Sunny Monday

This is supposed to be the day of the year most likely to be taken off as a sickie, but no fear of that here. The whole weekend was notable for glorious weather, and we were able to spend some time cleaning the boat's interior with all the doors open for the first time this year. Very good for morale.

Sheila's Mum looked much more with it when we visited yesterday, so that's reassuring. We just have to wait now to see what the next move is medically. At least she seems reasonably comfortable at the moment.

Another quiet day at work, with a handful of queries about hiring, and some supplier chasing and ordering to do. This means I was able to spend a chunk of the afternoon splitting a lot of the wood Elanor brought the other weekend, with the aid of our own rocket (a Swedish device for driving into the end of a log and forcing it apart) plus the loan of a sledge hammer and felling axe from the yard. This should keep us in split wood for a few days at least.

One of the features of this job has been making a reacquaintance with Windows SP (we use a Mac). Have to say it's much more stable than the earlier versions I came to loathe, but you do have to keep the virus checker and other defences up to date. As a commercial site, Braidbar also suffers far more spam than we do, partly because I can afford to be ruthless with the nbsanity.net addresses, and reject anything that isn't addressed to a small number of users such as bruce, sheila and webmaster. In particular, mail addressed to info@ doesn't get through, and that seems to be the source of a lot of the Braidbar spam.

Heigh ho, soup and bacon sarnies tonight, I reckon - I've been cooking full meals during the weekend, and then we have simpler things after work during the week.