This week I am mostly hating telephones.

In the new house, we took out all the internal phone wiring as the sockets were all in weird places (why would you want a phone in a cupboard?) and also the wiring was pretty old and dodgy looking.

Now that the hallway is all plastered I thought it time to run some new cables which could be hidden under floors and behind the walls.  Now this cabling is brand new, and all the sockets are brand new, yet it doesn’t work.

How frustrating!

Excuse me for a minute, I just need to work my way through a problem - writing things down is meant to help order them in your mind apparently and find the best solution.

The problem is that we currently have a 27″ LCD Samsung flatscreen telly which is fine for use in the bedroom or as a second TV in another room but not much cop as the main telly in the lounge.  Therefore we’d like a new one for when we move into the new house (that we’ve had for 7 months and are yet to move into…).

1.  I’d like to get back to reading more, and hopefully will get a bit more time to do so as the year progresses.  The target for the year is to read at least 20 books.

2.  Our visit to Paris showed up just how little French I have remembered - not surprising really as I’ve had little chance to use it since leaving school.  Target is to brush up on this and learn a little German too.