Another barbie blog post, but you don't read this blog for intellectual stimulation. Just spent a weekend in Kislingbury in Northamptonshire visiting relatives. Visited airkix in Milton Keynes which was a great experience. There is a dvd of my performance, I will rip the good bits and discard the "lying on my belly unable to get any lift" section!!
Spent Saturday in Oxford and Bicester village outlet mall. Oxford is always enjoyable, but Bicester is a nightmare. I have been about 4 or 5 times now, shopping is bad enough, crowds of people buying unnecessary tat. Outlet malls are even more depressing, it's worse than a jumble sale, people fighting over hugely expensive tat because the initial price was 5 times as expensive.
Incidentally when I used to help run jumble sales for scout funds we used to catch people shop lifting. We also used to have an elderly golf club member, very well to do 'society woman' who used rubber gloves when decanting the donated clothes on to the tables. This is well off track now, a post straight from the school of Stray Taoist.
Anyway I was in the Molton Brown shop, I like the eucalyptus shower gel but I don't anymore when I found out it's 15 quid a bottle, a quick calculation makes my bathroom contents more expensive than my wardrobe contents. There was a dressing gown, the tag said 90 quid and it was reduced from £545.oo, true bill, over 500 quid for a dressing gown.
I couldn't get over the amount of wildlife round about Kislingbury, we saw buzzards, red kites,kestrels pheasant,rabbits,hedehogs, that's right hedeghogs, it was -4 outside and there were three hedgehogs munching cat food on the back door step. They are supposed to hibernate at this time of year, but in they trot from the orchard safe in the knowledge that there is a nightly meal waiting.