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Silly woman!

For an intelligent person (ahem) I can be quite silly sometimes.   I "owe" the Other Half tickets to see Cirque du Soleil. I think I promised I'd take him as a Christmas present, oh, 3 years ago or more. Oops!   Anyway, I got an email the other day from a company I thought I'd used to buy tickets for DD in London. It was for half price tickets to Quidam and I was so excited I booked Saturday 18th April, the matinee performance.   I quickly fired off an email to W hoping to cheer him up.  Then he called me and said "where is this performance then?", and I was all "oh in London of course".  "Are you sure?". Ah. Weeeell... I went and looked and it turns out I'd booked tickets for GLASGOW of all places.  Oh how we laughed. Well, he did anyway.  Luckily, I saw the funny side, and thought I'd try and sell them to DD's godfather who lives up that way. I also have several online scrapbooking pals who are in Glasgowshire and who might be interested, so I might well salvage something out of this situation.  Either that or W and I will be off to Scotland for the weekend of 18th April, ha ha!
I think my impending trip to France is making me go a bit funny in the head.  Nite nite all!

Picture post

This is what it's like out there today:



The cats aren't too sure about this.  And I worried about the birds, so I went out and put seeds and bacon rinds up on the back wall, near where the birds hang out in the trees. I saw a magpie eat some of it earlier, but I hope the little sparrows got some too...

SNOW DAY!

Well, it's the worst snow we've had in 13 years apparently.  It started yesterday, when I was in the basement seeing all my mates online talking about snow and thinking it wasn't snowing here... lol.   It snowed all night (I kept waking up and looking out the window) and is still snowing now.  Both the lines I get to work are part suspended and/or experiencing severe delays. I was seriously thinking about trying to get in until about 10 mins ago when I decided not to bother. Motorists are being told to stay at home and I know how cold it gets on the trains when you get stuck, so I don't fancy it. Especially as another 4 inches or so are forecast today. Actually, on the news I can see live footage of central London and it's really snowing thickly there too. No, I shall stay in the warm and pop out briefly to take some nice pictures!   
Of course, some places have snow all the time and it doesn't disrupt their lives, but we aren't used to it so no one has chains for their car, and the trains aren't equipped.  It doesn't happen often enough to warrant it.
Hope you are keeping warm and safe where you are!

Books... and other things

Gosh, I spent an absolute fortune on books this weekend!   I went to Waterstones because I wanted to pick up some Cath Kidston stationery for a friend, and they have all these 3 for 2 deals which reel you in...  I got one chick-lit, a couple of serious ones, Barack Obama's book on HOPE and erm that's all I can remember at the moment!  I shall take a picture of course, but they are up in my bedroom and I'm down in the basement right now. Plus, it's dark and I hate using the flash - it washes everything out.  

Anyway, we had a great weekend. Yesterday I did some shopping and then had my hair cut, before cooking dinner for our "girlie night in" with some friends. They arrived just after 7.30pm and we had a lovely time, laughing, chatting and generally chilling. The OH arrived rather late from an unsuccessful trip to  London (he was supposed to pick up my iPhone but they didn't have it, drat!), but was banished to the basement where he has set up his Mac and a little office. 

Today, I went back out to get some stuff I hadn't had time to get yesterday - basically buying up stationery and toiletries that we desperately needed. It was bitterly cold; the wind chill factor was minus something, I tell you!   I came home, slumped in front of the Ice Hockey on TV with a nice cup of tea, and then spent the early evening read some of a book that DD got me the other day (Petite Anglaise by Catherine Sanderson, whose blog I read).  There's a lot to do before we go away, but DD is not working this week, so it'll be her job (insert evil grin here).

Oh, I'm doing this in reverse order: on Friday I popped out at lunchtime to go to the bank and then took my camera along to Leadenhall Market, which brought back great memories. 20 something years ago I worked in Lombard Street, in the City, and used to go to Leadenhall practically every lunchtime.  It's changed quite a bit - the food stores that were there are now all designer gear!  I took some pics; you can stand on one corner and take pictures of the 1800-and-something building on one side, then without moving you can take a pic of the Lloyds building. It's quite impressive. 

The bank and, practically next door, the Sainsbury's where I get lunch if I have the cash... Pretty boring architecture.  Then,  just round the corner:

Yummy Paul's bakery....  And now, look away if you are offended by nudity.  I spied this ad when I got off the bus at London Bridge. I didn't dare go closer to get an unspoiled view - I care too much what people would think LOL!   It's a gorgeously artistic pic (yes it IS!) that made me think of my sis Carolyn, whose family is all about Rugby down in Toulouse and who had a calendar rather like this, hee hee....  DD called me a perv when I showed her my latest shots :) 

And, oh dear, I've just spied another ad underneath the bridge, urging "go large".  Well, no comment!!