Oh, It's Not Such A Good Day...

Okay... all things considered, it was still a pretty good day, because it was a Thursday, but I wasn't working... but some of the things that were going to make it a good day, ended up going that little bit wrong...

First, the electrician that was supposed to come at 9am this morning... we stayed in til after 12 noon, and he didn't come. But I phoned him, and he said he would come after 5pm.

Which he did... but then the aerial that he fitted in the loft didn't make a blind bit of difference to the TV picture! Mainly because I live in a little single-storey house... and across the road from me (blocking me from the television transmitter on top of a hill outside Kirkwall) are all 2-storey houses, and then there's the oil tanks, and then a dirty great big hotel... all blocking the signal from getting to my brand shiny new aerial! Grrrrrr.... anyone got a bulldozer?

Then, whilst it was nice and sunny while we were inside, waiting for the electrician... as soon as we ventured out to the shops (I swear, as soon as we opened the front door) - it started to rain! It stopped after a while, but after the rain, it stayed cold and wet and windy for the rest of the afternoon.

Maybe I won't bother buying a lottery ticket for Saturday after all!

Oh, It's A Good Day...

…for singing a song!

I’m having a pretty good day today, all things considered! Okay, work is still work, but on the positives there are:

Not working tomorrow, and nor is Viki, so we’ll be paying a visit to the charity shops and Starbucks for a coffee!

Got a rent holiday this week, cause it’s the last week of the financial year for the council… woo-hoo!

Was at the nurse today, and I’ve finally got the compression bandage off my leg, and an elastic stocking on… and I can get a shoe on my right foot for the first time in almost 3 months! No more plaster boot that is so smooth on the sole that I go aqua-planing every time I walk on wet stones… Yesterday I almost did the splits in one shop as I walked in the door – led in with my right foot, which slid forward almost half a metre on the wet floor, and my left foot stayed where it was! And there I “stood”, wobbling and trying to prop myself up with my stick as I tried to stop my right foot going any further away from me, and causing me to have a walk like a duck with a hernia!

Not working Saturday, so a pint or two on Friday night to celebrate my new unfettered leg is in order, I think!

Got an electrician coming tomorrow to fit a TV aerial in the house, so finally I will be able to watch telly without every programme looking like it’s filmed in the dead of winter with a heavy snowstorm going on.

Can life get any better? Well, yes... I could win the lottery on Saturday!

It's 25 Past 11....

at night, and I've just nipped on to quickly say...

"3 days til Viki comes".

Now I'm going to bed because:

a. I'm cold, and my cold hasn't buggered off yet.
b. My leg is nipping a bit after the dressing was changed today.
c. I watched the first episode of series 3 of "Heroes" earlier, and I'm confused already... and also I'm going to go and dream about the Petrelli brothers... Hubba!

So, cheerio... and I'll hopefully feel a bit better tomorrow.

Sorry our chat was so short tonight, Viki. Puszas.

IWANTONEIWANTONEIWANTONEIWANTONE

After work last night, I went down to my brother's (after a race past Starbucks to get a bucket of coffee, and the chippy to get some food)... and ended up there until midnight.

Watched the first of the new series of "Doctor Who", and I must say... I hoped Donna would fall out of the TARDIS when she was waving out the door... and Rose can stay faded away (sorry if this is spoiling things for anyone who's not seen the first episode)... and I'm finally warming to DT's Doctor as a character (I really liked Christopher Eccleston)... but, the main thing I must say is...

I WANT AN ADIPOSE!!!!!!

Aren't they just so cute!?

Well, my Slim Pickings came in 4th in the National... so I get something back for my £2 each way. Not enough to retire on, but at least it's some of my stake money back.

Right, I'm off in a minute to make something quick for tea and to see if there's anything good on telly.

See ya!

Look What I Found!

I was just about to go to bed (being as it's only just Tuesday, and for me it's still Monday night), but I thought I'd just have a quick look on YouTube, just in case anyone had put on any of the performances from "Guilty Pleasures" - and I found these (there may be more)!

Half of The Magic Numbers with "Islands In The Stream"...

And I'm only able to put links for the other 2 clips I found, seeing as IE's just crashed out - TWICE - because I'm obviously over-taxing the poor computer's brain...

Amy MacDonald - "Sweet Caroline"
KT Tunstall - "You're The Voice"

Damn... I wish I'd recorded this... or wish ITV would release it on DVD!

