In the end we replaced the defective Season Three of BSG with the Seasons 1-4 +miniseries+Razor box set. With the refund from the original box this only cost us £50 altogether which seems like a not bad deal.

We had a grand wee day yesterday, with old friends round the table for lunch and sucessful cooking and some diamond chat. Today, however, both Mr MacLaren and I are struggling with colds. Unusually for me, my head is still clear (as opposed to full of cotton wool) which makes me fear I have yet to suffer the worst of it. Certainly I have a sore head and scratchy throat and pain in my neck/behind my eyes but I have no sneezles and my nose is not running so there may be more to come. Typical seeing as I am to present a poster at the Institute of Molecular Medicine inagural annual retreat on Wednesday, which will require some brain.

We had masses of chicken drumsticks for lunch yesterday which spent yesterday and this morning with some pork ribs from the freezer boiling up into tasty stock. I think the plan is now for lentil soup; just was poorly folks need to see them right.