Good Grief!

Sunset at 1539! What's with that?
Ahh well, earlier time to snuggle up in the duvet and be all snuggly!

Spoilt Lady!!!

Had a marvellous birthday yesterday! Usually I just treat it as another day, well it is really.. not like all your last year's life hits you in one day - imagine that, you stayed looking the same all year, then wham, bam a whole year is added at once! Some of us would be rather shocked and others pleasantly suprised... not going to say in which category I think I'd be! & no, I wont even tell you if you ask!
Anyway, back to yesterday, my marvellous day...
Was going to head up to London and see all the exhibitions that I haven't yet seen so far. Unfortunately mother nature decided to put on a typical English day - wet, windy and wild, so instead a movie was the option instead, of course with a big box of popcorn and drink! Well all I can say is phwoar!!!! to the new james bond, man oh man does that man have an amazing body or what. I could have sat and watched it for hours!
After that it was a bit of relaxation time until putting on an outfit that was virtually all satin, cept for the stockings which were the fishnet kind... black and white 40's style cut low satin shirt, little black satin skirt and four inch black satin heels, and I must say that I was stunning!
So what was this momentous outfit I hear you ask, well if not I say you did! Was off to Gordon Ramsay's restaurant Maze... the one near the heavily defended American Embassy (gawd I'd hate to be a resident there now, bet they have an amazingly hard time trying to sell there millions of pound houses now!)
It was quite funny walking in with everyone looking at you to see if you were someone... well I am someone, just not a rich nor famous one!
Decided on the lots of little dishes menu and it's incredible... beetroot salad, artichoke salad, pumpkin risotto and lamb... no way can I describe how it was placed on the plate except as artistic as a great painter! Not only did it look good, it tasted incredible! The gentleman with me decided to go al la carte... was amazing too... the chef gave him a soup whilst I was busy scoffing two of the dishes. The staff were fab too, not enough to be intrusive, just enough to show that we did matter!
Then out came the birthday cake, like no birthday cake I've seen before... wont even try to describe it. All I can say is Cadbury's, Green & Blacks and Montezumas... eat ya hearts out!
Oh, I forgot to mention the wine list... no list an entire book! We had a glass of champagne (one of the company I work for of course) and then a 710 - lovely cabernet sauvignon that seemed to go with everything we chose!
All I can say is to my wonderful gentleman, thank you for a birthday that I am going to remember and bore everyone with for decades!

Grrrrr!

Not a happy chapess with clothes manufacturers at the moment. They seriously need to learn how to sew correctly in such a way that the stitching doesn't all come undone in two, or less, wearings of an item!
Purchased two pairs of winter weight trousers for work, both from different stores and for about £40 each (not like they were a cheap £10 pair from Primark, which surprisingly enough I did buy in the summer and haven't had to re-sew yet!) and within two wearings I've had to re-sew the hems on the legs on both pairs! Managed to nearly trip myself over with the trailing cotton from one pair and had to unwind another from my kitten heels!
Are they trying to tell me to wear skirts or something, gawd, heaven forbid those corporate shorts, arrggghhhh!

Oh Dear...

... you spy ahead of you on the street the back of a lovely red coat, three quarter trousers, knee high black boots and what's that, oh dear, the silly woman has left a bright white pricing label on the bottom of the boots. And it's going flash flash flash like a piece of toilet paper that gets stuck to your boots!
Next you see a blue jacket, black skirt, fishnet stockings, nice little black kitten heels and guess what, there's that flash flash flash of the label on the bottom of the shoe!
Don't these woman know how tacky it looks, how it ruins the outfit, and why on earth do you want to show off how much (or how little) your footwear costs?!
Mind you it's not near half as stupid as those young male types wearing their jeans around their bottom, if not lower, ever seen one of them try to run? Laugh so much the stomach muscles hurt for about a week after!

TV Addict?

Well for nature programmes anyway.
Let me expand for you... Miss Yo Yo and I were watching the amazing series on here TV at the moment - Planet Earth.
This not quite an hour long programme manages to keep Miss Yo Yo glued to the screen, making those little meow I wanna pounce and play and kill and eat it sounds.
It's a riot watching the 32 muscles in her ears do the 180 degree dance, crouch down and do the little bum wriggle and on one occasion take a flying leap past the side of the TV where she thought a particularly delectable looking flock of birds were meant to be flying out!
Not only does it keep Miss Yo Yo captivated, it keeps me too! How can one explain the impact of watching a male polar bear swimming more than 100 kilometres out to sea for food, failing at trying to catch a walrus (injured badly in the process) and then digging out a hallow in the large pebbled beach, to lay down and eventually die...
the rarely seen lions hunting elephant - filmed in the dark with infared camera's (not even the humans could see) they filmed 30 lions working together to bring down an elephant that would feed the pride for a week at the height of the drought...
the amazing ability of grass to grow virtually on every continent in the world - from the artic north (a tundra larger than Australia) where five million birds migrate to bred on a landscape bereft of trees, to being destroyed by fire, to growing taller than an elephant!
An amazing documentary of our world as it is now, of what will be lost due to the influence of humans.. a beautiful, stunning, awe inspiring, heart rending legacy for those who may only ever see a polar bear stuffed in a museum!

Sneezes...

... sore ears, sore throat and nose just letting it all run out!
Darn stupid commuters who sit there, sneeze all over you, don't apologise and give to you the dreaded lurgey!
I think they should start the Japanese way of wearing medical face masks when you're coughing, sneezing and snotting over everything in public!
Some inconsiderate twerp sneezed all over me morning day before yesterday, sore ears by the afternoon, throat joining in yesterday and now it's nose running stuff all over the place!
So busy downing cold and flu relief... they really should hurry up with finding a cure, or maybe the pharmaceutical companies already have a cure and wont release it due to the vast amounts of money they get from all the varieties of so called relievers?! Soothing, numbing, tickly, chesty, congested, stop the flow and lower the temperature pills, liquids, rubs and sniffers!
At least that idiotic person could have sneezed into a handkerchief, tissue or even their hand, though no doubt they would have wiped it all over the seat! Doesn't anyone have 'cold' manners anymore, I know I do!
Well at least we know if bird flu comes to England, we'll all have it by the week's out of it arriving!!

Barmy England!

The mentally irregular kind not the mild and pleasant one!
Some Yorkshire fish and chip shop owner is being investigated as someone laid a complaint that his shop smelled of fish and chips!!!
What's the guy got to do, hire people to stand outside with air fresheners so that there is a smell of lavendar or oranges & lemons??
Not only is that stupid, parents are starting to take legal action against schools not being able to combat bullying and it's looking like the parents are going to also hold them responsible for obesity, sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancies, drug taking and drinking!
Good grief, they're parents, that's their responsibility. Teachers are there to educate not be a parent! When are people going to take ownership of their own actions and not push it onto others?!
Next they'll be blaming schools for their kids not know howing to eat with a knife or fork and for thinking that milk comes from a plastic container!

Light Headed!

Woo! Love having my hair cut... wonderful salon where the hair washers give a nearly sleep inducing massaging, then a fabulous cut - including blow dry and hair product paraphernalia. All for the fabulous price of £13($US25)! Beautiful fairy artwork on the walls, well it is called Hair by Fairy!
Now I just want to sit here and flick it round all day!