Highlight of the day - Victoria Wood documentary about tea on BBC iPlayer - really, really, really funny...really. Loved her falling over, loved her highlights and I just love her general attitude to everything. She's also very good with words. She just chooses words so well. Minestrone is a funny word (from yesterday), tomato soup wouldn't have been funny. (My favourite funny word is woggle). The documentary was interesting. I loved that she went inside one of the green cabbies' tea huts, that only cab drivers can use (one at Embankment, one at Temple - there used to be almost a hundred around London, now there are less than 20). The Embankment one used to be on my tour, so it was great to finally see what one looked like inside!
Lowlight of the day - thinking on the way home what my highlight of the day was going to be and realising that it was being able to get out of work in time early enough to put some laundry on (was about to run out of black socks, my favourite sock colour). Luckily I found Victoria Wood when I got in.
We are actually on yesterday now. I got out of work at 8.35. That's the earliest I've been out all week. I've had a shirt from River Island in my locker at work waiting to be taken back for a refund and I thought I finally had my chance. I work on Charing Cross Road. I nipped up Old Compton Street, whipped down Dean Street, slipped through Soho Square and BARGED my way down Oxford Street, taking no tourist prisoners. I arrive triumphantly at River Island (at 8.50, website says it shuts at 9) for them to tell me it was already shut. This lady doth protest, but they doth protested more. "Close close close close" was what he said. I think that was the only word he knew. I am still with shirt. After that, I went to M+S who actually shut at the time they say they are going shut and rather depressingly bought a meal for one. I then popped into Boots to by a new toothpaste and toothpaste (quite a novelty for them to run out at the same time, such is the level of drama in my life). I then spur-of-the-momentedly (still in post-River-Island-stress-disorder) bought some Rowntrees Pick n Mix. It's a big bag of Tooty Fruities, Fruit Gums and Fruite Pastilles for £1!! Bargain and so yummy. I then made a joke with the assistant (for once they didn't force me to the automatic lady) about the irony of buying toothpaste, a toothbrush and a huge bag of sweets. I say "with", but I joked at him. He didn't laugh. In other news, they now have toothbrushes with vibrating bristles - they cost 6.50! I got one for 1.50. I make them vibrate when I move them! LAZY!
I had a weird freak purchase in Boot's a few weeks ago - I bought a home tooth-bleaching kit. I always worry that my teeth are a bit yellow-ish, that's why I buy things like Rowntree's Pick n Mix. You're supposed to use it twice a day for a week. I've been a bit sporadic. I reckon I've used it about 8 times in a week and a half. I haven't had time otherwise. You have put these gum shield things in (like from rugby at school) and leave them there for 5 minutes each time. I moulded them and they didn't mould very well (like from rugby at school) and so they hurt. I then thought I'd multi task by wearing them in the shower once, which led to:
a) me dribbling bleach down myself
b) the heat making the plastic go funny again, mishapring them even more
c) me running late and leaving my gum shields on the side in the toilet for my poor flatmate to discover.
Needless to say, that was £12 down the drain. I should've just bought a vibrating toothbrush!
Lowlight of the day - thinking on the way home what my highlight of the day was going to be and realising that it was being able to get out of work in time early enough to put some laundry on (was about to run out of black socks, my favourite sock colour). Luckily I found Victoria Wood when I got in.
We are actually on yesterday now. I got out of work at 8.35. That's the earliest I've been out all week. I've had a shirt from River Island in my locker at work waiting to be taken back for a refund and I thought I finally had my chance. I work on Charing Cross Road. I nipped up Old Compton Street, whipped down Dean Street, slipped through Soho Square and BARGED my way down Oxford Street, taking no tourist prisoners. I arrive triumphantly at River Island (at 8.50, website says it shuts at 9) for them to tell me it was already shut. This lady doth protest, but they doth protested more. "Close close close close" was what he said. I think that was the only word he knew. I am still with shirt. After that, I went to M+S who actually shut at the time they say they are going shut and rather depressingly bought a meal for one. I then popped into Boots to by a new toothpaste and toothpaste (quite a novelty for them to run out at the same time, such is the level of drama in my life). I then spur-of-the-momentedly (still in post-River-Island-stress-disorder) bought some Rowntrees Pick n Mix. It's a big bag of Tooty Fruities, Fruit Gums and Fruite Pastilles for £1!! Bargain and so yummy. I then made a joke with the assistant (for once they didn't force me to the automatic lady) about the irony of buying toothpaste, a toothbrush and a huge bag of sweets. I say "with", but I joked at him. He didn't laugh. In other news, they now have toothbrushes with vibrating bristles - they cost 6.50! I got one for 1.50. I make them vibrate when I move them! LAZY!
I had a weird freak purchase in Boot's a few weeks ago - I bought a home tooth-bleaching kit. I always worry that my teeth are a bit yellow-ish, that's why I buy things like Rowntree's Pick n Mix. You're supposed to use it twice a day for a week. I've been a bit sporadic. I reckon I've used it about 8 times in a week and a half. I haven't had time otherwise. You have put these gum shield things in (like from rugby at school) and leave them there for 5 minutes each time. I moulded them and they didn't mould very well (like from rugby at school) and so they hurt. I then thought I'd multi task by wearing them in the shower once, which led to:
a) me dribbling bleach down myself
b) the heat making the plastic go funny again, mishapring them even more
c) me running late and leaving my gum shields on the side in the toilet for my poor flatmate to discover.
Needless to say, that was £12 down the drain. I should've just bought a vibrating toothbrush!
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