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Date: 31 December 2009 12:57:07
So there's, like, no-one online. Is there some event on or something? I mean really, where on earth could everyone be? Crazy!
My NYE has been enjoyably non-eventful But don't worry, I'll tell you all about it in lots of words!
A couple of days ago I came across this photo of a "sausage platter" at an English pub. Why have I never heard of such a thing? So this afternoon I was at the supermarket and bought some appropriately proportioned oven fries. I decided that when I got home I would call my mother and ask her to bring some sausages with her when she came home from work. There is a butcher next to her work that does excellent sausages.
Back home, first things first - fries in freezer, cheese in fridge, throw ball for dog. I was about to call the mother when the front door opens. It's my father, home early from work (what's with that? Is there something on?) and he is holding a package wrapped in... butcher's paper... approximately the size and shape of hmmm 8 sausages. Turns out he stopped at the mother's work on his way home and the mother gave him the sausages that she had bought THIS MORNING.
Now you might be thinking that perhaps I had showed the mother the photo of the sausages and put the idea in her head. But NO! I did no such thing!
A clear case of telepathy.
So after my sausages and chips and sauce, I watched a few episodes of Two Fat Ladies - a seafood one, a meat one and a fruit & vegetables one. Then I watched some South Park (channel 99 has solid South Park on until some time after now - all repeats, surprise surprise). Then I watched the second half of a French movie about a teacher who turns his students into a choir. The end result was far superior to that attained in Sister Act, however I think this may be more a casting effect than anything else.
I was also reminded why subtitles are annoying. It's hard to do other things at the same time and keep up with what's happening. And I'm not good at only doing one thing. And if tv is one thing, the other thing is usually computer-related or a book. Doesn't work.
Pooka and I also did a bit of obedience practice. And I gave her a good combing.
And we all lived happily ever after.