What a beautiful day, I had steak last night. Sometimes one instinctively knows you need a bit of red meat. I made a wonderful mustard pepper sauce, I feel I must blow my own trumpet. The ladyfriend liked it. Fortunately we kept off the booze and didn't need to open a bottle of red to cook with as I had frozen the leftovers from the last bottle on Sunday (freaky that there were remainders in the first place.)
I did have a bottle of beer but it was German and good for you (all natural ingredients) the ladyfriend had a miniture bottle of champagne (she has been ill and we looked on it as a tonic)
Filthy night for driving last night, I hope I didn't loose any of you yesterday and my readership is still with me.
Today we are popping to the building society with our windfall cheques! We have been doing a saving scheme at work and at last they have come to fruition, we shall spend it all on soliciting when we buy our house no doubt!
We are starting to think about Eastbourne.............we have had a tip off.

It has been snowing! But not on me. I arrived at work and everyone was complaining about how hard it was for them to get here. I sailed along the road like a paper boat. It's not fair, I want snow.
Happy Birthday Mr Drew for yesterday. I hadn't forgotton but what with one thing and another and that bloody meeting....... I shall make it up to you young man, I promise.
I am buoyed with enthusiasm for my work today and feel that I shall achieve a great deal, just you watch me.
My site is nearly completed (well, it will never be completed as there will be so much more to add over the coming weeks, but I'm half there) I have got to work out how to do the forum thing and we're laughing.

The poor ladyfriend is indeed unwell, she is now officially under the doctor. Her chest has become infected and so I now go home to her so that I may rub on some goose grease.

I have just returned from a very long meeting. 10.30am it started and it's now 4.25pm! Well you can imagine how I feel can't you. I kept drifting off into all kinds of worlds. Trouble is, you have to keep on the ball with these things as suddenly a question would fire and hit me. It's funny, there were lots of meeting style words like "issues" and "skyscrapers". I just nodded along as if I knew what it meant. I twigged after half an hour that a skyscraper was an image on a website (banner) that was really heavy kb and thus made the website take a long time to load. Some people had lovely pads, one man had a leather bound almost briefcase type jotter. One woman had all these print outs. Nice sandwhiches at half time. I feel all hot and sleepy now though and not ready at all to work.
I've got to get a wiggle on though and think outside of the box!

The ladyfriend has kept me up all night hacking and coughing. I am tired beyond belief and my eyes look as swollen as a bee stung baby. Fell asleep eventually at 4.30am and woke at 7.30 so you can guess my mood today. The ladyfriend has had the day off but I have come to work with a mood of quiet discontent.
It's going to be one of those days where I make unusual mistakes, fly into an inappropriate rage and drink too much coffee - we all know how unpleasant that can be.

Must apologise for the interference......can't make an ommelette without breaking a few eggs.......
Just a thought does anyone out there understand php?

Had my hair set this morning. I plopped into the chair and said "The usual please, Pedro." It made me think, what if Pedro muddled me with another and I walked away with a spiral perm. It makes you think doesn't it? One should never assume.
Pedro looked a bit low today, we talked about rugby players and work but he seemed to lack his usual spark.
I bought a Housemartins tape from a charity shop and a new demister pad for the car. It's an absolutely beautiful day and I am filled with well meaning and happiness.

There is much construction on the website, if you go in there wear a hard hat and mind you don't trip over any hardcore. I have made some links available for my dear friends david and howard out in espana living la dolce vita. If you find anything wrong with the site, links not working, pictures missing I most probably know about them - Rome wasn't built in a day you know.

It's sunday evening and I feel a bit wan due to last night at the Twitchen's. The ladyfriend and I had a wonderful evening only, this time we got tight on white wine instead of our usual red! Unfortunately we took the digital camera and took lots of pictures as you do.......my god, I looked like a beached whale bloated with drink. I don't know if it was the unsympathetic lighting but I am beginning to resemble Richard Burton. It aint pretty. I only hope I have not left it too late to turn back the clock!
We did have a lovely time though.

It's saturday evening and I am ver ver ver drunk at the Twitchens. They are very good company and have given me champagne! We are looking at some gruesome photographs of lorraine! Mrs T for short.

I am really rather excited, I now own www.lifeforlola.co.uk and I have begun to build my site properly! You can only see a teaser at the moment so unless you have nothing better to do I would not bother looking yet.
Today the ladyfriend, Mr Drew and I are off out on a little jaunt to Watford and Windsor, it's a beautiful day.
Got absolutely smashed last night on a bottle of red wine, the ladyfriend wanted to taste a shiraz she was hoping to review for her wine page on life for lola, I must confess I was not keen. It knocked my socks off and gave me a thick head this morning.

