Back in the Land of the Living

I have been pretty much missing in action in Dreamwidth land since November. So many distractions but the biggest and baddest of all were those infernal damned Dementors who turned up on Wednesday 30th October and only just left this week. Thank God because Christmas in their company would have been just unbearable
Vernon Dursley sent them but that is a long tale best left for a later date.

There has been heat waves where we had 6 days in a row where the temperature got to 38 celsius and 2 of those it went over 40. When that happens it also means that it does not cool down at night. Often the minimum temperature was 25 which makes it very difficult to get a good nights sleep especially as I do not have air-conditioning in the Lair

The Big Mac does not like such heat either so I had it turned off for pretty much the best part of 10 days. So that distraction was not on the menu

So I was tired, miserable, irritable and worst of all - almost totally brain dead.
Even the garden offered no joy as such weather does dreadful things to weeds and even watering every day is not a guarantee that they will not just keel over and kark it

( Weeds and weather )