Winter begins properly today, the temperature has plummeted and the sky was heavy and grey, with the tiny pellet-like light rain that falls like snow. Unfortunately we have had to start reducing our heating temperature, as the underfloor heating must be taken down a degree a day, and we are going away soon.
I bought a painting in Pakistan, a miniature painting of a concrete tiled floor. I’m quite pleased with it, but also quite nervous as I haven’t seen it in real life and have wanted to own more miniature paintings such that maybe it isn’t actually that good and I bought it because it was available. It was due to arrive a week ago and I’d told our man at home to watch out for it, but it didn’t come. Another painting which someone else ordered did arrive, but not this one. Then today I asked the artist and she said she’d posted it on the first and had received the delivery notification. Panic ensued and it turned out that the painting was there, it’s just that people at home thought there were two to come and only one had turned up.
Anyway, an uninteresting story, but with a happy ending, and happier as I’m told it looks very good in real life.