Sky TV

I remained fed up with my TV for ages so late last Saturday night I went online and ordered the basic Sky package. Failing to turn up on Tuesday when I had booked the installer he arrived on Wednesday and promptly attached a dish to the side of my house, connected a box and bingo! Only problem is I am still having pixilating, black screens and similar - so back to the books and music!

I have started a new book on my VRS, it is;



The story of modern geology, it is written and read by Simon Winchester. It could be a boring book but it is not, although I have to confess the narration makes me relax and go to sleep very easily. The description of what is under towns and cities I have visited in Britain makes it all the more interesting. I enjoyed my geology lessons at school, many years ago, so perhaps this book is an extension of a latent interest.

I have also started a new kindle book;


A member of my WLM group, this, the first of her books, details a move from a rainy England to a village high in the mountains of Spain. Buying a run-down house in Andalusia was not what Joe had dreamed of in retirement but he soon adapts to the sun, wine and chickens. A lovely, funny almost too humorous book, one is almost scared to ask if the stories are real or a little embellished. This is the second of Victoria's books I have read, others are waiting in my kindle. Health issues are now requiring that they sell their Spanish paradise, I am a little wary of their decision to move to Australia - do they not have more strenuous emigration laws than we do. A book to enjoy, the stories make one feel they are there on the mountain with Victoria and Joe.

The weather has turned nasty here again, rain, cold and darkness. I am so busy this winter I do not have time to become apathetic. Instead I wonder how to fit everything into my days and bemoan projects which are sitting waiting for my attention.