Back Again…

…for a while. Won’t bore you with my problems, though. I haven’t heard back from Doc G about my blood test. He said he contact me only if there was a problem; that was 10 days ago, so I can probably assume that there is no problem and that my tiredness is due to my medication. Blah.

Winter has really set in here – this will be the third night of below freezing temperatures and there’s more to come.
We really have to get some supplies in – all the signs are for a hard winter. This far into the rural North power cuts are already frequent, and any real snow will cut us off for days. We already have plenty of coal and wood for heating, plus the camping stove in our caravan will do nicely for emergency cooking. But the power cuts earlier this week used up quite a lot of our candles and we could use another camping gas light; we have to get in meat for freezing, and food staples like flour and tinned stuff.
But we don’t have the money, as yet. Just too many bills coming in at once, so the winter stocking-up will have to be postposed for at least a week. Let’s hope the winter weather will be postponed as well!

I’ve started reading Steven Saylor‘s historical mystery novels. They’re set in Rome, at the time of the tumultous civil war between Pompey and Caesar. Featuring a Roman ‘PI’ called Giordanus the Finder, not only are they cracking good reads, but they’re historically accurate as well – Saylor really knows his Roman history. They’re just the thing to go with the Rome series on the TV (which Saylor generally praises for accuracy, except for the coming Cleopatra episode).

Will probably be changing this blog theme again. There are just too many bugs in it. I’ve only just discovered that neither the comments nor the contact form were working, so no-one could get in touch with me. I sorted the contact form bug, but the comments bug remains intractable. And despite much trying, I cannot get the archives page to work either so it’s difficult to get to previous posts. This K2 theme is a beta, so I expected some bugs. I really like K2’s features, so I’ve put up with the bugs so far and decided to wait for the final, bug-free, version. But that seems to be taking forever. I’ve seen one or two new themes that have the essential features that I want 0 such as an archives page – so I might try out one of those.