New kiddies book by Neil Gaiman!

WOOT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWRvqO1MjIs

Are people here just less interested

So a couple of weeks ago, I managed to lock myself out of my flat, I was doing laundry and thus was outside in the hallway in my socks without a jersey or my cellphone...so as i walk out the door having thought that I had disengaged my yale lock i hear the door click shut, but with arms full of just washed laundry I realise that sudddenly throwing it on the ground is going to accomplish nothing and I will just end up making more laundry for myself, I calmly place it in the tumble dryer, I managed to remember to bring the store cupboard key but not the house keys ? anyways, once inside the store cupboard I realise that there is a long legnth of shower door seal plastic lying on the ground, and that the slot in my front door is big enough for me to force 2/3 of my arm through, so I do and spend 20 minutes smelling my dinner burn and trying desperatly to get the door open before one of my neighbours calls the police on me cos I am clearly breaking in...eventually I opened the door to the flat and only the delivery man saw me although he sed nothing so either that kind of behaviour is normal in these here parts or they dont care very much if your being robbed by a shoeless individual...why you may ask did i not just knock on my next door neighbours door and ask to borrow their phone? I have no idea I didnt think of it before and by the time I did I was damned if that door was going to beat me!

And then yesterday, I climbed through a hole in the fence around my flat, and several people saw me do this...not one of them put up their hand cleared their throat and asked just exactly what I was doing...I mean...it was late, it was getting dark and I was clearly climbing through a hole in the fence...is this normal behavior in Scotland do you think? Or should I be concerned that apparently no one will ask the ax wielding murderer climbing through the fence what it is that he thinks he is doing?

Restaurant Rant

While I generally hate the generic idea that blogs are primarily a soap box for ranting I feel so strongly about this that I am going to rant here in the hopes that this restaurant will close down forever or send me lots of free goodies as an apology.

The previous post mentioned that 2 of our members are engaged and a couple of weekends ago (when the sun was still shining) 20 of us went to Jonkerhuis in Groot Constantia, Cape Town.

When we arrived there were two tables set out, each seating 10 people. We asked the manager if we could move the table together and have one table, since we all wanted to chat and celebrate together. We were told that this was impossible. When we asked why it became clear that this restaurant likes to serve everyone at a table at the about the same time and that the kitchen could not possibly do that for a table of 20. We replied that while we thought that that was a nice idea, we wouldn't mind if half the table ate before the other half.

We were angrily told that that was not how they operated in a very condescending tone. We then requested that the tables be moved closer together so that whilst we couldn't actually join we could be close enough to talk to each other. Apparently that was also an unreasonable request.

We eventually decided to sit separately and swap around every now and then. Which meant that people who ordered at one table were served at another, totally ruining their service plans. That showed them!

We managed to have a lovely time despite the rudeness of the manager, who also rudely told us to get out because other people were coming soon. The food was good although a little overpriced but the stupidity of the managing staff ruined my experience there. I will definitely not be going back.

Book club 22 April

In an attempt to be healthy, our food theme this month was salads. All this meant was that we stuffed ourselves spherical with *some veggies, and only like 40% cake and junk food. Massive improvement! The other members will be posting their yummy salad recipes soon (or face my wrath). I made a fruit salad which is not exactly rocket science so no need for me to post a recipe (success!).



Of note this month is that two of our members are currently engaged, which is an increase of 20% from the last meeting we attended. Les verrouiller, Mesdames! I am guessing this means that book club will be more along the lines of 'Weddingsdinnermenweddingsbooks' for the next little while, but c'est la vie!



Two people brought the same book to lend out, Douglas Adam's 'Mostly harmless' which surely must reccommend this work as worth a read. I finally completed the Farseer trilogy (Robin Hobb) with a resounding 'Meh', and the 'Dirty bits for girls' (India Knight) is still making the rounds. We started a new book club game this month, called 66,6 or 88,8 depending on which is funnier. Basically each month we will feature a piece made up entirely of the 6th sentence on the 66th page of each of our books. Dirty bits did its part marvellously this month with something about gaping lady bits, however the entirity of the quote is lost to the sands of time as nobody thought to write it down. Next time, we promise.



Thats all for book club this month, our non book club book club event is going to be a girlie night this Thursday so with the many conflicting viewpoints on what constitutes appropriately girly movies I am sure it will be marvellous. If I didn't know the ladies better my contribution would be the movie 'Sunshine', however I have watched one book club member sit through 'Event Horizon' and I don't want to put her through that again, so perhaps something slightly less terrifying will suffice.

Happy reading!