Quiz!

Can you guess which key ingredient was accidentally left out of the mix for what should have been an extra large loaf?

Let's get knitting!

Since 2003 Innocent Smoothies have been selling drinks wearing knitted hats during November, in order to raise money for Age Concern (50p from every hat-wearing bottle sold goes to Age Concern).

Mmmm... smoothie... mmm...knitting...

So. I will knit at least 5 hats for Innocent Smoothies' The Big Knit but only if 35 other people will knit at least 1 hat too.



Wanna join in?

The War Office... also purveyors of fine jams

Put the Pasta in the Pan

Birthday goings on ('07 edition)

Yesterday was my birthday, during which I variously:

* Said "RSI be damned" and partook of some spinning:



* Received a lovely bunch of flowers through the post from mon frere:



* Went to Birmingham's Nature Centre, which is amazing. Though sadly our visit was coloured by the fact we had to report a newly-deceased sheep:
Them: "Are you sure? We get quite a lot of false alarms."
Us: "Well, it's lying on its back, with its eyes open, and is entirely rigid."

* Went to a rather hyped restaurant and had rather disappointing fare. However, when we realised that it would cost us £25 to eat pudding there, we decided to go to the supermarket and see how much pudding we could buy for £25 instead. That was fun.

* Got given this amazing handmade cake by my friends (unfortunately, we were so full - see above - that we didn't have room left to eat any yesterday):

Specially formulated to irritate me

We moved into a house that is evidently owned by people who watch a lot of Property Ladder, and had done the house up in order to sell it. Despite the fact that we were moving into a 'clean slate', so to speak, there was quite a bit of random crap left behind. Like the spare lightswitch, the individual match, the single dose of superglue in a twist-the-top-off tab (nifty!).

There was also something with this on the label:



What could it be, do you wonder? Something offering 'A Contemporary formulation for today's stressful life-style'. Medication? Homeopathic rememdies? A beverage (sounds like a strong alcohol, no?)?

No.

It's...


...


Wait for it....



...



(how big is your computer screen?)



...







Hand wash.

Yes, 'contemporary' handwash, specially designed to wash away those stresses and strains...

Words. Fail. Me.

42

Of the many unanswerable questions in life, I must ponder this:

Why, in a household of people-who-don't-really-drink-tea, do we have an entire tea cupboard?



(there are more boxes hidden behind too).

Mars, by the way, have decided against universal meatyness, but we're still awaiting confirmation that they're not going to continue doing the 'check the code' thing.