Ah - Sunday.

Dogs walked and I really need a day to myself. The last few weeks have been full on and I'm a wreck.


I am bored to death with constant scrutiny on the news about the 'official' Wills and Kate engagement pictures - I just don't give a toss. They are scrutinizing every pixel - every nuance and shadow - it's excruciating. Just a dreary, middle class couple in a dull picture with A LOT of teeth.

I don't really care about Charles and Camilla's brush with Madame Guillotine ( Did you notice that the lone voice shouting 'orf with their heads' was actually rater middle class). The papers are in uproar... these are the same papers that smirked and sniggered when Camilla had bread rolls thrown at her in the supermarket after 'that' interview. Apparently she has 'won our hearts' and the assault on the royal concubine is a national outrage.

I couldn't give a toss about X Factor either - dreary and pointless nobodies. I caught snatches last night ( see what I did there ) of Rhianna and Christina being rather slutty and trashy - I presume most little girls will ask their mummies and daddies for high heels and suspenders for Xmas, and perhaps replace the Xmas tree with a tinsel decked pole for dancing around - lets replace the school nativity play with a Burlesque theme night and have a red light instead of the xmas star.

I went to a wedding yesterday - it was dry ( happy clappers ) very long, and had lots of christian soft rock, and it was in Eastbourne... but as I really like the groom I was prepared to endure all and had a nice time. ( yes, that's right - I actually admitted that I like someone - don't worry, I'm not planning on making a habit of it ).

They are still talking about the royal picture on the telly - have been for an hour - they are trying to describe Mario Testino's magic touch and what makes him so special and why people on the A list engage with him.... "he's effusive, he's fun, he's likeable, he's Peruvian, he's the Bruno Toloni of the photography world' - I think you mean he's gay... but as it's before breakfast, we need to be careful... don't we.

Semi final of Strictly later - it's very likely that Wham-Bam-Pam and cutie-pie Kara will go through. Hunky Henson is shit and just padding for the ladies, I absolutly loathe Maslen - he's the evil, smug, self absorbed 'popular' boy at school who made most of our lives a misery (and still does in the workplace) - so it's very probably that he'll go through to the final instead of the vastly superior Matt Baker - in which case I'll have to stop watching.

I have to clean the whole house today, look at my finances, and get ready for a full week of admin at the college. I've not thought about Xmas at all - I might think about it a bit next week - but I have no money, no enthusiasm and hardly any friends and family - so it's probably a bottle of milk stout and a chicken drumstick on the day.... which is exactly how I like it.