{ also: ahahaha, job apps, what the everloving fuck. }

Did I mention we ran out of oil on Thursday night? Yeah.

I live in the sticks, albeit close to amenities (a mile to town actual), but like most people in the Fen, I don't live close to a gas line. This means that everything in the house runs on electric. When the house was extended a couple years ago, we bought gas cannisters so that we could run a gas cooker. But all the water in the house - the taps, shower, the heating - runs on electric. What fuels it? A huge oil tank in the back yard. For some reason, we've gone through more than usual this year, and are out again.

This means: no heating! And also: no showers. We have been doing it old school, boiling water in huge saucepans on the cooker, and then carrying it to buckets in the wet room, which is thankfully on the ground floor. I went to sleep with two pairs of socks on last night.

Am currently using my uncle's space heater to warm up my room, and then am passing it to my sister so she can do the same. Then I will not be opening my door until I absolutely have to - at 5 tomorrow morning.

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Today The Mother found a box full of photos from '95 and before. All our baby pics! And some truly hilarious photos of The Dad in his early twenties. He looks a bit like Prince (the Artist Formerly Known As). Or a Leo Sayer nightmare. And my mum has the hugest tortoise-shell glasses! Their wedding photos are amazingly lol. Jesus.

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My ducks were only despatched on Friday, so probably won't arrive until tomorrow or Tuesday. I'll set up the poll for names on Tuesday, so if anyone has other thoughts for names, hit up duck_cheer.

On that front, I need some advice. I found that ducks that circulated flists did better than ducks that went out into the world last time around. This time I want to do that, but I want to tell people where the duck should head to eventually (hence asking for participants). BUT. Am super aware that it's one thing to share your address with a flister, and another to share it with a flister's flister. So: I need suggestions for sustainability this time around. I don't want my ducks to sink!