Weather Report

This week it's been COLD! We've had sleet and snow and rain and hail. Quite glad of some of this because it's been very dry for the past few months. They're already warning of drought, water shortages and standpipes in the South East this summer. But it has been cold. I'm wearing my thick, woolly jumper with blue flowers and am quite toasty. Everyone else is complaining of being a bit on the chilly side though. The birds have been hiding in the shrubs at the bottom of our garden and in the thicket next door. They're making merry with the mealworms and sunflower seeds I put out each morning!

The Builder has finished working on Carla and Dave's house (Carla is a work colleague of mine. They bought a dilapidated "mansion" up the road from us and The Builder has been helping to turn it from a grotty student house into a magnificent mansion worthy of a family. It's kept him busy for weeks!) He's registered with the agency across the road from us -- they wanted him to start a new job on Monday but we have an apppointment in Chestefield on Monday morning with Magic Nigel the Mortgage Adviser. So-called because he managed to get my friend Clarissa's stepdaughter a staggering mortgage. Hope he can do the same for us. Though we perhaps don't want a staggering one!

The police think they might have identified Tabitha's burglar. He appears to have been being quite active in and around our bit of Sheffield. She had to go in this afternoon and look at pictures of potential suspects.

Freyja and Mark are job hunting. Freyja had an interview this afternoon with a sales and marketing company in the city centre. I'm not sure that she's convinced that sales and marketing is exactly her cup of tea, but you can only try.

Speaking of tea -- I think it might be time for a cup. I'm on tonight until 6 :-( but it's always time for tea!

It's Tony's birthday on Sunday. To celebrate we are intending to go to York to play with the Vikings tomorrow and we are having Tabitha, Gareth, Freyja and Mark around to dinner on Sunday evening Roast chicken for the omnivores, fake chicken for the veggies.

Have a good weekend, all. Will report back next week on the weekend festivities!