Liz Going On

We have a lot of tomatoes, but none of them have shown any signs of going red yet. I worry about this as there are a lot of them. About 80 or 90 on three plants.  If they stay green then I suspect I’ll make lashings and lashings of chutney, and then I’ll give it to all my friends and family as Christmas presents.

How do tomatoes go red?

I love raspberries. They’re my favourite fruit. Maybe I should try and grow some next year.

Wood.

Andrew and I have taken up part of the dining room floor. This is because it appeared to be self levitating, which was a little worrying. It wasn’t easy to take up, and now some of its moved there’s no obvious reason why the rising up happened. And it hasn’t really stopped rising up. Its not rising up and lumpy with gaps in it. This isn’t really ideal.

I discovered yesterday that one of the consultants I work with is going to be in Mauritius at the same time that Andrew and I are there for honeymoon. I think they’re in the same resort but not the same hotel. Possibly. We’ll probably see them either all the time, or not at all. He’s a nice consultant so it’d not be too bad to see him, but I’d rather not hang out in my swimming costume with people I know at home!

Wedding plans are going quite well. Some people have had to decline, but lots of people have said they’re coming, which is excellent. And I’ve booked the fitting for my frock. I can’t wait!

I bought Mum a new mobile. She managed to use it without any help. Nokias are wonderful things, and I’m dead proud of her tackling technology so well.  Hurrah for Mum!

I still have a rash, but its getting better. Applying cream five times a day is a bit of an annoyance, but at least its working and I’m not a lizard anymore!

I went to the cinema yesterday and it was crap. But I liked it nevertheless. The film was A Perfect Getaway.  Bits of it was like the orange mobile phone film trailers. Really. It was so bad I laughed a lot. But don’t go see it as its not that bad/good.

This blog post has been presented in the style of a lot of twitter posts tagged together. Sorry.

Andrew and I have just bought a Wii. I think I’d rather a kitten, but you can’t get one of those on ebay. And you can leave a Wii for the weekend and it won’t die/wee on your sofa/scratch your skirtingboards.

I’ve bought quite a lot this week. And its only Wednesday. Oops.

Three pairs of shoes (for me! wooo, and I threw three rubbish falling apart pairs away).

A shiny black skirt (in the Laura Ashley sale. It was 75 quid. I paid 19)

A grey wool frock for the day after the wedding.

A denim skirt half price in the fat face sale. And a white t shirt.

Two suits. For the ushers.

Seven ties. I’m particularly pleased with these. They’re ace!

Next weekend is the field wedding. I’m really looking forward to this, althought I need to practice my singing and get a bottle of port. And the day after the wedding there’s canoing, which will be good as well (and probably quite wet!).

Hopefully the Wii will arrive soon. I’m looking forward to Wii fit. Come visit and play with us!

I’ve needed to speak to a few people today. Its been remarkably difficult.

Firstly Andrew and I need a license to marry. This involves going to the registry office with some bits of paper and cash and getting a permit. I think. But you have to book an appointment. I dialed them constantly for a very long time (I redialed 72 times, according to my mobile phone). Finally I got through.  Our appointment isn’t for a month though as that’s all that is available. Thankfully the wedding is in two months, so we’ll have the piece of paper in time.

I also tried to speak to the doctors. I haven’t registered yet with a GP since moving here. But speaking to the practice involved a lot of holding. Boo to them.

And the hotel I’ve told people to stay at for the wedding are being a nightmare too. So I went in to speak to them today. The trouble is they’ve not given me the vital piece of information which should have gone out with the invites. I told them that it would have been helpful if they’d told me this at the time of arranging, but they were useless.  Boo to them.

However, I have managed to knock quite a few things off the to do list, which makes me feel much happier. And the bathroom is sparkling like it never has before! (bet it doesn’t stay like that for long!).

Sorry if this is a boring blog post. I’m just not allowed to blog about the exciting things in my life. You’ll have to get me drunk…

Hello all,

Today I’m between a rock and a hard place.  I’m off work sick. I’m not near death, but I’m certainly not well and as I’m on call tomorrow I wanted to be well for then. I’ve got so many adventures to tell you all about from the last 4 days, but as I’m poorly I’ll probably get tired and bored before I finish the story.

Thursday morning we left Manchester in a big thunderstorm on the bus to London.  Its never that much fun sitting on a coach for six hours, but the company made it a lot better.  I was coach mother, but all went to plan (except for locking someone on the coach at the service station stop!).  The proms were amazing. We’re still on the BBC’s iplayer until wednesday, so you can see me! (and the 199 other people in the choir). Sadly there’s no close ups of me, but I am there, on the right.  I’d never sung in the Royal Albert Hall before, and wasn’t sure what it’d be like, as people say its difficult to sing in, but it was really really good! And an almost packed house too.

Mum and Andrew were in the audience as well. Its so much nicer singing when there’s someone there you know. Andrew and I had a wedding the next day, so it fitted in really well, but Mum just came down for a few days to see me sing! Bless!

After the concert we went to a place called ‘Beirut Express’. We ate lots and lots and lots of yummy food. So much that I had problems walking home afterwards! And we were all on a post concert high so it was a very merry event.

The next morning I was still full at breakfast time! 

I put my posh frock on and we walked to the wedding. It was a good coincidence that the wedding was only ten minutes walk from the proms hotel.  I can’t quite believe the coincidence really as the proms are on for about 10 weeks, and the wedding could have been any day this summer! 

We met at a pub for some drinks in the sunshine. I was merrily drinking my glass of wine when disaster struck! A bird pooed on me. I was pretty devastated, but managed to wash it off my dress (a rather expensive all silk dry clean only affair!) and half way through the reception Andrew spilt red wine on me, so the dress was washed again…

The wedding was lovely, the speeches were great and the reception was good also. I got suitably drunk and ate too much! Andrew danced for hours and hours!!!

On Saturday I met up with Mum and we explored Tate modern and ate sushi. It was lovely. I love London and I love my Mum. So the two together are an excellent combination. It was tiring carrying around all my stuff though. 

Saturday afternoon Andrew and I made our way to see Charlotte and Dan in their new lovely flat. We played on their new wii. Lots. And Lots.  I ended up quite good at the ski jump and the hoola hoop. Much to my surprise as in real life I can’t keep a hoola hoop up for even one spin and I can’t even ski, yet alone jump.

I’ve had enough writing now. Time for a nap.

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