Monday 29th December - inbetween times

This colourful glass column is a Galileo thermometer 

and you can follow the link to Wikipedia to find out all about it. I understand the principle enough to be comfortable saying that the glass bubbles contain different liquids that rise and fall with different temperatures. Each bubble has a little label dangling from it. 

All day the yellow 18°C bubble has been at the bottom of the column, with the 20°C, 22°C, 24°C, and 26°C bubbles above. This means the temperature is between 18°C and 20°C, therefore 19°C, which explains why I'm wearing my poncho over my fleece, shirt and vest...

I have a blanket handy too, just in case...

Today my lovely husband BB cut my hair for me. I think it's up there with cleaning the oven as a least favourite activity, but does it with a good grace. The long straggly ends dangling onto my shoulders that have been distressing me for several weeks are all gone. I am delighted by the results, even though I had envisaged something in-between my long hair and my new short hair style... we're always being caught out by the way one's hair is so much longer when wet compared to dry. 

I'm very grateful for his neat work. Visiting a hair dresser is difficult, from the point of view of avoiding respiratory infections. I always mean to try and book a mobile hairdresser to come and cut my hair out of doors in the warmer weather, and then suddenly it is winter again. 

We didn't listen to Christmas carols much over Christmas.  How about Vaughan Williams giving us a 12 minute fantasia on Christmas carols as a catch up?

London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Richard Hickox