The otter charity that Offbeat supported has a Christmas 'spot-the-otter' competition. £1 to enter and you could win some otter goodies.

http://otter.org/images/adminPDFs/95.pdf

Today I saw Jessica Ennis shopping in Waitrose. She signed Matthew's Olympic 2012 t-shirt for him :)

Chris has just got back from a working trip to Scandinavia. While he was there he went on a train that went on a ferry, thus enabling him to travel on two types of public transport at once. He has been going on about it like it was the best thing that ever happened to him, which, perhaps it was.

I lost my scissors so I had to buy a new pair. They were sealed in that horrible, tough, airtight, plastic packaging that is a real pain to get into. On the packaging was a label that said "to open packaging, cut with scissors".

Aaaaaaaggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

No wonder people have nervous breakdowns.

Today I went Christmas shopping in York and I saw Morgan Spurlock doing some filming. I'm pretty sure it was him, though I wouldn't have thought that York would provide much juice for his global exposures. Something murky going on at Betty's tearooms perhaps, haha ( Read more... )

Today I went swimming with Matthew. Well, I say swimming, but really all it involves is walking a length of the pool, holding him afloat while he looks like a bored log, turning round, then walking back again holding him afloat while he looks like a bored log, then repeating this for about 45 minutes by which time we're both getting a bit tense and ( Read more... )

On Thursday we went to the Bakewell Show. Because the weather was rainy, and we are cheapskates, we only went for the last hour or so, so we didn't have to pay to get in and got some good bargains from the stalls. As usual, the highlight for us was seeing what veg we could get when they sold off the exhibits in the horticultural tent. 47 large ( Read more... )

I know I say this every year after watching the Glastonbury highlights on tv, but just how did Jo Whiley get a job in the music business?

Because I haven't done any for a while, here are a couple of pointless polls to pass some moments of your day away:

Poll

Belated post about the final Synthetic, which was a week ago last Friday. My sisters came up for a week, partly so I could go. Chris has been really busy at work recently and felt he couldn't commit the time or energy he needed to keep Synthetic up-and-running, and I can't help these days. I will miss Synthetic, though. I really loved that night ( Read more... )

I thought I should get out so I went along to The Crucible to see if there were any returns for the snooker. There were, so I saw a session. It was good, though I wish I could go out with Chris occasionally, but one of us has to be the designated babysitter ( Read more... )