Nothing to See Here

You have my apologies for the shortage of notices here recently - I feel a tad guilty, having been shortlisted for that ‘Bloggy’ thing & all (my thanks to those who nominated this journal - you are too kind), that any new visitors drawn to this place thereby will find nothing new to see, and that I am an ungracious host, whose guests are left to their own devices in some dimly-lit reception room, unsure even where to put their coats, scarves, hats, gloves & boots. Well, just put them any old where, and by all means help yourselves to a drink until I get my act together again: we have Swedish vodka, Plymouth gin, cognac, Scotch whisky (single-malt and blended), Canadian whiskey, dark rum, white rum, numerous sweet liqueurs, red & white wine, including one bottle of Prosecco - although if you had your eye on that bottle of Volnay Burgundy, I drank most of that on Friday night. And there is some beer too: Belgian ale, Czech pilsener, Danish Julbier; and a few bottles of English cider.

Yesterday morning I strolled down to the ice-bound harbour thinking I might take a few snapshots - some of which are presented here. It seemed to me that the water had frozen less picturesquely than in winters past - certainly the frigid weather has arrived quite late - so I took only a few pictures, and was soon back home. A little later, we visited three furniture stores, looking at kitchen chairs and tables, eventually settling on one of these and four of these, for which we placed an order, the items not being in stock for immediate collection.

Later in the afternoon I made my way through a couple hundred more pages of the very long book I am reading - I’ll write more about that another time, perhaps.

Click on the images above to see them enlarged.