Pre Easter sniffles

On Sunday night I started feeling yukkie...

...I now have a cold, luckily not a bad one, but I am feeling not quite myself.

Like many people I have a "I am too ill to go to work" base point, and mine is a blocked up nose, and as I am still able to breathe through my nose, I will still come to work.

I am just hoping that this cold is gone for Friday, as I dont want to be ill during the long weekend!

but they dont do a marmite cereal

This is what James response was when I told him I couldnt find the Marmite Cereal Bars in Sainsburys last week, he even went so far as to say that he thought the advert was a spoof.

Ha ha James I bought some yesterday in Tesco ;o) I havent tried them yet though.

Because the weather has just started getting nicer I have decided to (once a week) go out and take some photos around where I work...

...so on Friday I went off to Trinity Square Gardens in Tower Hill, next week I will try and do some more pictures of the Tower of London.

On my way back to work I found another nice place to buy my lunch from ;o).

Talking of lunches, I had two this week for my bosses birthday (theyre birthdays are six days apart), the first was at Corney & Barrow and the second was at The Lamb.

My Chocolate Tasting club egg arrived earlier this week too, so I have semi hidden it on top of my wardrobe ;o)

Im so glad that I only have a four day week this week, but short weeks always seem longer for some reason :o(.

I also burnt myself on Friday morning from refilling the kettle after making a cup of tea :o(

False pretenses

I finally got around to watching The Jeremy Kyle Show last night, and it was a complete letdown...

...not only did the cast of Coronation Street not appear in the show until 27 minutes in, they were then only on for 18 minutes. I feel that they could have written the show so much better...

...I mean they could have had Audrey come on and smack her 2 grandkids around the head whilst being pulled away by the security guards ;o).

Needless to say I will NOT becoming a Jeremy Kyle convert, and from watching the show it seems that the premise of it is taking a lie detector test, it would be quite funny if it showed the guests being tested ;o)

I prefer to do my shopping on Sundays

I did the food shopping yesterday as I wouldnt have time to do it this morning...

Blimey it was busy, not Christmas Eve busy, but a Saturday morning busy.  Everywhere I went there was some old person in my way.  I know that (as long as I dont annoy too many people with ageist comments) I will become an old person.

I know that if I make it to retirement then I wont go shopping on Saturdays or in lunchtimes!.  At least working in London you dont get some doddery old git getting in your way ;o)  But you still get slow coaches.

On the plus side there did seem to be a better selection of products, but not so good as to make me want to go on Saturdays.  My sanity wouldnt survive for one thing ;o).

The French market was on in town this weekend (think overpriced products that you can actually buy in the supermarket but paying over the odds because it come with "le" in front).  When did I become so cynical!

But I did buy a pecan and raisin loaf reduced from £3.50 to £3.00 I would probably find that yesterday it was £3.50 reduced from £4.00 (see Im being cynical again!).

Wanting to pig out...

Yesterday was really hard, when I say really hard I mean REALLY hard!

Basically I have a packet of Cadburys Caramel biscuits in my drawer, and it took all of my willpower not to eat them. So what stopped me eating them?

It was the thought of the cruise, and I dont want to be fat before I get on there :o(

And yes I know that just eating one packet of biscuits isnt going to make me fat, but I know that once I started eating nice things then I wont be able to stop myself!

It is super scary the hold that chocolate has on me.

And I am pleased to stay that for the moment the packet of biscuits is still unopened!

I wasnt stressed or anything I just had a craving for those chocolate biscuits.

Something for you Coronation Street fans, to celebrate the 1000th episode of The Jeremy Kyle Show, Tina, David & Nick are on there playing their characters. I have sky+ the show ;o).

I am really surprised that ITV havent advertised the show...

I blame it on the bacon sandwich

I have to admit last weekend I had the munchies, and ended up scoffing a whole 150 gram bag of chocolate covered espresso beans from Holland & Barrett, they were really nice, and THEN had a big bag of crisps too.

I went and did the big shop as normal this morning and it was busier than normal because of it being Mothers Day, it wasnt Christmas busy but busier none the less.

I thought that Starbucks would be busier today too with people treating their Mums to a nice skinny cappuccino. Perhaps that could be a marketing ploy for them next year...

...I can see it now "we asked 100 Mums what they would REALLY like for Mothers Day from their useless offspring and 87.2% said all they wanted was a venti skinny latte" ;o).

I really am wasted ;o)

I weighed myself this morning and put on 2lbs, I shall blame it on eating those yummies! Were they worth it?

That is a big fat YES ;o)

transferral of thoughts

I was walking in this morning thinking about bacon sandwiches and the fact that I hadnt done a mid week post (like I do sometimes ;o)).

Then mid morning I was about to make a round of teas, and my boss pipes up that he will buy as all a bacon sandwich (he must have picked up on my I want a bacon sandwich vibes) ;o).

So instead of having my normal Friday lunch of half a lamb sandwich I have gone for a hip & healthy salad from itsu

Friday was an interesting day

The day started when I was walking to work and saw these movie lights down Fenchurch Avenue...




We later found out that they were filming an advert for Go Compare, I would look out for the advert but as it was filmed inside an office Im not really going to know which one it was!


One of my bosses came in just before 9am and said that the V Festival tickets were going on sale at 9am and he wanted me to try and get two tickets with camping for his daughter. And if I could book the two tickets then he will give me 10% of the ticket price as a bonus ;o) That soon got my interest I can tell you ;o)


So just before 9am I get onto the relevant website and kept on refreshing the page until it said that the tickets were on sale, I then clicked on the tickets that I (or rather he) wanted and was held in a queue. The website then said you could either wait or keep refreshing the page, so I kept clicking refresh until it let me book the tickets. After about 5 minutes I was then taken onto the booking page, and managed to book the two tickets with camping that were required. My boss was well chuffed and texted his daughter who said I should get a pay rise ;o).


We were well lucky because all of the camping tickets were sold out be 9.20!


My boss is going to Brazil next week, and wants to take with him a summary of our website in Portuguese in leaflet form to hand out to potential clients, we have some leaflets that we had printed in Spanish a few years ago, so it makes sense to have some Portuguese ones too. Our printers said they could get them done in a couple of days.


I phoned the printers hoping that they would have a word version of our leaflet (to save me having to faff about too much) I had already gone through my colleagues old emails and could only find a pdf version. But no, because they use art packages they save any documents straight to pdf. Oh well, there went that theory! And to top things off their e-mail was down too!


So I spent Friday afternoon with three versions of our website open (in English, Spanish & Portuguese) , with a pink highlighter in hand (to highlight the text needed) whilst reading through the Spanish leaflet with what is on the website in Spanish. It is well hard trying to read through something in a language that you dont understand!


I printed off the pages needed in Portuguese, having numbered the sections on the Spanish leaflet and numbered the corresponding passages in Portuguese and highlighting them for effect ;o). All of the pink made it look pretty too ;o)


I showed my boss what I had done, as I didnt want to confuse the printers when I e-mailed the relevant sections.


So I have e-mailed them scans of the original Spanish leaflet with the numbered sections, the pages in Portuguese numbered and highlighted and the same pages without the highlights in case when they print it they cant see what has been highlighted.


My boss was also taking the hard copies into the printers yesterday morning as they are only down the road from where he lives.

From Monday I will have a Civil Servant living in my house ;o)

Dont panic, were not getting a lodger...

James is being made a permanent person ;o)

Considering what the job market is like at the moment Im well pleased for him.