Category Archives: summer joys

Summer day

Watching the Sopranos on a very hot day I had the day off yesterday. (M’s been having a couple of weeks off, and starts uni on Monday.) We didn’t do much, sat on the couch watching The Sopranos. It was too hot to do much else, anyway – I think the temperature reached 41.5°C (106.7°F) [...]

Dog days

I seldom have dog pictures on this blog, so when I found this on my camera… This is Lilo the Dog, who lives with my in-laws. Christmas Day was a very hot day, and she had been surreptitiously obtaining snacks by positioning herself in strategic locations under the dinner table.

Phobia

There’s a dead cockroach in the shower and I am trying to convince myself that I can easily get rid of it using the dustpan so that I can have a shower, but so far the phobia is stronger than my rational mind. It’s dead. It’s not moving so it is highly unlikely to spring [...]