My email program must be broken, the inbox is empty. HEAVY HINT.

Yackety yack! I'm making the most of this, because the next month is going to be super-stressful. Lots of days where there'll be nothing to report: I'll be running around first thing making cups of tea for various workmen (double glazing installers and floor-laying joiners) then racing off to work work work work, back home just to conk out. Then when I get a day off I'll spent it mainly asleep, catching up on the sleep deficit.
I need at least eight hours sleep a day to function properly; nine is ideal. But if I get only six or seven hours sleep a few days running I have to catch up with a big sleep, ten hours or more, or I feel as though I have jetlag. Sleep sometimes seems an enormous waste of time, especially when I'm involved in something -- updating the website, reading a gripping book, out carousing -- and my eyes start drooping. More coffee!! More cigarettes!! I feel even more cheated when I wake up late after a late-night session and a beautiful day is half over.
I'm looking forward to only needing a few hours sleep a night when I'm old.
No ... you're right, nothing interesting to report today either. Um, there was a wagtail on the peanut feeder this morning, haven't seen one of those in my garden before. Its fame is spreading. "Yeah, she's got that black sunflower seed back again, and the lard nibbles actually grow on you after a while."

And it works! You can get back to my website by clicking on Hockadilly, below, or at the left. Hah, I'm a genius! (Settle down at the back, please.)

Trying out a little refinement....

Well I guess now I've lured you all over here I'd better write something. UMMMM... I just had a few days off, which I thoroughly enjoyed -- my last longish break for a while. I drove up to Anstruther on the Fife coast, stopping off in Elie for a good long walk around the harbour and over the dunes. It was blustery and cold, blew away a few cobwebs. It was high tide as well, so waves were crashing against the sea walls. At Anstruther I had another, shorter walk, then had a slap-up tea at the local fish restaurant, which serves the best fish and chips in Scotland. It was great, I must do it more often.
No word yet on the insurance -- I phoned last week and they'd only gotten up to claims from the middle of November. The blokes come to put in the new windows soon, next week or the week after.
I have to do some work now!

.... and it works! Yay.

Edit from the future: no idea what that was about

Another refinement....

Still nothing to report

 I'm just trying out the newest version, posting to blogspot because I can't be bothered to move my whole website over to the FTP-enabled server rather than leaving it where it is.

First blog post!

I'm posting this to my home page from the office ... this could be mildly addictive ...

There is absolutely nothing to report at the moment but I can see this will be a useful feature for later on.

Today: I had my first decent sleep in over a week, despite being woken at 9am by the alarm clock I'd forgotten to turn off, then an intermittant crashing noise I thought at first was the boy next door playing football against the fence and much later discovered was the open back gate banging in the wind. Yesterday Bob (assistant to Dougie, who was laying the kitchen floor) had offered to put away my wheelie bin, since his saw-horse was blocking the alley. And he did, but forgot to lock the gate.

What really shocked me was discovering that I'd also forgotten to lock the french doors. Again. Hello, Mr Burglar, welcome ... just help yourself to electrical goods, there's nothing else of value, I'm sorry.

Fed the birds, which are enjoying the latest seed mix. Mmmm, black sunflower seed, tasty. They get through a half-litre containerful a day, plus peanuts. The "Peck Treat" is slowly going, though I suspect it's eroding from the rain rather than being eaten.