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I spent today at the Royal Observatory.

Very enjoyable, but hard work, since I was there to support a student who has Asperger's Syndrome. He's very capable indeed when it comes to physics (the trip was organised by the Physics department and forms part of the students' coursework) but not so capable when it comes to coping with things like buses and cafeterias and events that don't run exactly according to the printed schedule.

So I am good and tired tonight.

Nevertheless, we are thinking of going back to IKEA this evening to get the dining-room table we had planned to buy on Monday night. Don't know if I can quite face it, but it would be really nice to have a decent-sized table...

It's still cold here, which makes the idea of going out again even less appealing. (We woke up on Thursday to more snow; a bit over two inches this time, which is a lot for here. Really beautiful, though Ems found it made her paper-round a lot more challenging!) Though at least we finally have a new car window - it took the RAC until 9pm on Wednesday night to replace it, and even then, they made us drive to their fitting centre instead of coming to our house (which is what they'd previously said they'd do), because, they said, it was too cold for their technicians to go out! When I asked if that didn't mean if it wasn't too cold for me to drive to them, especially considering that I had a missing window, they just repeated that it was too cold for their technicians to go out. Nice that they look after their employees so well, shame that their customers need to fend for themselves.