Scratch That...

Sum total of my lottery winnings (which I only got round to checking last night) was £2 on a scratchcard that COST me £2...

Took it back to Woolies at dinnertime and, as I'm borderline skint 'til payday on Thursday (okay, okay... I'm across-the-border-into-enemy-territory-and-can-see-the-whites-of-their-eyes skint), I was determined I was going to get the £2, and wasn't going to get another card... But when the guy behind the counter said "Do you just want another card?", I found myself saying "Oh, go on then".

Scratched it when I got back to work - and I won £20! Woo-hoo!

So my last £10 in the bank can stay in the bank until, hopefully, pay day! And I could afford a vanilla latte after work... yummy...

Not that much else of any note over the weekend... Not that impressed with my chocolate beer - which is a shame, because there's another bottle of it in the fridge.

Really enjoyed "Guilty Pleasures" on ITV on Saturday night... Did anyone else see it? I'm not really that big a KT Tunstall fan, but I have to admit her version of John Farnham's "You're The Voice" was really good, as was Sophie Ellis-Bextor doing "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" by Baccara.

The full line-up (in case you missed it) was:

The Feeling doing "Video Killed The Radio Star" (originally by The Buggles)
KT Tunstall doing "You're The Voice" (John Farnham)
Craig David doing "If You Let Me Stay" (Terrence Trent D'Arby)
Kelly Osbourne doing "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" (gravel-voiced Bonnie Tyler)
Amy MacDonald doing "Sweet Caroline" (Neil Diamond)
The Diamond Hoo Ha Men (Gaz & Danny from Supergrass) doing "Beat It" (Michael Jackson)
Sophie Ellis-Bextor doing "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" (Baccara)
Romeo & Angela from The Magic Numbers doing "Islands In The Stream" (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton) - possibly my favourite cover of all.

All in all, utterly cheese-tastic!

Did bugger all yesterday.

In the shop working today.

And that's it, really.

Hindsight...

... is always when I'm at my funniest and most creative.

I was sitting at work this morning, when suddenly into my head popped the following thought:

" 'Pills, Chills And Bellyaches' - THAT's what I should have called the post that I unimaginitively called 'Urgh!' on Thursday! That would have been a great title! Damn... why didn't I think of it at the time? "

It's true... I always think of the wittiest things to say when it's far too late, and the moment's long gone. If I could time travel, I'd be a real hoot, trust me!

Anyway, I've just come online to do the birthday spot, and blurb a bit about my day (which wasn't much to write home about), while my chocolate beer (yeah... not sure about that one either) is chilling in the fridge. It's now quarter past 9, and any minute now the alarm on my phone is going to go to tell me "Guilty Pleasures" is coming on ITV in 15 minutes - I only caught a trailer for this at my brother's, but it seems to be current "credible" music stars covering old cheese... I'm going to be in Heaven!

No alarm yet... clock on my phone must be slow... or else clock on my computer's fast...

Anyway, I'll potter here for another 5 - 10 mins after the alarm does finally go, and then I'll open my beer and nuke my chicken kor... JESUS! Fucking alarm! I nearly shit myself!

Sorry... as I was saying... I'll nuke my chicken korma, and then I've got a bit of Orkney Fudge Cheesecake for pud. What more do you need on a Saturday night?

Oh - I meant to tell you what was the high point of my day in the shop yesterday... It was taking 2 boxes of 1000 paperclips, and making them into 20 bags of paperclips! And, yes, the customers did give me abuse about doing it - one even asking if I was on piece rate for doing it!

Right, 20 past 9, and I'm going to format this and then bugger off.

See ya!

Just Chillin'

That's what the bottle of wine I bought to have (it IS only a baby bottle!) while I have my tea is doing just now... and that's why I'm killing time here in the meantime...

Was in the shop working today - it was kinda average... not busy, not quiet... just steady. The weather's been really odd today - sunny periods, and then real belters of rainy, sleety showers, so we did get some folk in when they were on.

Then a visit down to see my brother, and then home, via the supermarket... where I have reached new levels of laziness... I like hot pancakes, and I thought I was being really lazy buying those bottles of pancake mix that you add milk to and shake before cooking, instead of making proper pancake batter... but I've gone a step further...

Tonight I bought a packet of (oh, the shame) Auntie Betty's FROZEN pancakes! Bung them in the microwave for a minute or so, and Robert's your mother's brother!

