How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

Earlier this week I popped into Tesco's (not my usual haunt) on the way home from work to purchase ingredients for a birthday cake. I also bought 2 packs of indoor sparklers to go on top instead of candles.

Yesterday I made the driest chocolate cake in my twelvety seven years of baking cakes. Couldn't understand why. I've just looked at the eggs I bought. Definitely, definitely says 'large' on the box. Of the three that are left, 2 of them are what I would describe as 'small' and the other one is most positively 'fun size.' 

As for the sparklers. After burning 3 matches (twice) down to my fingers I finally managed to set light to ..... two. Two sparklers, not two packs. It even got to the stage that when my oh-so-hilarious family suggested I'd stuck them in upside down, I actually started to believe them.

Not good enough Tesco. You won't be winning me back any time soon.  

I added Roger Whittaker's 'The Last Farewell' to my Spotify playlist and I dont care who knows it!

Isn't an Aldi what upper middle class commuters drive to and from their nearest home counties railway station? 😉 I've never personally seen one, this far north.

The battle to preserve the apostrophe may have been lost, but I refuse to spell proper nouns with anything other than capital letters!

Watched the most star filled episode of "Midsomer Murders" last night on TV. [Well done "Strictly".]

Another "I saw this and thought of you" apropos @theatremonkey www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08100zy

Very fond memories of watching Crackerjack with Ed Stewart. Never could quite take to Stuart Francis the same way. 

I've heard of "presenteeism" but is there now also such a thing as competitive sickness? Asking as when I rang the organisation where I volunteer to say I was sick and wouldn't be in, the manager told me lots of others were also sick but she cited far more unusual or serious ailments than my common cold. I was therefore left feeling I should apologise not only for being sick but for not having a more interesting illness.

Goodness, if you as much as sneeze at my work you're immediately asked if you are ill and should you go home, we have a very strong don't come in if you're ill policy which of course is a lot of sense but does make me paranoid at the odd accidental not illness induced sneeze.

I think you are right to report it to the club and to the FA. If we all did then they would be inundated and realise the extent of the problem. V sad to see it. To be more optimistic, the other day we had a grandpa, dad and little un on the train from Arsenal, everyone smiling at them and with them in their adorable bright yellow hats! Yes, yellow, not red. 

They sound like relatives of the group of (presumably drunk) girls on my train home last night, who repeatedly yelled "d***heads" and "boring w***ers" at the rest of the occupants of the carriage when we were collectively ignoring their loud & exhibitionist behaviour. Fortunately there weren't any children there that I could see & I suppose at least their bad languge was 'only' generally offensive rather than specifically against any groups.

Full disclosure. My OH was on Crackerjack with Eamon Andrews.