I have a pile of NINE books beside my bed and I want to read them all right now! There’s a mixture of fiction and non-fiction and over 1500 years between the writing of the oldest and the newest. Oh how I love to read! And I have the whole evening ahead of me – bring it on!! Seriously, this is one of my most favourite ways to spend my time!!
Just in case you were wondering here are my temperature observations from our house:
- Generally speaking the houses here are not well heated – no central heating just plug in heaters mostly or log burners (which we LOVE but don’t have), although we do have the benefit of having a heat pump in the living room.
- And most houses here (including ours) are single glazed and the heat escapes every which way.
- Also, it’s not unusual for there to be a lot of condensation on our windows in the morning and even on occasions ICE!!
- And seeing your breath in the air inside is the norm.
Quite obviously I’m not complaining – I do love the cold! But J has this cough that persists and so I decided we’d have the heater on in our room last night (it comes on when it goes below a certain temperature) so today our room was (relatively) toasty and warm. And so we spent most of the morning here – we had a picnic lunch on the floor and played zilch and J played his guitar and we did some reading and we lived as much as possible in one room! We did venture out for a walk though and J is at work and I spent a delightful afternoon with those sweet Geddes girls in Borders bookshop (you gotta love a bookshop where there are so many great books to look at and wee chairs and a table to read at – all three of us had such fun! And also I noticed that people talk to you a LOT more if you have kids. I think one mum wanted to become my best friend – having kids seems to break down a lot of the normal barriers between strangers – is that true?!)
Anyway, I’m back in the toasty room for my evening with the books. Love it!
PS Welcome back Paul and Meg – glad you had a good holiday!
PPS Louise, if you’re reading this don’t worry – I’m working on all sorts of cunning heat making activities so when you’re here it should be sweet!
June 30, 2009 at 9:40 am |
Oh dear, Morv – is this book passion nature or nurture??
I’d logged on to your blog – still ‘mid-winter’ – no change – so found myself on a book site, sure that I wouldn’t purchase……..until……internal struggle – to buy or not to buy? Log out, back to blog – now headed ‘books, books, books’!!
Now what??!
June 30, 2009 at 5:50 pm |
What are books? Is that what I lose my wife to on a regular basis and thereby causes the Amazon profits to beat the recession? Both Nature and Nurture are maternal influences!
June 30, 2009 at 9:08 pm |
Thanks Morven, I am getting tougher though, went out today without a coat,scarf,gloves and hat-it was a mild 32 degrees!!!!! Can’t wait- 4 weeks in counting.