Final Voting For Vivis

The site is open for the final votes for the Vivi Awards, so pop along and get yours in.  My tarot reader above is busy predicting all the winners but is staying very tight lipped. Very good luck to all the nominees. To me, all the journals I read are special and so are the people who write them. You have until the 6th to make your final choice and then the polls close.

Here is the link to the voting site.

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Well, we really had a taste of winter yesterday, very cold especially last night.  I had a tiny hope of a white Christmas.  I remember how I used to love them when I was little, I can remember so well opening my Christmas presents and then rushing outside to build a snowman and having a snowball fight with my Dad whilst Mum cooked the Christmas lunch.  I would like Nathan and Daniel to experience something like that.  However, the climate has changed so much over the years and it seems that in this corner of England, a white Christmas is definitely a thing of the past.  The long term forecast in the paper says that Christmas is going to be very mild and possibly wet and that any really cold weather we get will not be until next February.  Still, I suppose things could change.

We did not get any trick or treaters, in fact, it was all quiet around here.  They raked "Halloween" out yet again for the fright film of the night.  How many times can they keep showing that?  We ended up watching a DVD - "Derailed" and enjoyed it very much.  I like films with a twist in them.

Him indoors has started laying new insulating material  in the loft.  What is already up  there is very old and thin.  With the ever spiralling gas and electric bills, we have to save money where we can.  I suppose that is the good thing that will come out of a mild winter, we can have the heating on lower.  Really, what with still battling the bug he has, he should be resting but Mike is one that likes to keep on the go.

He was speaking to one of the nurses that daily visit our neighbour, Janet, across the road.  He mentioned the bug and asked the best thing to do.  She said there is so much of it about, that it is a virus and does not respond to anti-biotics and can take up to three weeks before you really start to feel better, which probably accounts for the both of us feeling so tired.  Even Becky is not completely over it yet.

I have decided to do a bit of knitting.  Maybe it is the winter.  I used to love to knit whilst I was watching t.v. but once I got into the computer that fell by the wayside to a great extent.  Anyway, last night I suddenly got the desire to pick up the needles again.  Nothing fancy, just a totally plain jumper for me.  I have some nice pale lilac wool so, later on, when I have done some housework and caught up on alerts, I am going to make a start.

The day after tomorrow our new oven should be going in and I am looking forward to cooking the Sunday dinner in that. The electric will be off as I mentioned in a previous entry so I do not know if I will get around to commenting on Saturday but at least I will have my knitting to keep me occupied whilst the men are at work.

Now, I had better toodle off and make a start on what needs doing.

Once again, do not forget to cast your vote.  Jackie, Chris and the team have worked very hard to keep this together despite the problems there have been.  Make it all worthwhile by supporting the awards and having your say.

Have a good day everyone.