This Was The Week That Was

Things I have not enjoyed this week -

1) Having to share a train carriage with a coughing man when I went to visit a friend on Wednesday. A coughing man who had no idea about the niceties of putting one's hands over one's mouth and keeping one's germs to oneself.

2) Finding something that looked like a mouldy eyeball blocking the drain plug of the fridge. There aren't many things in life that make me heave, but that did. Still, it would explain the odds noises the fridge has been making recently.

3) Having to clean the kitchen the day following the day I cleaned it previously following the Incident of the Exploding Wine Bottle.

4) Wrestling with the pull-out larder cupboards in the kitchen in an attempt to re-adjust the shelves by re-locating the support pegs. Cupboard depth too deep, my arms too short - yes, even my orang-utan arms.

5) Some tense moments in various DIY stores choosing wood flooring and paint in preparation for decorators arriving on Tuesday. Andy has already requested I leave him completely out of the carpet selection process.

Things I have enjoyed this week -

1) Visiting friend Sarah's new web-site and feeling very inspired by it.

2) Meeting up with friend Janet on Wednesday for shopping trip/ gossip /lunch.

3) Going to dinner with friend Jane yesterday for chat and laughs and a very nice key lime pie.

4) Having lunch today (home-made veg 'n' cheese soup aka 'Grannie's Special Brew' because of the use of unidentified veg we dug up at the allotment, accompanied by home made soda bread and baked potatoes) with Chris, Leane, Kayleigh, Heather and Andy.

5) Getting through another week of not buying veg because the allotment is keeping us well supplied.

6) Re-reading some of Nearly King Jimbo and finding it quite funny actually.

7) Practising massage and reflexology on Andy and getting to grips with the theory side of things.

8) De-cluttering some cupboards and making lots more space.

9) Stroking various wood floorings in various DIY stores in a surreptitious way and not getting arrested.

10) Getting pleasingly small gas and electricity quarterly bills.

11) Wreaking revenge on one of those stupid automated telephone cold-calls by entering a few correct details via the telephone key pad and then entering lots of random and made up details, forcing the automated call into confusion and hanging up.

12) Finding a deliciously shiny purple one-compartment-only handbag well within my budget which followed me home and makes me smile every time I look at it in a shallow,consumeristic type manner.

13) Crying just a little bit at the latest episode of 'Roger and Val Have Just Got In' on BBC2 10 p.m Friday, starring Dawn French and Alfred Molina, and thinking 'Why can't there be more high quality writing and performing like this on TV?'

14) This photo of Kayleigh from lunch today enjoying rusk dipped in Grannie's Special Brew Soup!