I wasn’t being intentionally obscure in my previous posting, as a matter of fact. I received in the mail today a delivery from Amazon (ha, after I bad-mouthed them yesterday!) Not having ordered anything from Amazon UK, and not expecting the delivery from .com to arrive the day after I ordered it, I was very confused indeed… turns out it was a book from my wishlist, one I really REALLY wanted, as well as a CD I’d never heard of but like instantly.

I’ve been ill for a long time, now. Nothing serious at all, just a string of colds, which never go away and get worse the moment I try to step out of doors. I’m trying to work, but it’s not that easy from home, and I’m getting rather worried about the state of my thesis. In addition, the weather is very grey - we don’t have a lot of sun hours at this time of year, on the 60th latitude, and although it can be brilliant in December when the sun is out, it has been very overcast lately.

So getting unexpected presents really cheered me up. A lot!