist tender and a bottle of 12 year old Glenfiddich (which made me feel even older). We had hoped to go to Clovelly, but when we arrived we found that you can now only enter the village after paying £5.50 (each in summer, for two in winter), which seemed a daft price and as we only had an hour or so we went and walked for free with Ferris at Instow. In the evening we had a nice meal at the local, the Jack Russell.

The next day was even more celebratory as Chaney was wheeled out of the White House followed closely by Bush. Obama seems to be doing pretty darn well so far, so it is exciting times to live in!

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More sad news for those of us who grew up with Morph and Hartbeat. I always wanted to get a pciture in the gallery, I remember…

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Apparently people have been ‘panic buying’ old stylee light bulbs before they stop selling them. Dimbos. Why would you want to spend more money powering old shitty bulbs when you an buy energy saving ones – at times – cheaper and save electricity money?!? I got five energy saving bulbs in a certain capitalist shop for fifty pence. Even the staff were shocked that the offer actually went through, but even without that you can get them BOGOF for about £1.00. Plus they are now as bright as the old ones – really, they are. OK, so I remember the old ones, not so good, couldn’t see by them; but not anymore. They do, perhaps, take a little while to get going (our one big strong one for our lamp, not the little ones) but it is hardly so long that it causes issue. Move in to the 21st century people!!!

I have spent the first days of ’09 being not very well at all. Finally got the heavy coldy thing that everyone else had over Christmas just in time to go back to work. Oh well. Feeling a tad better better, but still not great, with coughing fits galore…

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