Put the Champagne on ice / You Make Me Feel So Young

Well, some good news, finally.

My old girl Sonic turned up this evening, very thin and weak and with a somewhat diminished meow. But she's back and safe and sound, resting at her second home. None of us have any idea where she's been, but after several days, given her age, we were beginning to lose hope. So relieved she's back. At the moment she hasn't eaten anything, but I'm going to take her to the vets first thing tomorrow to get her checked over and fingers crossed she'll make a recovery from her mystery ordeal.

I went into Huddersfield today to do a spot of shopping and was in an art store buying some, well, arty stuff. When I went to pay, the woman on the till asked me if I had a student ID card (not that the place is a licenced premises but on account that they give a student discount). On telling her that I didn't, she then proceeded to ask me what school I go to. Thinking she was joking, I laughed and said, "I'm 25", which I am, but I thought she was taking the p**s. The highly embarrassed look on her face that greeted me on this revelation told me that no, in fact she hadn't been joking. When I told her I was flattered (not that I should be, I can't think of anything worse than being mistaken for a teenage schoolkid) and that I'd definately shop there again I could almost hear her thinking, "God, please don't." With hindsight, I'd slipped up majorly. If I'd have only known she was being serious, I could have told her the school I used to go to and made the most of the 10% discount. Maybe I'll leave it a while, long enough for her to forget me, and then I'll go back and see if I can get away with it.

Before I sign out, I just read something that amused me on the BBC website. In preparation for 2012 Olympics, the Borough of Westminster has come up with.... you guessed it. A text service that will tell you, if you sent TOILET to the appropriate number, the location of the nearest loos and hours of operation. So there you go. If you see this.....

....there's loo need to panic.

Over and out

NLO