Films I really want to see, but have never got round to watching.

The Remains of the Day
Shadowlands
Roman Polanskis Oliver Twist
Finding Neverland
Gosford Park
Miss Potter
Memoirs of a Geisha
Chocolat

I have three of these on dvds waiting to be watched and yet STILL haven't got round to watching them. Which ones aren't even worth bothering with? And hopefully it won't be the ones I have already spent my hard earned money on.

Excellent site!

Food Recipes - VideoJug

Found this great website where you get little video clips of how to cook things. I intend to be a great cook by the end of the month. They also show you how to straighten your hair, dance, mend your car, play poker, everything!

Am I showing my tragic old age?

Dear Emma...

I have...Honeysuckle, Foxgloves, a Rosetree, Aquilegia (excuse spelling) and the first plant, of which I have absolutely no idea what the hell it is.

Dead Animals

I am a vegetarian. I don't eat meat. Fish. Chicken. Anything that is dead. I do, however, eat animal products, like butter, milk, eggs....so I am not a vegan.

Is this the natural state of things? No, probably not. I am not a skinny hippy, in fact quite the opposite. I just can't bear the thought that something has died so that I can enjoy my supper.

I cook meat for Stew and Lizzy, although I refuse to cook offal, and I also won't stuff a bird. I often wish I wasn't. Especially when you go to a pub or restaurant and get one choice of meal. I also remember being in the states and basically starving for two weeks. And I have to admit to missing my Christmas turkey.

Could you be a veggie?

Cup Final Compensations

The best thing about Cup Final Day is that the Holy and Revered BBC always treat us to a good black and white film on BBC2. This year was no exception, and I have spent an extremely happy afternoon, fanning the flames of my PMT by sobbing my heart out to Mrs Miniver. I defy anyone not to cry at this film. And if you don't cry, then it is the law of the land that you are hung by the nipples until you are dead.

I am ashamed to tell you, but...

I love musicals.
I enjoyed the film Titanic
I have recently read an Enid Blyton book, not to my 3 year old, but to myself.
I would sleep with anyone for a million pounds.
I claim to be a vegetarian, but take cod liver oil tablets
I had an brief affair when I was married to Nick, and it wasn't with Stewart
I lie on my cv about my 'o' level grades

and finally,

I know the complete dialogue to Steel Magnolias

B.T.E.S.C.P.

I am intending to set up a new political party called Boycott the Eurovison Song Contest Party. (I couldn't think of a catchier name.)

The songs are dire, the money spent is appalling, it does nothing for the UKs street cred, Terry Wogan should be boiled in oil, political voting should be outlawed and it is the height of bad Saturday night viewing. Get rid of it now!!!!

Toot Sweets

In the last 4 days, my daughter has watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 6 times. It is so unusual for us to find anything she will actually sit and watch, I have let her do it. She laughs her head off to the haircutting machine and Arthur Mullard, sings along to all the songs, and thinks she is Truly Crunchy. As she likes to call her.

Playing copycat with Mrs Weasley

Stew has broken his leg. He hasn't even had the decency to do it at the start or middle of the football season, but on the last game of the season.

Which means the time of year when he has to catch up on jobs and holidays and decorating and taking me shopping, will not get done. It also means that I will have to do loads of overtime to try and make up the money.

And he will be at home for 6 weeks under my feet.

I am exceedingly not very impressed

Never Mind the Bullocks...It's the Wurzels

TV Heaven today, The Wurzels on the Paul O'Grady show which was hosted by the eternally gorgeous and West Country icon Justin Lee Collins.

Channel 4 rock.

All right me old mucker?

Cakes, Clarks & Catapults

Have just made a chocolate cake with my daughter. Mary Berrys recipes are fab. I never knew she was Parkys wife 'til it was in a quiz last week.

Went to the Clarks outlet village this morning and bought Dizzy a new scooter as some bastard stole hers last week. If I found out who it was, I will cut off their penis and boil it in oil, right in front of their eyes.

Stew is outside, putting a pond in the garden. No idea what the hell we want a pond for, there are so many cats in the area, they will nick all the goldfish.

Mind, I notice in the shed this morning, there is a gert big catapult by the window...

Saturday Sound Off II

I was working this morning and a customer said to me...

"Cheer up, it might never happen"

That must be the most annoying phrase in the history of the world. Mostly, I would like to reply... Fuck Off.

But I have a pleasant disposition,

It's like thunder....lightning...

I have changed my picture (for the last bloody time) cos Stew said the last one didn't even look like me. And I always have either sunglasses or reading glasses on me 'ead.

It was Stews last game for Frome Town for the season, so now we have Saturdays free for the next couple of months. Get the Witham Friary games over on a Sunday and we will be getting whole weekends without football! Absolute bliss!

Stews auntie is coming over from the Emerald Isle for the weekend, so I am gutted it is supposed to rain this weekend. Of course, it is a Bank Holiday, so it is English Law that the heavens will open.

Nic Cage - We got him...but do we want him?

So Nicolas Cage has bought a house at the Circus. So what happens next? When I'm in Marks and Spencer's buying my knickers, will he be rifling through the y-fronts department? Does this mean more celebs will be moving in? Do we want more celebs? Are they a hindrance or an advantage?

Nicolas Cage snaps up £4m house in Bath the Mail on Sunday

Gobbolino

Today, Dizzy is going to school for her first hour. They show them round I would imagine, let them play etc. She's not even four yet. She is well ready for school. I, on the other hand am not ready to let her go. I bought a book at the car boot on Sunday called Gobbolino the Witches Cat by Ursula Moray Williams. I loved this book as a child, and think it is only fair I force all my well loved childrens books onto my daughter. I have already bought her AA Milnes poetry books and a complete set of the Magic Faraway Tree books.