Hillsborough

What a dark bitterly cold day it's been today and although I had plans for some further computer housekeeping I just had to get out of the house to absorb the little bit of light there was. We had to collect Ann's laptop from the school she worked at yesterday and then headed for Hillsborough (a suburb of Sheffield) to buy a longer cable to link the modem with the phone socket - my modem is still standing on the floor instead of the desk top and finally to shop in the supermarket.

It was quite a relief walking into our warm home. The Grimsby fish merchant has just been, so I'm just about to go and cook the fish. It's always so deliciously fresh when he brings it.

Sheffield is said to be built on seven hills (like Rome) but as you can see this is hardly Rome! One or two of Sheffield's hills house some of the most affluent people in the country (in the SW of the city), while others house the poorest. The Barracks was built in 1848 and was eventually sold to a Gravy Salts manufacturer in the 1930's and then to the supermarket chain in the late 1980's.