happy as i am

in my oven. all i can smell is chocolate. I've to take them up to my friends house tomorrow night for us and the lads to enjoy. Yum.

Here's the recipe if you fancy it:

200g plain chocolate
200g white chocolate
250g pack of unsalted butter (i use anchor but it tastes fine)
300g golden caster sugar
4 eggs
140g plain flour

cut the butter and chocolate into cubes, melt half the butter with the white chocolate and half with the brown chocolate - over hot water - keep stirring til all melty.

beat the eggs - in two bowls, halfy half. Add half the flour into each bowl and half the sugar into each bowl. Beat lots. Add the white choc to one bowl and the dark choc to the other.

Heat the oven to Gas 4/180 and grease and base line a square tin (it says a 23in/9cm tin but I never measure my tin! dollop in the two mixtures spoon by spoon and marble by running a skewer./knife in a pretty pattern through it.

Place in middle of oven for 40-50 mins ot until white is golden colou and has a crust. Cool in the tin before cutting. Delicious warm with a bit of icecream.

Oh, and remember to lick the bowl whilst waiting for the brownie to do.

Yummy!

x

is very funny. it takes all the themes of the original taxi and makes the plot even stupider. It certainly made us both laugh.

it's basically a 'taxi' driver who doesn't have a taxi license but does have a souped up 'taxi' with boost, wings, fins, a joystick style steering wheel. It's Burnout the film near enough.

Good laugh!

I had to have the subtitles on though as my French is no where near upto speed. Still funny, slapstick and light. Worth a rental, not worth buying. Bring on Taxi 3!

Cheesy, but funny, I had a good laugh and a good cry. Jennifer Lopez has THE most annoying voice when she is acting but this just made me relax.

Hubby took the mick, said it was 'the same' as other girly films. Grrrr. He misses the point. His war films are equally predictable - different war, different heros but all still war films.

Men!

No gym today, rubbish I know. Nice healthy stirfry for dinner but crepes and chocolate spread for pudding, teamed with two glasses of rose! Yum!

x

We overslept. Well technically I overslept, hubby just slept. It was gone 9am when I woke and I left him to doze (he only sleeps this late when he is ill). At about 9.30 he woke and reminded me the clocks had changed, and sadly for me they've gone forwards.

So, by the time we actually made ourselves half way presentable to the world and changed our clocks it was 11am. Now this would be fine except that with my sit at 2pm it doesn't leave an awful amount of spare time.

But, once i got going I had a great time. We went to the park and had a run around, then the little girl kept bumping into school friends so she was running all over the place, leaving me in her wake. It was quite refreshing, and one little girl (and probably everyone else) assumed that I was her mother. I guess I'm there every Sunday so it's a reasonable assumption.

We were both knackered by the time 2 hours had passed and I dropped her home and then myself. Was fun. Now, suddenly its 8pm and I've not had dinner and last nights dishes are still waiting for one of us to attend to them. Ah well. Dominos will be here soon. Dishes can wait anohther day.

Gotta go!

x

I borrowed this from Spiritbird, but it certainly made me stop, think and be grateful for all that I have:

IF WE COULD SHRINK THE EARTH TO A VILLAGE WITH A POPULATION OF PRECISELY 100 PEOPLE, WITH EXISTING HUMAN RATIOS REMAINING THE SAME, THERE WOULD BE.
57 ASIANS
21 EUROPEANS. 14 FROM THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH
8 AFRICANS

52 WOULD BE FEMALE
48 WOULD BE MALE

70 WOULD BE NON WHITE
30 WOULD BE WHITE

70 WOULD BE CHRISTIAN
30 WOULD BE NON CHRISTIAN

89 WOULD BE HETROSEXUAL
11 WOULD BE HOMOSEXUAL

6 PEOPLE WOULD POSSESS 59% OF THE ENTIRE WORLDS WEALTH AND WOULD BE FROM THE UNITED STATES

80 WOULD LIVE IN SUB STANDARD HOUSING
70 WOULD BE UNABLE TO READ
50 WOULD SUFFER FROM MALNUTRITION

1 WOULD BE NEAR DEATH
1 WOULD BE NEAR BIRTH

1 (YES ONLY ONE) WOULD HAVE A COLLEGE EDUCATION
1 WOULD OWN A COMPUTER

WHEN WE CONSIDER OUR WORLD FROM SUCH A COMPRESSED PERSPECTIVE, THE NEED FOR ACCEPTANCE, UNDERSTANDING AND EDUCATION BECOME INCREASINGLY APPARENT.

