New Shoots

Well, the day started peacefully enough. Woke up to the traditional Welsh sound of sheep baaing (fortunately not in the garden this time), breakfast, and a walk round my host's "estate", during which I took this picture of a bush that had clearly decided the growing season is upon it!

Then I drove about half way home, and, while waiting for my friend Mar in a car park (glam life, isn't it?) I checked my iPhone for messages etc. The Wonderspouse had posted the following in his facebook status:

following the general principle of "it's never that simple", we have oil supplies - Yay!!! the boiler is "totally f****d" (technical term) - not yay!!! We have no alternative but to be provided with a brand new boiler - YAYYY!! It'll be a few days - not yay!
Overall yay! quotient - about plus 0.6 - in a week we we'll be sorted!!

So, my plan - to get home after a few days away and a long drive and then have a long hot bath with a book was scuppered yet again by the "unreliable combi" (polite phrase - not the actual words used in this house).

However, I went on to spend a fab afternoon with Mar and her daughter, so wasn't really particularly downhearted. I then drove home, and in lieu of a hot bath drank wine until I was nearly comatose and no longer noticed how smelly I was!

Then sank, filthy, into filthy sheets, in a freezing cold bedroom!

It was lovely to be home!