Winter Blues #9

 

FRIDAY

I feel as if I'm eating pasta salad for Scotland! The last few days I've had bits of tuna pasta, prawn pasta, chicken and bacon pasta, cheese coleslaw, normal coleslaw, potato salad, melon, pineapple and grapefruit juice. It is a pain to take out all the bits of sweetcorn as I hate it-I find it slimy and bleah! WHY does every pre-prepared salad have to be full of bloody sweetcorn or peppers???

 

Tonight I got stuck into reading The Roo. While I liked the story and the death scenes well enough, I was getting fed up with the pointless swearing all through it. I'm no prude and I swear with the best of them but I found it distracting and annoying to have so much of it. Decent read but not one I'd keep to look at again. I do like the cover though. 

 

SATURDAY

Had to get up early (6am) to unlock my bins and keep an eye on them to make sure nobody dumped their rubbish in them. I had to keep watch for hours as the binmen were slow to collect today. Wahey! The men came to get started on the back fence! As it was dry, they got the holes dug for the big support posts and cemented them in. They'll be back next Saturday/Sunday to get that fence finished if the weather holds out so fingers crossed. One of the guys is an electrician so he said he'll come up to fix our security lights during the week. That would be a relief as they haven't been working since last autumn and we've had junkies wandering into the garden to look for things to steal. We don't have anything for them to steal so if they want to risk breaking their necks in the mess of our garden in the pitch black, hell mend them!

 

On the bright side my beloved team drew another match, this time with Livingston so that puts us back to sixth in the table. Happy with that! I actually managed to read a horror novella by an author I like. I was up to my eyes in man eating plants, dinosaurs, sea monsters and a lost island setting. It was a fun read.

SUNDAY

Had a nice long lie until 10am this morning as no packages were due to arrive and I needed it after yesterday's early start. Lazed about doing a bit of blogging ahead for the week and watching a bit of sport on the TV. Need to be up early tomorrow as a package is due. I'm suddenly in the mood for memoirs of 80's pop stars so I can enjoy a bit of retro in my life and relive my youth!

I got another short novella read tonight, by the same author of last night's read. This was a cryptid book about government agents chasing a killer Sasquatch. I very much enjoyed reading this. I'm on a roll with three books in three days and it's a real joy to get back into some horror reading!

MONDAY

At 8am this morning the electrician arrived to sort the two security lights for us. It took him 2.5 hours to do and including the £40 cost for the light itself, we only got charged £90 in total for parts and labour. We just need to adjust the timers on it ourselves which is going to be a bit of a pain. It can take a while to set the beam to cover the right area and stay on long enough to see/scare off intruders but not enough to run up huge bills. And of course we need to do it in the dark to get it set right. We got the front light sorted for now but our ladders don't reach the back one so we'll need to borrow a ladder for that.

 

Today I got interested in reading articles about dumb answers in TV quiz shows and it was such a laugh that I'm constructing regular posts about it to give everyone else a much needed lockdown laugh. I hope to have part one up this week. I'm also working on a post about the dumb things Amazon recommend to you based on your purchases. That might take a few weeks to construct, depending on how soon I get enough stupid recommendations! 

 

On the bright side I read all night! Yes I read a 100 page horror novella which was decent, then a prequel short story to a zombie series that was ok but nothing great, and I DNFed a hot mess of a short horror story. All will be on my Friday Reading Roundup post this week if I can get Blogger to let me do the graphics for it.