Yawn...

Quote of the moment: Ban this sock filth!

Lo chaps... not much up since last night... Am currently conversing with the Prill-meister, a rare occurence... Or should I say Prill-mistress? Don't get TOO excited at that thought, please... :P

Today, went over to Grandparents to attack their hedge... the first phase was executed with particularly venerable shears, (dating from about 1920), which made it more of a brute force and ignorance exercise than anything else... This was followed by the second wave, cavalry mounted on aluminium stepladders... Then the victory was completed by the halberdiers, wielding a particularly fine pole and hook branch lopping device... How handy...

I then got a phonecall demanding transport to Chelmsford by Victoria (to meet Poppy Chenivix-Trench)... this had been priorly agreed, but the departure time was not made sufficiently clear to me... I thought I needed to pick her up from our house at 6, she needed to be in Chelmsford at 5.45... Cue mad rush around, scooping up cuttings and mad rushes to the bonfire heap wwith the wheelbarrow... Then being pressed to take my fee, which has inflated to £9 (a 29% inflation in one week - not bad!), and shooting off home in the car. On the way I left a nice squealing mark on the roundabout at the end of our road, then arrived and waited ten minutes while Madam finished preparing...

Having dropped her off in Chelmsford, I came home, bummed around some more, went in to fetch her when ordered. I was told half-past, I got there 27 past... Victoria was there to grab the present she forgot to take in earlier, she went back in, and went to pay up... Meanwhile two traffic wardens are wandering down the road behind me, and I'm parked in a Taxi rank, the only available stopping point... how handy... So she's in the restaurant and someone taps her on the arm and says "Isn't that your brother being spoken to by the police?" (they'd presumably overheard some comment about me waiting outside...)

Fortunately that prompted her to move a bit faster... LOL... Though I'd just been given a couple of minutes for her to get her arse in gear before they actually did anything about it...

Apart from that, have watched the BB eviction, noting that Stu is just like a long-haired hyperactive Jim, and then "Midnight Run", which had Robert DeNiro in, which is always a good sign... It was quite amusant, a 6 or 7 methinks...

And for that very dull entry, I must apologise... G'night!