A quiet weekend, by my standards, but nothing wrong in that. I think next weekend will be quiet too. It is difficult to get the right balance, although I am hoping it switches back to big weekend, followed by a relaxing weekend. We were discussing or rather planning our big weekends for the rest of the year, there is plenty to look forward to. From clubbing in London in a few weeks, camping over the summer, to my first ever ski / snow board trip in January 2008. Of course, every moment will be recorded here, somehow.

Have you seen the video for Candyman, featuring three (yes three) Christina’s! I think it is very good, Miss Aguilera pulls off the whole 1940s retro look extremely well. Even her voice is suited to this style of music. For a more detailed review and YouTube video link, head over to Brit Boy. Talking of music videos, I have seen a sneak peak of the new music video of Beyoncé and Shakira. Talk about a dream collaboration, I must have died and gone to heaven. As tempting as it is to hunt the full video down on YouTube, I will wait for the premiere on Monday. Would have loved to have been the director for that shoot? Actually I would have been happy being the errand boy.

Around 10.40am, I jumped off my computer to go and wash my car. I had plenty of time to give the car a clean before my lesson at 2pm. However, as I my Dad plugged in the pressure washer, it died. It had hardly been functioning brilliantly previously but had done the job fine for the past month or so. So I then made the decision to rush down to Homebase and pay a new one. My Dad came along and we headed over to the store underneath the M40 motorway. They only had demo washers on display. All gone. There were some red Xtreme Pressure Washers on sale but I did not want to buy one of those. I wanted the bright yellow, Karcher. I was going to head home and forget about it but my Dad suggested we head over to Slough, to the retail park off the Bath Road. At first I did not want to drive over there but as we were just by Junction 3, I headed onto the motorway and into Slough. We were behind a tractor with hay cart for a good five miles heading into the town. Annoying, but the sunshine and Magic on the radio kept me sane! At the retail park, there only was the 2.89 model, although I had originally wanted the next model down. They had had a 10% day on Friday, so they had flown off the shelves apparently. The change in weather (remember last Sunday anyone?) meant everyone was in garden centres across the UK, about to work on the garden, clean the car or decorate that spare room they had been planning for months. The ironic and rather stupid thing is, by the time I got home and my Dad and I put the washer together, I only had time to rinse the car down before having to get ready to head over to Oxfordshire for my piano lesson. A pain, but I will clean my car, properly next weekend, I promise.