It's been a dark and stormy weekend and now it's Monday afternoon and it's cold and miserable and nothing has really changed. On Saturday, I busied myself with an advent calendar I have been making and so busy and so curved was I at the table that I ended up with another semi-acute phase of back-ache that landed me in bed for the whole of Sunday. Now I am just glad I've been well enough to crawl outside, buy myself an extra pack of painkillers and take a walk around the local the bookshop. Not the best way to start the week but, hey, at least I am moving.