Daylight saving bid us a fond farewell overnight, and buggered off to the northern hemisphere for six months. Fittingly, for the first time in donks, I had to put on some woolly socks and a fleecy hoody and remark to everybody in the house "Ooooh, temperature's dropped, hasn't it?"
Today I was gifted a day to do exactly what I wanted as the Other Harf has whisked Miss 8.6 off to a Brownie Day Out on Ruakaka Beach learning all about surf lifesaving and tides and keeping our beaches clean. I took her along last year, and the weather was a hell of a lot warmer, so we were all able to go swimming, but I seriously doubt whether the OH will fancy it today. However, regardless of the temperature Miss 8.6 will insist on going in, and will have to be forcibly extracted with chattering teeth and blue skin.
So, I fully planned on doing lots of printing of photos for the hallway family gallery, but it's 2pm and I have printed diddly-squat due to the contrary, fickle nature of our brand new HP printer, which, if it doesn't spit something out within the next half an hour will be thrown on the pile of inorganic rubbish Bruvinlaw is stockpiling over at the Beige Barn. What is it with flipping printers! They have a vendetta against me, I *swear* it.
I leave you with one of my photography/gardening combo snaps from yesterday; a slice of sunshine yellow on an overcast autumn afternoon.
(Oooh, and wish me luck for tomorrow, it's my first day at my new job, yay!)
Today I was gifted a day to do exactly what I wanted as the Other Harf has whisked Miss 8.6 off to a Brownie Day Out on Ruakaka Beach learning all about surf lifesaving and tides and keeping our beaches clean. I took her along last year, and the weather was a hell of a lot warmer, so we were all able to go swimming, but I seriously doubt whether the OH will fancy it today. However, regardless of the temperature Miss 8.6 will insist on going in, and will have to be forcibly extracted with chattering teeth and blue skin.
So, I fully planned on doing lots of printing of photos for the hallway family gallery, but it's 2pm and I have printed diddly-squat due to the contrary, fickle nature of our brand new HP printer, which, if it doesn't spit something out within the next half an hour will be thrown on the pile of inorganic rubbish Bruvinlaw is stockpiling over at the Beige Barn. What is it with flipping printers! They have a vendetta against me, I *swear* it.
I leave you with one of my photography/gardening combo snaps from yesterday; a slice of sunshine yellow on an overcast autumn afternoon.
(Oooh, and wish me luck for tomorrow, it's my first day at my new job, yay!)
yeah our printer's the same, it sends me round the twist half the time, funnily enough it's an hp as well.
We've been on daylight savings time since March 8 here in the Northern half ... in case you've been wondering why the world was out of balance.