This is why Youtube exists!

This song


and


this song


You know you want to own them!

Thanks to Tim for one of them, he heard them on the Chris Evans show.

What's the point of having a routine?

I've been discovering what having a routine is all about. It's not something that I tend to do, what is quite amusing and rather disturbing at the same time is that I'm quite enjoying having some sort of set rules in my life. I blame the old age (what else could it be, all young people are mad and impressionable really)

One thing that I've recently started doing is play a strategic war board game called Axis and Allies with the boys once a week, every Tuesday evening. Quite useful when I've spent a week alone in my room with just virtual company. Who knew that the company of other humans would be so useful?

Back to the board game, we each get to play a country and use strategy to work out who wins the war. I started with utmost scepticism but I'm gradually getting more involved and actually getting quite good at it. The only problem is that I keep telling everyone what my next moves are and the boys just counter-attack me to the death. It takes a lot longer to play as one round of the game takes about an hour and it's rather amusing to watch the boys discuss possible tactics, strategies and what could happen. I normally go for the gung-ho approach with an all out mother of all battles in the hopes that a good dice roll will annilihate the other army.

I may be getting carried away with this. The problem with me is that once I get going on something I get quite involved for a while and then after a while I move on, the intensity of which I do something doesn't last very long. Maybe that's why I don't like my thesis anymore.

Thus the coffee kicks in early this morning, and I shall be attempting to analyse another 500 images of GFP larvae. Don't ask. Just accept.

New Shoes

I want another pair of shoes. I've no need for them. They are completely frivolous and probably quite pointless.

However, they are exceptionally gorgeous.

Decision making help please!

It's been a while!

Wow, 2 whole weeks and I haven't posted on my blog. I was doing such a good job since the new year as well.

Nevertheless, let's not dwell on past things, well, actually, we will because it's just all about stuff that I've been doing while I've not been posting on my blog. Ah-HAH!

Went to see Barenaked Ladies a few weeks ago now. Went with Mary to London and the hotel was absolutely awful. I'm now trying to get a refund but it's not looking likely. It's such a pain at how crappy customer service is possible in this country. We were staying in a 4-star hotel or a supposed 4-star hotel but when we got in, I had an attractive picture to greet me on my pillow and on both days we stayed there, we didn't have any hot water to have any showers at all. Not that I mind not having showers for 2 days in a row. But I would quite like not to smell when walking around smoky smoggy London. It's not called The Big Smoke for nuffink.

Yum......4-star hotel with class service. I DON'T want any suggestions or ideas on what it could be.

Barenaked Ladies ROCK. Still the best live gigs ever.

Then spent the next day with Jean Marie at the Tate, then we went to his place to cook, to be joined by Chad. Basically, 4 crazy people in 1 room, 1 camera and lots of good food and wine.
(I blame Chadster for the pictures)

If this is how the night is going to start, we're gonna be in for a long one...

It just gets worse before dinner, who needs enemies when I post pictures of myself like this?

What the boys do in the privacy of the kitchen...AHEM

Chad loves fresh fish fillets...

Dinner! Yum yum....Giant haddock fillets, new potatoes with curly kale. Trust the Frenchman to throw up the masterpiece

Thanks for the hospitality JM!! Can't wait till Ale is back again.

Then the next day, as Mary left back to Reading early, I went to meet Katey and Sarah for brunch while Chad decided he was going to join the girly group for the day.
The winners at the breakfast club!! They polished off their brunches in good time, unlike...
The utter look of defeat from the losers with food still on their plates. (Even more ashamedly, Chad had eaten some of my breakfast as well, I had given up long before my plate looked that clean)

The beautiful weather over the weekend reminded me of when John was here and I lazily didn't post any photos!

So here's one, he'll be back to Europe some time in May so it's time for me to head over Holland.

This long post and following random pictures brought to you by my new best friend, insomnia. I think I can't sleep as I've upset someone. If you're reading and you are upset, I'm sorry. If you're not, then there's not much else I can do about it.

Everyone else can leave comments on facebook or somewhere more appropriate that I can delete!