Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Rubeeeee

It's funny, I'm fine leaving Ruby if I am on holidays or away from home, but I hate being in the house without her. Ruby however has been having a great time at my Mum & Dad's, she gets ruined, she gets twice as many treats. I had left her at my Mum & Dad's as I away seeing Barbra Streisand, then I stayed with my friend Emma and her Mum & Dad on the Friday night (and I remembered to give Emma the keys to her flat back), and as I was doing Canterbury Tales on the Saturday it wouldn't have been fair to have her at home on her own, so it meant Thursday and Saturday night at home without Ruby, it was weird. I have her back now so normal service has resumed.

Canterbury Tales went well, thankfully Julie had booked a hall rather than us doing it in her garden which was the original plan, and over £1,200 was raised for Helen House in Oxford which is a hospice for children, so I was glad about that.

I now have so much housework, and ironing to catch up with I am ashamed to let anyone in, my house looks like Miss Haversham's! I blame Sky plus I always seem to have something to watch now, so spend less time doing the jobs I should, not that I am a telly addict, but I can now squeeze about five days worth of recorded stuff, into the three spare evenings I have.

I'm just watching the Victoria Beckham thingy (I know I recorded it) and she is surprisingly funny, I loved it when she dressed a blow up doll as herself to fool the paparazzi so she could go shopping, faabulous idea dahling.

Well that's it from me, I'm off to sort out out the recycling.
Keep smiling
Marmite Girl xx

Ok it had to happen....

So I swore to myself never to mention Market Kitchen as I have made my thoughts known elsewhere, but I can't help it, now you all know I am a huge GFL fan and a huge JB fan, and like everyone else I gave the new show a go, well I tried twice, and just couldn't do it, it's actually painful to watch, the cameraman is left over from the Blair Witch Project, the presenters are wooden, and look this is what I learned from GFL ...... I learned beautiful goulash and eastern european dishes from the fabulous Silvena Rowe , I learned gorgeous desserts from Andrew Nutter (my cheesecake is famous), I learned what wine went with what, so I looked like I knew what I was talking about from Ollie and the nice thin lady (I'm rubbish with names) I could go on, but what I am trying to say is that I did LEARN. What do we get on MK? fish pie, cottage pie, how to chop chives etc...things the average person learned in school. Anyway what caused this rant? (you can tell it's a rant by the lack of punctuation!) well, I was watching Barefoot Contessa ....the only thing worth watching on that channel now, and then I turned off the TV while I bathed, gave supper, and put to bed my gorgeous niece, anyway when I sat back down and put the TV back on, Market Kitchen was on, they spent half the programme showing two people selling ice cream and how to set up a market stall......well forgive me but if I want to watch market stalls, I can a) go to a market or b) watch Eastenders!

OK rant over.

So what else has been going on, well I have spent the weekend looking after said niece which has been a joy, we have been to the beach, the park, we have sung songs and had a great time ( I have to stop for a sec as gorgeous niece has tipped a bowl of cheerios over her head....dry ones fortunately) Now I am quite good at entertaining children seen as I am still one myself....I am a firm believer of the saying "Growing old is inevitable...growing up is optional" but to all the people who say not to let your kids watch TV, I would like to say this .....if it wasn't for Lazytown, The Shiny Show and Balamory I wouldn't have washed my hair for three days!!! Other moments have included me asking Cara to put her babygrow in the wash basket, she put it in the toilet! then while I was washing dishes, she had hold of my mobile phone, it was pressed to her ear, while she went "yep, yep, yep, yep ok bye (I wonder who she has been listening to?) I know I'm biased but I think that's quite smart for 16 months, and then of course there has been the continuous nose wiping, bless her.

As for Ruby, well her behaviour has become a little erratic, she seems to be living upstairs at the moment and taking all her little stuffed toys up there one by one, maybe she knows she will never have puppies. when she is downstairs she seems to be constantly whining......that's one for the Vet I think.

And (yes I know I can't start a sentence with and) the fence, well that is finished my friend did a fantastic job and my garden is now open for parties.

I'm off now to make the Sunday roast for the family....that's one tradition we keep , everyone has Sunday lunch at my parents including Ruby and Cara.

Keep smiling
Marmite Girl xx