Sorry Mr Steinbeck I stole and altered your title.
I was wandering the webisphere when I came across this article, http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/10/10/arts_culture/doc4ad0ea94cb65e011619998.txt I read it and chuckled in a very unhumerous fashion,BT have been doing this to me for yonks,they charge £4.50 a quarter if you pay in cash for 'processing your payment' and then they stick an extra fiver on your next bill if you don't pay within a few days.In fact this quarter they have excelled even their usual money grubbing standards,it seems they have renewed my contract with them while I was looking the other way,in the process they have added an extra weeks debt to my bill "covers your broadband from when you took up the service right up to your next bill".All because I am a poor person who daren't hold plastic etc.
While I am having a good old whine about money,my boss had an episode of gall bladder pain at the weekend and thanks to private healthcare has already seen a surgeon and had a scan.............Now for the smelly yucky bit of my blog,somewhere under my bedroom floorboards is a deceased mouse,I can smell it,I have taken up any loose boards I can find and I still can't find the body,I am not a happy lady.I cannot disguise the smell,if I use enough air freshener/incense to cover it I shall die of asthma,hopefully it will soon ruddy mummify.Maybe I should send a cat mummy after it ?
Oh by the way,pop over to digital cuttlefish and read this little amusing poetic piece about that stupid man, his weather-balloon and the not floating away kid. http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2009/10/icarus-daedalus-falcon-and-richard.html

I am sitting here at the pooter eating my Sunday dinner,Gypsy toast,for anyone interested,how good is that,whatever I fancy I can have,no having to produce a huge meal for a herd of squabbling offspring,oh life is so tough :-)
I have spent the day working on the hippy-trippy blanket for middling daughters winter solstice gift,I was giving myself a headache with all those busy colours,so I have taken a break and been looking on-line for any ideas for youngest daughters pressie.She has requested a memory blanket,basically a quilt with memories of childhood on,so being a pauper or near as damn it,I have to do this on a tight budget.The plan is thus,instead of mega-money batting it will be stuffed with a soft fluffy blankie as the batting,lets be honest with today's quilts the blankie will be just ornamental anyway,I will cut out and stitch to it lots of silhouettes of kids and a dog,assorted cats and birds and chickens throw in the odd flower and apple and it should be done,I have found a really good tutorial for bias binding,which if made to the right size will be fine for quilt edging,along with that lot I am also making youngest a couple of tabards, to wear when she starts her new nannying job,from some lovely vintage looking teddy bear fabric,ideal as the kids are both under a year and a half.
So........more work to do.