Purple Realm

Right, I'm sure most of you have heard about Red Dead Redemption from a post Mik made a little while ago. We got it on release day and we love it. It's especially a high mark from me, considering I find Western times very off-putting and pretty much hate anything to do with cowboys and such.
But what can I say? They've designed the game so well. It's fun, interesting, challenging... It's also very miserable, though. Nothing ever ends well . So, I load my game when I'm feeling blue and push hookers down stairs, blow myself up with dynamite, shoot people when I lose at poker...
You can lasso and hogtie people in this, and I saw a woman and it reminded me of those old black and white villain movies where they leave a woman tied on a train track . Anyway, I tried to do it but she got away. I was feeling a little blue sometime later and so Mik chased down a nun and waited ages for a train to make me laugh...
Nun went splat, and there's a secret achievement for actually doing it .
Also, I found a glitch, I push random blackjack players and it teleports me into mid air, out in the wilderness where I fall to my death. Or sometimes it puts me between walls of buildings.
Funny.
It's a decent game.

We've had rather a busy day today - random gas service man came over to do something or other to the boiler. He was here for a good 45 minutes, and then Asda called to ask if it was ok to deliver our groceries 3 hours before they were due . Lots of people around then, of course, but you know.
Then finally I get a call from Nokia. I bought a game on Ovi store a couple of weeks ago, and it wouldn't install. They tried getting me to do certain things that can work for such problems, but none of it worked. I had no reply after the last suggestion failed, so I got angry and mailed them again. They phoned and said they'd look into it last Friday, and I got the call back today. Long story short, I was given an £8 Ovi Music Store voucher as reimbursement for a £1.50 game .

Gran visited a couple of days ago. We hadn't seen her in a good six weeks or so, so we chatted a lot. 3 hours flew by so quickly, but we enjoyed each other's company a lot. I also managed to go to just outside our house to wave at my favourite aunt

My dad is visiting tomorrow. I have decided to roast a chicken. We will have:
Roast chicken
Roast potatoes
Boiled potatoes
Broccoli
Green beans
Peas
Sweetcorn
Stuffing
and
Crispy Yorkshires.
And for dessert, homemade blueberry muffins with vanilla ice-cream... If we can fit them in our bursting stomachs .