I have just spent two hours blog-hopping.  Instead of edits.

I haven’t blog-hopped properly in MONTHS, and now, when I’m trying to finish edits TODAY, I procrastinate that shamefully….  *throws up hands in despair*

In Other News, is there a safe way of using a laptop in the bath?  If not, there should be.

MUST.  SETUP.  BLOGROLL.

Blogging these days is the typed equivalent of opening your mouth to say something and finding nothing comes out…

 So, with no particular order or meaning, here are the top ten random thoughts of the day.

 1)  You can’t moan about the weather when you’re just cold and damp.  You CAN however, moan about the weather when your home is under several feet of water.  Ugly.

2)  Pippi is grounded.  She went awol for 24 hours (this in a 100% non-roaming cat).  When she approached the front door this morning, looking like she was going to ask to go out, I yelled, “YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!”, she turned 180 and skulked off to the litter trays instead.  She’s a smidge subdued – we’re thinking locked in someone’s shed.

3)  Minnie’s relieved.  You see, when you lose the Top Cat, there tends to be a bit of a pecking order reshuffle.  Minnie would have been in line for Top Cat, but you can tell she wasn’t up for it.  I think she was terrified she’d have to assume some responsibility, rather than go through life apologising for tiptoeing through it…

4) I’m obsessed with Dean Robillard from my latest Susan Elizabeth Phillips purchase.  I have no interest in sports or sports heroes whatsoever.  But I’m obsessed with Dean Robillard.  How did that happen?

5)  I haven’t planned my talk or workshop for July 14th.  I could do it in a day.  But it’s finding the day.  I think about that occasionally, go, “Eeeeep!” and stop thinking about it.  Shame on me.

6)  I need cake.

7)  My postcards (in lieu of bookmarks, which became too complicated) arrived yesterday.  They’re pretty nice, for a design-at-home-having-no-idea-what-I’m-doing project.  Quite pleased.

8)  It should be too long before I have a cover.  Pause…   I think I need to go and be sick, now.

9)  Tomorrow I’m going to have a lie-in.  Pippi will probably curl up on the pillow next to my head, Minnie will weigh down my hip or lower back, and Cleo and Chrissy will fight (literally) for the space between my ankles.  Since I left the house at 7.30am this morning, and won’t get back to it until gone 11pm tonight, I think I deserve that lie-in.

10)  I really, really, really have to sort out my blogroll.