Yet more things I saw this week

Last week I threatened to make this into a regular feature.

I don’t make empty threats.

A sinister start there to what is meant to be a light hearted romp through my week. And what a week it’s been.

I attended Sausage Night on Monday. Yes, Sausage Night.

Sausage Night does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s held at night and there are sausages.

And here’s the kicker. The sausages are free.

I bet you wish you were my friend now don’t you?

We made Sausage Night extra fun for ourselves by singing ‘wild boar – WILD BOAR’ in the style of Duran Duran every time we had a wild boar sausage.

I bet you’re glad you’re not my friend now aren’t you?

So that was Sausage Night.

I then had a bit of a near miss mid-week when I felt around blindly in the communal kitchen cupboard at work and grabbed any old thing, only to find after a few minutes that I was making a cup of tea in a Conservative Party mug.

Learn from my mistakes and look before you leap kids.

Then during a quiet moment at my desk yesterday I discovered this:

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Cat relaxation music: http://www.deezer.com/en/music/the-cat-whisperer/relaxation-music-for-cats-133400

I don’t know if it will have the same effect on you, but I sat there listening to the songs whilst looking at the cat on the album cover and pissing myself laughing.

Speaking of cats, a few weeks ago I saw this terrifying cat vase on Bid TV:



Now before you all write in, I know this blog is meant to be about things I saw this week, but I make and break the rules around these parts.

...And haven't see anything much of interest this week.

Which is why I am also including this sequence of photographs I took a month ago, depicting Bid TV legend Peter Simon test driving a hand massager:









Aren't you glad I bent the blog rules now?

And finally, I entered a picture of my learning disabled brother Nick into the MENCAP ‘Snap’ competition at the start of the year (he’s the one on the left):



And guess what? The picture won a prize!

Nick and I have been invited to the awards ceremony in London in September, and his picture will be displayed in a gallery. I will write in more detail about it nearer the time.

Snap is a great competition which is designed to help the learning disabled to express themselves and be better understood. It also helps the rest of us to empathise with the learning disabled and see the world through their eyes.

Check out this video from the 2008 ‘Snap’ awards ceremony. It’s genuinely moving stuff: http://www.mencap.org.uk/document.asp?id=6794

And that was my week.