It's my Mum's birthday today, and she looks a good 20 years younger than she actually is.

We had champagne something-or-others at Liberty, and I am entirely incapable of working (I'm not convinced that I'm capable of blogging either).  However, Mum's only going to turn 70 once, so this is the day to break the 'I do not drink' rule.

xxx

It blusters, and bustles, bringing first driving rain then glorious sunshine and blue, blue skies.  It's very keen for me to get to wherever I'm going, and quickly too.  Nudging me in the small of my back as I walk down the road.  Go on.  Go on.  Hurry up and get there, will'ya?

The boiler is holding up to this pretty well.  The flat was mostly warm this morning suggesting that it had remained lit for most of the night.  It blows out, however, at the oddest moments, and not always when there's a particularly strong gust of wind either.  There is something peculiar about what makes it go out.  I wish I knew the secret.  A Man, however, is going to come round and do something about it on Monday.  Mum volunteered Dad to sit at home and wait for the guy, and I didn't argue, although, if truth be told, I could just wait at home myself and work from home.

I feel headachey.  This will pass.  With the help of paracetamol.  Would that this thing had a 'currently eating' button.  To which the answer is, currently, Buttons.  Yum.

xxx

It's Saturday, so, a list is required (I slept in until I got a call from the Church Hall where Brownies meet.  It got broken into last night - but we definitely set the alarm and locked up.  The perpertrator cut himself in the process, and sprinkled blood everywhere, and the police have found him already.  In the meantime, rather bizarrely, we were discussing what would happen if someone broke in, on our way home.  Spooky).

• Write letters for Guides, who have been invited to come and help at a Burns Night Supper (bang goes a Friday off for me), and include the note that those who have moved up from Brownies might like to donate their uniform to the new Brownies...Ran into one at random on the High Street and asked.
• Brownie Accounts (I sold some secondhand uniform this week: and earnt £14!) Yippee!  I have the right amount of money in the tin still.
• Pay in Brownie Money (see above: unfortunately, this means that I'll have to get dressed and go outside) Got the same man behind the counter as last time.
• Make a Database for Ashley
• Knit two pairs of booties (going for the ones in the Debbie Bliss book, I have the correct yarn, by a miracle)
• Finish the sleeve for the Wolly Jumper (I only need to complete the sleeve shaping, having indulged in a TV marathon last night.  It was "Jane's Norwich Nostalgia Night" on ITV3 - it started with a Tale of the Unexpected, set in Norwich in the early 1970s, then 'Mermaids' - which I watched on one of the few days that my school was shut due to snow, and then an episode of 'Lovejoy', also set in Norwich.  This I stayed up later than originally anticipated to watch - because Mum once believed that our house had been used as a location in the film.  It's definitely a house that's very similar to our old house, right down to the veranda railings - but the front door was an entirely different construction, with rather too many steps.  I think the one they used was on Newmarket Road.  Much knitting was completed, almost half the sleeve). I also managed to do a three needle bind off on the shoulders and knit up the neckline.  So it just needs blocking and sewing up.
• Put the laundry away
• Take bag #1 of unwanted items to my favourite charity shop Favourite charity shop had shut itself randomly at 3pm.  Lots of people inside.  Took bag #1 to Cancer Research.  Bought nice ball dress for £8.99 at Help the Aged.
• Try to sort out the bicycle back tyre (maybe on Sunday)
• Contact my missing Guider Texted her daughter
• Buy coffee
• Sort out Brownie Sixes

In other news, I was naughty and enhanced my stash.  8 balls of Jaeger Natural Fleece in a pale grey for Opie (scroll down): the yarn is apparently being discontinued, and, ever since I tried this jacket on at the Knitting and Stitching show I've wanted to make it.  At £6.95 per ball, it just wasn't going to happen.  At £3.45 per ball, it will.

xxx