nagging and napping

A very relaxing weekend was enjoyed by myself and Lord Rowe of Wakefield. We awoke to discover that there was no milk to be had in the house and so pounced upon our bikes and headed for Mill Road, where, like some sort of crazy students, we enjoyed a giant plate of scrambled eggs and beans for the honest price of £3.25. We escalated the cost by going completely nuts and having an array of expensive drinks including Perrier (?!)
Engergized by a belly full of eggs we then set out in the wind and sun and went to the Scott Polar institute, mainly to look at the 100year old ship's biscuits, cause I love them. A quick amble around the Fitzwilliam, taking in an amazing selection of Japanese drawings, and we headed home. My back was very bad all weekend, mostly my sciatica, so I had a hot bath and then the usual effect of this took hold and I fell asleep.
In the evening we opened a milkshake bar and created: penguin and creme egg, creme egg shot, milky way, crunchie, and penguin and milky way. Simon went into the future from a milk O.D. so we put the bar away and watched a programme about Salman Rushdie during the Fatwah on him, was pretty unbelievable, I really hope something could never get to that level of insanity again. Also, he's really really annoying, so it must have been well frustrating to defend his rights to the death, even though, of course, you absolutely must, cause he is pretty annoying.
More illicit napping took place on Sunday, I always feel so guilty after I spend hours of my weekend napping, but really, that is what it's for, surely? It is the single most pleasurable activity I can possible think of, sleeping in the day, getting under the duvet and succumbing to the warmth until your eyes go droopy, then waking up and realising you don't have anything to do anyway! I wish I could enjoy it without the guilt. Stupid over-critical Super-ego...

An urgent word here, for those of you who for some INSANE reason are not watching
Orang-utan Diaries, Wed, 8pm BBC2, get ON IT! It's the best programme on telly and will make you all happy. You can get series 1 on dvd, which I also recommend thoroughly. If you look on iplayer you can catch the first 2 episodes so you're all up-to-date. In episode one they showed how the babies have to be tickled for half an hour each day!! Watch it, it's brilliant, and really interesting.