It is cold. It is wet. My garden work thwarted, put back so that my back can be healed at least. Global freezing in play? Who knows and if weather is my only problem then that is good. Tomorrow to Vienna and IKEA visit, to be trapped there is frightening, directed by signs to have to walk the furniture maze. When Bessy the dog was younger I was caught there, her whining and straining to hold in her toilet and me scurrying to find a secret way out. Tnat was not to be and IKEA was one of the three strores she soiled in quick succession. Armed with black bag and antiseptic I sorted this out, what a man. Disdainful lookers-on melted slightly at cute puppy but nontheless an experience of feacal drag I could do without. The other experiences a fore-mentioned stores I shall leave out. The joys of dog ownership and thank God we only have a small one.