GHD

Finally found a hairdresser that I like. £44 for a wash, cut, blow dry and colour.

Am really enjoying the new Little Dorrit adaptation, am watching it on BBC HD. When are we getting the next series of Ashes to Ashes???

Jump Around

Half Term. My daughter...

• Went to Longleat (twice)
• Went to two different friends houses
• Had two different friends round to play
• Decorated gingerbread men
• Made cakes
  
• Had lunch at Pizza Hut
• Went swimming
• Had fish and chips one night for tea
• Went to see High School Musical 3 (if you get the chance to see it....don't)
• Went to a non Halloween Party
• Atteneded TWO birthday parties

I did laundry, worked, cleaned and got hooked on Vallium.

Wossy

I didn't hear the phone calls made by Ross and Brand. I am not really interested. However, I am quite shocked how the public have turned against him! I always thought he was one of the untouchables. Like Sir Bob and the Queen Mother. Sir Paul (shut it Mrs Weasley) Dawn French and Stephen Fry. How wrong could I be!

Something really bizarre happened last night. We were having a night in with some friends when my best friend phoned and said "turn on Channel 4, quick!" So we did and it was a programme called "Place in the Sun - Home or Away?" People who are buying new homes get to decide whether to buy a house in the UK or abroad. And they show them a few houses. Would you believe...my old house was on there?!?!?! I bloody loved that house. I cant even walk past it for getting upset. I never wanted to leave it and wish I had held on to it. But I couldn't afford it on my own. Anyway, the woman in the programme bought my house and the one in Italy.

Lucky Bitch.

Soccer

Bryant Stunner Earns Robins Premier Cup Win
A stunning strike from centre back Stewart Bryant with 5 minutes left gave a depleted Robins side, missing six regulars, a 2-1 win over a battling Odd Down side in the first round of the Somerset Premier Cup. Toby Colbourne had scored an earlier equaliser for Frome and the win sets up a home tie against Bath City in the next round.

Can you imagine how hard this is to live with right now?

To smack or not to smack...that is the question...

In my absence from internet life, Stew hit my car. He backed into it with his. There is only a tiny mark on the number plate, but I was right angry because anyone who knows me and my car will automatically think it is me who has hit it!

My daughter is cheeky and chopsy. We used to give her small smacks when she was really naughty then stopped. Should we start smacking again? Do you/did you smack your children?

So sorry....

I am alive.

Stew is on a four day week, so I am picking up all the overtime I can squeeze in. I hope everyone got the link I sent with the newspaper article that Stew and Lizzy were in, but here is the photo for anyone who isn't already bored with it!

A couple of things I would like to mention are that, I am not really bothered that Madonna and Guy have split, and I REALLY don't care if Peter Andre and Jordan split. So please, media people, don't boringly bombard us with celebrity marriage stuff. It is tediously dull.


Whilst in Canada, my mum let Lizzy borrow her Sims game for the DS. She brought it home and has suddenly realised that the Sim Girl goes to the toilet. So my daughter spends at least half an hour a day making this poor electronic girl do constant poos.

I seem to be developing an addiction to the Crime and Investigation channel....and alongside that comes a fear that I shall end up in a trailer in the US, getting murdered for my handbag.

Alive and Kicking

• Picked up the Best of Simple Minds at the bootie this morning for 50p!
  
• Sold £94 worth of stuff at the bootie
• Had dinner over at the monster in laws
• Had an Indian takeaway last night and was really pleased that my best friend who came back from Florida yesterday came round
• Wondering why all the best old films have names as the titles. Have recently watched Mildred Pierce, Mr Skeffington, Cass Timberlane, Mrs Miniver (again) and Nora Prentis. I think I should have been born in black and white.
• Wondering what I am going to watch now that Bonekickers (Absolutely impossible, but entertaining) has finished.
• Not looking forward to working Bank Holiday Monday
  

Inukshuk

Inukshuk (in'-ook-shook) or inuksuk, is an Inuktitut¹ word.

A type of archaeological feature consisting of rocks piled in the shape of, or to indicate, a human form. Inuksuit are a common feature on the land, assume many forms and sizes, and serve a variety of different purposes.