IF YOU HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED THE DANGER OF BATTLE, THE LONELINESS OF IMPRISONMENT, THE AGONY OF TORTURE, OR THE PANGS OF STARVATION - YOU ARE AHEAD OF 500 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

IF YOU CAN ATTEND A CHURCH MEETING WITHOUT FEAR, HARRASSMENT, ARREST, TORTURE OR DEATH - YOU ARE MORE BLESSED THAN 3 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

IF YOU HAVE FOOD IN THE REFRIGERATOR, CLOTHES ON YOUR BACK, A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD AND A SAFE PLACE TO SLEEP - YOU ARE RICHER THAN 75% OF THE WORLD.

IF YOU HAVE MONEY IN THE BANK, IN YOUR WALLET, AND SPARE CHANGE IN A DISH SOMEWHERE - YOU ARE AMONG THE TOP 8% OF THE WORLDS WEALTHY.

MAKES YOU THINK DOESN'T IT

poor hubby had a date with the O2 Arena, to see Machine Head and Metallica playing live. Except the poor bugger has only gone and caught my cold so he was laid up and couldn't go. I felt terrible for him.

It's been planned for so long that I had already arranged a night out for myself which I couldn't cancel. So we spent most of the day together, and it was 5pm too soon. Suddenly I was in a rush, had to eat dinner and be out the house by 6.15pm, when I realised I hadn't sorted out what to wear. Whilst the pasta bubbled I rushed to try and find something clean enough, smart enough and smart fitting enough to do.

You see, from an empty diary I then ended up with two parties on one night. Firstly a Wedding reception, and later a fancy dress party. My problem? I haven't yet bought a decent selection of clothes to fit my smaller frame so I only had a couple things to choose between and the one thing I wanted to wear (a strapless party dress in black and white) I didn't have either the shoes or the weather to go with it so I settled for a pair of smartish work trousers, a rock chick purple t-shirt and a fitted suit jacket. Teamed with my smallest backpack and my huge winter coat I looked interesting to say the least!

I caught the train to Brighton and met up with friends to go to the reception, it was at the hotel where I'd had my reception 5 years previous but thankfully not the same room. It felt odd, we stood in a corner not knowing anybody until the groom came over and found us. Eventually I relaxed (i hate not knowing anyone in a room full of people) and caught up with my two friends. The actually wedding was held 2 years ago in Zimbabwe so it wasn't a real wedding, but they'd had a church blessing and this was their party. I stayed til they'd completed their first dance and a couple more, made my excuses and left.

Being Brighton there were plenty of taxis waiting for business, so I jumped in one from outside the hotel and was driven to party number two. My head was really pounding by now and I had intended to stay a half hour before getting the last train home, except I managed to get a lift home! Result.

The second party was easily my favourite, catching up with old friends I was well within my comfort zones, the chatter was fun and then Rockband was broken open and we were all singing along as the guitars, drum and microphone were passed round song by song. I managed to put away two glasses of wine, and when I was dropped home I was asleep within 5 minutes of my head hitting the pillow.

It was a good night though!

27th March 1970 was Concordes first supersonic flight.

1. Have you ever flown on Concorde?
Nope

2. Do you love or hate flying?
Neither, it has its purpose and I usually love the destination I'm flying too, but the flight itself is just that.

3. Have you joined the Mile High Club?
Nope

4. Why are aircraft toilets so small?
Who knows?

5. Do you always get sat next to the passenger from hell? Tell us the story!
Nope. Usually I have hubby sat next to me, and I'm the terrible fidget who laughs too loud at the inflight entertainment!

Have a great weekend!

x

has been nice sitting here replying to comments and checking my posts for updates and checking your posts for updates, and stuff, but now my behind is sore, my eyes is tired (i'm in the kitchen whilst hubby and mates are in the front room) i need to reclaim my flat and send them packing!

Good night

x

This is from some time ago, i think it was on the radio:

Credit crunch stops families spending time together

well whatever! I didn't get that one bit. I mean, it's not like you need a fortune to hang out with your family.

