Canada

My mum and step dad are moving. From Cornwall, UK...to Parry Sound, Canada

http://www.town.parry-sound.on.ca/

I have told her that she and I will have to get a webcam, as phone calls across the Atlantic will get ridiculously costly. They have sold their restaurant, and bought this house.

I am horridly jealous.

25th April

It is Stews birthday today. He is 28 now, so I'm thinking of trading him in for a younger model.

Rat in Mi Kitchen

I have tickets to see UB40 in concert in September.

I am so excited,that I daren't think about it too often as I think I will find me hugging myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvneOtIK38w

Cider with Rosie

Whilst waiting to get my eyebrows waxed this morning I popped into a charity shop. There right in front of me, on the shelf was the very identical copy of Cider with Rosie that I had read 20 years ago. (My own copy, my mother donated to Oxfam, along with my David Cassidy & the Partridge Family Christmas LP...but I refuse to be bitter.) So, anyway, I bought it, and have started re-reading it.

There are two books that make we want to jump into the pages as they are so warm, snuggly, lushous and homely, Cider with Rosie is one and The Darling Buds of May is another.

I do believe I was born about 75 years too late.

(Found a identical copy on Ebay, and stole the picture.)

God was frowning the day he made....

1) Broad Beans
2) Mushy Peas
3) Apricots
4) Yoghurt
5) Savoy Cabbage

Saturday Sound Off

Today, a snivelling, sixteen year old, grubby looking moronic youth, with a Lonsdale uniform came up to my desk and asked me for a copy of a PlayStation game called Call of Duty.

I read the cover and discovered it is a simulation of the D Day landings at Normandy.

When I am World Leader, I will have these games banned forever. How dare the makers of games think it is acceptable to make games out of horrific deaths? There are men and women in this country who lost relatives and loved ones in WWII. What the hell do they make of all this? Imagine if your father had been killed in the war, and now you discover that Sony have made a game of it?

This boy would never have the courage or the ethics to fight for his country. He doesn't even have the good manners to go and look for a job.

In the world of Clank, he would be ridding the local river of abandoned shopping trolleys, earning enough money to buy himself a Playstation game that teaches him health, hygiene and better fashion sense.

Brean

Returned from holiday one day early, due to the fact that the monster in law fell down a pot hole on day one and was in so much pain that we came home.

Dizzy (3 year old daughter) was spoilt, over fed, over sugared and over tired. We have taken her out of the bed that her cot converted to, and put her in a new big bed. Without the bed rail. As I am typing this, I am waiting for the bump that lets me know she has fallen out of the bed.

Extremely glad to be home, quite frankly.

So Long...Farewell...Auf Wiedersehen...Goodbye.

http://www.hru.co.uk/facilities.htm


Monday we are away here for a few days, so this shall be my last blog for a week. By the time come back on Friday, I will expect

1) Alex to be back
2) More people to have posted their top ten tracks on my previous post
3) All Kaz's pets to be safely at home
4) Pete Doherty to be drug free
5) World peace

The Tracks of my Years

On BBC Radio 2, one of the DJ's does a slot called the Tracks of my Years. Celebs pick out their ten favourite songs and he plays two every week day.

I have chosen mine. It is very rare a song or a piece of music makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, but these ten all do that to me.

Would love to hear everyone elses!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/bruce/tracks/index.shtml?thisweek

UB40 - Kingston Town
Elvis Costello - She
Kaiser Chiefs - I predict a Riot
Handel - The Fireworks Music
The Jam - English Rose
Stereophonics - Bartender and the Thief
Carly Simon - The River
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Meat Loaf - Heaven can Wait
Chess Soundtrack - Heaven help my Heart