The government of the new Canadian Territory of Nunavut uses the inukshuk as the central symbol of the territorial flag and as a prominent part of the territorial coat of arms. The government describes inuksuit as:

... stone monuments which guide people on the land and mark sacred and other special places.

The inukshuk has become a familiar symbol of the north throughout Canada and modern examples are now found scattered across the country.'Sacred and Other Special Places'

In June 2002, Canadian soldiers in Kandahar, Afghanistan (far from the north) constructed an Inukshuk from local stone as a memorial to their four comrades who had been killed the previous April.

Corporal Ainsworth Dyer, Sergeant Marc Leger, Private Richard Green and Private Nathan Smith, died that night. Eight other Canadian soldiers were wounded. Their Inukshuk points home.

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Parry Sound, Georgian Bay

We have been home for over one week and the sun has not shined once. Rain, clouds, and just generally dull.

We had a fabulous time in Canada. Met the nicest, kindest people, had lovely weather, ate far too much and slept a lot!

I got hooked on Dollarama, Tim Hortons Hot Chocolate, Butterfingers, Iced Tea and Dentyne Cinnamon Fire. Went to Walmart (and think Asda is probably nicer, but at least they don't have to wear our gopping green uniforms). Loved going out on the boats, and thought sitting on a front porch was great!

I was fascinated with the Inuckshucks (Excuse spelling) and brought one home with me. Spent far too much in Whiskey Jacks and did not want to come home.

To the girl with the mousey hair...

For some reason today I feel very nostalgic. I have watched Adam & the Ants, Paul Young, David Bowie, Sweet, The Selector, Madness, Hazel O'Connor, Blondie and The Undertones on YouTube. I am rewatching probably the best series made in the last 10 years, Life on Mars. I also bought my daughter some Space Dust. And made her eat it.


"Gene Hunt. Your DCI. And it’s 1973...almost dinner time. I’m havin' hoops."


Will tell all about the fabulous Ontario in the next post.

Loonie Land

I DID NOT want to come home.

She looks like a sugar in a plum

Lizzy had a group visit her school for the last dayof term. I would imagine they were a Steel Band. They played Brown Girl in the Ring, Rivers of Babylon and must have done a couple of numbers by UB40. My daughter came home incredibly excited. She said "Oh mummy, they were brilliant! They did some songs you have on your cd in the car! And they came from a really long long way away!"

I asked her "Where were they from? Jamaica? Nigeria? Africa?"

she replied.....


"Erm no...I think they were from Ikea"

Off to Canada tomorrow. I can't believe the holiday is here already!

What.....?

What is going to happen to Dr Who? I liked Catherine Tate in it.

What the hell has happened to Billie Pipers mouth? Why has she developed a lisp?

Why have I never seen Casablanca before?

Whatever happend to KLF? They rocked.

Why do I bother dieting? I have spent 4 weeks fasting and still weigh the same.

What the hell will I do with my child for the other 4 weeks of the summer holidays?

Lazing on a...

This week I have not found a job. I have tried new cooking recipes due to boredom. I have been to bingo. I have worked in my dead end job. I have not saved any spending money for my holiday and I haven't been out.

I have, however, watched two great Bette Davis films on TCM...Now, Voyager and Mr Skeffington. Both made me cry.

And a band of angels wrapped up in my heart

My mobile phone has been on a washing machine adven ture this week. I finally got it dried out, and then left in on the windowsill. When my friend phoned and phoned, it vibrated so much, it fell into the washing up water. Was it Schell who dropped hers down the toilet? Did hers ever recover?

Lizzy went to bed one night this week, and sneaked her Silly Putty up there with her. She fell asleep with it and in the morning it was everywhere. I hd to cut it out of her hair, and although I tried the Marge Simpson trick with the ice on gum, I had to throw the nightdress out.

Stew is doing the London Run this weekend. If he does complete it and all his sponsors pay up, he should raise £700 for a local cancer charity.

I have finally finished college this week. So now I REALLY have to find a job.

Only 24 days till our holiday! I really must get some holiday insurance.

