.... but at least the sun shone on Darlo today. The first time since the current "heatwave" began. In fact the weather has totally reinforced my opinion of this horrid little town, boring. Newcastle , a mere half an hour north of here had torrents of rain and flooods yesterday, Darlo grey uncompromising skies all day.

The towns market place looked good at lunchtime today though.

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Went to see my lovely solicitor today who told me in the nicest possible way that it was pointless trying to claim against the council for last years alleged shortfall. We crunched a few numbers and yes it seems that from Jan to March I was earning £7 a week over the threshold!

All is not lost as I had to go to the council offices to report my reduced hours and was there told by a very helpful official that it looks like I will now fall into the reduced council tax zone and that she will be sending that department a memo with my new working hours and income. Light at the end of the tunnel? I live in hope.

Pop into the library and get this weeks reading, nothing all that earth shattering, Gerald Seymour, Jasper Fforde, Bateman and this weeks new author for me, Mark Wernham. 4 CDs aswell compilations this week.

I think a sound card has packed up on the laptop as music will not play properly through the speakers or the cans. Bloody annoying as I use it for the radio and Skype and video conferencing. More bleding expense I suspect.

Work tonight was the usual boring shite but I won the quiz again by 3 clear points, which does'nt say much for me or the opposition when I look at my performance on the Ask or Answer Daily quiz..

Have a good one all.