Very frustrating...

...having half term and being the only well person in the house. Out went our plans to sit down and go through transferring approx. 3 years worth of home video onto DVD, and in came several nights of very little sleep and me feeling like I should be working while I have the chance but not wanting to at all. And I'm there again now, blogging while I know my briefcase is not getting any lighter.

A generally flat week has followed a rather miserable weekend, with the highlight being dinner & evening with Dad, Lorraine, Clarkes, Evanses and Esther & Ben on Tuesday (see Sarah's blog for evidence). We did watch Peter Jackson's King Kong, to not a massive amount of excitement. Bought Rob Lacey's The Word on the Street this week (formerly called The Street Bible), and am very much enjoying digging into it - it's a version of the Bible (though Lacey stresses that it is not the real thing, but a pointer towards it) told in more or less today's language (but more effectively than The Message, in my opinion), with religious jargon replaced with something that your average Jo(e) might understand. Also good for those who've been reading the real thing for years and need a bit of adrenaline injected into their Bible reading. Prophets are called couriers, Paul's letters are in the form of emails, that kind of thing - it might sound silly, but it works.

Spent some time with 2 bathroom companies over the past 2 days too, as we're looking to completely re-vamp ours. White, white, white, clean and white...