Storm Benjamin.

There was a little bit of sun first thing this morning but it wasn't long before the rain clouds gathered followed by Storm Benjamin. The rain lashed down, the wind was howling and the lamppost beside the garden was swaying back and forth which means the wind was about 50mph.

Spot the rainbow.

In the morning I had another session tidying the garage and bit by bit it's looking a lot better.

That was before our three hour Welsh class. Somehow those three hours seem to fly by, much more quickly than the two hour class. Maybe it was because we spend a lot more time chatting to each other (in Welsh) now that we have the basic grammar and a reasonable vocabulary. Now we're honing our use of prepositions, all those little tiny words. Since they are not always used in the same way as in English each has four or five meanings in the dictionary depending on context. For me most times it's just a wild guess. I had to smile when our tutor told us that a Welsh fairy dies each time a preposition is put (incorrectly) at the end of a sentence. And since today's topic was our interests I got to talk a lot about riding and horses. 

After class I decided to buy a large rug for the sitting room. There isn't much insulation under the laminate flooring and with the wind blowing under the house through the air bricks, the floor can get quite cold in the winter. We've checked and failed to find any drafts above the floor but even with sheepskin boot type slippers my feet get so cold they hurt. They don't actually feel cold to the touch either which is most odd. Meanwhile Peter doesn't really notice it and he generally doesn't like to be cold. I can only put it down to one of my hypersensitivities as the doctor checked the circulation in my legs and didn't find any issues.

Anyway, went on line and found a suitable rug from John Lewis. Ordered the rug but when it came to the checkout there was a £20 delivery charge even though the previous page has said the page said free delivery. I got on the phone and it turned out that it was a mistake on the page to say free delivery as the size of the rug 2m x 3m made it a 'large item'. But being John Lewis they gave me free delivery because they had made the mistake. Worth being on the phone for a while.

Off soon in the car, for disco aerobics wearing my new sparkly tunic.