I'll tell you the morn if they're any good.

And now I'm offski coz my wine should be sufficiently cold, and I'm going to stick my fajitas in the oven, and settle down to watch at least a bit of the dvd of the BBC adaptation of "Jane Eyre" that I bought cheap from Woolies earlier (watched it when it was on, and loved it... and the actor that played Rochester is pretty damned hot!).

Oh, and going to check if I'm a millionaire on the Lottery. If not, I'll probably see you tomorrow... If you haven't heard from me by this time next week, I'll be sunning myself on my private yacht somewhere that's a damn sight hotter than Orkney!

(Beep)ing Hell!

Been at work today all alone, up at the store, from (beep) 8o'clock this morning... and it's been one of those days where it's been busy but not very productive in the cash sale stakes (beep). I've reeled off 50+ metres of cable - 12 metres of which was 10mm² twin & earth - and everyone who came in was asking for (beep) weird and wonderful things.... "Got any grommets?"... "I'm needing glands"... "Clips"... - or, if it was something simple, we didn't have it in stock!

(Beep) My brother picked me up after work, and we had a quick run round the supermarket for one or two things each of us forgot last night - and I've got (beep) popcorn coz I'm planning to watch a DVD in a bit... "Fantastic Four - The Rise Of The Silver Surfer". Oh, yes - I can actually WATCH telly again... I got some muscle (beep) on Thursday night, and my TV from up here is now down in the living room - it's a bit of a comedown, because it's only a 24" at most, and the other one was a 28" widescreen, but at least it's a TV, and it WORKS... and there's no annoying loud buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz with it like my other one (which has a transformer buzz or something - crap SHARP telly) (beep).

Well, did you win a share of the £96million last night? I didn't... hence the fact I was at work today, and I'm here tonight, and not sunning myself and sipping champagne on my own (beep) private yacht. Still, there's always tonight - £6million would do to start with...

The rest of the week's not been that exciting - just me and Flunky at work (beep), except when I've been down at the shop (mainly just dinnertimes).

Oh! I'm actually socialising next weekend... after my 5 hour marathon exam on Friday, I'm going along an ex-colleague who's up for the weekend and having tea with her and another girl I worked with... and they've got the wine in already! And then (after a day off on Saturday... yippee! (beep)), Saturday night the 3 of us and another couple of folks are going out for a drink... so my poor liver will be taking a battering for the first time in ages - probably nearly a year. I'm a bit worried how out of practice I am - these days one of those Bacardi Breezer-type things (beep) usually lasts me two nights because I fall asleep before it's done the first night. So, in a minute, I'm going downstairs for some spring rolls and a can of wine (yes, a can... Lidl had them last night, so I thought I'd give them a try - a semi-sparkling white wine in a can). I'll report back tomorrow on what they tasted like, and if I fell asleep before I drank the whole of (beep) the first.

Right, I'm buggering off now... What's that? (beep)... "What's the beep, Ally?"... Well, when the muscle connected up the telly to the Sky dish, etc downstairs, he didn't get the DVD player working, so my brother came in tonight after the supermarket to set it up so I could watch my film... and as he was leaving, he reached up in the hallway, and pushed the button on the smoke alarm, setting it off, and scaring the crap out of poor Harriet. And then the stupid smoke alarm's spent the last 10 - 15 minutes after he left going "beep" every couple of minutes. Not that he heard... he'd legged it out the door going "It'll stop eventually"!

Actually... I think it might have... but don't tell him that!

Stand Out Of The Way!

There's a handcart with my life on coming through - destination, Hell!

For a start, the two major problems I mentioned at work are still a couple of weeks away from a resolution (maybe longer), and the boss is away this week.

Then there's the fact that my exam results are due in a couple of weeks, and in about a week & a half I've got a 5 hour simulation to sit for the unit I sat the exam in... and I still can't do it. And the simulation is worse than the exam, because you've got to show that you are competent in EVERYTHING we studied for that exam - and that forms the vocational, work-based part of the qualification. And in June I've still got to sit a simulation for the other unit (the one I miraculously passed the exam in last June). Then there's the unit we're doing now, which has no exam, but still has a vocational element to be done for my portfolio. I think if I'd known what this qualification was going to entail, and how difficult it was going to be, I'd never have started it.