Reasons to be cheerful...Part 4

Stephen Fry
Scrabble
Stilton
The Barbecue Season
Kathy Burke and Gimme Gimme Gimme
The Beatles
The Office - An American Workplace
Gnocci
Houmous
The invention of reading specs
Dickens
Bargains at a boot sale
My daughters school report
Red Wine
Corn on the Cob
Squeeze on my car cd player
Not being dead

And marmalade skies...

Dizzy has been off with a tummy bug, but she is back to school today. Good job, I have a girlie lunch out today.

I have applied for four jobs this week. Surely one of them will give me an interview!

Miss Elizabeth had a birthday on Tuesday. We got her a trampoline. I think she is stuck to it. My mum got her a second hand karaoke machine. I think I'm Cher when she's at school.

Without wanting to bore everyone with weather stories...are we actually going to get a summer this year?

Hysterical

Funniest thing I can remember seeing on TV ever was The Office, last night. Jim pretending to be Dwight for $11. Even had his own bobblehead. Question...What kind of bear is best?!

Lizzys birthday party today. I may need valium.

Still haven't found a new job. I may well be unemployable.

Half hour later.

I have a post script to this blog. This morning, I have recieved an email. Here it is, copied and pasted.


Hi Jackie

Thank you for your e-mail. If you are interested in delivering the Frome Times please call me on 01225 704761 so that I can take your address and telephone number and your date of birth if you are under 16. Then I will get back to you again when I have a round in the area of Frome which you live.

Thank you

Linda Maslen

Distributions Manager

Wiltshire Publications, publishers of;

Melksham Independent News

White Horse News

Frome Times

Now, I certainly haven't applied for a paper round. And my four year old is unable to write emails as yet. Which leaves one person in this house who has applied for a paper round in my name....

All the teachers down the pub, passing round the ready rub...

My daughter took her first trip to her headmistress this week. Her crime, along with two partners in, was "To see if we could create a flood by blocking up the water fountain with tissues" They did accomplish this most hideous of offences and were duly sentenced to a trip to Mrs Stokes. Who, in her infinite wisdom took 10 minutes off the offenders playtimes for the following day.

On the way home, Lizzy said....

"I hate Mrs Stokes. She ain't coming to MY birthday party."

Holiday, celebrate, it would be so nice....

We had a lovely week away. It rained, but it was lovely to see my aunt and uncle. Sadly, the car broke down the day before we went, so we had to borrow Stews mums car and worse, it cost £450 to repair! That is all the holiday money I have saved for Canada gone.

I am still watching all the classic films I can. Have watched Three Coins in a Fountain, Jezebel and Pat and Mike.

Went to see the new Indiana Jones film at the weekend, with some lovely friends of ours. It was what you would expect from an Indiana Jones film.

I know I say this every year....but...

When the hell are we going to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest?


I am away this week. We are staying in a Haven Holiday Camp in a caravan near Hastings for a few days. In the rain. Wish me luck.

A few photos.

In my local news today...

Bath University is the first university to now offer a degree course in funerals.

I don't think there can be a worse degree.

....there is a fireman with an hourglass

Last night we went out with friends drinking. I am slighty suffering today, but not too bad. Anyway, we were all discussing the first singles we ever bought. Mine was Boomtown Rats, Rat Trap. And I still love it now. I was horrified to discover, that Stews was Mistletoe and Wine by the vile Cliff Richard. I may have to rethink our long term commitment.

My head is spinning

I am spending the whole day with a cleaning item in each hand. Laundry, cleaning and general slavery.

However, Discovery Channel is running the complete Vic Reeves Rogues Gallery, so it's not all bad.

Good Luck Hillary. Quite frankly, I don't give a flying f*** who wins. But Emma and Dana are rooting for you, which is good enough for me.

How Bizarrrrrrrrre!

Just got back from French and Saunders (which was, excuse the pun, Absolutely Fabulous) and I had to come and blog straight away as I decided that Alex must be dead and sending me psychic messages. This is because, before the performance, during the interval and after the performance they played two songs. These were...

