Keeps ticking away

Colindale, London, England // 5.24 pm // Mostly cloudy 18c / 64f

Halfway through the week, and it's been a pretty heavy one so far. Something I neglected to say in my last blog post was that on Sunday Elle managed to do something for me that I had been hoping to happen for 8 years. She found square sausage in England! Square/lorne sausage/slice is a Scottish delicacy, and is something I grew up on back home. Right now, now that I'm thinking about it, there's nothing I want more than a roll and slice with a tattie scone. Anyway, I digress. I noticed on Twitter that some random had said something about square sausage. So I tweeted back something about the fact I've never been able to find it in 8 years is one of the biggest downsides of living in England. She replied shortly afterwards. Turns out she lives in Coventry, and Iceland sell the stuff! Elle headed to our nearest Iceland in Burnt Oak and, right enough, they do sell it!! It's hardly as good as the stuff you get out of the butchers back home, but my god will it do! Now all I need is a place I can buy Scotch pies and bridies...

Monday was my last day of the long weekend. I slept till around 10am and did some DXing. A guy from British Gas came round around lunchtime to do the annual gas boiler inspection and safety check, and thankfully all was ok. Monday afternoon mainly consisted of getting the flat in order, doing loads of dishes, preparing for the radio show and doing more DXing. Later, I headed to Asda to get ingredients for dinner, which has been named "Spaghetti Shenanigans", and is basically chicken and bacon spaghetti with tomatoes, garlic and herbs, with garlic bread. It was, of course, really bloody good. I also came across one of the most impressive things about anything I've done cooking wise yet since I started all this. I'm now fascinated by the process of peeling tomatoes. It's soo easy!

Yesterday I went back to work and was really suffering from tiredness when I got home. But, I still had to head back out and do the radio show last night, which was really good fun. I loved playing that EWF track - it went down really well.

Still not been successful in getting the handyman into the flat to sort out the sealing around the bath. We rearranged for him to come round this coming Thursday, after he failed to appear last Friday (he simply said "I couldn't make it". No shit). Then he turns up yesterday, two days early, when I'm not in, and calls to ask me where I am! I don't know where my patience comes from.

Yesterday I also received the current Celtic home top, which I neglected to buy when it came out last summer. Thankfully, it's still the home top for this season, and is actually the first time I've actually owned a current Celtic football top, after my £10 steal at Tesco in Reading just days after it was no longer the current strip! I'll be wearing the new top with pride at the Wembley Cup next weekend, which I'm looking forward to immensely!