Eventful weekend

 A peaceful weekend of visiting, cousin bonding, delivering (and trying out) birthday goodies - it all seemed so promising.

But somehow, it turned into:

A broken barometer, a good deal of mercury on the floor and two fire engines with flashing blue lights. Just for the record, I would like to state I did NOT dial 999, I just called the Fire Brigade for advice. Well, would you know what to do? Actually, Val probably would. And it was a better response than the man from the Environment Agency "Ooh, I don't know. I've never had this before. Hang on a minute and I'll just Google Mercury".

Anyhow, it's nasty stuff and it took the Environmental Health clean up man a fair few hours to do his thing. Alarmingly, he used my Sister-in-Law's vacuum cleaner to finish the job. Needless to say, a new one is on her shopping list for Monday.

Oh and on other news? It snowed. Very pretty. If only we weren't heading off glamping tomorrow...

Now excuse me,  I'm off up to the loft to locate thermal underwear. One thing's for sure, life is never boring round here.