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The max/min marker thermometer broke over the weekend. We need it to prove how not-cold is the fridge (10 degrees), and how too-cold is the freezer (below -40 degrees). Ken and Kai trundled off to B&Q yesterday to buy a replacement (£4 in their sale).
It didn't work.
Yes, I know that sounds odd - after all, what can go wrong with a thermometer? But the reset dials simply turned without having any effect. So this morning - early - I leapt on a Bath bus, leapt off again at the bouncing hamster (um, sorry, I mean PetSmart or whatever they've called themselves these days) and took it back to swap it for one that
did work.
It was the last one.
They gave me a refund, and I walked to Wyevale garden centre (wasn't worth hopping on another bus, the stop was halfway to the place.) They had a max/min marker thermometer, exactly what we wanted - for £11.49. [wince] Had to buy it. Picked up a cheap little hydrometer for Kai as well (I think that's his collection of weather-measuring instruments complete. Oh, no, he needs one of those little solar-powered twirly things inside a lightbulb...) And drooled over the orchids and bonsai. Then jumped on another bus home via Tesco. In the snow. Not enough to settle, just enough to make me cold and wet by the time I arrived back.
Then into town - throw money at bank, Athena to pick up Kai's
Hidden Depths poster, and bought myself fabric orchids at
The Pier. Have I mentioned I love orchids, but since I can't provide real ones with the right growing conditions, I'm looking for good fake ones for our bedroom? Now I have a huge, beautiful spray of cream-coloured phalaenopsis and a slightly smaller spray of white, dark-purple-flecked oncidium as well as the ones in the photo. Dead chuffed!
Tired now though.
And it's still bloody cold.
And Kai's back to school tomorrow, so it's back to the grind for us.
Hoover Candy engineer coming Saturday.
Anyone remember me mentioning Leander Pryne, the psychic detective I dreamed ages ago? I haven't managed to find the notes I wrote, but tonight Lutra mentioned a dream she had last night, and it would fit very nicely in a series of horror/supernatural stories I've been pondering based around the character. Looks like we might have the next project bubbling already. Well, we need
something for light relief while working on the 'magnificent octopusses' (as Baldrick would have it). I can't start anything new until CH is finished, however - watch this space. Well, obviously not
this space, we'll be on a different day by then...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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