Anyway, this theory was totally proven wrong on Sunday. Hubby and I went up town as the sun was shining, didn't really find anything we wanted but had a good natter as we walked. Stopped off at Costa to get ourselves a drink and a bit of cake each, and oh look - costa was full of families!

Then we walked upto the sea-front and stopped on a bench to enjoy our eats. We sat chatting for almost an hour, no money spent. Equally, there were a zillion families out and about: families with kids on bikes, families on rollerskates, families playing ball, kids flinging stones into the sea, kids using chalk (from the beach) to drawer on the promenade, kids flying kites, families just walking or cycling, and oh look - barely costing a penny.

Some people talk crap!

I know it's nearly next weekend and I'm blogging about last weekend, but I'm slow on the blogtake. Blog has taken a back seat of late, driving lessons and the gym seem to be my life

Ah well, there's reason to the madness. So, last weekend?

The weather was simply gorgeous, hubby and I spent a couple hours in the garden, we went to the shops and bought coffee and cake and sat on a bench on the sea front for almost an hour watching life go by.

We also found time to do a superficial flat clean before friends arrived for pizza in the evening. Sunday I had a driving lesson, and was given a surprise break as I did my sit at 4pm instead of 2pm, freeing up a big chunk of day to relax.

I'm really starting to wet myself in anticipation of this damn driving test, I've been trying to visualise me passing my test but I've never been one for visualisations. It doesn't help that my instructor is now more picky than ever, and I've forgotten how to do the sodding parallel park. I gets it wrong EVERY time. Eeek. So little time to get good enough. Ah well, I'll either pass or fail.

And it's nearly next weekend, we've got nothing on except shopping and a driving lesson and a sit. So that's nothing really. relaxing though. Suddenly thought i don't remember when I last saw mys sister, but I'm sure I promised to visit more often. It's easier to leave her be than visit her - that's real bad I know - can't help thinking about the damage I'm doing her by not being there but I don't feel like I've stopped.

Shit, I should go see her soon. Now I'm worrying about that. It makes me feel ill even thinking about her. She's not the little girl I remember, I still can't reconcile the grown up she's become with the image in my head.

this month we gets paid our annual bonus and our payrise, so was excited. sadly mr taxman will be taking a big bite of my wages, leaving me with less than I'd hoped. Enough to pay my share of the holiday (or the agreed amount) but not enough for me to go on a mad spending spree.

Oh, I forgot, I've got a % credit card. Yippee. So, I'm treating my mum to lunch on Saturday, we're gonna live it up and go into Brighton for the day, maybe even push the boat out and go see a film. We shall see. It's a pain coz I really need new clothes for the holiday, the stuff from 2007 are way too big, I hopes, but I might have to wait til next months wage packet.

Still, must remember to be glad I have a job and a good man, and all the other little things in life, like my health!

Flicking through yesterdays paper with my breakfast I felt compelled to share this from the Independent: there is also concern that customers receiving higher "plastic" borrowing limits may be encouraged to think they can afford the extra borrowing.

It is part of an article about how the government intend to get tougher on credit card companies. This type of article annoys me so much in two ways:

Firstly: we as individuals are responsible for what we sign up to, not the credit card company. Why blame the company when it is us who want to have everything immediately, applying for credit and then using it? Us that fill out the application forms, us that go shopping, nobody forces our hands when we spend and come away feeling happy.

I currently have 3 credit cards (I'm being a card whore and making use of the 0% deals) but across the three cards I have access to about £12,000. Yup, TWELVE THOUSAND POUNDS. Now that is about two thirds of my annual salary and a fair impressive sum. But, and here's the biggy that the press seems to miss: If I CHOOSE to spend all £12,000 then I make the mess myself and have NOBODY but myself to blame. If a person is not smart enough to understand the responsibility of having and using a credit card then perhaps there should be an IQ test before the card is agreed?

Secondly, a credit card company is a business, and when was it wrong for a business to try to thrive? Don't the government realise they get big wodges of corporation tax from Mssrs Visa and Mastercard, and the Income Tax they get from all their employees? If credit cards are so bad then the government shouldn't really want money from them, so the corporation tax could be chugged back into a)educating people to understand credit cards b)paying back some of the debt for people who have dug themselves big holes they can't get out of.

