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Yesterdays shopping trip passed without incident.  Well except for the fact that the windscreen wipers on the car have taken unauthorised leave of absence.  I mean like they've packed in.  For those of you unfamiliar with the climate up here, it..erm...rains...erm...alot.  So the car is grounded.

Skoda Fabia owners might like to consider where the fuses are.  We don't have a handbook and finding the fuse box approached the realms of impossibility.  I stopped at our friendly (well he earns a lot from us) mechanic in Shebster and it took him quite a while to find them.  Anyway - all the fuses appear to be OK, but of course there are a lot of fuses - and we only think we checked all of them yesterday.   

If you own a Skoda Fabia owners manual I'd be really grateful if you could point me to which fuse drives the wipers? Pretty please.  And while you've got the book open what's that funny lever in the funny little compartment by the driver's right knee labelled 'ON' and what's the funny switch in the glove compartment that appears to have a frost symbol on it?

Anyway Tesco's had big lumps of beef brisket reduced to clear so I bought them and sliced em up for a big stew tonight.  The remainder of this stew will be made into a hot water crust pastry pie tomorrow night.  The remainder of this will be curried.  The remainder of this will be made into an omelet.  That is to say I bought quite a lot of meat.

And if donuts cost 65p for 5 and £1 for 10 - do I save 35p by buying 5 or 30p buying 10?

And when I got home there was a tome from Highland Council building control asking for clarification over forty points with respect to our planned house improvements.  There's something biblical about this eh?  I don't just mean the size of the letter, but forty. 

We want to put a new stair in the house - because the existing one is narrow, steep and rises under the eaves in such a way that lanky sods like me have to put heads between knees to move around at the top of the stairs (OK I exaggerate a bit).  So you think Highland Council would be pleased - but no - they want to ensure that there's enough width and clearance around the stairs to install a chair lift at a later date.  Generally I'm in favour of systems like building controls but surely this is extreme meddling?  For us it risks substantial rethink of the stair space and jeopardises hope of getting a bloody move on on this bloody thing.  Bloody nanny state.

Meanwhile Malcolm has sent a message celebrating the promise of Spring in Dunbar - and, he adds, we should only have a few more months to wait.  Cheers man!