David’s not been very well today and so we’ve missed out on a party tonight – Happy Birthday Martin, sorry we’re not there!

He retired to bed this afternoon – I think me watching Partridge Family re-runs drove him to it! I’d just been sitting there thinking ‘now I’ve vacuumed the downstairs (while burning our lunch the other day) why not try and get the upstairs done too'… So, that plan was thwarted with him in bed.

So, I decided to be try to be a great example of perfect womanhood by baking some biscuits (no, not the things you Americans call biscuits – which we call scones, the things you call cookies). Ginger nuts to be precise. Why ginger nuts? Well, I am having a bit of a passion with ginger at the moment – it’s my current favourite flavour. Of course what I like should have been irrelevant for a number of reasons:

1. they were for him
2. I don’t like sweet food
3. I’m on a diet

Anyway, whether or not it made sense, that was my plan.

I dutifully made them, popped them in the oven and waited. They came out too thin and a bit singed around the edges but did still taste nice. The upshot was I failed at my homely girl, trying to look after my sick man. I blew it.

My penance to myself was to climb a ladder and paint the sitting room while he was asleep……hmmmmm.

Last year I was having a rant about how 'Just call me Dave' only cares about you if you've got a marriage certificate and 2.4 children.....he makes me sick. The other day, he was warbling on about it again at some meeting - got loads of publicity for how much he cares about individuals well-being, then yet again, went on to make it quite clear that in fact it only applies if you're married with kids. Frankly I'm still appalled at the quality of the politicians we have here - this man is supposedly the best that the Tories can do..... My theory is that no-one should be allowed to be an MP until they've worked in another walk of life for at least 20 years - get a bit of the real world under their belts and have a clue about us poor sods who work for a living. Sorry - just realised I've been carried away again. NOTE: Don't think this rant makes me a Labour supporter or even a Lib Dem - they're all a bunch of low-down, good-for-nothing cowboys jumping onto whatever bandwagon will make them popular.

PS David thinks people will think we've taken to eating meat - he reckons this pic looks like a pile of burgers.