The sad fact is that too many people don't have a clue how to live within their means, and like me prefer not to wait until something is affordable before purchasing it. If people learnt how to change their habits then the problem would be solved.

And yes, I do work for a bank, but that is not why I wrote this post. It really pisses me off reading about how everybody in credit card debt has done it through no choice of their own. If you are struggling, speak to your bank, speak to the people you owe money to and arrange a repayment plan which you can manage, don't go getting more debt.

Would you rather...(you really have to chose)

fight right away or walk away? Walk Away - I'm a coward!

get stuck in the elevator for 34 hours or gain 15 pounds? Get stuck in the lift (alone)- do you know how long it takes me to lose 15 pounds - or do you mean £? coz if its money i'd take the cash!

be a ninja or be a pirate? Pirate - if i get to snog Orlando Bloom!

have love but no money or have money but no love? deffo love but no money.

watch Oprah or watch Dr. Phil? Oprah!! no idea who Dr Phil is so it'd have to be Oprah

drink coffee or drink tea? Coffee!

be trapped in haunted house all alone or be trapped on deserted island all alone? desert island, as long as it was a warm one of course. Sun tan!

live in USA or live in Europe? USA

sing karaoke or pole dance? Karaoke - would need to be suitably pissed though.

watch a boring movie cos your significant other wants to see it or read a boring book cos your significant other recommends it for you? I'm agreeing with Jembajr on this one: Watch the film - you can snooze

play tennis or play hockey? Hockey - i haven't played since yr 7 at school,

travel by plane or travel by train? Train - you don't gotta sit still.

kill your own meat or become vegetarian? I'd have to go veggy, I can't stand raw meat with bones/veins etc so I'd never be able to kill and prep it myself. Yuk!

date the wrong people until you find the one or be a single until you find the one? Date a wrong-un - a girls got needs!

calm an angry lion or anger a calm lion? Anger a calm lion - and then run like the clappers!

answer these questions or do something useful? I've already done my quota of useful!

x

That's been me. The week flew by, I made it to the gym Thursday night, and again Friday morning (but that's for my other blog) and had a good day at work on Friday. At lunch time I took hubby a treat - a Crunchie bar - and at Ten past Five hubby and I were down the pub. We'd decided after a hectic week to treat ourselves to a couple, and dinner too.

I had a large glass of (almost red) rose and he had his Pint of the Black Stuff. It was lovely to sit and chat together, it's all too easy to forget/forgo the simple pleasures and I remembered a)how much we still have in common b)why i love this man c)how silly he can be.

After our drinks we headed over to our 'local restaurant' Pizza Express as we know the service is always good, as is the food. We got to choose our seats as it was so early, but the restaurant soon filled up. I must remember however that 6pm on a Friday is the domain of family's eating together. There were a LOT of kids in, generally well behaved of course. The family behind us had one child with a piercing yell, which distracted me for a few minutes before I chilled out.

I had the Noci (spiced nuts n seeds) instead of a starter, hubby had what was described as a 'stew' to start, although it was more like a spiced tomato soup. That was tasty (you know I tried it ) and for mains I had a pizza, so did hubby; his usual with spicy beef and jalapenos.

Then we found room for dessert, I had an icecream Sundae thing and he had a modest slice of cheese cake. We finished up and were home for 8pm. Phew, just in time to sit down for my Friday night TV. Now, that might sound sad, but I don't actually watch too much telly, and the one night of stuff I (and hubbby) enjoy is Friday night.

8pm was A Place In The Sun - Home or USA: The presenters show the couple 3 homes in the UK and 3 in USA in the hope that one of those houses is chosen to be bought. Now, a lot of the time the couple looking to relocate are totally unprepared and haven't done any research into what they actually want, either that or one of the couple is really unlikeable (nasal accent, no realism about house prices,ridiculously picky). Last nights couple were both lovely, had real ideas about what they wanted and actually came close to choosing the home in the States. More importantly than the couples decision? I got to day dream about having a 5 bed house in the states or a 3 bed house somewhere in Salisbury. It was goooood.

9pm was time for NCIS (that's Navy Criminal Investigative Services for those of you not in the know) not to be confused with CSI (Crime Scene Investigations). I got into this a year or two ago. It's set in Washington and the people in it are funny, endearing and generally clever. Gibbs the boss who knows EVERYTHING, Tony the joker, Abi the Science chick, Ziva and MgGeek. They investigate murders and all sorts. Who woulda thought the Navy had so many murders! Anywayz, yesterdays episode had them out and about at Rock Creek Park, which made me chuckle as hubby and I made a brief visit there last November. I love a bit of murder and sleuthing, and they never turn out as I expect.

