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I am feeling so poor. Went out to Norwich today to buy ‘gorgeous things sweetie, gorgeous things‘ (and, ideally, pillows, a new bag, new shoes). Oh, and bog brushes because, apparently, my cleaners don’t like my disposable toilet duck bog brush thing and want old skool ones. There were also a few other bits and bobs I was going to buy which we can throw into the category of ‘mundane crap’.

Well, we failed miserably on the pillows front (too bulky, needed 4, will probably get them from Dunelm down the road from me at a later date). We did, however, get two new bog brushes. We didn’t even see any bags we liked, let alone try to buy one. Got a bath mat and a second dressing gown for guests though . Shoes were a washout (why is it that M&S never have your bloody size in?) but we got coat hangers, and hey, we all need coat hangers (well, I do, I seem to have more shirts than hangers now) What else was bought… oh yes, few DVD’s (my long term ex gained custody of The Fifth Element and Gladiator so I finally got round to replacing those. Only took me 15 months ), two new games for the Pee Ess Three (’cos I’m a sad geek and… well, there is no further justification), game guide for one of my XBox 360 games (see previous comment about being a geek), two 2lb bread tins for someone’s birthday pressie (maybe one day she’ll log on and comment, claims she doesn’t want to look like my groupie. I want goupies dammit! ). Er… fizzy wine stopper (ironically for non alcoholic bottles of fizzy grape juice dressed to look like Champagne), Cereal container so I can buy Alpen for work and have a proper filling breakfast (Don’t ask. My life fell to pieces, I started eat Alpen by the bucket load. I’m old. Leave me alone ) instead of overpriced mango from M&S or (as its been more recently) a Mars Bar. Oh yes, and I spanked £500 on glass.

Now, those who know me well will be wondering why I bought such a cheap lens, so prepare to be a bit shocked (c’mon guys, you know the lenses I want cost well over a grand [in some cases well over many grand], are absolutely hayuge and require ordering from specialist shops, not walking into Jessops and asking [ "300mm L series....yes....the white one? Stonking great big thing.....Look, can I speak to someone who has actually seen a camera before please?"]). No, when I say glass I don’t mean finely ground highly accurate low dispersion fluorite elements in a metal casing with various electronics and motors, I mean bits of glass, albeit very pretty glass, but bits of glass nonetheless. There are 3 bits for my Japanese Table (yeah, I know, but I do live in what you’d expect the showroom for the bastard child of John Lewis and Ikea to look like, and yes, it is actually always that tidy, and no rogersdb, I’m not a serial killer, I just like being neat and tidy ), plus a bowl type thing which may also live on there an two bits for my bedroom. I traded a holiday to America and/or Barbados for that lot (yes, they are that nice, yes I am that crazy). I may well even take proper studio shots of the bits of glass and get them printed onto large canvases and hang them on the wall (look, you go try spending that amount on what amounts to ornaments if you’re not that excited about them. Won’t happen, so let me be excited cos, well, I am .

So there you have it. The Toys Account will need to be raided to pay for it all (currently most of it is residing on my Partnership Card which is still smoking through overuse).