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I suddenly thought, on those news programmes where they tell you what the headlines are, they ought to do a quick  blog, facebook and tweet (and etc etc of course) search to see what the internet community are talking about.  Perhaps they do?

Anyway, I’m getting cross with Blogger.  It’s been weeks now that I haven’t been able to comment from WordPress and I know I’m not the only one.  Word Press assure me it’s a problem on the blogger platform – there are loads of comments about it on the help forum.  On the Blogger help forum however, there’s not a word, apart from a few unrelated comment issues.  I suppose bloggers don’t find it as inconvenient and irritating as word press users do, which is fair enough.

It’s a complete waste of time of course.  Blogger has never yet replied to any of my queries.  It’s why I left them.

And I’ve been wondering why there isn’t a convention on the internet to have a dedicated spot like the top right hand corner for signing out.  It would make life a lot simpler than having to search each website for the (often tiny) sign-out box.  Indeed, why don’t all the browsers have a sign-out button linked to whichever tab you’re looking at?

Anyway, enough of that.  I have a little watch with a totally worn out strap.  So I thought it would be a nice change to have a different colour strap.  I get them from charity shops everyso often and have quite a lot of different coloured straps but no pink ones.  So I asked in various places in town and alas, it’s such a little strap that no one does it in pink, oh, except for one supplier who has a dayglo plastic one costing £30 odd pounds with up to a month delivery time.  And actually they’re out of stock. Ok.  No pink watchstrap.

But then I wondered about the internet and had a bit of a wander round the watchstrap sites of which there are many.  It really does seem that pink and little is an unpopular combination.  However I did glance at a rather upmarket looking site and then made a strangled noise and looked harder.  No really??? Are there really people who will pay £63,000.00 for a watch?  I mean you can get a perfectly good Chanel watch for a mere £3,000 odd.  (no pink ones though)

Oh.  I just had another look, because I couldn’t quite believe it.  That was a rather hideous ladies watch.  Men are expected to be a bit more demanding, obviously, since the the men’s watches came at around £200,000.

It’s the middle of the night and there’s an owl or three hooting to each other outside.  Also there’s a strangled cat.  Well I’m not sure about the cat’s health but it’s making the most awful noise.  And it’s very cold, -8° when we came back from a gig an hour ago.  The remnants of snow were glittering in the car’s headlights.  And there was an orange, waning gibbous moon glowering over the tree tops.  It’s all a bit spooky really and I love it.

The Trent and Mersey Canal is remarkably well maintained.  It has nice wrought iron signs and art work under the bridges.  This artwork is enhanced by the reflection of Barney winding paddle gear.

And this artwork enhances the excitement of it being nearly time to stop and go to a warm pub.

But first, a surprise sunset at Fradley Junction.  As you can see, we were not the only people heading for a warm pub.  Now I have to go to a warm bed, it’s too cold sitting here and my nose is going numb.

Hope you are all keeping warmly wrapped up.  I hear it’s going to get even colder before morning.