Good ways to start the week do not include getting a paper cut on your tongue! That’ll teach me to buy cheap ass envelopes instead of those ones that self seal.
Except it probably won’t.
On the bright side, the envelope licking was the result of throwing together a new home card for my cousin and her husband as I rushed out the door on Monday morning, which made me feel nicely productive.
The weather hadn’t improved any since last week, so we all ended up getting sent home about three o’clock on Monday. This was welcome news as we were getting quite distressed watching the poor starlings (? I think? It was hard to tell in the snow!) flying about, trying to find somewhere warm to roost.
Tuesday was the last day of Movember; Steve’s quite pleased
with his ‘tache so is planning 
to keep if for a little while. We took a commemorative picture anyway.
Never one to leave myself out when pictures are being taken, I demanded Steve take a snap of me, too.
On Wednesday, one of my all time favourite bands was playing in town: The Wedding Present. Some friends and I spent a fretful day tracking their
progress across a snowbound Scotland online, but they were determined and no mere Forth Road Bridge closures could keep them from the show! Hurrah!
Support was from Ringo Deathstarr (right) who were new to all of us and awesome – a cross between The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine.
Here’s my friend Roddy, dressed for the snow in his Sonic Youth hat. So him.
And here’s The Wedding Present frontman David Gedge growling his way through Brassneck. My friend Sue got her photo taken with him and couldn’t stop grinning!
In a fit of window-fitting-optimism, I took these pictures mid-week to remind me of why exactly I am spending/did spend So.Much.Money having the single glazing replaced. 
The view from out flat is lovely but completely blocked by condensation when it’s cold outside, and the windows which were in the flat when I bought it had almost rotted away on the outside. The replacements had to be wood-framed, slim-glazed sash and case (it’s a listed building) and cost an absolute fortune, but I’m hoping they’ll be worth every room-warming, view-enhancing penny!
Friday night was my staff Christmas do. Wine etc.
I had a fantastic Saturday, but that gets a post all to itself.
And today… there are an awful lot of windowfitters in the flat, making an awful lot of noise and carrying odd bits of rotten wood out the door… Ooh!
Mother Nature does not take orders from asphalt.
was happening on Facebook.
in on Thursday lunchtime – I think Marischal College (right) looks like a spaceship sticking out of the scaffolding like that, especially now that 500+ years’ worth of grime has been sandblasted off it and it’s back to its original silvery shades.
Friday was book group at Rhona’s flat (the location of these Starburst-coloured candles). This month we were reading 
Sarah Rooftops 