I have developed a bit of a habit of staring at people in cars when I sit in the passenger seat. I came to work with the ladyfriend driving this morning and there I was, at it again. There is a long traffic parade on the way and with each car I have a good look.
There were those ladies who fill their cars with soft toys, big burly manual workers (I like these when they wear lots of layers - shirts over jumpers ) There were the office boys in flash cars who can't raise an eyebrow let alone a shovel and those peculiar people who always make me wonder "What do they do?"
Perhaps they were radiographers. On the radio today it was a radiographers birthday and it always makes me wonder as I don't know any radiographers. It made me think of her with her white coat at work, standing in a protected area with a birthday badge on. I don't suppose it would cheer up the patients to know it was her birthday but it might offer a distraction.

Another bad night's sleep, what's the matter with the ladyfriend and I? We were both tired out when we went to bed but were clearly over tired. I think we are both over excited. Things are looking rather rosey for the ladyfriend and I at the moment and I don't think we can believe are luck.
Just as we were beginning to drop off last night we suddenly heard a tremendous drone from the night sky, "my God a doodle bug, it's begun " I thought but no, it was a police helicopter on a man hunt! I ran for my camera in case I had to have my day in court but sadly in all the excitement I didn't get any snaps. Just as I had managed to turn it on it was all over. A big police car drove away with the criminal and the 'copter' headed back into the darkness.
Well, I was gripped in a fit of adrenalin after that. All I could imagine was the infra red camera and some bad chap running behind trees in a relentless battle to hide - no match for technology these days, hurrah, the rozzers got their man. All the ladyfriend said was "You should have been here for the ram raid" ......where has poor Lola moved to!?

Well I am sitting on top of the world today - do you know that bird who does the stars in the Sunday Mail You magazine is right on the button. I had a very disturbed sleep last night, it must have been two am before I plunged into slumber but it was a fitfull one.
I think I had too much on my mind. I had the pressures of work (yeah right) I had just managed to kill a load of soldiers in a game and I had just bought my website host! Yippee, I will soon be uploaded big time, multimedia lola.

I intend to have a champagne launch night somewhere ritzy, at the moment it is a toss up between the cafe in Woolworths or BHS.

I have had a super weekend, Camden was great and half empty. The food bit is ace, lots of chinese ladies were trying to feed us "You wront nooodles lady?" We gave in and had a lovely chinese medley for £3.50 but were thirsty for the rest of the day due to the MSG. Saturday alas I was sloshed and sailed a little too close to the wind of nausea for my liking at Mr Drew and Mr Clive's. I was gripped by double visions.
Sunday was a write off as a consequence.
This week I will not drink.

The wind has got up something alarming today so our flight into London should be quick! We have decided we will go to Camden eat Chinese and see Chicago. Can't think of anything else to do beginning with C so we will come home and watch Midsommer Murders. I like that programme. I think middleage has crept up on me and enveloped me in its arms as I also love Monarch of the Glen.

I feel on top of the world today, my sword is sharp and I am ready to do battle with every and anything. I have a lovely weekend coming up where absolutely nothing is booked. I might motor up to London tomorrow with the Lady friend, I might not. I may go for a long walk on Sunday, I may not. The nicest thing about it is the freedom to choose, plus I've just been paid so that takes the sting out of it all. I want to pop up to old Camden town and throw money at my shoe problem. It would be better to go on a Friday and avoid the grinning Japanese and avoid the congestion charge before it comes in. I don't fancy public transport, I really don't. I went through a stage in my life where I avoided going to the cinema, I couldn't stop thinking of the all the hot germs, it became so intrusive that I lost the thread of the films. Yuk, it makes you think though, everytime you breathe you are breathing in the air of several hundred people. Develop a taste for an obscure director and then you'll get a small house and perhaps a better class of oxygen.

Oh dear, yesterday I missed Ushma's birthday. Tch, Tch. Happy Birthday for next year Ushma.

Back at my work station this morning and have been greeted with a letter telling me of my fabulous 2% pay rise! I mean I ask you, that doesn't even pay for a speciality syrup in my Starbucks coffee. Would anyone like to employ me? - evidently I'm cheap.

