celebs

Oh how we do love to go to the book signings!

Check out The Gorgeous Son andMichael Mc Intyre.

Ken Follet was due around at 7.30, but I had to get back for The Hubby's return from Dublin.

His plane was delayed by an hour as it happened. Also I forgot to book his taxi. Ooops.

Ah well...another day, another celeb.

trains

I love public transport.

45 minutes from my front door to Selfridges. Amazing.

All those people, thousands of them, forming orderly queues, no pushing, no shoving, no talking...oyster cards at the ready for the turnstiles, no delays, nobody fumbling or holding up the queue.

Peak hour at Piccadilly on the Bakerloo line tonight, 2 policemen with sniffer dogs at the bottom of the escalators...saying 'move on , move on, Police dogs, keep moving...' and the dog, no barking , no jumping, just the enthusiatic greeting he gives to the drug carrying traveller who is then discreetly pulled off to the side with no trouble to the thousands of commuters streaming past.

The Gorgeous son and I looking at eat other and saying "BUSTED" at the same time.

Prude

I am so not a prude.

I go to Ann Summers just almost as often as I go to Waitrose.

I know what a rabbit is, in fact , I do have one.

But bloody hell , do the poms not care what they put on TV.

Apart from the fact that the C word is just so not a problem here...the TV programmes!

Lordy lordy! Was a whole programme tonight on having sex with various vegetables and the new app , called the i orgasm.

And I am not even going into the apps for men.

Think the Hubby would have a heart attack

Winter wardrobe

This is a very complicated undertaking.

At the minute, all our winter clothes are sealed in vacuum bags (squishes a whole wardrobe into a 2 foot block)

Summer clothes take up much less space. So now I have to start thinking about vacuum packing away the summer clothes.

There are many reasons I do not want to do this right now.

1) Is it actually going to stay cold?

2) We still need some summer clothes to create layer wearing for autumn.

3) All those winter clothes in the vacuum bag are going to need to be ironed.

3) is my main reason for not wanting to start this process.

I may soon have to unvacuumpack the winter duvet.

It is about 12 degrees here tonight, which in my new Pom terms is not cold.

Nowhere near putting the central heating on yet, but I have put on socks and a cardigan.

Visitors

Our street is a residential one.. .a cul de sac.

To park anywhere in the street you need either a resident's permit or a resident visitors permit.

The parking ticket hours are from 8am to 10.30 pm. There are at least 10 parking warden visits per day.

Don't even TRY to park illegally.

So, for £10 I can buy a book of visitors parking permits from The Parking Shop in Kingston upon Thames. I am allowed 10 books per year. 10 pages per book.

If a visitor parks in our street for a day, they need 3 tickets to cover the whole time. So, in 3 days, that's a whole book.

I know I don't have many friends, but bloody hell!

You will NOT believe this!

For the London cat that doesn't have a garden...plant your very own wee tray of grass.

My grandkitten has one of these. Isn't it precious!

and speaking of chavs...

The Jeremy Kyle show is the biggest chav show in the UK..no..in the world. I watch it to get an insight into chav UK. While I am ironing.

Admittedly, it is like the Jerry Springer Show, without the nudity and violence, but is still scary . More scary actually seeing as I live here.

The Jeremy Kyle show is sponsored by Foxy Bingo.com. Their little logo is a very sweet fox that winks at you and says "hey sweet cheeks"

I was strangely flattered. Smiled back at the dear wee fox.

Please kill me now.