Gracie Fields, Sing as we go and Kinky Boots


Anyway, Mrs Weasley, hope you aren't dead. And I think you would have liked the show tonight.

You got more rabbit than Sainsburys

Tomorrow night I am off to see French and Saunders! Can't wait :oD

Tenessee Williams

...just watched Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I have never read the book....is Maggie actually pregnant? I never realised how beautiful Liz Taylor was. Is Brick Gay? Whay are the parnets called "big"? Not just Daddy and Momma?

Loved the film. I understand Tenessee Williams did not.

Sorry

...if I worried anyone. I have tried not to spend much time online as it seems to be taking over my life. when I have been online, I have been playing Scrabulous. I wasn't attention seeking or stropping. Really really sorry xxxx

Scrabulous

I have found my addiction in life. Scrabulous.

Daddy, my daddy!

Watched The Railway Children again this morning for the squillionth time. Anyone who doesn't cry when the father appears through the smoke at the end is bloody hard.

Lizzy has 5 parties over the next two weeks. A far better social life than me. One of them is a fancy dress party. I would love to be one of those mothers who can whip up an original costume out of sticky back plastic and egg boxes, however, I bottled it. Went to Asda and bought a Belle costume instead. She's happy, I don't have to get the sewing machine out, and with my discount it only cost me £10.80. Everyone's a winner.

We are having Mexican wraps for dinner and then Diz has her first rehearsal in a fashion show that she's doing for a Cancer Charity. Loads of showing off and posing in mirrors. Right up her street.

No-one pushes Billy Hunt around

• Haven't heard anything regarding the interview I attended. They wanted a helluva lot of work and hours for not a lot of money.
• Am currently watching the Our Mutual Friend mini series on TCM
• Went and had lunch this week in a very posh place in Bath
• School holidays start today. What will I do with my very attention seeking daughter for two whole weeks?
• Have started my new college course. Am doing databases which in my tragic little way am thoroughly enjoying.
• Rest of my day involves cleaning and laundry. Extremely dull.
  
• If I don't start walking some places instead of driving everywhere, I will become the size of Fatty Arbuckle.
• My daughter has size 11 feet. Which is only 5 sizes lower than me. That's a worry.

I told you I was trouble.

I have been working on a till this week at the Asda Mecca. We are, as a company, gradually removing free carrier bags. On the whole, people have been sensible and agreed it is a good thing. However, these are also some of the comments I got....

"What am I going to pick up my dog poo with?!" (nappy sacks?)
"What am I going to use as a bin liner?" (bin liners?!?)
"I don't believe in global warming" (and your point is.....?)
"Absolute poppycock, I am going to shop at Tescos in future" (I bet they'll be pleased)
"So are the prices going to go down, seeing as you aren't giving me free bags anymore" (wanker)
"We are getting more like France every day, it's a bloody disgrace" (Absolutely no comment)

We know major tom's a junkie...

I am gutted that the last Episode of Ashes to Ashes and been and passed. I sobbed, my heart stopped and I swooned over Phillip Glennister. I can't remember ever enjoying anything as much as Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.

Reasons to be cheerful...Part 3

Today I am thankful for...

Seeing UB40 live, before Ali "Voice of heaven"Campbell departed

Still having one last episode of Ashes to Ashes to watch on Saturday night

My V+ box having Kaiser Cheifs "I predict a riot" with the better video on it

TCM and Film 4 being free

Caller display on my phone

Stew mending my shower

Being born after the washing machine was invented

Marks and Spencers doing free delivery when you spend over £30

Madness singing Embarrasment

The Boys are Back in Town

I have finally managed to blag myself an interview. No idea if I can wangle myself the job, but I really want it. The job is at a school for autistic children. I will post any progress. I shan't count my chickens.

Have been to Salsacize today, never been before...a bit like aerobics but with a Latin American twist. I really enjoyed it.

Last night went to a Gala Bingo for the first time. Two of my friends had never been either, and luckily we agreed to split any winnings. One of us (not me!) won and so we came home with £30 each. Tonight is my Walmart greeters night. I might try and count how many obese people with leggings and a Lonsdale hoodie walk past me in my 4 hours on the door.

