The Cheerful Insanity of Me

The other thing Forest Hill had yesterday was a charity shop...

:-)

The general upshot of which is that I now have a ice-cream maker :-)

Just in time for the summer!

No instructions though, but presumably it'll just be a case of making it cold in the freezer, popping the ingredients in and stirring.

Will have to experiment next weekend

While looking for a new (well new to me) phone yesterday, I may have accidentally bought a few DVDs (also second hand) *whistles innocently*

I've seen Firefly mentioned on here a few times before and a few years ago I found a cheap Serenity DVD, which I enjoyed, so it didn't take much for me to go "ooooh, cheap firefly box set... mine!" (also found X files series 1 and a few films).

Watched the first episode last night. Very impressed. Having watched Serenity spoilt some of the Simon/River plotline, but there were enough other plots going on to compensate for this.

I haven't seen a huge amount of Buffy, so may be making a sweeping generalisation from what I have seen, but the characters in it in the episodes I have seen have seemed quite shallow. Whereas, in this first episode of Firefly, Whedon seems to develop much deeper characters. From the brief introduction of the first episode it's not clear what to make of them all or how the open battle scenes will fit into the over story of the captain.

I'm not a bit fan of westerns either, but it's interesting to see their influence coming through. The whole first episode screams "western set in space" at you.

*hmmm_tea suspects this was money well spent*

So, I've done my usual trick, and found the charity shops.

As I result I've gained:

• A clothes valet (as I needed something to hang things on in the bedroom)


• A set of cast iron kitchen scales (I've always loved proper scales with weights - suspect I may need to get new weights though as the smallest one is 2 oz).


• A recipe book stand (simply because they seem useful)

Why is it that shoe manufacturers assume that anyone who has size 13 feet, must have feet which are also deep and narrow?

Do they think that when you get above a certain length, your feet turn into sausages?