Coffin Nail

It was a cheese savoury £1.80 + 40p for the salad. Perhaps he hasn't bought a sandwich since 1972.

If I Ruled the World--Harry Secombe (OMG, where did my brain dig that up from. I'm clearly sickening for something. )

Got whinged at at work today by a customer (a middle aged GP) who objected to paying 40p for the salad on his sandwich. Salad consists of lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, egg, onion and beetroot. They can have any combination. I don't think that 40p is excessive, but GP wasn't impressed. This was the first complaint about price. What do you think??

Very funny Welsh comic Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience

I watched Shutter Island last night. Very good, Scorsese rarely disappoints me but it's not his best. I just don't get Leo, I'm afraid. Did I spot Robert De Niro in a cameo role??

Wild is the Wind-David Bowie

Wit, intelligence, unpredictability all work for me. But that could be said for my flavour of good guys too. There's a fine line between the two. Many of my good guys are deeply flawed characters.

Autumn 2011

As if there was a doubt in your mind that they'd be back; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11124783

You're Making me High-Toni Braxton

It's coming to the time of year when our teenage offspring go off to uni and begin the process of leaving home. I've seen this phenomenon in many different forms over the last twenty years and it never ceases to amaze me how normally sane, humourous, intelligent women go completely to pieces. My best friend went through agonies when her children left home; crying in Ikea picking out student necessities, crying in tesco's buying cases of value supernoodles, wearing her daughter's old cardy because it had her smell on. I even thought I heard her howling at the moon. She was inconsolable and endured all the same emotional trauma when her son left two years later. There was a woman in tesco's yesterday choosing housewares with her daughter, and the woman was trying to talk between sobs. I'm lucky. My son decided to stay home, go to a local uni so he can carry on working but that said, he's planning to move out after he's finished his degree. So he has one foot out of the door....the rest of him is usually under a duvet. My way of coping with the empty nest is to radically change my life so I have something to look forward to other than an occasional phone call.Added to a huge dollop of denial. Young Mum's are not excluded from anxiety. First day of primary school is a massive wrench for some women. Personally, I was relieved, apart from thinking I'd gone deaf because he never stopped talking. And a swift note to those about to fly the nest, good luck and go easy on your Ma, inside she's suffering. How did you cope? Or not?

Spring. Chicken or egg?

Natural High--Bloodstone

Night Fever-Bee Gees

Long and Winding Road--The Beatles

Rolos

Love My Way-Psychedelic Furs

I'm about to add him as another crime author I need to take a look at. Any thoughts? Good books to start off with?? Are they meant to be read in order or are they stand alone novels? Thanks. Coffin x

Fly Me to the Moon-Frank Sinatra

Finished Keeping the Dead--Tess Gerritsen and wasn't disappointed. I'll be finishing Imperial Bedrooms-Bret Eston Ellis before I turn out the light tonight. A much shorter read than I'm used to, but none the worse for that. Starting tomorrow with Julian Clary and Devil in Disguise. Should be camp larks all round.

If You Don't Know Me By Now--Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes

Green Wing Series 1. Just discovered it. Very funny.

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