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I am thinking that next time I get a new mobile phone I should probably get a smart phone. It really is very difficult to type on this one and the internet looks bonkers! However since I had my last phone, which was so retro it didn't have a camera, never mind the internet, for about 12 years, I think I'll be stuck with this one for a good while. I get quite attached to my tech. My phone even has a name!

WooHoo! I got a program that allows for resizing of multiple pictures, even better is the fact that it's free!

Yay - free is good, we like free.

Looks like another nice day today. A bit bright perhaps but I can wear sunglasses. Lots of potential for a walk through the woods.

Later .....

Gardeners have arrived and torn up the lawn with their weird grass-flattening tractor. I managed to close the windows in time to prevent bits of vegetation flying in but could not stop the petrol fumes. It's nice for them that they wear ear-protectors while they are driving the tractor around the garden, but a shame that they don't issue them to residents since we have to listen to it too! I might suggest that everyone here clubs together to buy a hover-mower and I will undertake to shove it round the garden once a week. It would save us all money, I'd do a much better job and, most importantly, it would be way more fun as I could try making stripes and patterns or writing messages.

In other news, I have just frightened myself by trying to look online for slippers (shush - no laughing! when you are over 30 slippers are an acceptable item to be browsing for on a bank holiday weekend!) and finding, to my amazement and alarm, that most major retailers now have whole sections in the PJ section for pyjamas that resemble jumpsuits. What? Why are adults buying (and possibly then even wearing) giant babygrows!


And it's lucky for me that these adult-sized babygrows weren't generally available when I was a baby or no doubt my mum would have bought them. She was always keen on buying things way too big. "You'll grow into it"! Very economical, my mother.

Yes, grown men & women wearing rompers is disturbing - a step down from the tracksuit or anything that's pull-on-no-buttons culture.

I've lost count of the number of times I've encountered people going out to their cars in their pyjamas & slipper, driving off I assume to the shops. How long is it before people start going to their work on Dress Down Fridays like that?




Winston Churchill pratted about during much of the war in his specially made "rompers" - in reality a Siren suit specially designed to be put on in a hurry during air-raids in the middle of the night. But strange to think he was wearing Kappa gear decades before it became the Chav uniform!

I would have thought that adult babygrows was a rather niche market but the evidence suggests otherwise doesn't it.

However I probably shouldn't say too much, given some of the things I wore in the 1980s.

I am thinking (well more of woundering) if the palms of our hands carry more bacteria than the soles of our feet.

I would think that there are more bacteria on the hands but more fungi on the feet. Lovely.

True, indeed. Now I am woundering why I continuously walk around my house saying random French stuff like J'ai ... Ans, Je m'appelle Oliver, Faire la cuisine, etc.

I'm thinking both these pictures have it regarding men's & women's magazines in a nutshell.







I used to work in a place where almost everyone there (including senior management) got their ENTIRE world outlook from men's/women's mags, where people like Eminem & Jordan were "heroes" who they couldn't understand weren't mentioned on the Queen's honours list. Scary didn't begin to cover it.

It was at that point I thought that maybe the North Koreans had a point in the way they view us, or that Screaming Lord Sutch was a bit too close to the truth when he said giving 16 year olds to vote meant at least you'd be guaranteed some voters that had SOME clue about the issues if only from their Modern Studies/Politics classes at school!

Lovely Minty, just lovely, although I don't like Kim kardashian, I mean she did nothing and somehow she's famous.