My last modelling job
As you all know, given how much I have complained about it, I have had the busiest summer on record.
This week, I was supposed to be hamming it up at my church’s annual holiday club for under-tens. I had to request a sabbatical. I am what is technically known in the business as knackered.
Today is a public holiday in the UK, the last one before Christmas. Traditionally, Brits like to spend it barbecuing. What Brits actually do is veg in front of the TV.
I am not a woman to let down my country.
See you tomorrow.
I did that yesterday, but am still knackered. The problem is that the garden is in a jungle state, and there are other things to do. I just picked a mountain of runner beans to freeze, then noticed that the courgettes were, unaccountably, suddenly large marrows. I am now in search of a chutney recipe,d as we don’t like marrow!
It really is all about food, isn’t it?
It’s good you’ve gone for the healthy option of veg,
Good one!
Definitely a three-grin comment
Good for you – keep the British flag flying…
Hope you find something good on the tv to watch – traditionally it’s awful stuff on a bank holiday!
I watched some stuff I’d taped and then read all afternoon
Good for you. Enjoy your day! A few old movies, a pile of take-out food and soft comfy home-only clothes (no bra) ….. ahhhhhhhh
Are you me?
Shoot. Even when you’re being flaky you are funny.
But, what is the occasion? A patriotic holiday?
Nope, just a bank holiday. I think they originated with banks giving their employees a day off to go by train to the seaside.
I have to look it up now.
Here you go:
A bank holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom or a colloquialism for public holiday in Ireland. There is no automatic right to time off on these days, although banks close and the majority of the population is granted time off work or extra pay for working on these days, depending on their contract.[1] The first official bank holidays were the four days named in the Bank Holidays Act 1871, but today the term is colloquially (albeit incorrectly) used for public holidays which are not officially bank holidays, for example Good Friday and Christmas Day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_holiday
Patriotism knows no holiday.
Al knows no limits to his cleverness
Have a rest. No point in being so busy that you don’t enjoy yourself.
Excellent point!
so glad you get a chance to completely veg out! whew what a busy summer you have had!
Whenever I hear knackered, I think of knickers, don’t know why. You my dear deserve the day of rest you have had too many visitors. Take the national holiday with the nation and celebrate with the t.v. See you tomorrow.
Could it be because of Knick-knack Paddywhack, give the dog a bone?
The UK does seem to have a lot of Bank Holidays..maybe they should cancel some of them then there would not be a problem
Go wash your mouth out with soap! Immediately!
have a fun day!!!
Good on you!
Hope the weather was kind to you … and that you had a great day … and BBQ.
Have a great day off, Till, you deserve it.
We don’t have a holiday here, only political conventions and hurricanes. Lots of hot air either way. Dianne
Thanks for the chuckle
Enjoy, Mrs. Bud. You deserve it.
Hope you’ve had a good day today, Tilly!
I could have sworn that I posted a reply to this earlier today, but it isn’t there now. I have had a bit of a glitch today, so your reply may be on someone else’s blog!
Nope, no Tom’s been here before you
Have a fine holiday break….I just came back from several days in the mountains…one needs those breaks from time to time.
How lovely!
Couldn’t you figure out a way to barbecue and veg in front of the tube at the same time? Be inventive! Think out of the box!
Or eat out of a box – TV dinners all round!
Love the fridge magnet – may I use it sometime! It so accurately describes my life some days – especially during this latest move!
Help yourself!
Enjoy your time out!
I did, thank you
I never got into the whole refrigerator magnet and picture thing. Maybe because I never had children? Maybe because I just like my refrigerator to be cleaner? I don’t know. I do know that I have bulletin boards in all the rooms so that people can put that kind of stuff on the bulletin boards instead of my $2,000 refrigerator……..lol
When I bought my fridge (about a tenth of the cost of yours), I threw away my fridge magnets. But I’ve had it about six years now, maybe longer, so the magnets have crept back in.
I am still playing catch-up after a week away. I am sitting on the couch with my ‘poor sore leg’ in the air and I think I slept for half the morning! I may do the same again this afternoon.
Poor Grannymar. Bet you wish you had a TV now, don’t you