Mum... Im on telly!

I set our Sky+ box to record Market Kitchen, but I havent yet watched it! Im scared that I will look like a goon, not that it normally bothers me... ;o)

I thought that following our tv appearance we would have been approached by at least one person (I would have even been happy with one of the weird people who walk around town talking or rather shouting to themselves) wanting an autograph.

I even bought a sharpie pen so I would be ready for the deluge! I may have to result in walking upto people and asking if they want my autograph - yes thats it, people are scared to approach me - it cant be that no one watched the show can it?

Last week I had a nice short week, as we went to Edinburgh for a wee break.

I started off being good eatingwise, but as usual it went downhill rapidly...

I made sure I tried some Scottish delicacies too, I had some haggis it was softer than I thought it would be, but I dont know if I would eat it again. The other thing I had was the deep fried mars bar (come on, I had to try it ;o)) you will be pleased to know it didnt disappoint me (not that that was ever likely to happen), it was as gorgeous as it sounds, and I could feel my arteries furring up with every mouthful ;o), and yes I would most definitely have it again and again and yet again...

While we were away we got a bus to Leith to go to the Royal Yacht Britannia, can you believe they wouldnt let me have a "Royal wee" in the Queens private toilet (apparently I was being unpatriotic!). I think the word treason may have been used as I was being "escorted" off the ship.

I love buying shower gels and the Ocean Terminal shopping mall had just the shop for me, Korres. I bought a 250 mml bottle of Nutmeg shower gel completely forgetting about the 100 mml rule for carrying liquids in hand luggage at the airport! I hear you asking, "so how did you get around it?" well I called down to reception and got them to bring me 6 bottles of their 40 mml complementary shower gels, I emptied the bottles and refilled them with my posh stuff. I did feel bad about the waste, honest ;o)

I really dont get why you cant carry bottles larger than 100 mml but you can bring any amount of liquid though passport control in smaller bottles, if you want to bring through dodgy liquids you are going to no matter what the size restrictions are!

I picked up a copy of Metro on our first day, and thought it was really spooky that the restaurant review was on a place in Edinburgh, I think there was a review on some other place in Edinburgh too. I thought how did they know that I would be reading the paper here and your reviews are coinciding with this (was there strange forces at work?). I got to the letters page, and the letters were all from Edinburgh or Glasgow. I then looked at the e-mail address and yes you guessed it said to e-mail scotmetro. Of course I then remembered that I picked up my copy of Metro at Edinburgh airport and it wasnt likely to feature restaurant reviews of poncey London eateries. How we laughed, or rather I laughed and James looked at me like I was a lunatic...

So what did all this gastronomy do to my weight? Well, I put on three pounds so Im not too upset.