Friday Five:
1) After having an awful stomach ache last night after supper (tomato soup, a cheese toastie, and a glass of milk... say what???) and hours hunched over in the loo, and 10 hours straight sleep, I feel much better today. Hmmm, I wonder about that gall bladder, sometimes.
2) My five-tier Songmics bamboo shelving unit came. I wanted to put it in the kitchen, but we have these weird baseboards where they retrofitted piping through or something. The baseboard sits 26cm high, and out four or five inches from the wall. The shelves looked odd in front of it. So I hopped a bus and went to B&Q to get some bricks, with the plan to put bricks under the front two legs and the back legs on the baseboard. The bricks look a little iffy, but it works. At a later date I will get some boards and put a board on top of the bricks and then around the base, to look a bit less student-flaty.
3) Coming back to the bus stop from B&Q with said 8 bricks was not good. I should have taken 2 Ikea blue bags and put 4 in each, but I only had the one bag and they were too awkward and heavy to carry. So I phoned the Daughter to get a cab for me and that I'd have them take me half way and then hop a bus. Cab showed up in less than 5 minutes, which is good as it was freezing cold and getting worse, and the sun was going down. Told the cabbie I wanted to go to Anniesland (about halfway home), where I'd catch a bus. He asked me where the bus was going to take me and I said home (gave the address) and he said he'd drive me the whole way for 8 quid. We had hit 8 quid before we even got to Anniesland, and he just reached up and turned off the meter. I told him it was ok, to just leave me at a bus stop, but he wouldn't hear of it. He said the bag was waay too heavy and it was too cold out and what was I thinking! So he drove me all the way home and then only wanted the 8 quid (for what should have been close to a 20pound fare). I gave him a tenner (which was all I had on me) and he wanted to give me change. Uh, no way! He even insisted on carrying the bag all the way to the front door. That's what I love about Glasgow....
4) The Daughter cooked a really nice Waitrose Chicken and Chorizo pizza for us for supper. Got them two for six. It was surprisingly good.
5) They are saying it's going to snow tomorrow. I believe that. I just ran to the corner shop to get some milk so I don't have to go out all weekend. Brrrrrrrrr.