Then there's the fact that I couldn't watch "Reaper" tonight because for the last 2 nights, and now tonight as well, I've had no picture on my TV - only sound. I don't know what's wrong with it (well, I do - it's a SHARP, and I've never had a good SHARP appliance yet... but it was cheap, and all we had in stock at work at the time, and our previous TV had died completely so we needed a new one like immediately), but when you turn it on first (or switch it from standby, since I don't ever turn it off completely anymore due to its little problem) the sound comes on fine, but the screen stays black... and then for the first few weeks, it would come on itself after anything from 10 minutes to 3 hours. And then I found that if I gave it a tap on the top, it made the picture come on... but the last 2 nights I have battered seven shades of shit out of it and nothing... nada... zip... diddley squat... bugger all - you get the picture (except, of course, a picture is just what you DON'T get). So I've got to wait until I get someone to take the TV I've got in my bedroom (which is kind of a spare) downstairs and connect it all up to the Sky dish and everything to see if it works, coz there's no way I can even think about buying a new TV at the moment, or for the foreseeable future.

And this damn computer's not running brilliantly tonight... It's a bit slow switching between applications and windows, and IE's crashed once already.

What next? I ask myself (but quietly, just in case fate or the gods are listening and decide to show me just what surprises they've got up their sleeves for me).

I think I'll go bugger off now and find a rock to hide under for a few months...

I Love This Song!

I've heard this played on our local radio station a couple of times recently, and it's such a catchy song - It's a cover of "Village Green Preservation Society" by Kate Rusby (originally by The Kinks), and was apparently done for the TV programme "Jam And Jerusalem"...

Aggie, Aggie, Aggie... Out, Out, Out!

I was just about settled down for the night when I got a phone call from the boss, who headed down south for a few days today, asking if I was online because he needed me to look up the postcode for the hotel he was booked into, because he couldn't find it!

So I thought I might as well do my "Born To Rock" posts for today and tomorrow, and I can also celebrate the fact that the Scottish Harpie, Aggie MacKenzie, has finally gone out of "Dancing On Ice"!

About bloody time too... I can't believe she lasted this long!

I can't describe to you just how much I hate this woman, and her TV partner in crime, Kim... I could get really vitriolic, believe me, but I'm auto-censoring myself as I'm typing this... I just hate with a passion "How Clean Is Your House?", and its "let's belittle some poor person for entertainment and so that you can tut about them over a cup of tea in the office tomorrow" style of programming, presented by a couple of over-paid char ladies (ladies in the loosest sense of the word) in fur-trimmed rubber gloves who can't even call a shit a shit - instead, a floater in the toilet is greeted with horror as a "poopy-doop" or whatever the fuck Kim called it!

My only disappointment tonight was that when Aggie fell, it wasn't on her smug, self-righteous arse!

Okay, breathe, Ally... and relax...

I've Got A Guilty Secret...

...and it concerns Channel 4.

I've gone from being someone who watches *whispers* "Hollyoaks" very occasionally when I'm down at my brother's and "The Simpsons" has finished, and he's away having a fag, and I can't be bothered to get up and get the remote to change channels... to someone who has the omnibus on Autoview and Series Link on my Sky Planner (oh, the shame).

Try not to think any less of me for it, please...

And to make my confession worse, I think I'm in love with Kris Fisher, played by Gerard McCarthy - He's such a bitch, and that accent! The Irish accent does it for me every time!

Okay, now I've got that off my chest, I really am going to get something to eat now!

Oh, and you know where I'm going to be tomorrow morning around 11am, don't you?

Eeeeeeeek!

It's hard to believe it's been nearly a week since I've been on here to do anything more than post the daily music video, but it's been a busy week - but here I am with a potted summary of the past 7 days....

Sunday night & Monday night I watched cop drama "Messiah: The Rapture", without the yummy Ken Stott this time - but with the just-as-yummy Marc Warren. Didn't enjoy it quite so much as previous ones, but I think your gritty detectives are always better played by Scots... Think about it - Taggart, Cracker, Red Metcalfe (Ken Stott's copper) and Mike Walker (David Hayman) from "Trial & Retribution" are surely 4 of the best cops on telly (okay, Cracker's not strictly a copper, but still...). *

* Yes, the fact that I fancy 3 of those 4 may cloud my judgement just a teensy tiny bit, I guess....

Tuesday was at my Counsellor after work... She's given me a book that we're going to work through now - "Mind Over Mood" - which is part of this cognitive behaviour therapy or whatever it's called. So now I get homework from her as well!

