More idols than realities

Just a quick update, mainly as there’s not a lot to say.

Jez is much better and is back to her old self. She is also using her leg a lot more, especially if she walks. But the trouble with her being back to her old self is that she keeps wanting to dash round the house like a mad thing and jump on sofas, which she’s not supposed to be doing. To give her a bit of stimulation I take her out to the footpath at the side of the house and let her have a good sniff round. Only problem is she pulls like mad in the drive as she looks for cats, and also pulls if another dog comes along. She goes for her 10 day check up on Monday, but I’m sure it’s going to be fine. It’s more a question of how we go about building her walks up again.

I’ve finished my cardigan apart from the buttons, which I’ve still got to get. But I’ve made the sleeves too long. I would have unpicked them a bit, but the neck is knitted from the top of the sleeves, and the front bands are knitted onto the neck! Oh well, I’ll just have to live with it. I went and got some more wool to do a cardigan for Chris – but remind me never to buy black wool again. I can’t see what I’m doing!

The weather here has been a bit colder, but we’ve had quite a bit of sun. So I’ve taken the opportunity to tidy up the back flower beds. I’ve done them all except the bit behind the pond now, and I must say it looks an awful lot better. Plus it feels good to have got it done. We need to cut back the front hedge at some stage though, plus the leaves are beginning to fall, so there will be those to start clearing up. It’s never ending!

We’ve not watched a lot of films recently, but saw two this week: Penelope and Butterfly on a Wheel. The latter was ok, but not brilliant. We quite like Penelope though – a gentle little romantic thing, so not exactly a great film but quite light entertainment. We’ve got couple to watch at the moment: Freebird (a British road movie thing), and 21(about 6 MIT students who take on the casinos in Vegas having become experts in card counting).

We watched a great programme on TV though: a Peter Kay spoof on all these reality contest things like X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing etc. It was about a talent show called ‘Britian’s got the Pop Factor and Possibly a new Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice’. They even managed to get Paul McCartney to make a cameo appearance. Apparently he has released a single from it which could well be top of the charts, or very near, this week. You can watch The Winners Song here.

Think that’s about it.