Yippee!

Yes, my indoor blips are getting increasingly desperate. I do feel a bit better today. Better still when I was alerted by email to the presence of this item in my letterbox.

The process of sending my Olympus for repair has been a bit opaque, in the sense that they didn't communicate with me at all, except to confirm they'd received it and then, a couple of days ago, that they were shipping it back. So I was as pleased as Punch to find a well-packaged, repaired camera. 

A bonus of sending it to the manufacturer for repair -- they'd thoroughly cleaned it, and it looks box-fresh now. For a long out of guarantee camera I thought the flat rate of 180 euros for repair was quite reasonable. Way cheaper than a new camera, shipping both ways (to/from Portugal) included, and if they can't repair it they refund you all the money. I'm now slightly tempted to see if Sony might provide a similar service for my sadly broken RX100 M4 ...

I did get up today and lit the fire. I was glad of that when I started cooking lunch and the gas bottle promptly ran out -- I finished cooking on the wood burner. Unfortunately my hands are too feeble to even get the connector off the empty gas bottle, let alone connect the new one, so I could be improvising for a while (luckily we have an electric ring as well). Anyhow, I'm hoping this cold is on the way out and I'll actually be able to leave the house soon.