Andy and I are in Yorkshire at the moment, where it's rather snowy. It hasn't snowed yet today though - the sun is very blue, so we've just been out for a walk. Most of the snow on the roof is melting, the icicles have melted and the snow on the ground is too powdery to make a snowman. I threw some at Andy instead.

We're hanging around The Barn today. Andy's doing some work, I'm updating my CV and Andy's car was being serviced. It's all done now and we're quite relieved to find it doesn't need a new exhaust. Think we're going to go over to Matt and Rio's later for dinner. We visited them yesterday and watched the awful but entertaining GI Joe film. We really struggled to suspend our disbelief, it isn't even slightly credible. There's a bit in it where they decide that the plane can only be operated by voice command, and that the commands must be in Scots Gaelic because the guy who built the ship was Scottish. Yeah, right. They used the wrong word for 'fire' though - they went for teine, which is (like the Irish tine) the word for the noun 'fire' rather than the verb. Nice try.

We're hoping to head to Wales tomorrow if we can, since we now don't need to get a new exhaust fitted, but it depends on Ian's parcel arriving. The stupid company waited 10 days to tell me that what I had ordered was out of stock. I nearly cancelled but then they assured me they'd get it to me by tomorrow at the latest. But from looking at the tracking code, they've arranged for it to arrive tomorrow at the earliest instead. Hopefully it will turn up (it's being sent by courier) but we're worried about leaving the house in case we miss the delivery. All very frustrating. Better than Andy's presents, though, which he's just not going to receive now until after Christmas. I've really gone off internet shopping.