Saturday 26th October, 2013            2100

On Thursday I indeed took Miffy for dinner and “re-christened” her Kerry. I took two photos, the one of her isn’t particularly good but the other does show quite well the Chinese mushrooms I ordered. I have to say they are very tasty.

Previously that day one of my students thankfully sent me a text reminding me of my appointment to be interviewed. I say thankfully because I had completely forgotten and hadn’t even showered! I made it though, as did Vivian (not Lucy as I stated before, Lucy is my new cleaner) and her crew, so I ended up being filmed by two lots.

Yesterday was the usual full day and as I had to be up early this morning I decided a simple dinner of cheese on toast would suffice. I used the last of the loaf I baked on Tuesday, put it under the grill, became engrossed in something online and subsequently cremated it. Needless to say I was hungry this morning.

I finished at the little school just after ten and went shopping in two supermarkets. I will do a western Wednesday this week to show Joanna what a real pea and ham soup is plus now I can access minced beef I will do a chilli. I am pretty certain the new supermarket made a mistake somewhere as 1.5kg only cost 48y which is about half what pork would cost - I even checked the sticker on the bag to make sure the cashier hadn’t made a mistake because I know they have to pay for any errors they make.

Vivian brought a USB stick last night with footage from Wednesday’s meal so now I have the full version (20 mins) and the edited one (3 mins) on my computer. The problem is, even the small one is 550Mb so it won’t email and I am having the devil’s own job uploading it to YouTube. I can’t ask Kevin for help because he’s in Hefei at the provincial finals of the speaking competition (our boy is through to round two tomorrow I am glad to say) although he may be of assistance when he gets back.

Tomorrow I really must knuckle down with the teaching plans, as a result I have had to tell Vivian she can’t film. She wanted to come alone with camera to film me and the pets and I have told her if I make good progress I will let her come but I’m certainly beginning to get a feel for what it must be like in the Big Brother house - although they don’t see the film crew.

So quite a short one this time, plenty happening but not much time to write about it!