knowing my mother will never read this, I can safely note here the list of various white chocolate goodies I got her for xmas... Seestor tells me she's even thinner than the last time I saw her... Grieving is just stripping away the pounds... but there isn't much of her to lose!

1 terry's chocolate orange ball (white)
1 box of after eights (white)
1 packet of white chocolate buttons
1 limited edition white chocolate aero
1 white kit kat

All of these items are NOT available in Canadia, thus adding specialness.

I am safe in the knowledge that it is safe from my chocoholic tendencies as I abhor white chocolate! *phew* This should keep her busy!

There was...

a very unusual amount of sick about town this morning... first someone appeared to have an unfortunate incident on the 30 this morning, followed by an alarmingly high amount on the footpath, through the square I walk through on my way to work... Could it be over indulgence at xmas parties? Could it be an epidemic of the flu? Or could I have just inadvertently followed the path of the poor sod? Very yucky nonetheless!

Popbitch is back up and running again. What a joy it brings to my sad sad existence. I'm supposing they were smartly laying low due to their media trashing a few weeks back about the DB scandal.

Why do people call booze, plonk here? That is one thing I will never understand...

I've just only recently...

seen what David Grey looks like... Now back in Ottawa he was considered terribly uncool. Not that I cared, thus when I was bombarded by his music in the studio around the time of Filament's demise, I do admit to becoming fond of his music. Now that I'm in the UK and he's got a new album out, he seems to be everywhere. To me, his face doesn't match his music at all... I can liken this feeling I have to one that most people experience when they first see their favourite radio dj in person... the voice very rarely matches the face.

Kudos to the guy at the Merc shop on Carnaby st. this lunch time. He was really sweet and helpful when I was trying to find something for my friend Karm for xmas. Not that I have much interest in shopping there, but if I did, I would.

As ever...

Dearbhla is always the finder of all that is cool and trendy... renouncing cat ownership for a single woman as, 'giving up' and a definitive trigger to a 'spinster alert'... Resolving to avoid this possibly precarious situation has opted to become the proud owner of one of these....

I really want one for my desk! Mind you it's so cold in there the damn things would probably freeze!

I dig the colour options!

I would have never thought this would have happened to me...

I'm a self confessed sweet tooth. However, for some odd reason, ever since the weekend I've not been able to manage to drink my regular brew! It seems that it's suddenly become too sweet! How could this be? I usually take 2 sugars in my tea and now I'm cut down to one... What's a girl to do? How could such a thing happen? Is this a symptom of old age? Is it all down hill from here?

Our travellers have departed back to the land of Canadia, lets just hope they take this chilly weather with them! Darrell reports that it's minus 20 Celsius in Ottawa so we shouldn't feel so bad here!

11 more sleeps till I depart for Canadia... feeding extra mouths has severely depleted my bank account so I'm again accepting donations!

My permanent contract is due on my desk in the next few days. So strange in the wake of all the layoffs here in the last two weeks... I almost feel guilty, but not quite. If it was my time to go, I would have gone.

I've got static cling...

in the lining of my new trousers! I'm not really complaining as I got them at this sale on Friday for 20£ they're 100% pure wool with a satiny lining! I'm having a bit of an 80's flashback to when I used to own a skirt made out of the same fabric as this lining and it was a nightmare to control during the winter. Living in London has greatly reduced the amount of static in my life... guess cause it's always so damp but this cold snap in the past few days has wreaked havoc!

I contemplated eating a pear from our Monday basket o' fruit... but went for the mandarin orange instead... It's getting the toss from the first minute I spot a seed. I'm trying to be a better fruit eater... on the whole, I can honestly admit to not liking much fruit, but I'm trying...

Went to spittalfields yesterday and picked up a really groovy pressie for Mark. I hope it fits.... I can't write what it is on the off chance he reads my blog and it spoils the surprise... That market is getting crazy, it used to be way more affordable! Guess cause the area is picking up so are the clientele as well as the prices!

My Amazon order is lost stolen or strayed, I'm most certain. One of Kaffin's xmas presents is in it! HELP!