If you’re viewing this in Internet Explorer, I’m still having problems with IE’s blasted CSS positioning bugs. Which is why it’s looking rather odd to you.
I’ll get it sorted eventually. But in the meantime, switch to Firefox and see the way it’s supposed to look!
The picture in the head isn’t mine. It’s a stock image of some Scottish hills that I’ve put through Photoshop – colour-saturation, texturing, filters, lighting effects, cropping, stretching. It’s not the view that I’ve got from here – we’re amongst the hills, but not that high up – but I’ve a friend living about five miles away who does have pretty much that view from her house. Every visit to her place inspires intense envy in me – I want her house! It’s gloriously isolated, with the last half-mile to it just a rutted track through the fields.
Isolation, though, has its price; it’s almost impossible for her to get anything delivered to the house, since only cars and small vans can get along that final stretch – she has an arrangement with the occupant of the nearest house to drop off parcels there, but I don’t know how she gets her wood and coal delivered. It’s a good three miles to the nearest shop, surgery, bus-route and post office; amazingly, she doesn’t have a car.
But I’d still like to live there all the same. Or at least have her view.
Son won’t be moving into his new place until the week after next. He couldn’t get the deposit together in time; his old workplace messed him around and has only now got around to paying him the month’s salary they owe him, and he’s still waiting for his JSA money to come through. His money will finally be through next week so that he will be able to pay the deposit and first month’s rent that’s required, but now the letting agent has gone off on a fortnight’s holiday and there is apparently nobody in the office who can do her job while she’s away!
But he’s a lot happier now – and he’s even stepped up his job-hunting.