So, tis Thursday.

I had a nice surprise this morning. Landers is on nights again, and this morning he turned up at home with a Christmas tree! Yay! We had debated not getting one cos of the cost - we bought a mini one from Tesco for €1.98 but it truly is pitiful. So it was a lovely surprise. As an interesting(ish) aside, the base cost almost twice as much as the fecking tree! At least we can use it next year, assuming we can find it.

He collapsed on the sofa with a coffee and a sausage and egg sammich, and I attempted to saw an inch off the bottom of the tree with the smallest bluntest hacksaw in existence. Honestly, I'd have been better off with a butter knife. (What felt like...) Several hours later, I finally cut all the way through, and the sudden jerk as the last fibres gave way made my thumb bash and scrape all along the rough edge I had just created. Beaucoup de blood, you'd think I'd hit an artery, but when I sucked it clean there was the most insignificant little scrape you've ever seen! Very sore and bleedy though.

Talking of bleedy, Hillie is still whining, but now she's also trying to get Eddie to hump her. He's a bit confused, cos we had his nuts cut so I don't think the urge is quite there. Bless.

So, we put the tree in the base to soak and acclimatise to the temperature of the house (which is not much warmer than the temperature outside anyway...). And Landers went to bed. I am very proud of the cats, they have paid no interest whatsoever - I had expected Max to be straight up it, given his tree climbing and getting stuck fetish. And I am also please that Eddie has resisted pissing up it. So far.

There was a fox hunt somewhere behind our house this afternoon- lots of barking and howling and trumpety things. Hillie decided to join in with the howling, which did not go down well...

When Landers got up, he sat and watched me decorate it, picking on my light arranging skills and complaining about the hangy things he bought to use instead of string for the baubles. It looks lovely, in my opinion - we have deep red, dark gold and bronze baubles - some shiny and some matt, and little wicker balls, and golden snowflakes. I can't post a picture cos we've misplaced our good camera. I think Landers has "lost" it so we have to buy a new one. Anyway, I had lots of super jolly fun putting all the decorations on, but halfway through I noticed my hands getting all itchy, and when I looked I saw loads of little blotches all over them. Seems I'm allergic to pine needles. Bah. Oh well, it's only once a year, innit.

We had an email from our ISP yesterday saying we were almost at our download limit, and we should go to their website to sort it aaaht. So I did. While I was there, I decided to take a look at their Service Status page. This is what I got.

irony

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I just ate half a box of Fox's Speciality bikkits. Feel a bit sick.

Aren't you glad I shared all that? The correct answer is yes.