Friday – curry, wine, nice dress, girly chat…

3 days of uninterrupted sun this week, the best weather we’ve had all year, and it’s nearly the middle of September. Winter will soon be setting in around these parts. Today it’s chucking it down, but never mind, I’ve gone a nice colour, for a while at least. I seem to be talking about the weather, how very English. As well as lying in the sun I’ve also been doing a few home improvements, and this morning my aga had gone out (it’s oil-fired, it’s not supposed to do that), not too difficult to take the burner apart and clean it but you inevitably end up smelling of kerosene. My hair had gone grey from stripping down an old beam covered in plaster and my arms were sore from using the sort of power tools that men are supposed to use, and my jeans were covered in paint and sawdust and plasterdust and a few cobwebs thrown in for good measure. Yuk. So after showering thoroughly I decided to go for a Chinese takeaway, the aga not yet up to temperature. There is an annual carnival thing here which I had forgotten about so all the roads were closed (I should have remembered – it’s always that day in September when it starts pissing it down). So I went to an Indian on the edge of town instead, and came back to a house still smelling of kerosene, now partially disguised by a hint of curry.

But after nice food and some nice wine and with a nice dress on I feel oh so much better. I’ve been doing dirty smelly jobs for 3 days and now I need some quality girly time. Think I’ll go see who’s in the chatroom...