I was a doofus on Tuesday and Wednesday night too... Tuesday night I put on the heater when I came home, but the place just didn't warm up any. Wednesday night, I turned on the heater, and turned it up a bit - and noticed with shock that there was no heat at all coming out of it! I cursed my boss up hill and down dale for buying cheap shit heaters, and sent him a text complaining that it had stopped working after only a few months and that I'd be bringing the damn thing back the next day!

Well, Thursday morning I went to unplug the heater... only to discover that the plug was about 4mm out of the socket! Then I remembered - when I came home on Tuesday night, I'd been going through to the kitchen, and I'd tripped over the cable... and it must have pulled it out just far enough to cut the power! I pushed the plug in again, and was met with a blast of hot air! So I had to go to work and confess my dingusity to my boss!

So, what else has happened this week? Not a lot really... just work, college, bad weather, and the usual shit.

Working tomorrow from 8am (yuk), and I'm all on my own up at the office.

Well, I guess that's about it, so I'll end now coz my brother's coming to get me soon to go shopping - and then I'm going down to his for haggis and clapshot... Yummy!

Probably see you the morn at some stage!

It's Thursday (But Only Just)

Yes, I'm cheating slightly... I'm not sure if I'm going to be online at all tomorrow since I'm likely to be stuck in the shop all day, then home to sorting out more of Mum & Dad's stuff with my pet Home Support Workers and, by the time that's done at the back of 8pm, then I'll still have my tea to find, and if I remember rightly, there's an episode of "Trial & Retribution" on tomorrow night that I want to see (Yes, Viki... I will be lusting over Scarguyonce again - but at least it's not AP!). So I'm planting Thursday's posts now, so I don't have to do them on Friday and backdate them.

Not that there's that much to tell you about Tuesday and Wednesday... just working (Tuesday started off at the office, then down to the shop - and Wednesday (I'm fighting the urge to say "Today" because I've not been to bed yet) was down at the shop, up at the office for about an hour & a half (taking my lunch with me) and then back down at the shop). Can't tell you why, but I can't wait until this month is over (and it's already over halfway through - Christmas seems like so long ago now).

And that's really about it.

Oh, Nev... Just in case you don't read my reply comment - Yes, that was the Sarah Greene I was talking about on Monday!

And "Hello!" to Julie - How are you, m'dear? I hardly seem to have time to plant PMs for you these days since I'm hardly ever at the office. Big hugs m'hunny, and I hope you're keeping that boss of yours (and that man of yours) on his (their) toes!

And Cheeky - where the heck have you disappeared to again? And Freddie... no news on those new grandbabies of yours yet?

Since My Last Visit...

Christmas Eve...

I was working in the shop til 3pm, which was busier than I expected it to be. Really, can't you shoppers get everything organised so you're not still trying to buy presents & stuff at the VERY - LAST - MINUTE - POSSIBLE? (That said, my brother & I did dash to the supermarket 10 minutes before they closed). I did a little bit of experimental cooking, in that I made meatloaf for the first time - spicing it up a little by adding a packet of apricot & nut stuffing mix. It turned out okay, but it would have been better if I'd got steak mince (but there was none left in the supermarket 10 minutes before closing time, funnily enough). Oh - Jilly (if you still read my blog occasionally) - I've had another hot water bottle disaster! The cheap one I bought a month ago (remember, the second one I had to buy because the first one didn't let enough heat through?) sprung a leak at the neck overnight... so I've had to go and buy ANOTHER one (not £3 this time), and the cheap one is in the bin! :^(

Christmas Day...

Watched "Noel's Christmas Presents" in the morning (which made me cry). Did the rounds visiting with my brother in the afternoon - went to see our Auntie and then to visit our sister & brother-in-law - before going back to my brother's for a yummy Christmas dinner. Didn't watch much on telly, only "Doctor Who" (which was hmm... okay... but not THAT "special" a Christmas Special) - was it just me, or was there really a lot of crap on TV this year? Thanks to Scott & Julie and Nev for their presents - Nev, the calendars will be well displayed, and Scott & Julie, I'll try not to kill the crocus bulbs...

Boxing Day...

Erm... I slept. Watched a little bit of telly, had a couple of slices of meatloaf, and slept a lot.

Today...

