It's been a busy week. Two days in London for work, then straight back into meetings and things down here.
Throw in two poorly children and an ear infection for me and you've got a week that I'll be glad to see the back of.
I'm pretty peeved that we seem to be the only spot in the country that didn't get any snow. To add insult to injury, we can actually see snow from our window, on the beginnings of Exmoor, less than 10 miles away. And, despite not having snow, we have had lots of freezing cold temperatures and plenty of sleet and rain - so all the bad bits of winter weather with none of the payoffs.
Can you tell I'm a bit grumpy? Not much knitting has been done as I've spent most of my time sitting round drinking cups of tea and eating biscuits and complaining about my ear - that is, when I'm not running around photocopying stacks of agendas and planning documents, taking the stacks to the Post Office, sorting out annual accounts and all sorts of other exciting stuff.
Hey ho. Things can only get better. I'll knuckle down over the weekend and hopefully will have some positive progress reports for you on Monday.
It can only improve next week. You might need to knit yourself some earwarmers, or one of those hats with earflaps. Any snow that fell in London yesterday is now either gone or icy, so you're not missing out. Lots of schoolchildren having snowball fights yesterday!
Posted by: dawn | February 09, 2007 at 07:22 PM
I certainly sympathise with you over the ear infection. It really makes you feel lousy. Hope you got some very strong antibiotics! Keep warm too!
Posted by: Brigid | February 09, 2007 at 11:26 PM
Awww...I hope you all feel better! Drinking tea and eating biscuits sounds great!!! And I would be happy to send any snow we get your way!!
Posted by: patti | February 10, 2007 at 12:59 AM
don't feel bad about the snow. i'm stuck indoors because the steep hill down from my house is covered in 10cm of snow turned blue ice. snow is for mountains, i say.
i hope your ear feels better soon, dear!
Posted by: kris | February 10, 2007 at 03:17 PM
I sympathize with your snow lust: after finally getting wintry temps (and this is in Maine, the Northeastern US, where we're supposedly all about winter!) and a dusting of snow, we've been promised snow every day for about a week only to get. . .none. Zip. Nada. However, we've been reading with fascination about Oswego, New York, where they've had 72 inches and are due to get 24 more! THAT would be more than enough.
Hope the ear infection gets better. We have specialized in the stomach flu this week. Quick but nasty, and now, we hope, gone. All the best!
Posted by: Becky | February 10, 2007 at 09:42 PM
Poor dear. Here's hoping the weekend brings much needed healing R&R. Deal with Monday when it comes.
Posted by: Karen B. | February 10, 2007 at 10:42 PM
Hope your kids and you are feeling better. I have two sick girls at home too.
Posted by: paula | February 11, 2007 at 04:16 PM
snow is overrated unless it is on the mountains feeding the rivers and dams!
i say send all your rain to melbourne!
hope you are feeling better!!
Posted by: jacqueline | February 11, 2007 at 11:10 PM
Hope you're better by now though...I've been busy and am just catching up with blog reading. We had no snow either, the boys were so grumpy and to make matters worse, all they showed on the local news all day were children building snowmen, sledding down hills, snowball fights etc and beautiful snowy scenes. What did we get? Drizzle.
Posted by: Tracy | February 12, 2007 at 11:42 AM
Here's to happier days ahead!
Posted by: diana | February 12, 2007 at 05:14 PM