Blow, winds and crack your cheeks

I got back from Scotland, where it is very very windy. Not a nice journey. I'm getting better at this travelling light stuff, but then it's very easy when you don't have to think about makeup or knickers or stuff like that. My only constants are my electric toothbrush and my mad pills, and you could fit those into a handbag. Obviously I travel with a large holdall full of jumpers, just for the hell of it. My BF came round and we have just sat and gossiped and listened to music - all unplanned, it's just that a works do was in the vicinity.

I have started to worry a bit about how shallow I am. Incident 1: listening to the Today programme, the second item on the news bulletin started "Jordan has issued a statement of condemnation..." "Bloody HELL!" I thought, "You can't even turn on radio 4 without being assaulted with b-list celebrity culture!". Unfortunately for me, the item continued...." of Al-Qaeda's claims to be behind the bombings in Amman yesterday".

Incident 2 - well, not an incident, just a nice evening wandering round the shops. It's not so much buying things, or spending money, as buying things that you really like. All the stuff I bought was very dull (two bath towels, anyone?) but I really like it. And my current executive flat is very boring so any stuff I add to it is good. Bring on the leopardskin throws!