Missing daylight

Managed to be busy through all the daylight hours today. Mr B's parents bought a leather sofa recently, but have decided they don't like it. So we hired a van to take it away. It is, it turns out, quite the heaviest piece of furniture ever created. It is huge and has a mechanism to make the leg rests spring out and the back lie back. (I think 'recliner' is the words I'm struggling to find.)

Mr B senior has a heart condition and recently had a hernia operation, so no heavy lifting allowed. He is an old fashioned kind of guy and not entirely happy with a woman (that's me) replacing him as Mr B's lifting mate. So I couldn't show any weakness... Man, it was a heavy sofa.

Once safely home I headed out for a 10 minute walk to take some shots of the beautiful sky. Too cold to hang around for anything better than this.

Mr B was watching a show when I was out last night about the history of chemistry. One main character was Henry Moseley, who I'd never heard of. He worked out the atomic numbers for elements when he was 26. He enlisted for the army in the First World War and was killed by a sniper at Gallipoli when he was 27. Isaac Asimov said that because of what he might have gone on to achieve, his death "might well have been the most costly single death of the war to mankind generally". As a result, the British Government no longer allowed scientists to enlist.