This and that

Early January weather courtesy the tropics. Warm rain on 8 January; it’s not natural. I shouldn’t be having these trials with the weather for about another six weeks. This time of year it is supposed to be deep winter: cold and dray or cold and wet. My only decision should be how much I wrap up and whether it needs to be waterproof. Instead I find that a trench coat is more than ample and possibly too warm.

On a completely different track, I have just had in my change a 2007 one pound coin (for some reason I think they are only issued late in the year so start cropping up in December and January). It has taken me a short search on google to work out what the design on the reverse is (for my overseas readers, the Royal Mint changes the reverse of a number of our coins annually or bi annually with a design to commemorate the flavour of the day). The 2007 pound coin has a very strange design on it.

Initially it looks rather like a bear trap, which seems rather odd in these politically correct can’t-swat-a-fly-because-it’s-cruel days. It turns out that it’s the Gateshead Millennium Bridge



Don’t be fooled by the picture, which shows the 2007 sterling silver proof one pound coin, they’re for collectors only. The workaday coins are made of squashed bottle tops or something similar.

This and that

Early January weather courtesy the tropics. Warm rain on 8 January; it’s not natural. I shouldn’t be having these trials with the weather for about another six weeks. This time of year it is supposed to be deep winter: cold and dray or cold and wet. My only decision should be how much I wrap up and whether it needs to be waterproof. Instead I find that a trench coat is more than ample and possibly too warm.

On a completely different track, I have just had in my change a 2007 one pound coin (for some reason I think they are only issued late in the year so start cropping up in December and January). It has taken me a short search on google to work out what the design on the reverse is (for my overseas readers, the Royal Mint changes the reverse of a number of our coins annually or bi annually with a design to commemorate the flavour of the day). The 2007 pound coin has a very strange design on it.

Initially it looks rather like a bear trap, which seems rather odd in these politically correct can’t-swat-a-fly-because-it’s-cruel days. It turns out that it’s the Gateshead Millennium Bridge



Don’t be fooled by the picture, which shows the 2007 sterling silver proof one pound coin, they’re for collectors only. The workaday coins are made of squashed bottle tops or something similar.

Winnie ille Pu

Poor Furtle is unwell with giblety problems that entail frequent visits. You don't need the details, suffice to say that she was sent home yesterday from an office where they are paranoid that someone else might get sick; apparently a goodly proportion of the place has been stricken with any one of a number of sundry unpleasant ailments.

Last night despite hogging the duvet and my big blue blanky (which itself is better than ordinary insulation), Poor Furtle was still too cold and therefore decided to add a tee shirt to the mix. It being dark, she just grabbed one of mine from the drawer.

This morning I was much amused (and so, between groans, was Furtle), to find that the tee shirt she had grabbed featured a cartoon of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet exiting the TARDIS with the legend, "Dr Pooh" written below. I don't have any photos of my tee shirt, but there's always some sap on teh intarweb who will fit the bill:



It's funny because it's true: Doctor Pooh.

Winnie ille Pu

Poor Furtle is unwell with giblety problems that entail frequent visits. You don't need the details, suffice to say that she was sent home yesterday from an office where they are paranoid that someone else might get sick; apparently a goodly proportion of the place has been stricken with any one of a number of sundry unpleasant ailments.

Last night despite hogging the duvet and my big blue blanky (which itself is better than ordinary insulation), Poor Furtle was still too cold and therefore decided to add a tee shirt to the mix. It being dark, she just grabbed one of mine from the drawer.

This morning I was much amused (and so, between groans, was Furtle), to find that the tee shirt she had grabbed featured a cartoon of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet exiting the TARDIS with the legend, "Dr Pooh" written below. I don't have any photos of my tee shirt, but there's always some sap on teh intarweb who will fit the bill:



It's funny because it's true: Doctor Pooh.