I am wondering if I am the only person in the world that is not watching the England v Argentina. Our offices have joined Cancer Research UK in raising money by letting staff watch in our AV meeting rooms for a donation. My floor is now very sparsely populated with people at the news desk watching and reporting and the odd person not interested at all.
good weather for ducks
I know I am upholding the stereotype that all the Brits talk about is the weather but… It’s June and the weather last night and most of yesterday was more like November 🙁
Buying Online
I’m starting to get a little hacked off now. I ordered 3 books on March 7th and to date I have received only one of them. Blackwell.co.uk mailed me to say they were on back order and due April 22nd, we are now at June 6th 🙁
I ordered a Canon Digital Ixus V2 from Nomatica.com last month and it hasn’t arrived either. They wrote and said it would be despatched May 23rd we are now 2 weeks past that date and I called them today. They say they have no idea when they are coming in stock but it should be around mid June. Grrrr.
See it may be cheaper on the web but it is just not as satisfying as going out and coming home with the goods you purchased.
classic mail today
I managed to wash my Egg card over the weekend – left it in my jeans pocket – stupid me. So I whizzed on over to order a new one an email from them to say they had ordered me a new one. Sweet though as they included the line “It’s good to see you keep your Egg card clean.”
Flags
I always thought it was strange that it didn’t matter where you went in the US you where constantly bombarded with the stars and stripes. Every little town had a flag, every other house had a flag, every other building had a flag, every other person was wearing some sort of star spangled banner clothing.
Over the last few days I realised it was just because we seemed scared to show our own flag. The Union Flag was always associated with neo-nazis and the National Front.
Seeing The Mall decked out in Union Flags and the front of Buckingham Palace bathed in projections of St Georges cross, Union Flags and other such emblems made me realise patriotism isn;t strange at all. In fact maybe we are strange for not showing a pride in our country.
I wonder how many St George Flags will still be flying if the team get kicked out of the world cup? It seems a shame that it takes the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and the World Cup before we show any semblance of national pride.
hospital smell
I discovered over the weekend that hospitals smell of insulin. Either that or insulin smells of hospitals. Wonder why that is?
Dirty Stop Out!
Lovely day. The whole dogs and babies thing happened again. My brothers house is in a square and I spent the day trying not to flirt with his neighbour! Gorgeous as he was.
A bank holiday weekend is not the same without a trip to B&Q so of course we managed to fit one in!
Back to London and I never quite made it back to my own flat.
Purple in the Park
Purple was fun. Met Andrew before hand and then met Paulie in the park followed by Colin who I haven’t seen in ages. Then Scally and the usual blogger suspects. Jonathan and Markie and Ian. I also met up with Steve who was over from Amsterdam for the weekend.
I eventually made it home earlyish as I am travelling down to Farborough to see my niece and assorted family on the Sunday.
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