I'm sitting in my new house waiting for the router to arrive for broadband, after which I will be able to look at Youtube links and other things too slow for dial up. When I'm in properly, that is. Tomorrow the electrician will be changing my fusebox, not in a fit state as is, and a locksmith rendering the place secure. Today I will be putting another mirror up the garden.

I hope the frog has found somewhere safe - my sister's frogs have all been frozen in her pond. At the moment I am reluctant to do anything much in case I disturb him. There are bulbs coming up - daffs and other things so far.

I've moved everything back into the airing cupboard after the tank replacement. I could also remove the wardrobe shelves in my "playroom" which I am going to use for computing, knitting machine, loom, sewing machine, keyboard, guitar, melodica... It did look like a large room when it was a bedroom! It has a good view into the garden.

Does anyone have an idea about my back gate? It has two bolts on the inside, and a latch liftable from outside. I want to be able to get in from outside without prior planning, if necessary, but it's a six foot gate, and I couldn't reach the bolts, even if the top one had a padlock, which is what I'm thinking of.

I have looked at the existing phone wiring, and it isn't all that good, or adaptable to what I want - old stuff has just been cut through, or off, and extension sets all seem to come with wires with plugs already on which won't go through the holes.

I'll be ringing the removal man to fix a date later.

Penny