It's a pain in the ....

...knees, back, head LOL I feel about 90 today! But I need to keep moving to keep parts working. I've had a large coffee, a couple of slices of Marmite toast, and feel more human.
It's a frosty morning here again with a blanket of mist hanging over the harbour. The view from my house is straight down the road, downhill towards the town centre and harbour. Depending how much/little of the town I can see I can judge the degree of mist/fog. If I can't see the bottom of our road it's bad LOL.
The electricity men are back today but just one big lorry and one small van :) The road is passable. Not sure what they are doing but there was a lot of noise about 8 am when they arrived and started off-loading their gear. I hope they have their thermals on - can only be about -1 or -2 this morning. I've just had a look and the big lorry looks like a huge generator, designed to keep the supply going to the houses while they work on the sub station. I guess they don't want the whole set up live on the main electrcitiy supply while they are doing things to it LOL.
Honey was left alone most of yesterday, in 3 hour chunks, and she told me in no uncertain terms last night she felt deprived and I had to cuddle her to make up for it. I was trying to watch the two episodes of Coronation Street I missed while we were out, and I had this loving greyhound pushing her nose at me and pressing herself against me for attention. She would not let me stop stroking her for ages. I slept last night with her up against my back too. She has her side of the bed to sleep on with her  blanket on it, but she likes to know I am there and often moves over to be in contact, and then she has the nerve to grumble at me if I roll over and disturb her!
Ah Honey has just appeared after having a nap on my bed, to now have a nap on her rug in the living room. Tough life eh? Who said she's spoiled? :-) she had a tough time as a racer for the first half of her life and now she has warmth, comfort and love. I think she deserves it. I can't get my head round the fact she is now 7 and into the 'senior dog' age group. She still runs like the wind when she feels like it and outpaces virtually every other dog around, apart from Alfie, who is 2 years old and a Saluki/greyhound lurcher. He is younger and slimmer than Honey and wow can he run! I love to watch playful Jack Russells try to chase her. She does her big circle at speed and they run a small circle inside hers :-D
Tonight is our girl's night in together. I don't get to spend a lot of time with my Jen so it's good to cook and eat together, and watch some TV and chat. I think it might be 'get the tree up' night tonight :) we were discussing colour scheme last night.
 My living room is very cream and brown with teal/turquoise accents (get me! LOL) and a few years ago now I splashed out on a load of new decorations in silver, white, turquoise, dark purply blue, and emerald green. Each year we have picked one or more colours as our theme for the year. The last two years have been plain white and silver with no tinsel (my choice), so I am letting Jen choose the scheme for this year. She loves tinsel so I know what's coming :-( but not sure what colour(s) she will pick. I might just go and see what colours are 'in' in B&Q this year :-)
I did see some lovely coppery/bronze decorations a couple of years ago that I liked but no doubt they are not trendy this year. The only colour scheme I am not allowed is traditional red, green and gold :-( I have thrown out a lot of old decorations that were past their 'best before' date. I had a box load of small 'parcels' in red and white which I loved but maybe after 30 odd years it's time they went back to Santa for recycling. If you want to make things like that, then polystyrene packaging block cut into small cubes makes a good base which can be wrapped in a wrapping paper to match your colour scheme. Tied with coloured ribbon to match, they look exciting and colourful. I am sure you have some polystyrene 'shapes' around somewhere from packaging electrical goods. They cut easily with a sharp kitchen knife.

I'd better get some chores done rather than sit here all day, warm and comfy as it is. Take care, keep warm, and be happy! It's nearly Christmas!  AAAARRRRGGGGHHH!