It’s a bank holiday in the UK today and the sun is actually out! Of course that means all my neighbours are out doing the garden which is why my eyes and nose are streaming. Gotta love that fresh grass smell. Not!

I’m actually feeling very frustrated with myself. I’ve been messing around in PSP, trying to do some website design but it’s totally not working. I try so hard to be creative but I actually suck at it. If someone could just invent software that read your mind and translated it, I would be so happy. Every now and then, I surf round the sites of some top designers and my chin just drops at the awesome stuff they create. I get the urge to hire them to make my site look beautiful but I get bored with layouts so fast, I’d just be wasting my money.

As well as being a bank holiday, it is also Switch It Off weekend. I’m not sure if this is nationwide or just part of our particular govt dept’s initiative but we’ve been getting bombarded with emails about it over the past few weeks. The whole idea is to save energy by switching off appliances you are not using. I know we all have to do our bit for the environment but this kind of campaign annoys the hell out of me simply due to the fact the govt is not good on saving its own energy. How many buildings do you see lit up in city centre’s in the middle of the night? Or in shop windows?

However, I’m not sure the campaign was aimed at encouraging people to switch off their televisions over the weekend because the choice of viewing was so bad. I sorely miss my dose of Supernatural on Sunday nights now that we have caught up with the pre-strike episodes. I finished all my Prison Break DVDs too - awesome series.

So, instead, I curled up on my bed and finished reading Kate Furnivall’s The Russian Concubine which I bought after reading a recommendation from Kate Mosse. The story is about a mother and daughter who flee Bolshevik Russian and end up in pre-revolutionary China. The daughter, Lydia, eventually falls in love with a young, Chinese communist and they must fight to stay together despite the odds stacked against them. I love stories about Russia. I have no idea why but I’m drawn to them.