Brrrr, it's a bit nippy out.

So I'm now on the list of the unemployed and unemployable, for the time being at least. Time beings aren't big employers, unless you look a lot like Billie Piper.

Today was largely based around helping Othello and Joe have their feet trimmed. It involved standing very still in the very cold which three layers of fleece and a barbour jacket did nothing to mitigate. Joe was good with his feet, Othello managed to be a pest even when sedated. He's an achiever. Later I managed to persuade my teeth to stop chattering.

If any of you have time on your hands you should be reading Beaver and Steve because it's very funny.

If any of you were trying to email me through the "contact" page of my website you should have put your email address in the "from" box because then I would know who to reply to. Just a thought.

I'm melting...

Somewhere between spending hours out in the cold yesterday and again today (though I didn't get nearly as chilled today) I have started sneezing, my nose has starting running at a fearsome rate and I'm generally turning into a miserable manflu victim. This usually happens when I have allowed myself to become totally exhausted, which I don't think has happened at the moment so I guess it's a mixture of cold and no-job related stress. Pretty rubbish all in all, though.

Having had only a couple of days sick in the last few years I lose my job and immediately fall ill. There is no justice.