Naughty and not Nice

The boss took us to TGI Friday's today for lunch as a treat.

Sitting two tables away, with their backs to us, were a couple canoodling.

I wasn't certain at first but I was afterwards when I saw his car in the car park - it was my next door neighbour.

However, that wasn't his wife he was canoodling....

He didn't see me.

It's none of my business, I shan't be blabbing to anyone but I may just mention to him that I saw his car...

Enter The Dragon

Kung Hei Fat Choy! Happy Chinese/Lunar New Year!

Called the family and had a good chat to all who were celebrating in HK. Me? Well, I cooked something Chinese for me and Boom for tea at the weekend - that was the extent of my celebrations!

The Dragon is my opposite sign so this is supposed to be lucky. How lucky depends on me so I hope I make the most of this year.  A big lotto win wouldn't go amiss haha!

2012 has started at a relentless pace, especially at work but with the economic outlook heading towards a double-dip, I have to be grateful I guess that I'm working and that I'm busy.

Am paying more into my pension (not my choice), things are not getting cheaper so I'll need to be less frivolous this year. Time for some supermarket budgeting and perhaps cutting back on the alcohol...maybe!

So close...

...to Kenny last night that I could have said "Hello", except that I was sat among all the City fans!

Not a Premier League tie but probably the only chance I'll get to catch Liverpool this season.

The last time these two faced each other (8 days ago), City emphatically won 3-0.

This time, it was 1-0 to the Reds who triumphed in this first-leg cup tie; City a shadow of themselves.

The usual controversy surrounded the Scousers however, this time Glen Johnson's two footed tackle which went unpunished and Gerrard and Mancini having a post-match spat in the tunnel.


*Update*

And now Stevie G will be a Red until the end of his career - I'm shedding a tear! :-)

Books 2011

It's not the only reason I haven't hardly updated my blog this year but it's one of the reasons I suppose - I read a lot more and this year, I finished 42 books which must be a record for me...


1.  The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - Stieg Larsson (Crime/Thriller)
2.  Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (Classic)
3.  The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (Fantasy)
4.  The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski (Fantasy)
5.  The Painted Man - Peter V Brett (Fantasy)
6.  Twilight - Stephanie Meyer (Horror)
7.  Flesh Wound - Jon Say (Crime/Thriller)
8.  Dreamer's Cat - Stephen Leather (Sci-Fi)
9.  3rd Degree - James Patterson (Crime/Thriller)
10. Winter's Heart - Robert Jordan (Fantasy)
11. The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo (Crime/Thriller) - Book Club
12. Odd Hours - Dean Koontz (Horror)
13. Elven Star - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Fantasy)
14. Traitor's Gate - Kate Elliott (Fantasy)
15. The Blood That Bonds - Christopher Buecheler (Horror)
16. The Company - KJ Parker (Fantasy)
17. Spinward Fringe Broadcast 0: Origins - Randolph Lalonde (Sci-Fi)
18. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown (Crime/Thriller)
19. Crossroads of Twilight - Robert Jordan (Fantasy)
20. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (Fiction)
21. Successful Property Letting - David Lawrenson (Non-Fiction)
22. The Last 10 Seconds - Simon Kernick (Crime/Thriller)  - Book Club
23. New Moon - Stephanie Meyer (Horror)
24. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood (Sci-Fi) - Book Club
25. Slabscape: Reset - Spencer S Baker (Sci-Fi)
26. Lifeguard - James Patterson (Crime/Thriller)
27. A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin (Fantasy)
28. Witch Hunt - Ian Rankin (Crime/Thriller)
29. The Devil's Graveyard - Anonymous (Horror)
30. World War Z - Max Brooks (Horror)
31. The Mortal Sickness - Andrew Taylor (Crime/Thriller)
32. The Redeemer - Jo Nesbo (Crime/Thriller)
33. The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly (Crime/Thriller)
34. Spinward Fringe: Resurrection and Awakening - Randolph Lalonde (Sci-Fi)
35. Fire Sea - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (Fantasy)
36. Neuromancer - William Gibson (Sci-Fi) - Book Club
37. Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness (Sci-Fi)
38. Flood - Stephen Baxter (Sci-Fi)
39. Killing Floor - Lee Child (Crime/Thriller)
40. A Clash of Kings - George RR Martin (Fantasy)
41. Deadly Decisions - Kathy Reichs (Crime/Thriller)
42. Doomsday Book - Connie Willis (Sci-Fi)


Broken down:

Crime/Thriller- 13 books
Fantasy - 11 books
Sci-Fi - 9 books
 Horror - 6 books
Fiction/Other - 1

Non-fiction - 1
Classic - 1

Compared to last year, broken down as:

Fantasy -18 books
Sci-Fi -6 books
Crime/Thriller- 7 books
Fiction/Other - 2 books
Horror - 2 books
Non-fiction - none

First time in ages (well as an adult anyway!) that my top genre wasn't Fantasy!

Supermarket Bargain (or not)

Tonight's Panorama programme will apparently reveal that supermarket bargains are not quite what they seem.

Here's a great example from my local Tesco store:

Wonder how many people went for this 'bargain' lol?