A good weekend. On Saturday night we went out for a meal to Le Gallois, to celebrate Andrew's forthcoming birthday and his new job. As usual, a lovely time. Gorgeous food, great wine, good service and glorious people watching. On one side of us we had two fat bitchy old queens who were having a whale of a time and enjoying the waiters (must agree, good quality eye candy) and on the other a middle aged man of around 50 surrounded by three adoring skinny blondes. I am 99.5% sure the man was a well known Welsh media presenter but cannot be certain - that would certainly explain the skinny blondes who were obviously competing for the honour of sharing his duvet. Almost choked on my food a couple of times as they went in for wildly competitive flirting including feeding him by fork, photographs of them nestled on his shoulder, all pouring his wine every time he took a sip etc etc - highly amusing.

Walks with the woofs have been full of squirrel adventures - masses of them around. Andy tries to climb trees via his vertical take off leaps - Booty just does a generalised twisty leap of exuberance. Her eye continues to make excellent progress. Although the slogan has it "Chicks Love Scars" I've told her that she's now channelling the Pirate Queen look.

We popped into town this afternoon. The young master purchased a suit from Aquascutum and I bought him a book for his birthday ( a new Peter F Hamilton) which he will have to pretend to be surprised at when he opens it on the big day. Coincidentally, he's in Birmingham at a meeting with his colleagues, so tomorrow I am making a tray of Maple Pecan muffins with cream cheese frosting to take with him to celebrate. Fortunately, there will be enough for the cook to reserve some for herself and the attendant hounds too. What's your favourite flavour? Let me know.

Also treated myself today to a new lip gloss - masses of wonderful sparkles, fantastic. On a beauty related sidetrack, I wore my new Chanel nail varnish on Saturday night. It's one of the new season colours called Kaleidoscope. It's a glorious pewter/gold/metallic that picks up colours around it, so I am constantly checking it out against what I'm wearing. Wonderful. Has just started to chip now, so will probably remove tomorrow morning.