Taking A Break From The Christmas Stressfest in Scottish Meanderings

I’m a bit spooked. Bailey, Willow & Snarf are all lying sleeping on my bed. Nothing wrong with that scenario in the normal grand scheme of things except that it’s 5.30 p.m. My cats NEVER sleep in the afternoon past 3.45 p.m. - they reserve that time specially for either driving me insane by trying to bug me enough to feed them their tea or, if I’m not in, for panicking in case I’ve taken off somewhere and won’t be back until some dreadfully late hour - like say six o’clock or something by which time they will of course have keeled over from starvation.

What makes it even weirder is that they all pretty much refused their breakfast this morning so didn’t eat very much but they don’t seem unwell or anything. Normally I’m swearing like a trooper at this time of day because Snarf has jumped up on my desk for the hundredth time and knocked over my bottle of water and Willow has emptied the contents of my waste paper basket and licked every last library book cover cos he knows that drives me nuts. Bailey just does his special ‘meow’. It’s a noise no human can tolerate for more than 10 minutes and is, I have to say, very effective.

The holiday was fine. Considering the circumstances at the time, the situation with my health and the fact that I was expecting to get no sleep whatsoever it actually went pretty well but a week was definitely enough (Ian & Margaret were over there for 2 weeks). When I came back last week I was virtually in bed the whole of the next day and the rest of the week was difficult, mainly because I had done nothing about Christmas so had to get that show underway as quick as poss. However although I’ve still Christmas shopping to do yet, the decorations are now up and the the cards are written all ready for sending. Lily’s going to help me post them tomorrow.

I’ll do a proper holiday entry later because I’ve only just discovered the solution to a problem I’ve had for - oh 9 months now - re getting the photos on my phone to show up on my computer when both were connected. In despair I sat on the pc last night googling the problem determined to get the bottom of it before I went to bed. Finally someone came up with the answer.

Unlock the phone.

Simple when you know.

God technology drives me batty sometimes.

I want to try inserting a video on here just to see if I can do it without tearing my hair out. It seems a bit of a faff doing photos but I think that’s more to do with Photobucket than anything else and also that my computer is getting slower by the day. I’m scared to do a Windows upgrade (I’m still using VISTA) in case they whole thing blows up ...... apart from the fact I could find no easy way to do it when I tried the other night.

I’ve followed Simple Mind’s code for embedding the video and it seems to link to my Photobucket page okay - it won’t play properly on my pc but works on my phone. Can you let me know if you have any problems seeing it?

Lily Hand Fives Santa

And here are two special snowpeople, one of whom is VERY excited about seeing Santa this year.

I hope you are all surviving the madness that is Christmas so far and not being driven to drink. Or worse.

Last updated February 06, 2018