Like mother like daughter.

Lexie was ever so peaky the other day and I wondered if he was suffering from the same chocolate drought that I had been recently. He was listless, he refused walks, he spent at least five minutes walking round in circles.. What

could be wrong? He was drinking lots of water, so Mum thought diabetes, but I thought the reverse. More chocolate was needed!

And as if to prove my point, when he managed to sneak a dropped Easter egg crumb he perked up no end. Even got enough strength back to try fighting me for some!

Winter Wonderland!

Had a wonderful pre Christmas eve day at home today. Was absolutely perfect. Got up and drove to "Lutterworth" to fetch Dave F and we went to "Morrisons". Got ingredients for some cute little Christmas treats we're going to dole out as presents.

Reindeer sweets: melt chocolate and spoon into a circle on greaseproof paper. Add matchmakers for antlers, halved white chocolate buttons for ears, dark choc mini buttons for eyes and another white choc button for nose as I forgot to buy glace cherries.

Then we met Leils, Hayden and Hayden's sister Catherine for a pub lunch in "Chequers" in "Ullesthorpe". These words must sound very alien to outta towners but I assure you they're very normal countryside places. I had chicken tikka. Oh so festive. Maybe I could be like Prince Albert and start some new Christmas traditions!

Then we popped back to "Monks Kirby" and went for our second walk in the fields that day with "Lexie". Had lots of fun playing on the iced over lake until the cracking sounds got ominous. Was less Casualty than earlier on in the day when Lexie was chasing ducks over the ice and fell through. Whoops. It was kinda funny because he looked so amusing struggling to get out but also very worrying and upsetting. Luckily Dave ran to his rescue with no thought to his own safety and managed to pull him out. Poor doggy. Thankfully within seconds of chasing pheasants he was dry and warm again. Aside from that scare we all thoroughly enjoyed the day.

After that we had a cup of tea and I drove everyone back to "Lutterworth". Now I'm sitting by the fire watching Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason. Don't think this day could get any better.

Bye for now reindeers, I love you just the way you are.*. xxxxxx

*Bridget Jones reference just incase others aren't as into RomComs as me.

All by myself..

dear diary, I think I might try and turn my blog to a more romantic use.

What do you rec


Now although Alex wrote the above in jest when he found my blog unattended I've left it up to consider. My friends the other night (advertising person and scientific journal production assistant) were discussing office flirtations. They both have objects of desire within the office who may or may not know they exist. Regardless, the casual stalking does make their day go quicker. I haven't started my job yet and can't really afford to leave the house in the meantime so I don't tend to meet new people. Mostly I only have ducky and big ted for company.

Ducky is a light that Alastair gave me for this years birthday. I wanted him for ages to the extent that I emailed the lady in the shop to forewarn her that my then boyfriend was about to be claiming him. Alastair kept teasing me that he'd flown away before he could buy him for me which was very distressing. I put him in hibernation in my wardrobe for quite some time post break up as it was too hard to look at him but now he's out and flourishing by my bed. Had an unpleasant incident recently when Dave wrapped him up in black tape for a duck bondage outfit for halloween but he was quickly released. Big Ted was given to me for my 1st birthday by my uncle Robin. So he's about the same age as me but as Bob pointed out, I've aged better. She also says that he looks like I use him to mop up my wee when I wet the bed. FYI that's not true. He was brownish to begin with and the patch is from when my dog Lexie bit his face open.

Well, looking at big ted's fate it's probably best that I don't meet new people as you can see what happens to anyone I cuddle when Lexie is around... Plus I haven't got time. I've said it before and I'll say it again, those boxsets don't watch themselves.

Bye for now, dreamboats xxxxxxxxxxxxx