they must have thought that he was too stupid to be devious

I was in Marks & Spencers at lunchtime buying my lunch...

...I was walking upto the queue for the self scan tills and I saw a man joining the queue in the wrong place (basically the queue had snaked around and he stood behind the woman who was in the queue just before it started snaking) he then came out of the queue to get himself something else (my first thought was to watch this guy he case he tried to push in front of me).

Anyway he eventually picked up what he wanted and then stood directly behind me (again the queue had started snaking around). In usual British fashion no-one said to him "oi your pushing in the end of the queue is that way", as he hadnt directly pushed in front of me I didnt say anything either, coupled with the fact that you are never too sure if someone will knife you if you confront them.

Im a sucker for new food

On Thursday morning I saw a new A-board outside Starbucks saying about their new breakfast range...

I got into work and eagerly looked at the website to see what goodies were on offer.

The buttermilk pancakes looked interesting as did the sausage and bacon butties (two separate things although Im pretty sure they would work well together).

So yesterday morning I was still unsure as to what I would try...

do I go for the pancakes or a butty? decisions decisions decisions!

I decided to go for the pancakes (decision made) then I was asked if I would like a topping to go with them? I thought that all I would have to do was chose the pancakes I didnt realise that I would still have to chose something else.

So I looked at the toppings on offer (they werent even free I might add) there was maple honey syrup, very berry compote or a mango compote...

arghhhhhh what do I go for? I was told that the berry one was nice so I went for that...

The pancakes were heated in their panini press (at least they werent hard and crispy around the edges like the ones on the cruise were), the very berry compote was ok but I dont think that I would get it again.

This morning I decided I wanted to try a buttie - next question do I go for the bacon or the sausage?

bacon or sausage, sausage or bacon?

I decided to go for sausage - as you cant beat a bit of sausage ;o)

They put the sausage buttie in the panini press and asked if I wanted any sauce - so I said that I didnt...

I eventually got my hot sausage bap buttie and the bottom (where it had been on the hot plate) was as stiff as cardboard and when I opened the buttie to have a look there were 3 halves of sausage and no butter (that I could see) now I dont like butter or margarine (so I was more than happy with their being no butter in there) but surely if something is called a buttie then it should have butter in it.

The sausages were Lincolnshire ones (not that I am a sausage connoisseur or anything).

And no I wont be having a buttie again either (or if I do I will make sure that I eat it cold).

I now remember...

...why I hate Internet Explorer!

Its not saving my password or keeping me logged in and I am having to log in everytime I comment and it isnt letting me tick the box that I want follow up comments :o( And I dont get the instant spell check either!

Please the lovely people at blogger fix this chrome problem ;o)

thwarted by chrome thank goodness for explorer

Since Tuesday I have been unable to log into blogger using Chrome (its not that I have been a snotty Ada honest). Yay for Internet Explorer ;o)

Anyhow Im going to finish this post now so that I can start commenting again ;o)

it was that windy

Yesterday afternoon it was that windy...

...that our wheelie bin got blown over...

...twice. Not once but twice!

First of all we thought it was local kids being little a*sholes then when it blew over the second time we realised that it was the weather.

naero aero

I am always on the lookout for new mid morning snacks to take with me to work...

The other week I saw some Aero biscuits as they are only 99 calories each one I decided to buy a packet.

This morning after having a couple of clementines I was still feeling peckish, so I thought to myself that I would try one of those aero biscuits...

I opened the packet and removed one and was struck by how small the chocolate bar was (then I remembered that it is only 99 calories) so I opened it up and bit into it (I managed to eek it out into 3 very small bites) and every teeny mouthful did have biscuit bits in. James would have shoved it in in one foul swoop ;o)

I am glad that I product tested it first as I would have been very disappointed had I had one as one of my mid morning snacks.

I am now saving them to have with my evening cup of tea instead ;o)

a whole plum

I was toasting a crumpet for my breakfast this morning, and got down the jar of plum conserve (thats what its called rather than me trying to sound posh).

The crumpet eventually popped out of the toaster and I put the knife into the jar to remove enough jam conserve to cover the crumpet and ended up with a monumental amount on the knife.

When I spread the contents of the knife onto the crumpet I saw that there was a whole plum ;o)

Was I jammy or what ;o)