If this is Saturday it must be...

I have just exchanged a hot summer for a coldish winter. Amongst other things, this means that I am no longer able to stroll onto the patio and pick a tasty heirloom tomato and some basil for the sauce while the pasta for lunch is cooking. On the other hand, it *does* mean that I am somewhere where it is possible to obtain decent lamb and bacon. It may be cold and wet where I am, but there is also a rather nice casserole of lamb shanks and best end of neck in the oven right now. :-)

Unfortunately I have also swapped broadband for metered dialup over a wet string, and that only at irregular intervals. I can read my Demon and Gmail incoming email pretty much daily, but outgoing (unless urgent) and sundry other activities such as LJ are likely to be somewhat more erratic. Probably not as erratic as online sightings of predatrix, though.

I'm not going to be doing much writing for a few weeks, so I might actually get some reading in. I read more novels on the plane than I did in the previous month, i.e. the last two thirds of Singularity Sky, and most of Iron Sunrise. I think I'm going to have to add Charlie to the short list of authors whose books I only buy when I'm travelling, on the grounds that there are so few authors I like whose books can be found in airports and railway stations...

I headed off to the library this morning, and as per usual had a quick browse for books by people I know. Only score was the third book in desperance's Outremer series. Mildly peeving, as I don't want to buy books while I'm here (too much weight in the luggage home), so I'd rather get books out of the library and buy a copy when I get home if it's any good and I don't already have it. And I have a list of books I want to (re)read and pimp, seeing as how I'm actually reading again.

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Apparently the Loose Id webshop is having a little local difficulty with credit card processing, and the orders are having to be manually processed. This means Actual Human Being involved, and the actual human beings in question have to sleep occasionally, so there will be delays of anything up to twelve hours in processing orders for the next few days. It should be fixed by sometime next week.