Thursday 25 June 2009

Fronds and Fresh Fruit

My mother's madness has taken an extraordinary new leap. I have to say, it's a unique fruitbowl... Talking of fruit, we've had a lovely week for fresh garden fruit. All my plants have gone insane, so His Lordship made rhubarb squares (Meranguits) and I served up raspberries and strawberries with chocolate icecream, still wet with rain.

Hopefully we've got some more strawbs to come, as I've purchased a nice strawb basket to hang from a bracket. I also bought some more shrimplets as, sadly, Paste passed away the other night. The original batch must be about three years old, but I now have 12 shrimp divided between the two tanks, including a teenytiny one called "Clunk".


Kyle is determined she'll move into Terry's tank, she's been knocking on the door, climbing the sides, getting her claws snagged in the galvanised roof - she's seen the new Tillandsia moss I put in there, a fine waterfall of pale fronds. Terry hasn't found it yet, but took a 0.2g poop on my scales. He's about 3.5g now.

I was overtaken by a van on the way to work yesterday, and it made me laugh - "Gurd & Flatt - General Builders." His Lordship got a surprising message too, after pulling a few alphabet candies out of a bag. Perfectly spelt on his hand: "FATASS." He also discovered I can fit one of my long handled sundae spoons up His left nostril...

Monday 22 June 2009

Brilliant Bathroom!

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And from yummy green to mmmmm shiny blue. I ordered my laptop very late on Saturday night - and it's here already. For just £179 I picked up this pretty little laptop, reconditioned and in perfect nick. The keyboard is slightly smaller than I expected, but certainly useable, I still have to get used to the way the mouse works as it's a bit odd.

8.9" Acer CrystalBrite™ TFT LCD
Operating System: Windows XP® Home
Processor: Intel® Atom™ processor N270
Memory: 1024MB RAM (2*512MB Configuration)
Storage: 120GB SATA Hard Disk Drive
Connectivity: Wireless LAN b/g, LAN: 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet
Webcam: Integrated 0.3Mp Acer Crystal Eye webcam
I/O Interfaces: 3 * USB PortsPort, 5-in-1 card reader (SD), (MMC), (RS-MMC), (MS), (MS PRO), (xD), SD™ Card reader for storage Expansion
Battery Pack: 3 Cell (3 Hours Battery Life)

I'm hoping my petrol expenses backdated for the last few months will come through soon, as that will pay for half of my shiny new toy! Mind you, at least my claim is genuine, unlike Fabian Hamilton, one of Leeds North East MP's. This benefits bamboozeler claimed £171,824. For an iPod Nano. As part of his "communications allowance". - Skynews

Thursday 11 June 2009

Hoping to make an angel smile...

Mum leaving Claire some flowers cheered me up, and I saw something I thought Claire would have laughed at too. In Denners department store, there is a HUGE makeup counter (Claire being one of the worlds brightest butterflies - like a backwards chameleon, always sparkling colours standing out from the background!) and they've brought out a wonderful new masacara. Lancome Oscillation Powermascara. To explain this (literally) revolutionary new product - imagine one of those battery operated cappucino whisks that were all the rage a couple of years ago. And then swap the whisky circle end with a spiky mascara brush. Somehow I don't even see the bravest of makeup wearers attempting to remove their eye with a black-gooped coffee whisk...

Talking of genius ideas, my sister excelled herself this week. She's currently working hard on her GCSE exams and came a cropper of this question: "Name two types of transplant." Her answers: "Kidney and Brain." Sounds like she could do with a brain transplant herself!

And continuing with embarrasing admissions, His Lordship told me something unusual earlier today. When he was a little younger, he accidently swallowed a red sparkly dice with white spots. His main observation on this issue was that he later noticed he rolled a 5. He's also decided the little fridge might be of Nazi decent, having discovered the light where we keep the drinks. "Yes - I illuminated all the juice!" ... Oh dear.

We've decided Gecko is definitely a Terry. Terry TacketyToes. S/he shed last night and is 3.5g with deep chocolate orange base colour and bright fruity orange patterns.

Quote of the week: "The world is my oyster - pity I'm kosher." - Vimrod.

Monday 8 June 2009

Goodnight Claire

We're going to miss you so much honey.

Claire Wilson was a good friend of mine back home, and I've just found out she was stabbed and died in broad daylight on Sunday, just down the road from the Venue.

A bright and sparkly personality with ever-changing hair to match, kind to all and forever sweet - the world is a dimmer place without you. I know it all sounds supercliched, but I swear to above I never once heard her say anything bad about anyone, not even when we drove her loopy by staying late when she needed to close up - but who could turn down Claire-made pizza?!

Tuesday 2 June 2009

People, Phones, Pools, Pizza and Pacman

A customer made me laugh today - having enquired if he had any accounts, he responded "None." Puzzled, I asked him if he was sure, he's a regular customer after all. "What would regularly dropping into the bank have to do with cows?!" I could only blink... Mind you, a staff member made a customer laugh earlier. Poor girl's had a funny tummy and was complaining on the phone to her Dad that she's "afraid to fart..." Unfortunately, one of our customers was sat out of sight at the table and fell about laughing. He asked her if she wanted him to go get her some Immodium from the chemist, but she fled through the back, bright red with the phone. I apologised to him - "She's a bit sick. A bit sick in the head." Thankfully she's seen the funny side of it. (Picture: Leenks.com - It's bad enough when your boyfriend dumps you by text, but being dumped by Bananaphone must be worse - it stops it being funny in the future. Ringringringnoooo...?)

The dragons have been enjoying the novelty that is the spray bottle. Kyle enjoyed it so much, it even reminded her what the empty bowl in the back of her tank is for - she threw herself in it and waited patiently as I sprayed her down, filling up the swimming pool! Neither of them used them in months, preferring the big bath normally, but they had a grand time swimming and drinking from it. Tsam was having a slight problem as he's so much bigger now - he kept getting stuck. So I kindly donated a spare casserole bowl for him to soak in, his very own personal jacuzzi! Clever boy showed off today - he'd been running around in the diningroom when I heard a clunk. I came in to see what it was and he was hanging off his Dragon Slope - which was leant against the wall! I turned it back round for him and he shot up into his house, happy as Larry and mission accomplished.

As it is games night for the boys (they've got a big green table in thelivingroom with toy robots on a big map and a bunch of dice) I ordered a bunch of pizzas to keep them fed and happy. Interesting fact for you: If you're ordering over the phone from Domino's and paying by card over the phone for delivery - you can tell them you have a 50% off voucher and they just take your word for it! Marvellous! Better yet, the delivery guy looked just like a toy lion I own. Even better-er, they're both called Norbert. (Image: Entensity)

In other news: My toilet seat has arrived and Rich is appalled. He secretly loves it, sparkly silver glitter! Also, Tackety Toes Gecko has put on .1g, making a total of 3.1g and 3.4".