trying to keep warm...

i feel the draft seeping through the large bedroom window under which my wee little desk sits overlooking the shared garden... it is rather unfortunate that the set of windows is not double-glazed (but such is the state of old windows in old stone buildings)... at least the flat is still alot warmer than the loft and we get to control the gas heating. i am wrapped up in a wooly mixed stone-blue jumper and my new pinky-peach-burgundy floral-woven wooly scarf that mummy gave me recently is coiled round my neck... i've just re-filled tiger-ente with hot water and place it under my duvet to warm up my bed... i nearly strangled it to death hugging it tight as i tried to finish reading a journal article... i take ages to read anything... (except for the rare occasions when i find myself completely engrossed in the adventures of a (non-academic) book when i then feel the need to finish reading asap... i think such events have only ever occurred less than 10 times so you can just about imagine how miserably slow i plough through written words... sometimes i think i might be visually dyslexic).

i also very nearly burnt my dinner today... it seemed so cold outside with the random hailing i decided not to step out of the building to pick up the few bits and pieces i could do to colour my meal even when i didn't have much left in the fridge or freezer to make something to eat... but i managed to salvage the half-used sweet potato and found some frozen 'Bird'sEye' cod fillet which i decided to leave to cook in the oven while i let myself get distracted by other things... the baked sweet potatoes peppered with oregano and drizzled with olive oil tasted lovely even though some were slightly burnt crisp! oh well... c'est ma vie...