Ah the Lake District, what better place to spend a... oh wait, I said this last week. The night in the hotel was nice and we took a short walk around Windermere this morning.

Windermere village is pretty dead itself, at least that's until mum discovered the Lakeland Plastics HQ; massive shop included. It's a haven of cool, swanky and mostly useless kitchenware; things like avocado scrapers and mango splitters designed for the middle-class hordes - I got a new spatula out of the affair.

Talking of middle-class, we stopped at Sizergh farm; home of the organic mother-earth £12.50 chicken and the £2.50 apiece apple and wild boar sausage. It's the kind of place that when you buy something, you can't help feeling all left-wing and smug; I suppose you have a right to, seems like saving the planet and supporting local produce is for rich people only...

Weekends like this make me realise why I like football - particularly the FA cup; so yesterday Barnsley beat Chelsea, Portsmouth beat Man U and today's giant killing was when Cardiff knocked Middlesbrough out of the cup 2-0. The clean sweep of shock results wasn't quite complete though as West Brom beat Bristol 5-1 - no surprises there then; West Brom are far to sensible to piss away easy games like that! This leaves one premiership side in the whole tournament; Portsmouth - tomorrow we find out who plays who but I'm with Barnsley all the way here, it's not often a bottom of the second league side beat two of the top four sides in the UK!

Well, it's been a good, fun, interesting, riveting and eventful weekend; I hear rumours of a storm coming for tomorrow - maybe not the best way to start the week.