Down in the dumps today

No matter how hard I try, I can never keep up with the cleaning, let alone all the other things I should be doing with my life.  Tolstoy never had to clean, but it is comforting to know he had as much trouble as I do with the rest of his life.  I'm thoroughly enjoying the book and will soon be finished!  I'm particularly interested in the way people travelled in the late 1800s - in one part it recounts how he left one place at 5am and arrived home at midnight, changing horses once along the way.  And we grizzle and gripe if a train is five minutes late!


I committed the terrible sin of spilling water on this computer the other day.  All my life I've made it a habit never to mix books/computers/anything special with liquids, but I slipped up badly here.  I rang Lina in a panic, but couldn't get her.  When I went upstairs to get Philip - as a last resort - I got into trouble for waking the baby.  No matter if I'd been electrocuted using a wet computer!


Thanks for this pic, Olga, taken at the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, on your recent trip to Japan.  This is just what I need - a nice cup of tea and a good lie down!

I didn't make it clear that the Christmas party pics were taken at Wendy's house, not mine.