The Better Mousetrap

So, we need to do a fortnight's catchup:

Workwise: Well! Apparently I'm not as pants at cashiering as I was lead to believe!
Most of my errors have been traced by a visiting staff member with a knack for the foreign cashflow - and has found that both of us cashiers were taught it all wrong. No news from the big place I applied for, but hopefully hear more from some of the others. Still, it's bugging me. (Aggravation beetle - courtesy of Oddee.com)

His Lordship: Has started a diary. He says it's been a bit unsettled what with one thing or another, bits and bobs going on that demand his attention that he'd rather not have to - "just dribbles of crap". In English, that'd be the accidental mixing up of controls in the driving lessons, the tribunal for the benefits for rent he SHOULD be getting as been adjourned AGAIN. Jobcentre's still pants and His mum's nabbed the printer for work, so he's having to hand-write his applications. I still can't believe how good a backscratcher he is...

Books: Haruki Murakami's Wind-up Bird Chronical - Nearly finished, will comment then. Tom Holt's newest, The Better Mousetrap - Another brilliantly funny addition to the J.W.Wells group, which begins with A Portable Door. Tom Holt's Snow White and the Seven Samuri - The title says it all really, a bizarrely mixed up fairytale. Please read! I've read it once, and now I've bought it to read it again!

Nan's Weekend: To be released in a following blog (as images need to be sorted by Himself).

Lizards: Getting very big. Big dragon was a pretty shade of soft cream with touches of orange, and Little dragon is at least 10.5". His Lordship's mum (a faffer by trade) kindly provided us with a new length of stylish black ribbon to build Tsam's leash with - he's taken to it very well, enough so that we were able to take him AND Ky out to The Bell for a drink in their gardens. The barstaff were most intrigued by the reptiles settled comfortably on a barmat, but were a bit surprised when Ky did her usual trick; a beeline straight for the most wary person available. Poor girl nearly tipped herself off the edge of the bar. Having sat her down again, the pair of them happily stared (and licked) their reflections in the mirrored bottom of the peanut warmer.

Food: We now get our eggs delivered for lots of good reasons. Biggest reason, they're freerange from a local farm I go past every day from work (they're pretty chickens too). Secondly, they're cheaper than supermarket ones. They're very good too, we've had some lovely omelettes. I am at a loss as to what to call one of our odd meals. Basically, you take salami, ham, peppers, onion, cheese, mushrooms - pretty much anything in the bottom of the fridge, finely chop it, and stir it into a slowly cooked scrambled egg sort of. Yesterday I came home to a sort of chicken and mushroom risotto. Not technically traditionally made, but very tasty.

Garden: Both my tomato plants and my raspberry stalks are starting to flower, the rhubarb has gone insane, His Lordship is putting Kill-It-All on the bindweed down the side of the house (again), my little purple basil has doubled in height, the mint has recovered from the savagery of the slugs (I'm winning the battle) and we really need to start using some chives. (Recipes anyone?)

Films: The Happening - bit average really, but funny when they kept adjusting the air-conditioning. Very smooth CineWorld! The Hulk - MUCH better than the last one. Even I enjoyed it but like Iron Man, it's got another Avengers Tie-in/recruitment at the end. Iron Man was waaaay cool. Next week, we'll see KungFu Panda and shortly after, Hancock.

Big Brother: I still hope they throw Sylvia out. Vote her out - 09016 16 16 16! Neither of us like her, she's SELFISH. Small-minded, bitchy, two-faced... Kathreya is great though, if she goes any further, she'll just turn into a small pink, fluffy pom-pom Pokemon! I mean, c'mon, her dream is to travel the world and taste cookies in every country. How cool!

Related Quote of the Week: "I am a poh-taaaaa-to! Who wan' a poh-taaaa-to?!" - Just too funny. Thanks!