Academic inspiration...you gave me none

I am working today. Bank Holiday Monday in my mind numbing job as an Asda Walmart greeter. It is, however, the best spot in the world for people watching. and trust me, however fat you think you are, there are people out there twice the size. and without a fashion sense in the world.

Saturday's kids play on one arm bandits

• Sorted out the office
• Still can't park a car
• Watched the fabulous 1962 film, To Kill a Mockingbird.
• Have just started watching Fanny by Gaslight
  
• Lizzy has the Chicken Pox for Easter
• Stew got a scratched cornea at work
• I only have three days until I can eat chocolate again - so I will be making a chocolate & orange cheesecake for Easter Sunday
• Applied for two jobs and haven't even had a reply. Bastards.
  
• Kate Nash's Merry Happy song is the most annoying catchy song ever
• Why is it when your friends that are a couple split up, you end up losing them both? AND get stuck in the middle to boot
• Stew's doing the London 10k race if anyone wants to sponsor him for Positive Action on Cancer
• Happy Easter everyone

Labelled with Love

My mum and stepdad have bought a boat and is going to name it after my daughter. How cool is that!??! The boat is 10 years old and comes with a mooring only 5 minutes from their house. They can't decide on whether to call her Dizzy Rose, Elizabeth Rose, Lizzy Rose or just Dizzy, Lizzy or Elizabeth.

I am spending the whole day today sorting out the spare room. It is allegedly the study, but is full of books, junk, paperwork and old toys. I would take before and after photos, but am too ashamed.

I'm determined to throw out old books, but I always have this longing to cling to them.

Liza Radley, see her jump through loneliness...

Have you ever been really disappointed in a film? I was really looking forward to the 1983 film, Local Hero and thought it very unremarkable. It's only saving grace was the wonder Mark Knopfler soundtrack.

And a British Rail poster read "Have an Away Day"

I have been watching my classic and good quality films, as I promised myself I would now that we have a V+ box. I thouroughly enjoyed The Englishman who went up a Hill and Down a Mountain. Thought Vera Drake was hard work. Adored the Big Sleep (Don't know why Humprey Bogart was gorgeous, but he was) and after I watched Angelas Ashes, I couldn't think about anything else for days. Wish I had read the book now.

I love TCM. They also run old mini series, and one of the current ones is Martin Chuzzlewit. Which is my particualr favourite Dickens book.

Because dreams are made of this

I have a spot. A huge, teenage like spot on my chin. How can I have a teenage spot when I am middle aged with wrinkles? Seems highly unfair to me.

Try wearing a cap

My new car, and my neighbours lost fence.

What are you reading?

I am reading The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd. It is set in the 1300s and it loosely based on the Canterbury Tales. I adore Peter Ackroyd. London the Biography by Peter is my very favourite non-fiction book.

Sips another rum and coke...

Me and Stew have had a huge row. It is only the third in 11 years, but I have been blubbing for 24 hours. Men are very thoughtless sometimes. I am attempting not to sulk, as I abhor sulking. However, I am so mad with him, I am struggling to speak.

Robbing the graves of bodies dismembered...

If I eat chocolate during Lent after giving it up, will I go to hell?

Today I...

...passed my driving test.

Kids say the best things...

Whilst swimming this week, Elizabeth made the extremely loud proclamation that.....

"Mummy, it's funny when you look underwater in goggles isn't it, 'cos you can see everyones willies".

Great TV

..I have been watching the Mayor of Casterbridge. The 1978 version with the fabulous SirAlan Bates. much easier than reading a Thomas Hardy book. They have been showing it on TCM over the last few weeks. Also, have got hooked on Dr Who. No idea why I haven't watched any before. David Tennant rocks.

My best Christmas Present ever. For Emma.

The Dubreq Stylophone is a miniature electronic musical instrument invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis. It consists of a metal keyboard played by touching it with a stylus - each note being connected to a cheap voltage-controlled oscillator via a different-value resistor - thus closing a circuit. Some three million Stylophones were sold, mostly as children's toys. Rolf Harris appeared for several years as the Stylophone's advertising spokesman in the United Kingdom.

