Rude Awakening

It's been a miserable morning outside today but quite a pleasant one inside. I was woken up at 9am by a huge lift-ladder that they use in construction. It was carrying two men to the roof beside mine to clear out the gutter. As you can imagine it was like going two rounds with a pitbull. There's few things worse than getting woken up by construction work on your holidays but I was going to get up around that time anyways. Sure.

However, as soon as they left the rain began and hasn't ceased. The wind picked up and blew the tops off our recycle bin so everyone in the street knows that we eat Fruit 'N' Fibre and Crunchy Nut besides a few bottles of wine. Still, looking at other bins that have had their lid removed by the same wind, it's a relief to know that they seem to drink more than we do. Stacked to the brim with empty cans and bottles. At least we throw old papers and plastic too. Then again, if you're drunk all the time, you probably don't have time to sort.

My plans for the day? My planned expedition on the bike seems snubbed by the weather so it could be another day of working through my back catalogue of mp3s and playing computer games. It's a tough life. If the rain keeps up I wont have to finish off the gardening at the folks place and since it has been raining, the soil is going to stick to the stones and make sieving impossible. It's an excuse too right?