Yet another change of theme…

To commemorate the first new thing to appear on this blog in about three months (yes, I know, I’m maintaining my usual high standards here when it comes to frequency of posting), I’ve changed the theme slightly.  Not that there was anything wrong with the old one, I just felt like having a bit of a re-arrange.

(OK, so the truth is, I was trying to find one that looked like it was all covered in dust and cobwebs, but I couldn’t…)

Anyway, there have been so many things happening in the world since I last scribbled my ramblings around here that it’s difficult to know where to begin.  On the home front there have been fun adventures with a JCB mini-digger and barbecue parties (see here).  On the work front there have been lots of new stamps and other interesting goodies (see here, here and here).  And out there in the world at large, we have all continued to deal with the ups and downs of a rather shaky economy; we in the UK have discovered that our elected political representatives are a bunch of money-grubbing, corrupt, expense-fiddling liars  (anyone really surprised there?) and umpteen other things have started up, broken down or otherwise just continued going on as they were.

As for today, I am currently taking it easy at home before popping over to my Mum and Dad’s place this evening to check up on them and make sure that they’re OK.  My Dad hasn’t been too well over the past week and Tracy (who normally keeps an eye on the folks) is away this weekend, so I’m on duty again at the moment.  Thankfully, it looks like Dad is pulling round and feeling a bit better now than he did a couple of days ago.  But, unfortunately for me, I was over there this morning and, while helping Mum out of a chair, I got a little careless with the way in which I was taking her weight and I have managed to slip the dodgy L5 disc in my back yet again!  (This is the third or fourth time in the last three years – and as anyone who has suffered from a slipped disc will know, each time that you do it again, it’s a bit worse than the time before.)  So at the moment, I am suffering from a some minor agony in my lower back and tending to walk rather like the Mrs Overall character that Julie Walters used to play in Acorn Antiques.  (Those of you who remember the character will undoubtedly also recall the time that Julie Walters played a similar role as a waitress in a restaurant sketch and will understand why I get the urge to say “So that’s one…soup.  And…another…soup…” while I’m slowly hobbling around the place in a slightly hunch-backed fashion.)

Still, apart from that, everything’s not so bad.  Now all I have to do is remember to keep popping in here more often than once a quarter…