Just Jo!

I’ve just realised that you can see on Flickr how many times a photo has been viewed. Most popular? Olivia’s Bangladeshi flag….I know I don’t exactly have a lot of photos up yet, but it does seem somewhat odd….takes all kinds I suppose. And, like Olivia said, the flag’s wrong anyway.
Aaah, perhaps that’s it. People are checking out what’s wrong with it!
My bed was far too comfy this morning so I stayed there. For a long time. I won’t tell you exactly how long, ‘cos it was quite obscene in all honesty. But there was just the perfect hole in the bed for me to sink in to. Well, would you want to get up if you didn’t have to? Exactly!
And Olivia took full advantage to watch lots of her Robin Hood DVD. So we were both extremely content. Adam wasn’t, ‘cos he had to go to work….my heart is bleeding….well you try Tesco’s own brand after Lush!!!
So what did we do today? Not a lot really. Olivia carried on with her knitting and finished her Biblical transport picture. I found a moon phase button thingy that she really wanted to put on her blog. All I can say is, thank goodness Lin was online at the time and managed to resurrect Olivia’s blog!!
Lots of frantic emailing and IMing, Olivia hyperventilating, “Where’s…uh…my…uh…blog…?”
Lin got it sorted, “Ha! Lin’s better than yoo-hoo!”
“Shut up!”
We had to go into town to get ingredients for a cake Olivia wants to make at the weekend. Also picked up the new Bugs and Art of Knitting for us both.
Lots more weird chat again….
I’d already told Olivia what we needed to buy in town, she had to remember three things. As we were getting ready to go out, “So, what have you got to get?”
“All brown.”
“All Bran!”
“I don’t like saying All Bran.”
“Well, you have to, that’s what it’s called.”
“I’m not used to saying it though.”
Then while she’s supposed to be brushing her hair, “Stop jumping around!”
“I’m not! I’m hopping backwards!”
On our way home, we got off the bus, “D’you think I’ll get stronger if I carry heavy things? ‘Cos I’m using my muscles, so they’ll get stronger?”
(Can you see what’s coming next?!)
“Yes dear, the more bags you carry, the stronger you’ll be! Try these on for size!”
Once home, Olivia *had* to introduce her new bug to the scorpion, “Where’s my little scorpion? There he is! I’ve got a friend for you! Here he is! You might try to eat him though. Doubt it, ‘cos you’re all locked up!”
We’d already decided that we were going to have a tomato tart for dinner and Olivia wanted to cook it but then….
“Actually, I’ve changed my mind. Can I not do dinner now?”
“Well, it means you get to use a rolling pin.”
“Ha ha!!” (I thought she was excited about rolling pastry, but no….)
“Ha ha!! Whack! Whack! Whack on your head!”
Evil child!!!
While the tart was cooking, we had a look through the Bugs magazine, “I’m definitely collecting all the spiders mum.”
“OK.”
“So when there’s a spider, I’m getting it!”
“OK.” (Could’ve sworn we’d just covered that!)
There was also a page on ‘heavy-weights’. Yep, the biggest insects imaginable. With photos. On people’s hands. HUGE!!! (OK, so they’re on kid’s hands and insects seem even huge-er) I have to admit to the pair of us getting very, very girly, “Eeeww!! Horrible!! Gross!!”
Not sure I want any one of them in my house, even if they are dead and encased in perspex!
This week it’s an Emerald Beetle. Except it’s not. In Olivia’s world, it’s an Almond Beetle.
The scorpion’s called Scorpio and the beetle’s called Greeny….
Sod the detox, I need the wine!
She did cook dinner though, here are photos….

And she spent ages sorting her Geomags out to put in the new box we got in town. I’ll be knitting the next square of the throw from the Art of Knitting later. But first I have to read some more of Our Island Story.
That’s about it today, basically lots of me banging my head against any available hard surface!