Ups and downs 2

No posts for a while, partly because I've had a cold, but mainly because I have been working on a complete overhaul of the website. I'm not sure that it's going to be much different in the end (apart from having quite a lot on bipolar on it and more llamas) but even moving pages around takes ages if they are full of pictures (the 2005 party pictures will be on there as well, which are new; we didn't seem to take any for 2006 for some reason).

Rather than do it piecemeal on the site itself I'm creating the whole thing on the laptop and will move everything over when it's complete, which should be another week or so. Stayed up late last night (went to watch Beloved do his sponsored cycle between 1 and 2am- 20 miles so pay up, appropriate people!) so as usual brain refused to sleep at all, so I got a couple of hours done early this morning. Hopefully brain will decide it rather fancies a nap this afternoon some time.





This morning we are off to the garden centre to fill up bits of the herb garden; none of my seeds are up yet which I suppose isn't surprising as it's only been 6 days.

A very brief update.

• Got ill, got better.
• Went wild camping- decided next time to go somewhere where I was allowed to be, since I spent the evenings looking over my shoulder for angry grouse keepers. Otherwise wonderful and will definitely do it again- either Scotland or Dartmoor have full access. Can carry 17kg pack with no problem.
• Paddled into Birmingham with Beloved- 14 miles and 22 locks (necessitating carrying boats round), and two trips through Ashted tunnel. Took us 8.5 hrs. Bit of a killer.
• In the process of digging up the front garden to plant herbs.
  
• Discovered the local Freecycle and am definitely enthused. Gave away my old bike trailer, which I could have got a bit for on Ebay but I would have had to repair first. Have been offered all the old bricks I need to lay out herb garden, saving a considerable amount (bricks cost from 35p upwards and I need a couple of hundred). Result- at least square and so much less hassle and more goodwill than selling and buying things.
• Liked the Life on Mars ending, but they could have given the Buffy writers a credit....
• Am rewriting my web pages wholesale. May be a while till they turn up on screen though.

Off to take off the rest of the turf now. People coming round to quote for an entire new fence since ours keeps falling down- frighteningly this may involve extending the mortgage...... Don't think we can get one on Freecycle though.