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It's a conspiracy, I tell you. A conspiracy to prevent me from getting this work done. Yesterday it was paint fumes, and today it is server trouble that is stopping me from researching the archive of the Portuguese newspaper to which I subscribe. I keep getting error messages. I sent an email to the newspaper's help desk, and am still awaiting their response. I think I may be left waiting a very long time, but I'll try again tomorrow, just in case. Now to matters on the home improvement front. About six years ago, one of the windows in the porch inexplicably and suddenly shattered, raining shards of glass onto the path underneath - which was unoccupied at the time. I immediately boarded the space up until we got a glazier to put in a new pane of glass. The glazier came today and fitted it - less than one hour after I phoned him and asked him to do it. I must admit that the porch looks better without the boarded-up window. I was impressed with the glazier.. he came almost immediately, was pleasant and polite. The best part of it was that this company cut the glass and fitted it for less than the next cheapest company could cut the glass! After supper, Liam and I went for a walk (well I walked, he brought his bike) to Baldovan and Pitempton. This was the first time that I have managed such a distance since January, and although my leg is hurting a bit just now, I was able to keep up quite a brisk pace (I had to try and keep up with the cycling Liam). Hopefully I will soon be able to run across this field and make my way to the top of Auchterhouse Hill without any pain... Here's hoping.

Lomo experiments were the order of this day last year