Great gods and cold places.

We have enjoyed a day and a half.

Outside this morning and immediately it was clear that the world was cold.

The IVECO declined the invitation to transport the children to the bus, being quite absolute that it had not intention to start - period. Not wanting them home all day, sorry, I meant to say recognising the vital importance that children go to school, the Xantia was press ganged to take rather a lot of children to the bus.

It would have been easier if the heater were working but this of course is the real world and somehow with multiple stops to clear the screen we eventually got there.

There was a decided lack of bus lots of similarly keen parents, but no bus.

Eventually we got relayed a message that the proper bus had also, like the IVECO declined to function and they had press ganged a far smaller version. This in turn had produced some quite unforgivable behaviour from parents keen to be rid of their children and saying there was no way he was driving a bus with children sitting on the roof or hanging out the windows the driver had taken off with the bus officially full.

This left a child whose parent had dropped him at the bus stop before going to work at a bit of a lose end so I packed him into the non existent spare apace in the xantia and went for home.

Gwion enjoyed the luxury of a seat as he went to school and the others settled themselves into a day off with such enthusiasm that I willed the IVECO into life and drove them into school as well.

Onwards and Tesco, it was time we went so went we did and invested a lot of money in catch up from the new year.

Seems a lot of stuff on reduction and not a lot buying.

Then on to Bookers and not a lot reduced for the small shop.

Home again and off again.

An emergency chain saw of mature wood to fill in the gaps in the very wet softwood we have now.

Then down to get Gwion and home just in time to get the IVECO and off for the biggies.

It has been a quiet day aye..

The temperature is now in free fall.

R