Revolutionary Rants

I am very pleased, I got better essay marks this time around. So, a good start to the weekend.

In an hour Chicken will be home, and we’re off for lunch. Nice!

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After a busy birthday weekend and a full two days of child-care whilst my brother had a nice holiday break for his tenth wedding annivesary (hope Chicken and I make it that far!!!) today is a ‘day off’. I have been back shopping, getting ready for the Golden Wedding celebration C and I are off to at the weekend (in Bakewell) and getting in a few bits from Tesco for the impending parental visit. Besides, in this weather smoothies are essential!

Yesterday, when my brother returned we took the kids to Croyde beach, which was busy but not to the point where you couldn’t enjoy it. We tried out one of my nephew’s birthday presents, an inflable dingy, which was excellent.

Mr C is not very well and has a swollen eye and virus. Poor thing.

It is still hot. But life is still all good.

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“Petite anglaise” (or rather, the much less romantic Catherine Sanderson) has been fired. And, apaprently she is surprised about it… Quite why I cannot understand, as almost all contracts stipulate “confidentiality” as a clause. Plus, it is just naive to sh*t on one’s own doorstep and not expect it to come back at you… In my opinion. As Chicken said, her lawsuit ‘will go absolutely nowhere in France!’ Oh well, she has lots of publicity now, doesn’t she?

It is not grey here, but the muggy air is a thick as cottage cheese (maybe that should be clotted cream, now?!). Not nice.

Chapter one is now written and sent. All 6,716 words of it! I am quite proud. Now I progress to chapter two - the individual and the state. Glorious.

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Nothing much to report today. It is hot (31 degrees today, apparently). I hid in the house, all windows open wide, yesterday and continued writing my dissertation. And played Gold Miner.

I never had this problem with my undergraduate dissertation. I ploughed on with it at every opotunity. It was finised over a month early. My current University has certainly cured me of any desire to persue academia.

In the shower saga: the plumber was supposed to come last night. Did he ‘eke. Now I am waiting to see if he turns up ‘at the very, very latest’ this morning. I’ll believe it when I see it, methinks.

Oh well, back to Anarchy, State, and Utopia.

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Apprently we must brace ourselves (at least those in the South East) for the hottest day since 1911. Cripes. And we still don’t have our shower. We were promised it — verbally — by our estate agent and each Friday Chris and I pop in to their office to try and find out what is going on. ‘Oh, it’ll be next week’ with a varity of excuses attached (my favourite being ‘the plumber is in Bangor this week’) has been our weekly answer. Today an e-mail has been fired off. It is too hot for baths.

On a happier note, a lovely weekend was had by Chicken and I. On Friday we had our — also weekly — lunch out and went round town. Then we relaxed and enjoyed Nicki’s eviction from BB. On Saturday we went to town for birthday presents and smoothies and in the later afternoon cycled the Tarka Trail. We went from ours to Instow, there and back in just under two hours (at a leisurely pace). Yesterday we had Sunday lunch at the lovely Stag’s Head Inn near Filleigh with my parents, Nan and visiting Aunt and cousin. Then Mr C and I went for a swim to cool down.

In the evening we watched Capote (well worth a view, believe the hype about Phillip Seymour Hoffman) and continued our viewing of the Matrix trilogy. Sunday is now DVD night, by the way!

We are still slightly surprised that we now wake up — refreshed and rested — at around 8am at the weekends. We never used to get up before 9am without an alarm, but now we’re up and pottling around by 8:30! It is nice, actually, I like getting up earlier now (in the week our alarm snaps on at 7:15) and feel like I have a full day. I don’t look up from typing to see it is already 11:30 all the time!

Another nice thing, which I certainly didn’t think of, is that we now appreciate our time together a lot more. It was nice to be together all the time, during our student years, but now we really make sure we have a good weekend and do what we fancy in the evenings. It is all good. I think we’ll miss our Friday afternoons more, if I work normal hours (once I start)!

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I’ve had three cups of coffee today and now I have a headache! I am no hardcore anymore (if I ever was, well, I used to drink arund six cups some days, espcially in dissertation mode!)…

Oh well, I shall just have to grow… 24… gracefully I guess.

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Ohhh, it is a beautiful day here. A lovely brisk sea-breeze and a clear blue sky (with all the sun shine that that suggests!). It is Chicken’s half day and we have birthday presents to buy! We pla n a picnic by the water and then a trip to town for a present for my nephew - whose birthday we celebrate next weekend.

Chris and I also hope to cycle to Bickington tomorrow, and have lunch at the Fremington Quay cafe up there, which over looks the sea and esturary. Then, on Sunday, it is lunch at the Stagg’s Inn with my Aunt and cousin from Braknell and the immediate family as well.

It is the lazy weekend this week, as for the next few weeks we will be busy, busy bees! Next weekend we are, as I said, up at the caravan for a big family and friends party for my nephew. Then, I look after the kids on their first full week off for the summer hols - and so mum and dad can get away to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary! Then, after that, it is up to Sheffield for Mr C’s Unlce and Aunt’s Golden wedding anniversary and then a visit from C’s parents.

All go then!

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ITV declared, just as I was washing up my lunch plate, that the mystery of who was Jack the Ripper.

He may be the less interesting of the Rippers, but this was still exciting news. However, as usual ITV are being a little over dramatic (why can’t C4 or even the beeb have news at 12:30?). However, there are some new papers becoming available today.

Still available to the general public then…

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OK, so hit the comments box please.

Chicken and I are, as you probably know, getting wed next May. We had hoped to go to Oz for our honeymoon, but currently don’t feel that the 10-14 days we’ll have is enough.

So…

We have narrowed down our choices to two and now can’t decide between them. Below are listed the choices and some of the pros and the cons of both. Any thoughts?

Italy

Good points:

• Florence would be like Room With a View (this could be classed as a bad thing by C?)
• Good food
• Ice cream
• Some of the greatest art in the world
• Death in Venice moments regarding one another’s gorgeousness… maybe
• Lots to see and do

Bad points:

• Chicken has been before (but we haven’t been there, apart from a nip across the boarder from Nice, together, so it will be quite different)
• We wouldn’t know where anything was or the language

Paris

Good points:

• We have been before, we know we love it
• Great food
• Great booze
• Patissiere (doesn’t even need to be affixed with the word ‘great’…)
• Good places to visit, including places we haven’t been (e.g. the catacombs and Versailles
• Live jazz (for Chris)
• The Eiffle Tower
• Sitting in cafes having esspresso
• Some of the greatest art in the world
• Montmartre in the evenings
• Chicken speaks fantastic French

Bad points:

• We have been before

• The French (only joking!)

What to do?!

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Because this blog in a somewhat personalised rant service I do not use it as a confessional, I try on the whole to keep ‘work’ related things out of it, hence there appearing to be not a lot going on here. As Chris works all week and I am either doing my dissertation, interviewing or applying most days it perhaps appears that I am doing f**k all with my days.

Just to clear that up.

Today our house is, at last, complete as we have purchased (or rather, have had purchased for us by family members! Thank you!) ou first microwave and hoover. It is very nice not to have stuff all over the carpet for the first time since we moved in, almost a month ago, I must say.

In more good news, Sandra has a new job. It is in the same compeny as her newly-premoted loved one, Neil, which is great news.

On the other hand, we could all be dead if one of the nuclear plants blows up, couldn’t we?!

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