05 October 2003 | 7:03 p.m.,

Whats the world coming to?

My mum just announced that she likes Bob The Builder. Can I just point out that she's 58 and has no grandkids and therefore no excusable reason for watching TV shows aimed at toddlers?

Apparently it happened to be on when she put the TV on to look at teletext. Uh huh.. That doesn't explain her actually watching it and going on about how bright and colourful it is and how he hangs off his JCB instead of sitting in it. And he has a cement mixer.

I thought it was bad enough the way that Morris used to go on about kids shows and cartoons but he had a pre-school aged wee boy. Although he said he kept trying to get him interested in Sister Sister because he thought the girls in it were tidy [jail bait more like!] but to no avail. Mad S has frequently shown a liking for childrens TV shows [and German porn - his taste is clearly quite broad ranging..] but he's not right in the head.

But my own MOTHER???!!! That is slightly more disturbing!

And she even had my dad watching it - just too see how bright the colours were - which I discovered when he jumped into the conversation with "I thought he had a female helper, that had to go and have her hair done?"

My parents are losing the plot.

In other news I hate those evil corporate big wigs and their "copy control". I didn't even realise that was POSSIBLE till I tried to copy the Skin CD I got from the library. And couldn't.

Blah...

I did get old Nickelback though ('_')

And now I have CDs out by Vanessa Carlton, Starsailor and Creed.

Finally today I managed to get my little DIY self-help foldery thing into some kind of order. Basically its just a whole pile of old magazine articles etc. I rip out the ones I want to keep and thrown the rest of the mag in for recycling. So I had a whole jumble of stuff from all the exercise stuff [loads of those ones.. will I ever do any of it?!?], to beauty tips [lord knows I need those!], to health stuff and lots of those "be more organised", "how to be happy", "have more confidence", "get your life in order" type articles.

Oh and my recipe for jasmine scented bath crystals ('_')

So I now its all organised I have no excuse not to start using some of the tips and stuff. Especially the exercise stuff. I keep telling myself I will work on getting rid of the dinner lady arms and rapidly expanding stomach before the Xmas nights out.

Then I go and have a burger and some chips instead. Way to get a good figure!