*sulk*

Mutterings continued.

Well, Manfred has been registered (with the amusing number plate 1BUS) but it was too late for the credit union to do up a cheque. So I'll have to pick him up on Monday. I'm thinking of changing his name to Einey. 1BUS = ein Bus in German. Einey for short. Einey was my favourite character in Cowboy Beebop. Maybe not. It's Friday again. Already. I'd forgotten to report on this. The chippie in Dunkeld in Scotland had a rather interesting menu board. One of the items that I was tempted to buy but just couldn't bring myself to do it was deep fried pizza. "The Mediterranean diet is penetrating into Scotland, "albeit in the form of deep-fried pizza," say Morrison and Pettigrew.

Pizza is one of several items that customers have asked shops to deep-fry, along with bananas, pineapple rings and creme eggs, a highly sweet confectionery." Urgh.

And speaking of chocolate: " A DAILY meal of seven ingredients including wine and chocolate could cut heart disease by 76 per cent, Australian researchers have found.

The diet comprising wine, fish, dark chocolate, fruit, vegetables, almonds and garlic, would also increase life expectancy by more than six years in men and five years in women." Yay!!!

<>On my Shrek2 DVD is a trailer for Lemony Snicket which looks interesting. Don't think The Guardian agrees. "It all stops and starts with those three novels joined end to end: three dodgy situations, three cliff-hangers, three opportunities for Carrey to dress up in wacky disguises and funny voices, while we are all supposed to howl with grateful laughter. Between the joins, the plot swings along in a reasonably lively way, but everything is strangely contrived and soulless."