Crafting continues with added "drat"

Latest in the drive to finish projects I'd started was a stretch chip bracelet that had broken years ago (well, been cut off my wrist with a sword) and needed restringing. I'd picked up the required elastic a while back, so last night, pulled out all the bits and did the threading while watching Richard II on catch-up ("The Hollow Crown" is looking very good indeed).
This morning, I took the lot upstairs to meet the Glue Box, tied off, and glued the knot (elastic thread unties itself remarkably fast). Then I tried it on, and hence the "drat". Elastic stretches, but not that much. I'd better find some more chips (must have lost more than I thought at the time), and have another go.

Or maybe the fates are telling me that I won't be wearing that bracelet again - sharp chips on the wrist aren't all that comfortable anyway - and I should make something else from the remains. A wired pendant, maybe. White quartz with a couple of other stones, one blue and one black. Yes. Mini-dream-catcher, perhaps.

Weight-watchers are worried about me. I'm not.

I'm back on the diet, and this is my second weigh-in Monday. I weigh myself every day, of course, so I know if the Monday result is a reasonable one or a random wobble, but the WW site only likes to be given numbers once a week. I'd had to be pretty careful about points over the weekend, with two meals out (managing a full, filling evening meal last night on 2 points was a cooking triumph), but I reckoned I'd done OK, and looks like I was right. "You have lost 7 pounds!" said the WW site happily, and proceeded to give me links to advice on how not to lose weight too fast. Yes, I know, 2lb a week would be more reasonable, but this is effectively the first week of a diet, and the rapid loss is to be expected. This week I'll be dieting as normal, then we're in Snowdonia - more exercise, and probably more nice food.

The 2-point meal? Cauliflower cheese. Cauli is the main filler, and that's zero points. The cheese sauce was thickened with instant mash (close to zero points in those quantities), had leeks and mushrooms in it, plus onion powder and paprika, and the cheese was 1/4 of a tub of WW soft cheese, with a bit of parmesan sprinkled on top. Lots of flavour, even if it was more cheese&onion than cheese.

We are green - or rather, blue

We now have some nice blue solar panels on our roof. The electrickery people have done the magic that connects the panels to the mains, and, on a dull grey overcast day, the meter is going gently backwards. We're only running "background" things - a couple of PCs, TV on standby, fridge and freezer - but considering the amount of sunlight there isn't, that seems pretty good to me.

At the moment we still have to go outside and unlock the box to see this, but a Bluetooth thing that lets us view the data from any PC will be delivered soon.