Everso...so

.... so, we got snow, which was nice.  I did go out sledging although I kept my feet dug into the snow for most of my turn with my small niece, lest we should be catapulted into the air over the mid-run ski-jump (use your imagination) and she would be severely crushed upon landing and I would always be known as the Auntie Who Squashes Nieces and never been forgiven.  I should have know better... her dad, my brother, yelled at me to get my feet up (takes me back) and later took her '3-up' down the 'black run' (ok, it's a back road, it gets VERY icy, it's a black run, right?), him laughing like a girlie (he always did do that in times of great danger) and her squealing for MORE and FASTER.  She wasn't crushed once - she's a toughie.

I didn't take my camera.  On that particular morning I think I did very well to take myself.  Another brother and I had stayed up ridiculously late the night before - just because we can, really - apparently momentarily forgetting about the early calls it is compulsory to get on a Sunday if you stupidly decide to stay up really late on a Saturday.
"It's snowed, we're coming over for sledging, we'll be there by 8.30!"  (yay)
"Hi!  Remember our brilliant idea about going for a dawn Sunday walk??"  (it was a joke, right?)
"You didn't forget breakfast at yours, did you?"  (yes, I did, and breakfast should never be before 3pm)
"We were thinking about popping over to see you, 2pm ok?"  (so, ummm, why do you have to phone at 7.30am to ask me this??)
So no, no camera, no snow pictures.  We drove past some really beautiful potential snow pictures the other evening - a hazy pink dusk, layers of sparkling white landscape gradually fading out before us - but by the time we came back it was dark and the next day the boring thaw set in.

You have to be quick with snow pictures in this country.

No matter how many cameras I get, I'm never quick enough.

Other than that, there was my birthday.  I don't recall having a Saturday birthday ever before (but then, ask Amanda, I don't recall a lot of things) so this one was extra nice.  It's good to know that no matter how many birthdays I have, no-one feels the need to start giving me anything remotely sensible, and long may it stay that way.  Later (later today, later this month, later this year.... who knows?) I will post photos.

In the meantime, here is a picture of something completely different.  Do you think they look like each other?  Or not?

Things I like everso...


This list will be ongoing for several reasons:

• I like billions of things
• I am terrible at remembering things I like 
• I change my mind quite a lot 

Here we go with the first 10...

1. Raindrops on roses
2. Whiskers on kitten

Oh no, hold on, those two things come under the category of 'musicals' and therefore are on entirely the wrong list.  They should be on the 'things I can't stand' list and will have to wait until a later date.  

Start again, in no particular order (apart from the first one, obviously).

1. My children
2. My new computer - really quite extraordinary and will feature on here sometime in the near future
3. Our cats, although they can be intensely annoying at times
4. My imaginary dog - it's probably a beagle but has been known to be a retriever
5. My imaginary horse - it's very cheap to keep
6. My imaginary penguin - I've had problems with this one on account of the climate and lack of large pond in the garden
7. The children's rabbits, particularly today because they staged a mini protest and broke out of their hutch in the night so they could skip around on the white-frosty lawn being naughty.  I like that in a rabbit.  I forgot to take pictures because I was so entranced by the fluffy sight them.  I also failed to put them back for several hours because they seemed to be having a lot of fun.  One should never deny a rabbit its fun.
8. Music.  One day I'll do a top 20.  It will be very hard because anyone who knows me also knows there are at least 200 songs in my top 20.  It would be more useful to list my top 20 songs today... tomorrow could be an entirely different 20.
9. Cars - they're brilliant!  I especially like cars with working heaters, which mine has, as of today. Obviously I like the other bits to work as well.
10. Snow