40 winks by jantan

40 winks

it never ceases to amaze me that it could be comfortable to sleep standing up, but doing it on one leg..........................

Terrible night's sleep, nothing unusual there, but my reason for it being terrible was novel. I managed to convince myself that the alarm on my iPad wasn't going to go off. Completely unfounded of course.

Reckon Graham must have been tired when he woke up too. When he was buttoning up his shirt I pointed out to him that he was in fact wearing a dress shirt complete with pin-pleats down the front. It was tempting not to tell him and wait for his panicked phone call later in the day when he realised, but I didn't have the heart.

His company has 'dress down Friday' where every Friday people go in to work dressed in casual clothes. I wondered for a moment if they had introduced 'evening dress Monday' to balance things out.

Oil delivery today, the only thing we use oil for is heating, and last filled up at the end of November, so that means we have spent £700 on heating in the past two months - terrifying! Until about a year ago I didn't ever really think about the cost of fuel, but these days it is difficult not to, especially when I went and filled my car up this evening and a full tank of diesel cost £103 - the world has gone mad..............

Fish and chips for tea because the Aga has been switched off for the day so I could clean it - Yum!!!
Great shot! Love the details of the feathers and the background.
February 4th, 2013  
How hysterical..you should have kept mum!! The things we do, I have been out with odd shoes on!! Fuel and logs, we have 2 wood burners £90 every 2 weeks in really cold weeks.....horrifying..........love your balancing duck!!
February 4th, 2013  
Nice shot! Love the colors!
February 4th, 2013  
Great detail, lovely shot. And admirable of you to tell your husband... Hope he was grateful!!
February 4th, 2013  
I wonder what makes them do that - I'm sure there's an explanation. Love the focus on the feathers. Seems to me the cost of living is very high in England. I'm horrified by those numbers.
February 4th, 2013  
Wow. I can see every little feather. Great shot, and I would never like to sleep standing up.
February 4th, 2013  
Lovely feathery details. Eeek to those fuel prices.
February 4th, 2013  
Beautiful detail in the feathers - super shot.
With you on the cost of fuel .... Crazy !!
February 4th, 2013  
This is a beautiful shot of a duck Jan; the feathers, the stance, the light and colours. Perfect and a fav.
Until I read the last line I did wonder why you were spending as much in oil as us, the word AGA said it all. Our Aga consumes the oil like you wouldnt believe. We have just spend £900 and hope it will last 4 months but that is doubtful!
February 4th, 2013  
@streetlyend Lucy, our Aga is electric! That is another story.......
February 4th, 2013  
@jantan Oh my word, then your house must be very warm with plenty of hot water all day long :)
February 4th, 2013  
Lovely unconventional shot of a duck. I had a disaster with tea today. I made a casserole at lunchtime and put it in the top oven of the aga, intending to move it to the bottom oven 20 minutes later. Of course I forgot and came home this evening to the charcoaled remains, so then I had to start cooking all over again.
February 4th, 2013  
Great shot...awesome focus and detail...
February 4th, 2013  
seems pretty comfortable :)
February 5th, 2013  
great capture!
February 5th, 2013  
Now that is a crisp shot.
February 5th, 2013  
@dh Oh yes, all very familiar. We left some parsnips in one Christmas day and didn't find them for nearly a week. It honestly took me about an hour to work out what they were. A friend of mine's husband once stuck a plate of fried breakfast on the wall in their kitchen after she discovered it in the warming oven after a few days
February 5th, 2013  
Great timing for this shot.
February 5th, 2013  
So sweet,lovely clear shot!!
February 5th, 2013  
Awesome pov & detail! : )
February 5th, 2013  
Just saw this and thought of you and your donks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD6ghskNKa8
February 5th, 2013  
Love your shot, so clear and detailed. So entertaining with your stories as well :)
February 6th, 2013  
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