Try again...

The latest quilt is coming on slowly. It's perhaps a bit feebly simple, though I may not think so once I'm joining the rows and battling to make the seams meet neatly. And I do like the colours. Now I'm going to abandon it in the renewed attempt to get down to London to visit Daughter 2 and family tomorrow. 

It was very chilly on our walk today, though, and snow is forecast. Not on the line down south, please, weatherman! I just want to get there without incident. London is having tube strikes, too - which I should miss, hopefully - they seem to be at night at the moment. Which is just as well: I know how to get to Daughter 2's from King's Cross, but only by tube and then bus. Otherwise - no clue! Keep your fingers crossed for me... . 

 

The best laid plans...

This is my suitcase, packed to go down to London on the train last Saturday for my visit to Daughter 2 and Littlest Granddaughter.

Then Friday night was very stormy; and power cables came down between here and further south. All trains were cancelled and indeed remain so today. So I couldn't go - a small problem compared with other events in the world, but disappointing. 

The particularly trying thing is that I usually go down on a Friday, but didn't this time, for reasons which seemed more important then than they do now. If I had, I'd be there at the moment. 

And then, which didn't improve matters, it snowed - as had been forecast. Not much, and most of it has gone now, but it's jolly cold. Of course, it's winter, so this is reasonable enough. 

In addition to which, Daughter 2 and her husband have sold their London flat (or, as much as the strange English system allows them to consider it sold - it could still fall through) and are looking for a house. It's astonishing, and very depressing, how much house you don't get in London for your ridiculously large sum of money. So that's very stressful. I think I'm more stressed about it than they are, in fact. 

First world problems, I know. But I'm feeling somewhat bah humbug right now. I shall go and do something useful to try to cheer myself up.