Back at work, but only til 4pm (erm, except it's now 20 to 5, and I'm still at the office... but I'm buggering off now).

Ta-ra!

Just A Quick Post...

... before I go and put my pizza in the oven, pour my glass of wine, watch "Casualty" and then my DVD for tonight - "Premonition", just to fill you in on my day... which mainly involved work, first at the office, then this afternoon in the shop (neither place being that exciting, really).

And there's not really that much else to say... Bad Luck to Scotland for losing the football (sorry if I've spoiled it for you if you've been avoiding seeing the score). Hey, it was pretty inevitable we weren't going to beat Italy, but we did bloody well to get back to 1 - 1, only to lose a goal at the last minute, so we Scots should be proud.

Right, I'll bugger off now and fight with the cat for the warm spot (my hot water bottle)... as soon as I got up this morning, the damn thing was right on top of where it was under the blankets - honestly, she's like a heat-seeking furry missile!

Maybe catch you tomorrow...

Over The Weekend...

Well, that's it... British Summer Time is over... but the sun's shining outside (although there are really heavy showers every so often). It was nice to have an extra hour yesterday morning... it just seemed more relaxed, and I was more awake when I woke up.

Saturday night was pretty good... I had a quick nip to the supermarket for something, and I decided that I could just about afford £4 to get a couple of scratchcards... Came home, scratched them - and netted £20 on one and £6 on the other... Result!

Pizza, half bottle of Lambrini, and some telly was enjoyed later.

Sunday was pretty lazy... made myself an omelette for breakfast. Pasta, cheese sauce and a bit of smoked fish for dinner. Just chilled out watching telly with the cats - "The Simpsons", "Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old?" and "Cirque De Celebrite" (wtf is going on with the voting on that? Why aren't the ones who are crap ending up in the last 2?).

Woke up this morning with one cat on my chest, and the other next to my head with her paw on my ear!

Boss is away til Thursday, so it's just me and Flunky here. I'm working really hard.... ;^D

And On The Seventh Day...

... She made soup, and She tasted it... and lo, it was good soup... and there was enough for the 8th, 9th and probably 10th days as well...

Yep... Sunday I made soup... a big pot of lentil & bacon soup with loads of carrots, lots of neep, a couple of parsnips, a bit of red & orange peppers, and some spring onions... and it's pretty good - even if I do say so myself... but the problem is next time I try to make it, it could taste foul, coz I follow my Mum's method of soup-making... which is to chuck a pile of stuff in it, and if it ends up too thin, add some more stuff and boil a bit longer... and if it ends too thick, then add some more water! Thankfully, this time it ended up neither too thin or too thick... although I did have to top up the water at one stage...

So, what else did I do with my weekend? Well, I worked Saturday, then watched some crap on telly at night. And Sunday, I vegged out with Harriet the cat, watching TV (I could become addicted to "Cirque De Celebrite", it has to be said... High camp, or what?)

And that was my weekend...

Sniffle... Sniffle... (gulp)... It's Okay... I'm Fine... Really...

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! *Sniff*

Sorry... I've just watched episode one of the second series of "Ugly Betty" on Channel 4... and there was a bit near the end that was just so sad... and I blubbed! If you watched it too, you know the bit... *blush*

Anyway, today at work was shit. I'm up to date with things just now, and I'm really struggling to find things to do some of the time. To top that off, the boss was out quite a bit today, and I was there on my lonesome... either with no one to speak to, or with customers who needed technical advice that I just couldn't provide. The boss was even down at the shop over dinnertime, so I couldn't go out to get any food... and then he came back, and went out again... and then came back... and then buggered off early, leaving me alone again for the last hour, still foodless... and I had a serious chocolate urge!

Shopping tonight... and I'm about to venture into the (largely) unknown... Now, I'm not the world's most confident, or capable, cook... but on Sunday I'm going to make soup. I've only tried it a few times before, but my Mum could make great vegetable soup, and I'm hoping soup-making ability is genetic (a bit like child-bearing hips, I guess). I'll let you know how I get on. I'm going for lentil & bacon, with carrots, neeps (turnips to you foreigners), parsnips and spring onions). I guess that's all you need for soup... and some stock... but if anyone reading this has any tried and tested soup recipes, just let me know! Winter's coming, and I love soup on a cold evening.

Working in the shop tomorrow... Oh, fun(!).

Well, I guess that's about all my news for today.

Catch you around, Bloggers... x