Stupid weather, it was -6 C and dry yesterday, today it's +3 C and damp.
Just been out shopping for some things for tomorrow's dinner, root vegetables to bake, jam and marmalade for tarts.
Today's outfit is thick tights, corduroy miniskirt, and a lined knitted jacket. I had a thick jumper underneath the jacket which was really a bit too much.
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I'm getting lazy. i could list what I have done today and make it look as though I've been busy but really I've spend much too much time just sitting around surfing the web and watching YouTube videos.
I really haven't done much today.
However while browsing Hacker News I came a cross a link to this story:
‘The French people want to save us’: help pours in for glassmaker Duralex
The brand, which evokes nostalgia and pride, hit its €5m fundraising target within hours and orders have soared By Kim Willsher in La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin Sat 22 Nov 2025 12.00 GMT
Drop a Duralex glass and it will most likely bounce, not break. The French company itself has tumbled several times in the past two decades and always bounced back, but never quite as spectacularly as when, earlier this month, it asked the public for money.
An appeal for €5m (£4.4m) of emergency funding to secure the immediate future of the glassworks took just five hours and 40 minutes to reach its target. Within 48 hours, the total amount pledged had topped €19m.
François Marciano, 59, the director general of Duralex, said the response had astonished everyone at the company. “We thought it would take five or six weeks to raise the €5m. When it reached nearly €20m we had to say stop. Enough,” he said.
