It has been a bit of a quiet week this week with not much going on.

I think the most exciting event to have occurred over the past seven days was when I won a £10 gardening voucher and a tin of biscuits last weekend at our local gardening club's coffee morning.

I got quite excited about this as I never win anything, ever, and certainly I never get the winning raffle ticket, so to be a double winner was an unusual event.

I took myself and daughter off to the garden centre the next day and spent some time deliberating what to spend my winnings on, while him indoors stayed home and ate all the biscuits. In the end, I spent a vast amount of additional cash as well as the voucher and spent the rest of the day revamping the small garden at the front of the house.

"Did you get all that with your voucher?" said him indoors later, "You did well." I let him stay in blissful ignorance.

The next most not-very-exciting event was when daughter and I went to the pictures, armed with a bucket of popcorn each, to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding. This is actually a truly funny film and I would recommend it.

Daughter and I have just bought some of those pass cards that let you have unlimited access to the cinema for a year as we decided there were lots of films on that we never get round to going to see and thought having the cards would encourage us to go regularly.

The only problem I foresee is that if our popcorn consumption remains the same, but we go to the cinema at least once a week, by Easter we will not fit through the doors. I have now decided future visits should be popcorn free before we become the big fat Brightonian picture goers.

Not-very-exciting event number three was a trip to Asda to do the shopping. Again daughter accompanied me.

I don't take him indoors as he tends to wander round the aisles saying things like: "This peppered steak looks nice, why don't you ever buy interesting food like this, why do you buy boring stuff like mince?"

The reason of course is the price, the last time we did a joint supermarket shop we spent twice as much as usual so I find it's cheaper to leave him at home.

When daughter comes with me she disappears to the CD and clothes section, popping up next to my trolley every few aisles or so to advise me that a certain CD is on offer or there is a 'really lovely top' in her size, 'if I'm interested'. This of course translates as, 'I'm broke, will you buy it for me?'

I find I'm quite good at saying, 'No' these days. I've noticed she isn't so keen to purchase these things herself if I offer to lend her the money. She only really wants them if I'm paying.

That is about the sum total of my not-very-exciting week except I also went to work, came home, walked the dog, and ate and slept, of course. Hopefully more momentous events will occur over the next seven days.