Wheelistically @ Claire.NU

Due to the onslaught of “Arctic”-like weather con­di­tions across the coun­try, it appears we won’t be mak­ing the New Years’ jour­ney to the Garden of Eng­land. We’re dis­ap­poin­ted, but see­ings as most of the A roads have been closed and the M20 was said to be down to one lane yes­ter­day, its bet­ter safe than sorry.

The Little House at the bot­tom of the garden, this morn­ing: (You can see more snow-tographs here)

Fur­ther dis­ap­point­ment ensued as my new Air­switch tc that I received for Christ­mas (made of mouth-blown opaque glass, which is to reg­u­lar house­hold glass what tissue-paper is to card­board) has already cracked and shattered with the fra­gil­ity of a chicken egg. It hasn’t even las­ted a week — it was only knocked slightly, a com­pletely freak acci­dent. Gutted.

If I can­not obtain a replace­ment mouth-blown shell, I shall have to have a rethink and maybe opt for some­thing a little more robust. Such a shame really when I think of how novel it was and how well the design com­pli­men­ted my room.

I avoided pla­cing it high-up and out of the way as you oper­ate it via hand ges­ture — an impossible task for me if it was placed on a shelf above my eye-line. How­ever, I can’t see new glass sur­viv­ing if it is kept in its cur­rent pos­i­tion on the bed­side unit. Which is ironic really as its advert­ised as follows:

“Air­switch tc makes a unique bed­side or desk lamp” — Mathmos.com