I speak to you all now from my sick bed, oh poor shame I am wracked with ill health and am spending the day at home away from the workplace. I will be brief as befits my state and say normal service will resume tomorrow.

oooooooooh, I feel a lil wan today, it was my mother's 60th birthday yesterday and we had a bit of a celebration at her house. Took to the champagne like a duck to water and am feeling the worse for wear. Ate too much, drank too much so it's back on the health waggon this week before it ships out of town for good. Either that or join a travelling freak show, I know I'll be welcome there. I know I'd draw a crowd or atleast a gasp or two.
Had an excellent weekend, saw a fat financial adviser and went to Southall and took some excellent pictures of the vibrant London borough with my slightly hidden camera.

Fell off the wagon with a big bump last night. Weeeeeeellll, it is the weekend for me after all. I'd had a hard day at work and call it folly if you will but I decided to have a bottle of beer from the chiller cabinet. It took me like a gust of wind on a boating lake and after the second bottle I was in bed by 10. The ladyfriend's poison was red wine and she too buckled under its influence. We have decided it's nil by mouth this evening and shall stick to slimline tonic water.
I am going to have a lovely weekend. We are out on an adventure today, we're packing sandwhiches and a flask as we go out on a winter drive into the countryside. Tomorrow we are going to China town with David (from spain) and on Sunday it is my mother's special birthday. I am bubbling with enthusiasm for each and everyone....how long will it last?

Four days "dry" now and I must admit I feel such clarity, it was nice waking this morning without feeling muzzy and hung over. All that met my lips last night was tea and coffee at Mr D & Mr C's. I have had no ill effects from my new regime, I was a bit cranky yesterday and parked in the "mother and baby" space at Tesco during my lunch break. I was raging at the time, here I am, no chance of paid maternity leave, no child benefit to piss up the wall, no chance of a state pension when or if I reach retirement age and to add insult to injury I am expected to walk further to buy life's essentials. It beggars belief, it's all give, give, give. The chinese are given fridge freezers for keeping the population down, here I am environmentally aware and I don't even get a book token.
It's time to stand up and be counted, if these super hero women can juggle children and park an Espace I am sure they are capable of walking an extra yard or two to a shop. Back to the chinese, they squat in a rice field, have a baby and carry on, they could teach us a thing or two.

Today I have my roll neck jumper on to keep out the wind chill factor which is decidedly great, I only realised how cold it was when I went into my bag to pull out my Noel Coward cd to find it freezing to the touch! Mrs Worthington is hard to warm up at the best of times. I am only glad I made it to work in the mini this morning without perishing like a amateur mountaineer in Snowdonia.
Well two days in to my new "no alcohol in the week" regime and things are looking dicey as we are going to see Mr Clive and Mr Drew this evening. As I have said before, they do keep an exceptional cellar, I must be brave and resist temptation like Jesus in the dessert up to his knees in blamange.

Woke this morning to SNOW, oh joy of joys, not enough to cause complete euphoria but my heart is as glad as an asylum seeker with a benefit cheque. Ran out in my dressing gown (christmas present) to take a picture of my mini, a perfect winter scene. I just hope the snow will stay so that all the burglars footprints can be traced back to their wicked, sick dens of inequity. My brother and his beautiful wife have been done over by the bastards now, when will it end? I think all burglars should have their thumbs cut off, that will stop them writing poetry. "I wandered lonely as a cloud as I forced my entry and stole someone's treasured possesions" Bring back national service.

I am most upset by the lack of snow, this weekend on waking I have run to the window only to see Jack Frost making his merry way across the lawn, a pale imitation of the real thing. I went to Henley on saturday to see how the rich people are coping with the floods, alas they are under much water and I fear the old town will smell musty for a fair few months. I took some photographs which I will publish in due course as Lola will soon be online big and proper! yes, you will soon be able to access life for lola in glorious technicolour! I am going .co.uk in the near future.
The Christmas decorations have been put away, the cards put into the recycling bin and the last few remaining luxury chocolates have been snuffled up. I am now a few days into my latest health regime and vow to get into some kind of shape, I must be thin, I must be thin, I must be thin!

The ladyfriend and I went to Brighton yesterday to see the damage to the pier, it was sad to see the old lady in a state of collapse.....and the old pier. It was lovely to see the sea, it was as rough as an unmarried mother with learning difficulties and it was quite bracing to stand on the beach.
We had half a pint of shandy in the White Horse and left happy and content.
Dined with Mr Clive and Mr Drew in the evening as it was Mr Clive's 36th birthday. They have a French lady in the house who comes from the Dijon area. I asked if there were many mustard factories there and she replied "yes" which I feel improved Anglo/Franco relations enormously.
As a consequence I absolutely heave of garlic today, got so tight that I forced the ladyfriend to drive me to work and I now have to face a day of labour at a provincial newspaper very much the worse for wear.................