Current mood:	bouncy
Current music:	Uptight - Stevie Wonder

Senseless working overtime
I've had a smashing week off so far, which is slightly odd since I spent two days of my week off at work. Hmm.

Monday was the pop quiz which was a hoot. We came an impressive fourth and what's more scooped the best team name prize with "I Want To Live Like House Of Commons People", winning a sack of Skips for our trouble.

Tuesday I did a spot of overtime from noon till six. I'm going on holiday next month so I could do with the extra dosh. Anyway, it was a breeze. I was mostly reading medical journals. Headline of the day was worthy of Have I Got News For You: "Yes, we can manually extract faeces!"

Wednesday was a leisurely band rehearsal in Stoke Newington. Afterwards I optimistically ventured to M&S to see if there was anything left at their penny bazaar. There wasn't.

Back at work on Thursday after a quick dip in the pool. Six hours summarising Cable & Wireless and Waitrose stories. Exciting. Oh, before all that I optimistically ventured to M&S at about 10am to see if there was anything left at their penny bazaar. There wasn't. In the evening it was Charley's birthday karaoke at Bloomsbury Bowling Alley. As is usually the case with karaoke I found it immensely stressful at the beginning but enormous fun by the end after sufficient application of alcoholic lubrication.

I got up early this morning, determined to make it to M&S's penny bazaar. I arrived about 15 minutes before opening time. There was a queue of roughly 200 people snaking down Holloway Road. It was quite a jolly atmosphere. Every 15 minutes or so a member of staff would shout "All the socks have gone now" (or equivalent) at which point everyone would groan. I had my heart on the socks, ties, mugs and tea towels, but all of these went before I was anywhere near the shop. By the time I was finally admitted about an hour after arrival, it was down to the very last dregs. My booty comprised of 3 cans of fizzy pop, a piece of chocolate and some kind of brooch thing. Still, 5p. Mustn't grumble.

Fellow misers may also be interested to note that The Sun has 5 quid off (when you spend £30) Morrisons vouchers every day this week. It's only 20p today and there's some nice tits on page 3.


Thursday:

Karaoke: 8.00
Lager: 11.80

Friday:

3x cans of Dandelion & Burdock: 0.03
A big chocolate penny: 0.01
Some kind of brooch I think: 0.01
Charitable donation: 0.95
4 pints milk: 1.73
Bananas: 0.99
The Sun: 0.20

Total spend so far this month: £1,059.77