Busy busy busy

I feel like I can barely find time to blog these days. I am trying to blog inbetween.... working, travelling to and back from work through hours of roadworks (the non-event that this takes up most of my life!) reading "The Secret Life of Bees" travelling to visit friends in Liverpool for the weekend, going to a party, going out for a delicious Valentine's meal at Cafe Rouge, preparing to give a presentation tomorrow... oh yes, and sleeping!

Weird

VH and I went to the supermarket yesterday, and bought a towel, some light bulbs, a pack of Valentine's cupcakes and a pie. VH commented that it was quite a weird shop.

Other weird things that have been happening recently...Firstly, it has been snowing lots. The most snow in England for 18 years. (Not as much as in Canada however). Beautiful, but impractical.

Secondly, I went to get my haircut yesterday. I tried out a new place, run by some crazy (gay?) Italians who cut hair in a unique Italian way, using razors instead of scissors. They encouraged me to have a different kind of hair cut, rather than my normal straight one. I had the impression that they were hair artists. It was quite an experience, but I don't think they did a bad job, it's certainly different! VH didn't notice though, which I think is a male thing, as my dad is exactly the same.

Edit: Third (forgot to mention earlier) we have been having some weird food this weekend. We had a mock-duck stirfry last night. Mock-duck is vegan duck with the appearance of a plucked duck! It tasted nice, but the appearance was a bit off-putting. VH had a banana sandwich for lunch today. Tonight, we are trying a vegetarian haggis. I'm curious about it, as I've never had real haggis before, although I'm not convinced it will taste good. Edit: it was vile.

None of this is quite as weird though as the man who smuggled pigeons into Australia under his trousers!

Movies

Veggie Hubby and I went to see Slumdog Millionaire last week, and we both really enjoyed it. I love seeing films that we can both appreciate, and that we quite often have the same tastes in films.

We haven't always been so lucky though. On our first movie date, we went to see X2, which VH dragged me along to see. I'm not sure if he liked it, but I certainly didn't. To make up, we went to see a girly movie a couple of weeks later, A Guy Thing. We both hated it!! Things started looking up and we saw some movies at the cinema that we both enjoyed: Lost in Translation and Brokeback Mountain being some of my favourites. Last year, we saw some better movies of my choice (The Kite Runner, Juno) and his (The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones and Quantum of Solace) - although I admit I didn't like his choices so much! With the Aquatic Life with Steve Zissou which we weren't sure if it was good or bad.

With Veggie Hubby, and perhaps before that, I have discovered that whilst I still enjoy some blockbusters, I prefer to watch smaller independent movies. My taste in movies became more eclectic, I think. Veggie Hubby bought me Mamma Mia! for Christmas (as I had hinted at!) but I saw it on the plane before he gave it to me, and found it too cheesy. We exchanged it for the Chronicles of Narnia boxset.

Have you seen any films recently that you enjoyed? What kind of films do you like?

Winter brownies

Snow is fun, rain is most definately not. Today it rained all day long, tomorrow i have a friend and baby coming over so after a long baking (and blogging) holiday, i made chocolate brownies hmmmmmmm they were soft and gooey inside, perfect on a horrible wet day, enjoy...

xxx