The Stylophone appears on a few commercial recordings, most notably David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and "Slip Away" and the commercial rave single "Stylophonia" by Two Little Boys in 1991. Kraftwerk used the Stylophone on the track "Pocket Calculator" from their album Computer World. The British duo Erasure also employed it on the single "Don't Say Your Love Is Killing Me" (from the album Cowboy in 1997) as well as on their 2000 album "Loveboat". In a lesser-known instance, the Stylophone is used for the bulk of Orbital's single, "Style". Marilyn Manson made use of it for "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3". They Might Be Giants played the Stylophone in several of their songs, including a number on their 2007 album, The Else. Jon Spencer has used the Stylophone extensively on recordings with his band Blues Explosion, and has famously had problems bringing the device — described as "the world's most annoying musical instrument" — through airport security. The more versatile S30s version of the instrument was used by UK experimentalists Camberwell Now, and appeared on their album All's Well. The 350s dual-stylus version was also extensively used as a lead instrument by British band Pulp from 1992 to 1994. Its glacial tones are particularly evident on their breakthrough album His 'n' Hers (most notably the songs "Happy Endings" and "Pink Glove") whilst the 1993 album, Intro, features a track called "Styloroc (Nights of Surburbia)" which revolves around a riff played on the first model.

In October 2007 toy company Re:creation, in conjunction with Dubreq Ltd (re-formed in 2003 by the son of the original inventor), re-launched the Stylophone. The new model has a volume control and accepts an MP3 input, as well as sporting two new sounds.

In the Doctor Who audio drama Horror of Glam Rock, a glam rocker in 1974 is contacted by aliens through his stylophone, and playing a certain tune on the instrument summons the aliens to Earth. The play includes an original song (composed by Tim Sutton and performed by Stephen Gately and Clare Buckfield) which heavily features the Stylophone.

Campaign to bring back...

TAB!

The very best moments....

My very best bits (so far) from The Office - An American Workplace.

• Jim walking into Dwights hotel room, and thinking he had hired a hooker.
• Jim not being able to speak, due to the coke jinx and Pam telling Micheal that Jim wanted to talk about a relative who had drug problems.
• Pam speaking into the intercom in the supermarket.
• Dwight interviewing Kevin about the cannabis
• Dwight putting orange cones around the joint in the car park.
• Dwight and Jims "allience".
• Michael saying that the handbag vendor was like the new improved Pam.
• Dwight buying a manbag.
• Michael slapping Ryan on the bum at the Dundies awards.
• Dwight asking Toby where the clitoris is.
• Michael asking Pam to make out with the blow up doll.
• Pam telling everyone her mothers coming and Kevin saying “milf.

Points and Questions...

• What the hell does Angela see in Dwight?
• I would do BJ Novak for definite.
• The Jim/Pam relationship is far more believable than the Tim/Dawn English version, and Jim is a lot more gorgeous than Tim.
• I can only watch The Office if it is recorded, because I have to fast forward Michael as he is so cringeworthy.
• What did Pam write about Michael on the bathroom wall?

Lent

I have just watched the Timewatch documentry on Princess Noor Inayat Khan. And so in honour of her, for Lent, I shall be giving up chocolate and complaining.

...meet me at the fair....

Have been keeping up with my old and classic fims. Am currently watching "To Catch a Thief" and yesterday, watched the highly enjoyable "Meet me in St Louis". Love any film with Margaret O'Brien. Before that I saw a Picture of Dorian Gray. Which was not a lot like the book, I thought. Have recorded Bus Stop, so that will be next.

5 - 6 - 7 - 8

Yesterday I went to Step Aerobics for the first time. Now, I am hooked. I have to find meself a Reebok step and some dvd's to do it at home.

...but you can't push Willy round, Willy won't go.

Today I have planned...

