And Continues...

[poliphilo]

Since we've no running water in the kitchen I've been fetching it in a big plastic bottle from the bathroom- and only doing as much washing-up as is absolutely necessary.

I made an excellent lamb curry for lunch yesterday.

The BBC has been airing a set of programmes looking at the historical trends of the Noughties. I don't mean what was happening in the pop charts or the coming or going of politicians- but the underlying societal changes- the deep sea currents. Yesterday we were considering globalisation. Did you know that the rise of the Chinese economy has led to a fall in burgary in the UK? It works like this: burglary is a business like any other- and if electrical goods- which is what your old time burglar was mainly after- are really, really cheap in the shops (thanks to the Chinese making them in sweatshops) there ceases to be a market for them "off the back of a lorry".  The burglar isn't making any money, so he stops burgling- and takes to mugging instead. 

Every so often we get a flurry of snow. 

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip. I need to bear that in mind.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

If the pipes are already frozen, you should leave the tap open anyway, so that the water from gradual thawing will trickle through instead of "exploding" through. Frozen pipes are such an annoyance!