Who needs a hot water bottle when you've got a notebook on your lap? Blimey, this thing could heat my flat!  Well now, I've never sat and typed a blog in bed before.  Actually, that's a lie, because I write little comments and post via my mobile.  The only thing with the mobile is that there's a letter limit.  I've sat and typed out my latest rant about whatever, taken ages, only to be told at the end that it's too long to post.  So with a bit of luck that won't happen again now!

Well there was bit of a panic this evening because my broadband packed up.  I was most annoyed.  And then confused.  And finally stroppy.  After a cup of tea I unpacked the nice shiny new modem I received when I changed to Orange Broadband a few months ago and that seems to work nicely.  Hm.  Well, with my laptop anyway - I've not tried again on my PC.  I sort of gave up.

Oh blimey, it's November tomorrow!

Hurrah!  I'm at home for a week :)  Sad news though.  Following on from yesterday's drama when we were delayed into Exeter as a plane had to make an emergency landing ahead of us, it turns out that it was a passenger emergency.  A man was taken ill so the plane had to land quick pronto.  Unfortunately the chap had had a heart attack and, according to the Exeter Herald web site today, he later died.  RIP.

It seems a bit insensitive to then go on and ramble about the new frock I've got.  So perhaps I won't.

I watched Nigella tonight and learnt three things:

a) she's popular at mealtimes with sooo many friends inviting themselves over,

b) she's keen on pressing the 'this only takes five secs!' principle, and

c) she's got the most amazing larder!

My Granny Baxter had a larder. Sure it wasn't as spacious and gran couldn't do a culinary tour of the world from hers. But gran's had the most amazing retro wallpaper and contained enough marble cake to feed an army ten times over. Secretly I now wish I had a larder.

Mum: "David did a line like he normally does. Then he asked me if I wanted to do a line. I've not done one ever before so I decided to do a line too".

No, not cocaine. The lottery.

I had another dream with plane crashes in last night!  Ok, so actually it was more of a movie epic of a dream.  The first plane was a white minibus with no wheels.  Very strange.  It went up in the air and then plummeted to the Earth.  The second crash was the type of plane I mainly fly in and it took off before nose-diving.  Cheery stuff.  So I teamed up with two other random people (who they were I have no idea...did I mention too that the airport was from the future?) and we set to work trying to work it all out.  We figured that someone was sabotaging the fuel supplies.  But who???  <menacing music>  So then we were called to an office where an ancient handwritten book had appeared - mainly written in French.  The person who wrote it was called 'Spence' but it was a forgery and wasn't as old as it looked.  With more planes taking off around us we knew that the book held the answer.....

And then someone knocked on my front door and woke me up.  Grrrr.  Now I'll never know who it was!