Too cute

There's a scene in one of the Shopaholic books where, after the economy has faltered, Becky and her mum go to a dollar store (Pound shop in the UK). They're being brave and all Blitz spirit -- then they see the bargains, squee, and spend a fortune.

I'm not quite that bad (and I shop there all the time) but there's no denying there's often a rush to the head as you murmur, 'HOW much? wow!'. I've picked up two wooden vases and two pictures for two dollars each recently and they look great.

Yesterday, it was this hat, also an astonishing two dollars. Tell me it isn't adorable. I can wear it and feel like I'm drifting around in the 1930s ::beams::

I also picked up some bigger straw hats for us to take to Florida to shield us from the sun (did I mention the holiday is now a condo by the beach for a week in Fort Myers, Florida? Well, it is. We decided the California one needed more than the week we could afford and with the Napa Valley bit, more of a David and me thing, not the girls).

Plus ca change and all that

I was reading my own copy of Miss Buncle's Book (wow, does she ever have a lot of run-on sentences; not a semi-colon in sight. Maybe the grammar rules were different back then?). It was written in 1934. This is her publisher musing about Fifty Shades of Grey:

What fools the public were! They were exactly like sheep...thought Mr. Abbott sleepily...following each other's lead, neglecting one book and buying another just because other people were buying it, although, for the life of you, you couldn't see what the one lacked and the other possessed."

Netflix

We just signed up for Netflix with the sole purpose of mainlining the background to The Avengers before our first free month ends so we can actually watch the movie at some point.

David's seen lots of them on plane trips, so we never rented them, but tonight we watched Thor.

So what's next? Iron man 1 and 2, Captain America...anything else?