I have a spotty baby

So, Arthur is covered in spots.  From head to toe.  They started appearing on Friday and now he's covered.  Nothing too worrying apparently, but 'please don't take him to any playgroups etc for a week'....oh and he might carry on with his ridiculous amounts of poo.  No one tells you quite how many shares you should have purchased in P&G before you have kids to get something back for all that washing powder!

Talking of P&G, I had a rant the other day - last year I seem to recall some advert about how great mums work (I think sponsored by P&G), this year they seem to be having another one except that to me, the basic message in the ad was 'mums, thank you for doing all the shopping for the washing powder, washing up liquid, razors, soap, shampoo' and so on.  And I really wanted to just say - and what about the men/dads?  Now I know that they don't do as much shopping for such things (generally) but perhaps something to start encouraging them to do it or think about it would be nice!  Mmmmh, water up hill springs to mind.  And whilst I'm on the issue of advertising, have a listen next time there is some cleaning related advert on - is the voice over a man?  A man telling the lady in the ad that she needs to make her shirts (well, his shirts, she's washing them) 'whiter than white'.   I hadn't thought about it until I met someone who worked in advertising and she was ranting about it!

Onto more serious matters.  I went running last night - hoorah hoorah, the snow has melted at last.  One of the things I always notice when out running is that no one seems to walk anywhere in the burbs once you get past about 6pm.  And there aren't that many people walking before then.  I ran about 4 miles last night and passed 4 people.  One of those was running.

Thinking of the snow, a few more pictures to warm the cockles now that it's melted:

Oh that really annoys me....

I got really annoyed this morning - by the neverending queues of people parking in the parent and child bays in Tesco....not a child in sight!  And then I saw a person parking in the disabled one!  On confronting one woman (I just politely pointed out that it was a parent and child space), she basically gave me the evils and told me to 'f-off'. Mmmh. Saw her shopping later, still with no children.  What is the point of Tesco's having disabled and other bays if anyone can park in them and nothing is done.

Rant rant.

Then I got annoyed listening to someone on the radio talking about youth unemployment.  Yes, the figures are high and it's a challenge.  But they were interviewing someone who basically said 'I didn't go to university to work in a call centre'.  Oh it made me think about the situation when I and all my friends left university in the 90s and there were no jobs.  We worked in call centres, data entry centres, anything really to earn some money!  I just felt that the person they interviewed basically didn't want to do it because it seemed to me that they thought it was below them. Mmmh.

Maybe it's the weather making me grumpy!

Or the lack of baking - something I think I will have to address!