Harry Potter and the deathly traffic

Harry and Hagrid made a dash to Waitrose as soon as they were told of 
new stock of the Heston Blumenthal orange Christmas pudding


I think the whole of Surrey decided to come out earlier today!Having endured a few days being cooped up indoors because of the snow, the first sight of sunshine and a long awaited thaw resulted in total gridlock in the Mole Valley area.  I had never seen so many cars!  Lots of 4x4s being driven by yummy mummy types struggling in the ice but this is Surrey, don't you know, and I will take my time reversing even though I am clearly having problems controlling this car....Wanting to entertain myself stuck in traffic, I observed the facility of a push button being used to shut the boot of a 4x4 Audi rather than having to use your arm to do so. How cool is that?!? Yes, it doesn't take much to impress me!

We were pretty lucky in that we were only travelling 2 miles to Epsom but I had never seen so many cars and people out and about round here.  I know it didn't help that today is a Saturday three weeks before Christmas but I have never seen all the shops so busy.  I thought there was a recession on?  I only wanted a few bits and pieces for going into hospital! 

It was mayhem in Sainsbury's where trying to find parking space was a little crazy compared to how it usually is. I think people were also still a little cabin feverish as I had a woman get a little irate with me as I had the audacity to tell her to join the back of the queue as she had pushed in whilst we were waiting to pay for our shopping.  Shame. The "Fast Track" line wasn't being very Fast Track and no one else was going to say anything to her even though everyone else all thought it!  Oh well, never going to see her again!  You can take the girl out of Essex .....

After all the palaver, Mat and I decided to escape the madness by jumping into the cinema to watch the new Harry Potter film. We have been watching the Harry Potter films since the very first one and the only time we have missed the first showing was with this current one as I was too unwell to go and watch it at the first midnight showing.  Yes we're a couple of saddoes but come on, its Harry Potter!?!  It's got to be done!  Thought this latest one was really well made with great acting, good pacing of the story and Rupert Grint didn't gurn once which was a bonus! Highly recommended. 

Have spent the evening OD-ing on reality tv where I had the misfortune of hearing one of the X-Factor lot murdering Love The Way You Lie (it was one of my favourite songs from this year) and Stacey Solomon winning I'm A Celebrity.  I absolutely love Stacey and I'm really glad she won.  A girl who unashamedly chooses savaloy and chips when told she could have anything she wants to eat is absolute quality in my book!  How funny was she?! Anyway, Mr Buble is on the tv so might catch a bit of him before I hit the sack. He's always good for eye candy.  And he can sing too so bonus all around :-)

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros/Jaap Buitendijk from uk.movies.ign.com website