Au bord du canal

My counselling supervisor has her rooms in Chester, right by the canal, so if the weather is half decent, I sometimes drive into Chester a bit earlier than usual so that I can have a few minutes contemplating the scenery. This is how it was today.
The sky was beginning to cloud over but it was still fairly bright.
This is the lock and if you look carefully, you will see my thumb in the top right hand corner. David Bailey I ain't!
Anyone from the south east will notice from the water level that we have definitely NOT suffered a lack of rainfall over the past few months. No drought here!
Meanwhile, the resident swans were snatching a few zeds. It was lunchtime, after all.






And now ...

Well now, Keith has discovered an app for his phone which reads barcodes. He tried it first on a jar of Sudocrem which he happened to have sitting by his computer and discovered that it could seek out where it was available and at what different prices.
"Ooh, this is good!" he said and off he wandered into the kitchen, returning with a tin of corned beef (his, not mine!).
"Now, if I went on Tesco's site," he said, grinning manaically, "it would tell me how much this is and it would order it! So now I can go round scanning cakes and buying them!"
I foresee no good will come of this...


Click, click

The clicking sound that has permeated the living room chez Jennyta is the sound of Keith playing with setting up his new mobile phone. It needs a lot of setting up as it is an all singing, all dancing Android dual sim phone, which means that he can have two sim cards in it. The reason he needs two sim cards is that the mobile phone reception up here in the wilds of north Wales is so variable that it can go from 5 bars to none in the twinkling of an eye, so the idea is, that if one fails, he can use the other one. 
Anyway, he has finally got it as he wants it, after several hours and is happily reeling off all the things it can do, including, it seems, making and receiving phone calls!
Who knew!


Looking forward

Today was great. The dogs and I actually managed reasonable length walks without skidding either on the ice or the mud - a first for a good few days. And while that made a very pleasant change, I couldn't help thinking how lovely it will be when we can go walking again in surroundings that look  more like this...

Bluebells beneath the trees...

Oh for blue skies again...
Or how about some apple blossom?
And of course, this being Wales, the daffodils!
Spring can't come soon enough.


Plaster board and dust

So, we're still no further forward on the British Gas smart meter front and I've given up making non-existent appointments with them...