Oh, the fecking rain. Absolutely torrential last night, and we've got an "Amber" warning here today, like some of you earlier in the week. I'm so not going out til I have to. I do have to take some stuff to the post office, but I'll be washed away if I do that now. Yy ella - I washed winter clothes over Easter ready to put them away for summer, and I'm still breaking into the pile cos it's sooooo cold!
soy how annoying re the messy DC, especially as you gave them instructions on the cleaner... I suppose even her coming round as planned would have sorted the worst of it. I'm not the cleanest of people (in terms of clutter and hoovering/house cleaning... I do wash!)... it just doesn't bother me as long as its not going to make anyone ill (kitchen etc) ... but if I'm staying in someone else's house I make sure things are done to their standards, which are much higher than mine!! Hope your first day of work isn't too painful, and looking forward to hearing about your trip (and purchases! ) when you get a chance.
cherries hope the appointment goes well and you did eventually get some sleep. I did laugh at the rusting boobs though! Oh dear...
never that blue jacket is such a lovely colour. Hope you get to wear it properly soon!
soups BA are annoying for returns, as you do have to pay. I think there is a set fee you can pay and it's just taken off the refund, or you can just pay at the post office (which may be cheaper if you've jusy got a couple of light things to send back). If you send everything back they will refund the original (extortionate) postage, but you still need to pay the return cost. Its a bit cheeky, really.
Lol at the pine trees! Yes, you'd be surprised... it gets very niche and rather geeky. I was looking at their response to roadside pollution (this was aaaaages ago, and hopefully not too outing), and in particular at their response to stress (they don't turn to 
and 
like the rest of us!) - so how well trees by the side of the road cope with drought and freezing compared to other trees. I spent far too much time on the hard shoulder of the M6 for comfort, and in some greenhouses with exhaust fumes being pumped into them (so all the recent news about urban air pollution being really bad for you isn't really news... we had to wear masks etc and were limited in how long we should spend, and this was almost 20 years ago). Was v interesting, but I went a bit crazy writing the thesis, so now I do something totally different (and only use my "title" if i want to "pull rank" on someone annoying at work 
).
On cooking, despite DPs best efforts I'm sure I didn't learn anything other than really basic stuff, and stuff we'd done in home ec at school, until just before I went to uni... when I panicked a bit. So there's still time!
len I have the same trouble mixing and matching tops and bottoms! I'm a sucker for patterns and details, so I find my "favourite" things don't work together. Dresses are so much easier! Good luck!
noodle yy, JL has some lovely stuff since the rebrand last year. Just plain colours in interesting cuts and good fabrics - not "high fashion" but still feeling a bit modern. Which is what I think they should do, frankly! (well, it's what lots of places should do... M&S, yes, you).
laska I think you may be right on the sale, actually. Its only a couple of weeks til the 25th, and they are still advertising the free delivery code, which they seem to start warning will expire just before the sale. So if it was going to start this coming Tuesday I'd have thought they'd have said something about it by now... Who knows?!
Right... Need to start work...