Whiiiiine . . .

This isn't fair! I am now well into my second cold of the year. I feel horrible. I have aches and pains and sniffs and sneezes. And because I don't have a proper job (with sick pay etc) I still have to go into work. 

Sigh.

/whine

OK I Give Up. . .

Jessica arrived home last night with a Fireside Quiz. Have I ever told you that I hate these things? I hate anything that makes a fool out of me and I simply am crap at them!

After sitting as a family for ages and ages we managed to find all the answers bar one. Ok, I may have cheated a little with Google!) So it is over to you now - I am SURE you will know this.

The title is: Song Titles With Colours In Them

The clue is: U.A.V.M. 

Any ideas? 

Oh No You Didn’t!

The other night I realised that I hadn't seen the whole of The Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody video so pulled it up on You Tube to let Jessica watch it with me. She really didn't like it, didn't understand it at all. It took me a few seconds to realise that she had no idea about Queen's original video, so by the miracle of t'internet we watched that next. And then we went on to watch 'I Want To Break Free' and a couple of other ones. We watched quite a few actually, singing along to the ones we knew. 

Jessica became extremely confused though. Where was the GIRL singer? Didn't Queen HAVE a girl singer? Why had they picked the name QUEEN if it had a boy lead singer?? I ducked out of that one I'm afraid, I'll add that to the list of ones I will explain to her 'later.' Along with the news that Freddie is dead. Freddie DIES???

Anyway, that kinda leads me on to my next point, if you will excuse a sideways step. You may need to know a little about Iris Robinson here and here before you go any further.

I heard the infamous radio program in which she said:

"I have a very lovely psychiatrist who works with me in my offices and his Christian background is that he tries to help homosexuals trying to turn away from what they are engaged in." 

At the time I had an image of her "very lovely psychiatrist" banging his head off his desk as she pointed towards the Bible for words like "abomination" and "sin." 

This afternoon I saw this Facebook group. It has been set-up to:

". . . get the iconic song Mrs Robinson - made famous by the 1960's hit The Graduate - to number 1 in next Sunday's chart in honour of Northern Ireland's disgraced first lady, Iris Robinson. The naughty little minx. . ."

I know it isn't very likely that the song will make it to number one - not without a major thrust with-in the rest of the UK. But I have bought my copy. Just in case one more makes a difference. It is only 79p after all. And it IS sooooo apt. Isn't it?

EDIT:

Just found this :D

Brrr!

Eeek! Don't go out if you can manage not to! We HAD to go out this evening and on the return (slow, slooow, SLOWWW - YOU ARE GOING TOO FAST!!) journey I prised my frozen fingers apart long enough to take a photo of the car (outside) temp.

That's pretty damn cold! Isn't it?

You Know You Are A Mummy When . . .

. . . you are ironing your husband's new shirt and you look at the label to see if there is room to write his name on . . .