Hello All,

I trust you all had a very merry Christmas and Santa was kind - well, didn't leave you a bag of coal at least or a bundle of twigs. I can't believe it is Thursday already - Christmas week always does this. You feel like it's the summer holidays when you leave work, then Wham! 4 days have just disappeared in a blip of doing nothing for days and then wondering where the time went.

Santa was kind to me - he brought me one of these:

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Yes, a pink one. And once I'd figured out how to work it, and after a glitch where it froze up, it's brilliant. Goodbye iPod, with your defunkt battery and you're annoying software. All I have to do is slap in a CD and it downloads it straight onto the player! And it does video too, at amazing quality. I'm saving up an episode of Jeeves and Wooster for when I'm away. Santa was kind to me again and got me a Jeeves and Wooster box set also.

I'm really going to start tidying up the house today. No, I am honest - just after this next cup of coffee. I may even take a stroll around the garden and identify the many parts of it I am going to chop down and destroy. My study (where I am typing from at the moment) needs serious attention also. Just think of the joy of accomplishment I'll feel when I'm walking around a clean and tidy house!

Well, the Christmas TV was mediocre. The best things on (apart frpom Doctor Who of course) was Sky One's Hogfather. I caught it when it was on earlier last week in the evening (and annoyed the hubster to death  - as women do - with 'Who's That? What's going on? Where's the Hogfather? What's Death doing now?'. But the second time around on Christmas Day, it all became clear. Sky One must have spent a fortune on this - I think someone had a word and told them to start spending money on mini series rather than turning out drivel like the Poseiden Adventure. And is it me, or is Marc Warren in absolutely everyhting at the moment?

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I've never read any Discworld novels, so may give them a go. I like complicated and off-the-wall plots.

I haven't thought about work for a while - but I do keep dreaming about it. which is wierd. Got to distract myself. I am spending a lot of time now going down to Leeds. I was coerced by buffoon boss to do some 'fieldwork' archaeology in January  - aka getting a shovel out and digging - I don't think that my back is going to take it, it's been so long. Still - stop thinking about work!

I'm in Leeds again for New Year (not working, thankfully) as I have done every year for the past 10 years at Aunty Audrey & Uncle Laurence's house. So I know their house part of Leeds and also all the dodgy bits where buildings are falling down which I have to record - oh, and Pudsey town centre (nice Italian) - but not actually in Leeds. So if anyone knows the area and knows some nice places to go, let me know.

Right. Thursday morning. Don't let it turn into the aternoon! Time to change out of these pyjamas.

Have a good day, love Gil xx

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