10pm and finaly Numb3rs. Now I NEVER watch this through to the end, I mean to, but I'm always ready to sleep by 10.45 - they use numbers and maths to figure out crazy crimes and that's also quite interesting, if only I stayed up til the end to see whodunnit!

And then zzzzzzz'sss.

Only to sodding wake up this morning at 6.50am! aaaaaaaghh. Why does my body not realise it's the weekend? Time to sleep til at least 8? What is wrong with me? Anyway, we were off to the travel agents to pay the last installment towards our holiday. It is only 10 weeks now til we jet off to Barbados, with mums in tow. I am soooo excited.

So, we paid on hubbys card, and then wondered down to catch the train to Brighton. We picked hubby's mum up before walking to see his grandfolk. They are getting frail and we realised the last time we saw them was before Xmas. Eeek. So we made the trip and they were happy to see us, I think perhaps our generation (hubby & me and all the cousins) find it all too easy to get too busy to see them often. We let them know all our news and I told them I had an impending driving test and intended to get a car and come visit more often when we had one (they've just stopped driving recently see) and they were all smiles. It made me happy that something so small made them so happy.

Then we went to the local Harvester and had a drink before having some lunch. Hubby had Piri Piri chicken, MIL had a steak and me? Being indecisive took ages to decide before settling on a Combine Harvester - chicken strips, BBQ chicken wings and chicken leg, a sausage whirl, onion rings, corn on the cob and chips. The plate was massive. I didnt think I could finish it, but once the bones were picked through I managed to clear my plate. MIL and hubby wanted pudding, and so did I. Again indecisive I elected for Chocolate Skewers - Brownie pieces with Marshmallows with ice cream and chocolate sauce. Except Ye GADS. I had 4 skewers, each with 2 chunks of brownie and 3 marshmallows, a wee pot of ice cream and wee pot of choc sauce. I managed ONE skewer, the ice cream and some dipping sauce. I wrapped the rest up and brought it home. The brownies were soooo delicious but there was no way I could've eaten it then, we could've shared it 3 ways and still struggled!

To burn off the excesses hubby and I decided to walk back into Brighton which according to Multimap.com is 2.78 miles. We walked a different route to the one it found, but it took us 45 minutes rather than the 55 it suggested. When we got home again I was exhausted and had a kip.

Tonight we're off to a housewarming in Worthing so I've to go and get dressed. Have a good Saturday everybody!

x

I'm featured on the home page. Yipppeee! Must think of something interesting to blog in case i get any new visitors. Then again, i'm off to the gym in a mo so I'd better just finish my coffee and get a wriggle on!

Hurrah!

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions:
Look at the list and mark in bold those you have read and italicise the ones you own but haven't read yet (note, not just own and will never read ).

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - (started it but watched films instead)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (started it and got bored)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - good film!
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - as a kid of course!
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - for GCSE English!
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding for English at school
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker GCSE English is a wonderful thing!
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - loved it! re read it last year and still love it!
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome loved this as a kid
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - half way through at present
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - recommend it.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Good lord, I read more as a kid than as an adult, how depressing!

And the total is: 21

You've got to be kidding me. I can't believe it. I was just out of curiosity checking the prices of local nurseries (no, I'm not up the duff, believe me if I was I'd say) and I can't sodding believe how much these places cost.

You're talking approximately £38 PER DAY, for the privelege of going to work to hand the bulk of your cash to somebody else.

WHAT? No wonder people choose to stay home with those kinda costs. And, you still have to pay even if your child is on holiday. Some offer a 5% discount (on one child) if you have more than one there at the same time, but you've still to find the other 95% for the second child. How mad?

I'm sure the price is expensive due to high costs and making sure the best trained staff look after babies, but WOW. That much is just a shock to me. I definitely think I'll be staying outta work until the kids get old enough to go to the Nursery class at school. I'm assuming that's free?

Yikes. I'd better start saving really.

x

Works going well enough, gyms going well enough, home life is plodding along too. No news from me I'm afraid.