SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH

I'm testing out the mobile blogger app today. I thought maybe I could write on the go.

07:50. Carols at the garden centre in less than three hours. Currently we have no carol sheets. Um...

08:42 Showered and dressed. Here's the plan: I'm going to print them out from an old copy of a carol sheet I made in 2006. It just might work. Though it does involve two computers, one USB drive, a wireless printer and an uncertain amount of ink. What could go wrong, right?

09:02 Usually by this point in the stress cycle I would have thrown the printer across the room. However, the trial run of the three page booklet of carols has printed perfectly. One down, twenty to go...

09:34 Half way through. Turned the paper round, it's chewed some of the pages but I think it's still in the right order. I hope it's still in the right order.

10:04 Done. OK, some of them are in a very peculiar order, but this is not a major problem. Now to pack up the piano.

10:33 There aren't many people here...

11:20 Sung. The team did really well. Santa arrived on a bright yellow motorbike. At least we timed the end of Jingle Bells to fade out as the Harleys rolled in.

11:46 Waiting for the Intrepids who have been distracted by the garden centre. I think there's some invisible field that draws people over 50 towards a garden centre. They love it.

12:04 Home. Lunch. Pack away printer.

13:05. Weird thing just happened. I was listening to a song about a friend of mine. I wrote it in 2004 and haven't heard it for years. I haven't spoken to him for ages either, at least for most of this year. Then, just as the melody faded out, he texted me. He said I was 'on [his] mind' and he invited me to go and stay with him and his wife for a weekend. How random is that? Perhaps not random at all.

14:23. Washing is in and spinning.

16:05. This is just Twitter isn't it?

16:06. I'm boring myself now.