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Part of the road

Oscar on the settee
Oscar in his new favourite sleeping position

I think we’ve arrived - me and the cat. He’s taken up residence on the back of the settee, where he can either sleep or keep an eye on the comings and goings.

And I’m getting misaddressed mail sent my way by the neighbours. Dad managed to post my Christmas card to a house 50 doors up, to an address I don’t know, and yet it was still re-addressed and sent down my way, although only after first being opened.

I’m pretty much unpacked and sorted out, I think, but I’m losing things as quickly as I can unbox them, which probably means my sorting system needs some …er… sorting.

At the same time I’m finding out all sorts of new things, like just how cold the outhouse gets. I’ve got a thermometer out there right now and it’s showing 4 degrees. That’s not entirely bad: it’s like a great big fridge, so you can leave milk out there and keep it fresh. Same for the veg.

The only place I’ve not had time to go yet is in the back garden, apart from in passing as I have to go in and out of the house by way of the back door to stop the cat escaping. I desperately need to harvest some sprouts (it’s Christmas, after all), dig up some carrots and turn out another batch of potatoes. I hope that’ll happen tomorrow.

Apart from that, the only really area of trouble is tech. I’m still doing all of my email through a webmail interface as I haven’t yet sorted out my desk, and I’m a little suspicious about the complete lack of spam - particularly as I know at least one valid message has been bounced back to the sender and mistakenly marked as spam. My server is playing up, too. I switched it on for the first time in months and it made some very loud fan noises, and now it’s doing a lengthy disk check, with little or no feedback.

So, while I may already feel like part of the road, it’s not Gore’s cliched superhighway.

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One Response to “Part of the road”

  1. Kristín Says:
    December 24th, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    Ah, your Oscar is adorable.

    Happy Christmas to you and yours in your new home.

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