Mistletoe's Musings

I have been to the shops without snow and only a little rain. Windy though. Brrrr.



Purchases for friends!
1. A Victorian style trinket box with a colourful enamelled looking bee on the lid.
2. A booklet of notes with a Mucha cover for carrying in your handbag.
3. Unpublished letters sent to the Daily Telegraph.

That's two birthdays covered and one of them isn't until the end of June. I'll probably lose it by then.

Purchases for me
1 An appointments calendar featuring British wildlife. Only £1.35 in the sale. January's picture is of a brown hare, the fastest creature to live in Britain. This was a timely purchase as the dentists rang yesterday to rearrange my hygienist's appointment because they are moving premises. So I need to write that down in February and now I can.
2. 3 pork pies at a saving of 50p. One for tea shortly.
3. An Americano coffee and a Cheddar and apple chutney sandwich for lunch at Vennels cafe Omnomnom.

I also checked out the game shop in the market but resisted the pheasants. However, I noticed they had genuine Scottish haggis in, so I know where to go for my Burns Night treat. The fancy deli shop was shut so I was able to resist all of their treats successfully. A fixture of the market place is Bimbi's fish and chip restaurant. It's under new management! The dynasty must have died or something because there has always been a Bimbi's. Bell's of Gilesgate doesn't have the same sort of je ne sais quoi.

Now, I must get on with this month's icon challenge at  bones20in20 . It's a free for all that I am finding very difficult because there is too much scope. Also, I have exceeded my Booth limit already which is reducing my choices in the wrong way.  Trying to remember which episode had which particular intern in it that could be useful as a substitute is taxing even my memory. Never mind. I have a few days to compromise and settle for less satisfying caps. Grizzle.

Were you excited by today's date? 11/1/11 or in American speak 1/11/11. I used to like writing things like that on the board. Kids always found it exciting. He he.


Oh, I hope you like my new header. It is keeping ne happy anyway.

I like a lot of sports as you know, but rugby union is not one of them, unless the All Blacks are playing of course. However, sad news today at the death of one of the people who made it entertaining: Bill McLaren OBE, MBE, CBE, ace BBC commentator of the 70s, aged 86. He was from Hawick (pronounced hoick) in the Scottish borders and never lost that gentle Scottish burr. Even when things got exciting he never got overly excited or unable to pitch his voice like the current possessor of the microphone Ian Robertson.

Here is a medley of some of his phrases which show the infectious joy he felt for the game and its purveyors. Even when something went wrong in the box or on the field he had something amusing to say, rarely denigrating the teams.


In other news today I went shopping wearing shoes. That is the first time I have had shoes on outside since December 16th. That's a month! It may snow tomorrow but not this far north.