• Gardening. In my tragic little life, I am quite excited about the fact that I have new seceteurs.
• Walking tonight. After my weekend of binge eating, I had better go back to my attempted healthy lifestyle.
• Watch all the things I recorded last night (Kingdom, Lark Rise to Candleford, The American Office)
• Laundry
• Cooking a roast dinner (see the healthy lifestyle doesn't even last a day)

Jumping on the Bandwagon

"fucking cats thers four blogs now witrh just fucking cat pics"

...was sent to my email address by the very lovely but gutter mouthed mrs meme weasley.

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jo-leeeeeene

My favourite Dolly quotes...

I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb...I also know I'm not blonde.

I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker.

I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.

After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

If I see something saggin', baggin' or dragin', I'm gonna have it nipped, tucked or sucked.

If there's a heaven, I hope to hell I go!

I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

It's when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

So far, this weekend, I have...

• Made chocolate cake
• Made chocolate and raisin cookies
• Been swimming
• Done a weeks shopping spending the ridiculous amount of £93
• Watched another Life on Mars episode ( I am dreading the day I have seen them all)
• Watched the goals come in on Sky Sports News
• Broken my new touchlamp that I got in British Home Stores
• Put a Stereoviewer up for sale on eBay
• Ordered a takeaway pizza for 7.30 this evening to be delivered

A lot of my life seems to revolve around food.

Handbags and Gladrags

Paramount are running the American version of the Office. It started from episode one....and what I need to know is....what was spilled on Michaels carpet exactly? And also, Hooters...I thought that was a made up place. Why would anyone want to go and eat there? Gross.

Sailors, fighting in the dance hall

I seem to be turning into a couch potato. (Or potatoe, as Dan Quayle would say). We have had Virgin media fitted and it comes with TV choice on demand. Meaning you can watch complete old series. I have watched Gillian McKeith bullying people into eating mung beans and now I am totally hooked on the Life on Mars series with John Simm and the very shaggable Phillip Glennister.

It makes me feel quite strange when I watch it, being set in 1973. I was 7 then (Younger than Mrs Weasley, obviously) and I loved the things they have in the series. Those looping cassette players that went in the cars. Party Seven. Men with beards on Open University. People smoking in hospital wards, hair that had obviously been set with hair gel and rollers the night before.... and the Trades Test Transmission girl. Those long floor ashtrays on stalks. Grants whisky. Little bottles of Babycham. Whizzer and Chips comics. Smitty perfume. And I especially adored the way Annie said that she likes to stay in on a Saturday night to make tapes.

I realise things weren't perfect in 1973. But they were a lot more perfect than they are now.

When I was younger, so much younger than today...

• We made Lizzy a cd for Christmas. It was probably her favourite present, as it contains songs like Barbie Girl, Who let the Dogs out, The Fast Food Song, and Is this the way to Amarillo. It is going to give me, however, a nervous breakdown.
• I am already stuck on my Zelda Phantom Hourglass game...and I'm on the first hurdle.
• I am also stuck on spreadsheets on my college course.
  
• We had Virgin fitted today, with a V+ box, so I can now record programmes on BBC4 when Stew is watching crappy Setanta Sports.
• I am feeling incredibly old.
• Half time and Spurs are beating Arsenal 1-0. You never know, miracles could happen.

It's behind you!

I took Dizzy to the Pantomime. I bloody hate pantomimes....whoever finds men dressing up as women funny makes me concerned for their sense of humour. There was the usual "Oh no I'm not!" lines and the "It's behind you!" line. I was pleased to see our local little theatre hadn't gone health and safety mad and banned the throwing out of sweets and chocolate, however.

Also, last week, I watched Hot Fuzz and found it highly enjoyable.

...and have just watched Night at the Museum. Ricky Gervais is a god.

It was a bizzarre Christmas...

• In fact, horrid really. I have had the most horrific flu/cold that I went down with on Christmas Day, and it is still going strong.
• Lizzys godfather hit his car, badly.
• A very good friend of ours cousin died Christmas Day.
• Stews mum is not coping with her spring bereavement very well right now.
• Normally I have my decs down by the day after Boxing Day, but this year, I have no energy, so they are still up.
• It is the first Christmas ever, that I've lost weight.
• It was really strange not seeing my mum in between Christmas and New Year.