I know, its Tuesday! But it still feels like Monday today!

I slept really badly last night, so got up at 2.30 and watched 3 episodes of Twin Peaks on DVD before going back to bed.

As a result, I missed my alarm, and turned up for work looking like a bag lady!

Well I am feeling quite chuffed with myself, because instead of wasting my time on my highly skilled procrastination techniques, I have actually had a really good couple of days workwise, and have made a real breakthrough on a project I am working on.

I shall treat myself, with a nice glass of wine and a night infront of the TV as a reward!

My home grown veg have been really disappointing this year, especially my tomatoes. There are hardly any one the plants and they just aren't ripening.

Until yeaterday, when I got all excited to see one small tomato blushing slightly.

Unfortunately, in my excitement, I promptly knocked it off the plant!

Having grown up living the outskirts of Nottingham, my worse memories of childhood all revolve around the tedious journey every year to our nearest bit of seaside - Skegness, that bastion of Brish seaside tat! Most of those memories also involve getting VERY travel sick and vomiting, and the very word "Skeggie" makes me feel nauseous!

Today I hear that many of the building's on the parade will have to be pulled down due to a large fire. But I can't help thinking that someone missed a trick here, and should have bombed out the whole place while they were at it!

I’m tryin to make me go to rehab
I said no, no, no
Yes I been black, but when I come back
You wont know, know, know

I don’t ever wanna drink again
I just, ooo, I just need a friend
Im not gonna spend 10 weeks
Have everyone think im on the mend

It’s not just my pride
It’s just til these tears have dried

They’re tryin to make me go to rehab
I said no, no, no
Yes I been black, but when I come back,
You wont know, know, know

Amy Winehouse has cancelled all her tour dates today. I can't pretend to know it must be like to be famous in today's love-hate media climate, but again and again we see creativity hand-in-hand with self destruction?

Whatever her demons, I hope she feels better soon.

As if reinforce the point about how peaceful and quiet it is, and how much work I can get done whilst working from home, now I am back in the office there are workmen making a God awful racket somewhere in the building nextdoor!

My sandwich break just couldn't come early enough!

In the last couple of days I have had a couple of "friend" invites to my hotmail inbox, but they are not in the "invites" section on blog when I press the link.

Is anyone else having this problem, or are people just changing their minds and deciding I'm not worthy??? (Obviously if you are on my friends list, it worked!)

I'm sat here in my dressing gown trying to muster up some effort because of my massive hangover. I yearn the long lost days of my youth when I could drink pretty much what I liked without having to suffer the consequences the next day.

Unfortunately my SO doesn't quite take my working from home seriously!

When he works from home he tends to sit on the sofa watching daytime TV mixed up with strutting around shouting into his mobile phone or spending a two hour lunch break in the pub.

When I work from home, its because I need to get some important project work done, which I can do with the constant interuptions and answering the phone etc in the office.

My SO obviously thinks I'm not really going to be doing any work today, so he has taken it upon himself to make sure that I don't slack off my giving me a massive list of jobs to do as well!

Suppose I'd better be getting on then, hadn't I?

Well here I am at work, watching the rain pour down outside Unfortunately, my dear friend talked me into having a barbeque tonight (on the new "mediteranean style", half finished patio), as she doesn't have a garden now, and her husband is driving her crazy wanting one. The compromise is an occassional barbie round at mine

At least I don't have to worry about the food, and I have plenty of beer (stashed in the coal cellar!). I think I might decorate the kitchen with the bunting and stuff that I had bought to his the unfinished bits out side.

Not sure it will be quite the same though, without the taste of firelighters etc in my sausages!

In the middle of my post about is it ok to fancy a serial killer google adds placed this:

Just large sized knickers
we don't sell anything except knickers from 3XL to 6XL UK 40-42
www.thebigbloomerscompany.co.uk

I may have put on a little weight lately, but I didn't think anyone had really noticed, let alone a large multimational company.

I got the hint thanks! Diet starts *umm* tomorrow

I just love this politically incorrect show, and there must be something very wrong to admit that the main character is quite fanciable!

BUT he's so cute!

Having spent what felt like an eternity yesterday doing the shopping, I finally got round to making Sunday dinneer using the first batch of runner beans this season. I am so pleased that something in the garden survived the enourmous slugs this year and homegrown beans taste so good that I would never buy them.

I also managed to a bit more on the "mediteranean" style patio. I bought some glazed wall pots yesterday and have filled them with geraniums and trailing fushias, and have put a couple of lavender bushes in some old terracotta pots that I found abandond at the end of the garden when I first moved in. So, it is all starting to look a bit more inviting. I just need to buy a small table and a couple of chairs!

Having done all this I spent a relaxing evening sat with a bottle of beer on my kitchen step watching a large bat (I call him Bert!) making his regular big swoops up to the guttering and back, catching moths and flies! True relaxation!

In my quest to get better a reducing, reusing and recycling, I came across this quote by the environmentalist Edwin Datschefski:

We're not running out of resources - we are just turning them into rubbish we can't use again.

This is what my SO keeps singing to me because he thinks we should get a cat even though I am allergic. (I am obviously not good enough company any more!!!!)

He keeps singing this to the tune of "Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow-wow" in a really sad voice - I never know whether to laugh or to cry!

Got to had it to him though, he has now made up THREE full verses to go with it too!

Today I have spent a lovely day at my local cemetary!

Not quite as bad as it sounds actually, as the cemetary is a glorious oasis of calm in the middle of the city and actually hasn't been open to burials for many many years.

I actually was on a guided walk looking at the nature of the cemetary, which incidentally appears to have declined since the council actually started looking after the site again rather than leaving it to decay. However, I saw a few woodpeckers, and a large family of long tailed tits.

I must admit though, that there is something really fascinating about the victorian gothic memorials to the long gone with the angels standing guard.

Having been forced to go to a conference with my boss because someone obviously more senior than me dropped out, I actually suprised myself and really enjoyed the conference, taking everything to heart.

The conference was on sustainability - this year's biggest trend! I know that some people don't agree that climate change is under our influence, but it has really made me think about how I could do my little bit, just in case.

I have succeeded in getting into the habit of turning off the TV so it isn't left on standby and switching light off when I leave the room etc. But this has really got my thinking about how we seem to have more and more packaging, because we are losing the skills to make the things for ourselves that would not have been routinely purchased 40 or 50 years ago.

With this in mind I have decided that I an going to make all the new blinds for my house! I had thought about curtains, (and my dear friend who is a design teacher in a secondary school offered to help me), but I have decided that blinds would be more cost effective, and surely easier as they will be smaller??

Will let you know how I get on!

Also on my "holiday" yesterday, I did some work in what could be loosely termed a garden. The Sunday Mirror "Homes & Holdays" magazine, had tempted me that an hour or so's pottering would reward me with a glorious mediteranean style patio.

That was the theory anyway.

3 hours later, I was still in a scruffy mess, but my clothes were covered in a light coating of dead leaves, snail poo, earwigs, and an army of off spiders, angry that I had filled their hidy holes and painted their homely, (but dirty) habitat in brilliant white masonary paint!

All I have succeeded in doing is make the rest of the house look even more scruffy than it was in contrast to the stark white.

Maybe I should set my sights lower.

But I ask myself: Is there anywhere lower than the Sunday Mirror???

I had a days holiday from work yesterday, to do some painting and decorating. But whilst hard at work, I started thinking about how cost affective this really is.

Seriously, it would have cost me £65 for a local decorator to do it (would have taken half the time of my amateurish efforts too). This is less than I get paid in a day.

So, am I really fooling myself? having a full days holiday. Does it really work out that cost effective?