Madness I tell you!!!!!

Right so I know it's 3 days until Christmas and everything but I have quite literally just risked life and limb to go into town and get he last of out christmas food. Come on people, please calm down a bit!! If we all queue up nicely and wait our turn you will get there, you don't need to stress out and get all narky with me.

p.s The guy in the 4X4 in Morrisons, yes you nearly did run me over and it was not appreciated!!

Housing Crisis!

OK, I'm living at university with all my friends and it's great but there's just one problem. In a few months we're expected to find our own places to live, be it flats or houses or a cardboard box, after next June we are well and truly on our own. Scary!

Now because I'm a journalist I watch the news quite a lot and it seems that there’s been a lot of talk recently about a crash in house prices and how it will affect the economy.

So I know that this is going to sound really selfish but I just wish this price crash would hurry up so that I could afford a nice house instead of some of the 'budget' properties that I've been looking at. Take this morning, I got up extra early go and view a 'spacious three double bedroom mid-terrace' house with my friends, we were quite excited because it looked so lovely on the picture and seemed to have everything. How wrong were we?? There were several problems, including:

No parking. NONE!

Three 'double bedrooms' was two and a hamster cage

The smallest kitchen in the world!

LOW ceilings

As you might be able to tell I’m a bit frustrated because I thought we’d stuck gold this morning, never mind. We’ll just have to keep looking!

Last night

OK, so I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a party animal. Nine times out of ten I would rather be curled up in bed watching a good movie and generally relaxing.

However it's nearly the end of term, I've finished all my work (the swot that I am). So basically didn't' have anything to do last night. The boys have been saying for the past two weeks that they hardly see me so I thought it'd be a good excuse to go down to the union and have a night off from studying.

And I’m glad to say that I had a fantastic night last night, even if those bloody high heel have finished my feet of for the rest of my life (I really should learn my lesson that I can’t wear four inch heels all night!) and the fact that I woke up at lunchtime (with a banging headache). I think I’ll have to have an early night tonight- I’m still an old woman at heart!

Oh yeah and just randomly Waitrose was ram raided last night, what did they steal?? Expensive chicken or something?!

Nearly Christmas!!!

Right so it's not long until Christmas now :) and because I'm so fed up of leaving everything until last minute I'm not only prepared this year, I'm ridiculously over prepared. All my Christmas cards are written, all my presents wrapped and all that needs doing is putting up the Christmas tree and decking it out with tinsel etc.

If you're reading this and are astonished that I'm so organised there is a reason, I'm a student and having to buy all the presents in one go is way beyond my means so I have to shop throughout the year and buy things when I see something that I think someone will like. Actually I reckon that I've saved myself a lot of time, money and stress this year because I'm not having to buy everything so close to Christmas with the masses in town, if I have to go into town it's for necessities and even then I avoid going in until I REALLY have to go. Or alternatively shop online, god bless the Internet! Plus most sites deliver for free at this time of year saving you more money :)

I’m not the Grinch or anything I love Christmas but every year it seems that shops stock Christmas presents earlier and earlier and that presents get more and more expensive. It’s getting ridiculous!! Over commercialisation seems to have taken over every holiday there is nowadays, from Valentines Day to Easter Sunday. Does anyone remember the real meaning of these holidays?? I’m not religious or anything in fact I don’t really believe in religion but that isn’t the point, all of these days are meant to be religious holidays and I seem to be the only person in the world who realises this. It drives me mental!!!!

All this and now we’re been told by The Powers That Be (the government) that projected shopping sales are down and that the economy is suffering as a result. I find this so hard to believe, have these people actually been out of their homes and offices over the past few weeks?? Everyone and their dos are out shopping at the minute, the streets are packed. I swear that I saw an old lady get pushed off the pavement by the crowd the other day.

And do you know what the worst thing is?! Some fairy with no brain has decided to close Oxford Street to all traffic on a weekend so that it can be completely pedestrianised, now is it just me or is this the worst idea EVER dreamt up?! So now when you walk down Oxford street on a Saturday now it’s not tear away cyclists and taxi drivers that you have to avoid it’s mothers with pushchairs and their entire family (dad not always included) in tow. It seems beyond unbelievable that everyone and their best mate has left their Christmas shopping until this late in the year, but it has happened.

It is the beginning of the end!!

If you want to visit a few websites that I like for cool gifts have a look at the list below:
I want one of those

EBay (The old favourite)

Oxfam Gifts

Find me a Gift

What is wrong with the world??

John Darwin -->

Ok so unless you have been sat under a rock for the past week and a bit you will not have been able to miss the weirdest news story in the world.

John Darwin who disappeared and was presumed dead over five years ago from near his home in Hartlepool after he had gone out in his canoe, has walked into a central London police station saying that he had no recollection of the last five years and that he doesn’t know where he’s been.

A likely story.

There’s just one slight problem, a photo was released shortly after his miraculous ‘reappearance’ apparently showing Mr Darwin with his wife and an estate agent in the city of Panama in Central America.

You think that’s shocking well keep on reading!

Mr Darwin and his wife were with an estate agent who they had just bought a house from, but here comes the twist. The money they used to buy the house with was partly from Mr Darwin’s life insurance money and the money that his wife received from the sale of their family home in Hartlepool.

Shocking? Well keep on reading because it’s about to get worse.

My Darwin’s smashed canoe was found washed up on Hartlepool beach shortly after his disappearance. Mr and Mrs Darwin have two grown up sons together who for the past five years have believed that their father had drowned at sea in a mysterious canoeing accident. Not only was their father alive and well but also it emerged yesterday that their father was still in their family house. Mr Darwin has spoken of how he snuck into a bed-sit adjoining the family home whenever friends and family came to visit.

Are these the normal activities of a sane man??

Ok so maybe not, but it can’t be said that Mrs (Anne) Darwin has had any less involvement in the scandal than her husband. Not only has she kept her husband hidden from the world, she has helped him to commit fraud and had his declared ‘dead’ so that she could claim the life insurance money.

What a nice lady she must be.

On a plus side both Mr and Mrs Darwin are in court today to answer for their actions. Mr Darwin is charged with fraud (for the life insurance money), falsely representing his death and somehow obtaining a fake passport and flying to Panama from the UK.

This story is far from finished and if the plot so far is anything to go by I don’t think that the ending can be anything but dramatic!