Happy Days


fair do's to the Prof,
I got home late after work this morning all tired and worn out and I was ecstatically happy when I found the cottage beautifully tidy with the dogs all lined up in a row waiting for me like the Von Trapp Children in front of the Baroness. 
I suddenly thought I was living in a parallel universe.
The worktops in the kitchen were cleanly  wiped down and free of clutter.
The washing up bowl was empty and smelling fragrantly like a posh girl's foo foo and the recycling was all organised and ready for bagging up.
As I wandered through the cottage, I began to notice other things.
Instead of being scattered around the living room with gay abandon, the sofa cushions were all neat and tidy and  not on their usual place on the floor where Winnie hurls them and upstairs the bed was made, and the bath room towels all put away!
Its a joy not to be faced with  minutiae of shite when you are tired.
I made toast and eggs for myself and shared the crusts with the dogs . Then I had a hot bubble bath and by 9.15 I felt all clean, zen-like and back to normal.
I put on clean jim jams and skipped to bed with a light heart.
..........and in my bare feet stood directly in a large mouse-gut pool of Albert puke which had thoughtfully been deposited in the centre of the bedroom floor.

Bloggers

Blogging and bloggers never cease to surprise me
You can work your creative juices off on one piece of work and get .a couple of comments, then drop in a brief discussion on gun laws and receive 100

My good friend Rachel, who always shoots from her hip , had knocked up,a collection of three line blogs, ostensibly when bashing on her lipstick before catching the train to work, and collected a score of appropriate comments.
It only took her ten minutes too   ( presumably one handed).......
Oh.....It's an interesting phenomenon

So.......what nugget of information shall I share today?

Ok , run with this one

I have incredibly small ears
Discuss.

A Masterclass: Benjamin Ferencz


I told you earlier that apart from a crazy cat flap abusing Welsh terrier puppy little of note has happened today.
I was wrong.
For, when I was sitting in Fanny , waiting for the Prof to get off train, I turned on radio four to listen to Eddie Mair.
Mair was interviewing 96 year old Benjamin Ferencz.
Ferencz was a lawyer and is the only surviving member of the prosecuting council from the Nuremberg Trails.
He has been an advocate for global justice for half a century.
It was a sobering, and electrifying piece of radio.
Ferencz ,is still a force to be reckoned with.
His recollections of the Nazi war trail as well as the atrocities he witnessed at the liberation of the death camps  were eloquent, disturbing and incredibly honest.
He led Mair with all of the deftness of a great, good man.
I listened silently to the whole thing totally spellbound
If you get a chance to listen to it..do so see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038mc2s



Bugger All

No news day today.
Mary has worked out just how the catflap works and is making it her mission to abuse it
But that's about it 
I'll post a sweet photo in lieu of anything exciting


Enjoy


Bloody Mindedness


The Prof will hate me saying this, but he has been nominated for the Welsh RCN " Nurse of the Year award" How good is that? Now he has not worked as a clinical nurse for decades, so choosing academic research rather than bedpans has been his way of making a difference within nursing.

He's good at it too.
So today, he is on the way to Cardiff with his dinner jacket. I did have the opportunity of going too but puppies need babysitting........I hope he's prepared his best Kate Winslett  nominees face.

Anyhow before I dropped him off at the station, he mentioned that scotch egg that I found yesterday.
" They are not the healthiest things in the world" he commented
" I know.....but I've only had two in the past month" I  confessed.
The Prof gave me the Roger Moore eyebrow look.

I dropped him off at the station wishing him luck , then drove around to tescos, quick sticks, and in my pyjama bottoms and coat , I ran in and bought a sneaky two pack!
Hey ho

OMG OMG OMG!

It's been a grotty average wet autumn day today
A grotty horrible day
Until..........
Until I found one frozen sainsbury's scotch egg 
Stuffed down the side of the fridge freezer!
Oh joy
Now 
Do you know how quickly you can defrost a scotch egg?
3 hours 10 minutes 
But only when you perch it next to the radiator
Fan, fanny-tastic !!!

You can have the turkey but touch the scotch egg and you die

The dinosaur egg in the garden


The Prof had finished off the last of the bread and eggs for breakfast and we are out of milk, so in the tail end of Storm Barney , William and I braved the elements to walk the two miles to the garage shop for provisions. I especially needed to get cheese, as William is on antibiotics and cheese is the only thing that will mask the tablets.
Trelawnyd was deserted in the rain and gales. I noted that Gay Gordon is now flying the Welsh flag again outside his and Big Mary's bungalow. I half expected the French Tricolor to be fluttering on his flagpole......but I guess they are hard to come by in Flintshire.
William had already finished his tablet and cheese sandwich by the time we got home, and I hardly had got my coat off before there was a knock on the kitchen window. It was a group walkers who were after eggs and they were disappointed that I had none for sale.
Before they moved on, one woman pointed to something in the garden. " I like your ornamental egg" she said
" It's a real dinosaur egg" I replied quickly,
" IS IT?" She asked , somewhat astonished that I may have a real fossil nestled in the herbaceous border.
" yes....I bought it in a dinosaur specialist auction in London many years ago"
She looked impressed and didnt see me wink at her friend with the woolly hat and ski poles next to her " Was it expensive ?" She asked
" a few hundred ....." I replied " that was cheap at the time " and she nodded with a solemn " really" before walking on.
I couldn't be bothered to tell her that I had bought it for a pound from a car boot sale in Sheffield thirty years ago.

The Randa girls were not so gullible last week
Liv pointed to it when we arrived back from school and I gave her my dinosaur spiel.
Liv's eyes went very round but six year old Eve broke the bubble
" He lies" she sang out "I've already checked that egg has a flat bottom!"