A Useful and Thoughtful Gift For Her Majesty?

What do you do when your birthday candle is too large to fit in the hole of your faux china novelty birthday cake?

Get one of these …………………. its a candle end sharpener, how BRILLIANT is that?

 

I was thinking that I might send one to Her Majesty the Queen, I bet she could do with one, what with all the candles and candlesticks, she must have to worry about when entertaining Heads of State and Ambassadors etc.

I bet she would be well chuffed.

Britain’s Got Talent

Britain’s Got Talent started last night – I just love it …. but I think I have left it too late to go on this years show…. I did think I could try and ring Simon Cowell on the off chance he’d see me specially, but I think he’s too busy making arrangements for his forthcoming nuptials, so I will have to wait and hone my talent to perfection for next year.

I have put together a ventriloquist act with a mummy and baby kangaroo, which means I have to use two voices, the mummy and a squeaky baby, sometimes I get the voices mixed up ….

 
….. so really it wouldn’t hurt to wait another year.

Time For A Change

I wonder if I should change my hairstyle?

Boiled, Mashed, Chipped, Roasted and Jacket.

After my success with my Christmas trees I am trying my hand at potatoes.

Its HARD work but we’ll have free chips for months when they are ready or harvested as we horticulturists say.
 
And I find mans work is very satisfying, providing for my family.

I have marked all the gardening programmes in the Radio Times so I don’t miss any.

A Good Idea at the Time ….

I love my little Christmas trees so much and I thought I could record their progress using freeze frame photography

It seemed a good idea when I started but after the first 300 shots my finger went numb and  I got a bit bored and fancied a cup of tea and a custard cream ….

I think I will just take a picture of them every week or so, I don’t really fancy sitting here every day until Christmas, counting to ten and then clicking.

Pricking Out My Christmas Trees

Do you remember my Christmas trees that I had in my Advent Tut in December, well, since I showed you them last, 2 more have popped up, how BRILLIANT is that?  So now I have 4 altogether.

I thought it was about time that I pricked out the seedlings and put them in proper plant pots.  I had to be very very careful because they are very delicate.

I am very proud.

I have put them back on the window sill where they started growing.  To think I will have 4 tiny weeny Christmas trees that will take pride of place amongst my festive decor this Christmas.

Stuff of a Scientific Nature is BRILLIANT!

The secret of being a good scientist is looking VERY hard ….

Looking VERY hard and REALLY close  …..

Looking VERY VERY hard and REALLY REALLY close and with BOTH eyes open.

If you do that, you will see scientific stuff happen …..

My friend Alex is a proper scientist in a proper laboratory room, with bunsen burners and test tubes and pipettes – which must be very romantic and glamorous.

She looks at everything very hard, really close and with both eyes open too.

Wash Day Monday

Isn’t this sunny weather brilliant? I don’t need to put my washing in the tumble dryer any more because I can hang it out on the line, it’s free and better for the environment.

I also have some lovely pegs to use too.

They are like little blackbirds.  When I use them I hum ‘sing a song of six pence’, “Monkey was in the garden, pegging out his clothes, when down came a blackbird …….”

Checking Out of My Premier Inn – Part 5

Well, now I can say that not only do I have the same accent as Lennie Henry but we also stay at the same hotels, perhaps have even slept in the same bed …..
Before checking out I had a final shower ….

I can never work hotel showers properly ……..

Sometimes I spend more time fiddling with the plumbing than actually showering , trying to get the water just right and hopping in and out of the shower as it runs hot and cold!
I just hate it when I get in and its freezing cold ….. and I can't catch my breath!

Checking Out Premier Inns – Part 4

The menu for the restaurant was huge – so huge that I could hide behind it!

A Little Bedtime Reading at a Premier Inn – Part 3

There is nothing I enjoy more than reading the breakfast menu before I go to sleep in a hotel …….

Nothing beats a full, full English – I like a croissant – but when faced with bacon. eggs, sausage, mushroom, half a tomatoe etc. there is just no contest!

It gives me something lovely to dream about.

Checking Out Premier Inns – Part 2

I tell you who else would love to stay in a Premier Inn, especially as his favourite colour (in his teens) was purple ….. Donny Osmond - ……. Premier Inns are very purple …… he would feel very much at home.

Everything is purple, the corridors …….

even this funny thing that lay across the bottom of my bed, that served no purpose, was purple

In fact I added to the colour scheme myself with my purple toothbrush which matched the purple stripes in the shower curtain.

Checking Out Premier Inns – Part 1

I have had a short break in Bristol – two nights at a Premier Inn and thought, as I had nothing better to do, I would give it a good check over seeing as Lennie Henry speaks so highly of them.

When I checked in I did ask the lady on reception if I had been booked into the same room Lennie Henry had stayed in, she said she could not guarantee it, but, if not, Lennie would have stayed in an identical room.

I checked the complimentary beverages first, as I was a bit parched after my journey – hmmmm, very basic,  I wouldn’t have minded a packet of complimentary bourbons or custards creams – I bet Lennie would have been proffered a whole assortment of biscuits when he phoned down requesting a bedtime digestive.

I also checked out the sign in the bathroom about forgotten wash items ….. I had forgotten my cotton buds so phoned down to reception ….. a la Lennie …..

I also asked if they had a bonnet de douche, the receptionist said she did not speak French, so I asked her for a shower hat in English.

I was a little disappointed that there were no complementary bath products in the bathroom except for some Lux shower gel in a dispenser in the shower – which didn’t  quite have the same mystic of an assortment of little bottles that I have had at other hostelries.

However it sufficed for my bath time needs.