Yesterday was a bizarre shopping day according to the papers
apparently there were hundreds of thousands of people out shopping in the morning but by 2pm, streets were empty and roads were deserted. Even the M25, the legendary Road To Hell (according to Chris Rea) was empty.
It really was a day of two halves.
The morning was busy. the sales of large screen TV's, lager, champagne, wine, pizzas, sausages chicken drumsticks and Ice Cream went up!

At Bluewater in Kent, shoppers began queuing at 8am, an hour before the stores opened. By 2pm it was empty save for a single shopper.

Imagine being the only shopper in Bluewater! Every shop you went in, you will be pounced on by eager shop assistants. Anf then all the store detectives would follow you around, because there would be no-one else.

How would you feel if you were the only shopper in Bluewater?

Heres an interesting question....
Boarding schools, Good or bad?
I have been reading some peoples opinions and here were a couple.

Ohhhh Im going to offend here, but I think parents that send their kids to boarding school when it is not absolutely necessary are::

kidding themselves on that it is good for them!!!

How self sufficient can you be in a place where you cannot even choose whether the lights are on or off? You do everything to someone else's schedule? Your life is ruled by bells (get up, go downstairs, go to school, have lunch, do homework, do laundry, have a shower, shine shoes etc etc etc....You cannot cook for yourself, cannot even choose what you will be having to eat....bah!!!

And here is a response to it

It's OK. You didn't offend me. I went to a boarding school. It was not what you might deem 'necessary' for my parents to send me there, as in there were perfectly good day schools around. But they thought it 'necessary' that I went to boarding school for, among other things, the life skills you pick up there.

You are right about the restrictions, eg lights out and all the other rules. But it teaches you discipline, and also the idea that you are ultimately responsible for the consequences of your behaviour (ie if you break the rules, you get punished). You eat what you are given, true, but that teaches you to cope, to survive in whatever situation you find yourself in. Look at how HMs fall apart when BB put them on rations. Boarding school would have got rid of such babyish behaviour.

Boarding school may not be right for everyone, but I heartily recommend it. Unless there is a good reason why not, all my children will be going.

The housemates referred to are the Big Brother Housemates.

I think I would have enjoyed boarding school personally. But I also liked the fact that I could go home and spend the evening how I wanted.
What are your opinions?

Sunday Morning, and as always I got up early to spend some time with my OH before she goes to work.
Normally I just potter around and watching sleeping housemates in Big Brother Live. But today BB has woken them all up! hey have to do a task. It's an endurance test, and the winner will (probably) get immunity from eviction. They have to stand on a podium and the one that lasts the longest wins.
Nikki lasted all of 1 second! As soon as she got on she shouted out "I quit I Quit! I can't take it anymore".
I hope Grace wins, especially after she heard all that Hateful chanting on Friday. If she doesn't win immunity, then it is almost certainly gonna be her out next Friday