I'm doing the NurseMum thing today, waiting hand and foot on the patient who has already declared that she is sooooo bored and why can't she go to school?
NurseMum says it must be time for a second instalment of verbage!
Eating - Fi is all about the leftover Chicken, Ham and Leek Pie and hereby declares this to be the best one ever - just the right ratio of creamy sauce to chicken, ham and leek. Everybody said so!
This week Miss 8.10 is mostly eating Macaroni Cheese which is her most favourite food in the world, ever.
Listening - Now That's What I Call Music 30 and Fi is liking almost all the songs on this one, particularly "Waking Up in Vegas" by Katy Perry and "We Are The People" by Empire of the Sun.
Meanwhile Miss 8.10 rates "You Belong With Me" by Taylor Swift the best song ever.
However both agree that Britney's dirge "If U Seek Amy"? Make that 17 Massive Hits. Yawn.
Reading - Welcome to the Great Mysterious by Lorna Landvik. Fi read her bestseller Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons a couple of years ago and really liked her style and characterisations, so when she spotted this in one of Whangarei's second hand bookshops she snapped it up and so far, so good..
Diva Geneva Jordan has
performed for millions on stage, screen and television but now has a
leading role in Minnesota. She has agreed to look after her
thirteen-year-old nephew, a boy with Down's Syndrome, while his parents
take a long-overdue break.
This week Miss 8.10 is mostly reading the August issue of Girlfriend featuring Emma Watson, the Jonas Brothers and the latest on besties Demi Lovato and Selina Gomez's new movie, Princess Protection Program which she has to, has to see.
This week Miss 8.10 is mostly reading the August issue of Girlfriend featuring Emma Watson, the Jonas Brothers and the latest on besties Demi Lovato and Selina Gomez's new movie, Princess Protection Program which she has to, has to see.
Watching - The Remains of the Day - Anthony Hopkins is perfectly cast as the stoic, loyal, emotionally repressed butler Stevens - likewise Emma Thompson is wonderful as the passionate housekeeper Miss Kenton in this Merchant Ivory classic of unrequited love. "Now that" Fi said the Other Harf when it had finished "is a very, very English movie indeed."
Also in the cast was Christopher Reeve looking incredibly handsome in one of his last roles before his accident, and a very young Hugh Grant, all bedimpled and floppy haired.
And only just now, courtesy of Google, did Fi learn that it's based on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel and so will be hunting it down at the library this week.
Miss 8.10 is mostly watching The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, iCarly, Sonny with a Chance and Hannah [ed] flippin' [/ed] Montana.
Drinking - Shingle Peak Sauvignon Blanc. Master of Wine Bob says:"Light, fresh wine that lacks a little flavour but is a pleasantly tangy example of the style. Balanced." Fi says "This goes well with Chicken Ham and Leek Pie and all other food groups."
Miss 8.10 is mostly drinking Milo and promises to clean up that spilt milk.
So what have you been eating/listening to/reading/watching/drinking?
Blimey, the Brits are on Now 71 already! I remember my best friend, Lisa, bought Now That's What I Call Music when it first came out. It had Phil Collins singing You Can't Hurry Love on it.
The Remains of the Day is an outstanding read, as are some others by Ishiguro. I hope you enjoy it.
I get this one and Howards End mixed up. I seem to remember both of them being appropriately sad and extremely British.