Trouble with having an older house is that things start to leak and it seems we have been hit with quite a few in the past year, the ensuite, shower room, water tank and overflow pipe, mains stopvalve and an miscellaneous airing cupboard thing.

I do like leeks though, yum yum.

Sad News

A very quiet chap that stood outside of Marks and Spencers. He wasn't very vocal in the way that many other sellers are and was the pinnacle of politeness when I bought a copy off him and let him keep the change. Less so for the one at the bottom of the escalators in Asda who assumed the change was for him and didn't offer it back.

Anyway, back to Westbourne. When I first moved to the Bournemouth area I lived near Westbourne and would frequently pop there to do my shopping. Before M&S, the place was a Waitrose supermarket. What really struck me was the fact that the well-to-do and wealthy (I assume as they shop at Waitrose most days which aint cheap) would always be friendly to the Big Issue seller, chat with him and would buy copies from him without prompting. Not sure if this was the same person there since '96 but the principle remains the same. Two ends of the scale but a common dignity.

All very pleasing to see and it prompted me to look into what was behind the Big Issue and how it helps the homeless.

We can just hope justice prevails.

Countdown to the lottery

Should we or should we not come to work on Monday, that is the big question. Should we be stealing a couple of this big Ikea bags so we can stash the huge pile of notes from the £110,000,000 Euro Millions rollover lottery draw.

Yup, I think so. Or at least I hope so, or at least I wish, or plead.... or anything.....

I shall wait patiently with my glass of Sancerre and plate of seafood. Oh the highlife has started. 

Yet another feast at the infamous Mexican Grill in Overijse. Plates full of whelks, prawns, smoked salmon, oysters and crab claws, inter-dispersed with salad just to be healthy. Yum, yum.

Was good to see Tom, Sharon and the kids. Unfortunately Tom sustained a football injury on the Saturday leading his team to a glorious draw, I think.

Didn't make it into Brussels really, only to town of Monchau that was in Germany and had an all-year-round Christmas shop, and to Antwerp on the last day. 

Christchurch Food Festival

From Gary Rhodes's restaurant for lunch to a Harvester for dinner in the same day through to Iranian kebabs in town the next week. That is how we roll around here.

That reminds me, the Christchurch Food Festival is coming up at the begining of May.

Having sat up early in bed browsing Westover Gallery's website we both seemed to agree on the same piece once we popped into the gallery.

Richard Rowan does quite stunning landscapes although Ange did like one by another artist that looked like something that your English nan would have but I quickly sidestepped that one. This artist had a beautiful piece on glass that was absolutely stunning but 5-G is a bit much to pay. Not won the lottery just yet.

The one we chose should offset the magnolia wall in the lounge no end!

Richard Rowan, Stepping through time

I finally got the letter from the mortgage company that says because of my tracker mortgage follows the base rate at a discounted level, it actually means that this month my mortgage interest level is 0%, that is a monthly payment of £0! Whoo hoo.

I doubt I will see that happen again though, although if it does then that means the economy has messed up big time again.

Time to buy a new pair of shoes.

Angela won a round of golf at the recent Tits 4 Tat charity event.

Matt her brother-in-law was down so we decided to use the voucher donated by Ashley Wood Golf Club in Blandford Forum, Dorset. The rules at private golf clubs can be a bit strict so not having golf shoes or a bag of clubs (as we assumed you could hire some there) was a bit embarassing, but they were very charitable.

It's a really nice course and we spent a leisurely four hours or so getting round it. Only had to let one pair play through. An interesting course and everyone was nice even given my blatant rule breaking!

I even parred a hole in 3 shots.

Photos from the reunion night have been uploaded to Facebook, click the following link

4-Sight Reunion Photos

I managed to finish RC1 of the DVD last night.

I have footage of Emma talking about the Pope and slagging Matt off on his IT question to the vicar! Genius.