With the winter comes the snow...

..and the awful wellies!

This years snow has brought us the rare chance to see ordinary folks in wellies, and my do they have bad taste! Heres my top (or bottom!) Ten - OK well, Eight, whats a number between friends...

Patriotic Wellies
There really is no need, your feet are not flagpoles!
Checked or Tartan Wellies
You're not rupert the bear



Food related Wellies
Chocolates and licorice allsorts are for eating, not wearing



Football Fan Wellies
Ok, show support, but not this way surely?


Curtain Wellies
They remind me of curtains my Gran had when I was a child


Burberry Wellies
To match the burberry cap, gloves and scarf I suspect...



Impractical Wellies
Heeled Wellies. Whoever came up with this idea certainly needs shot.

Snowed In?

Its been a quiet month in Barbieland...until now... the surrounding area is under knee high snow. I love it, but when I go back to work tomorrow after a long weekend I think it might be a little difficult. I'll soldier in regardless as long as the buses don't get cancelled on me!

Heres what winter in Barbieland looks like...

During the day


Then during a flurry..

And after..
The tree blossomed! (with snow!)

Maybe not the reaction you were looking for?

Apparently a new movie has made its audience thrown up and faint at the premier. The headlines make it sound a great deal worse that it was though, one man threw up and one woman fainted.
Not exactly the whole cinema then...?

The offending scene comes from Danny Boyles new film, 127 Hours, a true life disaster movie which shows the main character sawing his own arm off with a pocket knife. Gruesome, I suppose, but for years doom-sayers have been telling us that TV and movies will make us all hardened to gore and violence, obviously they were wrong!

Time Travel or Crazies? hmmmm...

One of the more interesting stories in the news I spotted today was this article about a "Time Traveller" spotted in a 1928 Chaplin movie. The person in question does, to me anyway, appear to be holding a device and speaking. Its got me a little intrigued, but the cynic in me can't help thinking that maybe it is just a hoax.

Have a look and see what you think...

Bus Etiquette Please!

I may* (*read: probably am!) just be growing into a grumpy old lady, but travelling on public transport in Edinburgh can be an absolute nightmare at times.

I couldn't choose one single thing that gets to me, but I think what annoys me most is a seemingly total disregard of the concept of a queue. Edinburgh tends to suffer from bus stops that overflow with people, who just stand in the general area- usually in the middle of the pavement, in case anyone dares to want past!

Unfortunately the problem with putting up with these things everyday is that I've started to become thoroughly ruthless, dropping my own manners to the level of those who are annoying me so much!

I hate these paradoxes!

Some people are never happy

Someone - namely Nicholas Robertson, 38 - complained to the media because he got treatment at a hospital. Not unusual I suppose if someone has a medical negligence issue such as instruments being left inside etc, but his problem was nothing this outrageous, He had his burned hand wrapped in a plastic bag from Tesco... When I first heard this I was expecting maybe a grotty carrier bag, or something extreme which would have shown diminished care, but no, wrong again! they used a sterile freezer bag. Perfect!

But he's not happy.
I wouldn't be either had I spilt lighter fluid over myself and then been stupid enough to set my arm on fire.

Big thumbs up to the NHS for making good use of their dwindling funds, and a big thumbs down for stupid losers out for a quick buck at the paper office.

Monday, Monday

I'm not the type of person who spends her whole weekend dreading the coming Monday. Unusually I enjoy my job and get satisfaction from it, so its not a dread-filled thing for me.

Today however can be best be summed up by this...




Its Tuesday tomorrow...It can only get better!