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| Pancake making! |
[Mar. 6th, 2009|11:54 pm] |
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| | Gwen Stefani (I love her) | ] |
 
This is a nice programme which makes little Polaroid inspired versions of your treasured photos, turning 7MB high definition into something which looks like it was taken in the 70s. |
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| Waving |
[Jan. 7th, 2009|08:13 pm] |
It's early morning and I'm waiting for the lights to turn green. There is a light dusting of snow on the ground and I notice that my friend Steph is in the car in front of me. She notices me behind her and so we wave enthusiastically at each other.
The driver of the car in front of Steph also starts waving, maybe she thinks that Steph is waving to her. She stops pretty quickly, probably feeling a little silly. I wonder to myself if one day, all drivers could wave at one another in a queue of stationary traffic, without fear of persecution or slander. I envisage some sort of wave-chain, travelling the length and breadth of the country. It would probably stop with me though as I don't know how I'd react to some weirdo in the next car along, frantically waving at me. |
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| The Quote Book |
[Dec. 29th, 2008|03:20 pm] |
This week at work is a little bit unnecessary, as there is nothing that I can be bothered to do. So I'm reading the office quote book, where all of our unintended innuendo is stored. Here is an example of the contents:
'She's not on my list, but I'd go until it fell off!'
'I love my holes'
'I'm sorry, I'm conscious it's not as large as you were expecting'
'When he's talking, he's always playing with his ring'
'My furry bits are still wet!'
'I've got a bad reputation, but I've not actually sexual abused anyone yet'
'My banana is gay!' |
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| Christmas specials, or special Christmasses? |
[Dec. 22nd, 2008|10:35 pm] |
You know it's Christmas when the Father Ted Christmas Special is on at 10pm on Channel 4. It doesn't matter that I could watch it any day of the year, it's ten times funnier now.
I was thinking of Father Ted only the Saturday just gone, while driving along the A34. If you ever drive from Winchester to Newbury along the A34, and it's night time, you're guaranteed to see hundreds of rabbits lining the verge, and in the words of Father Dougal, it's like a big rabbit rock festival! |
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[Dec. 12th, 2008|09:14 pm] |
I've bought some tickets to see the Cribs (and ∴ Johnny Marr, of course) and also to see Blur. I'm starting to feel a little light headed and also light walleted, like after a really good night out.
I have seen Blur once before, but without Graham. I've seen Graham plenty of times but never with Blur. In 1999 I had a ticket to see Blur in Cardiff, but I lost it in a nightclub in a drunken stupor. The disappointment to be honest has been with me ever since. The thought that I might see the ensemble altogether and united as one has left me feeling all tingly.
Gavin is in China at the moment for 10 days. These periods of absence give me an insight into life as a single woman. I've discovered that if I was single I would spend a lot of my spare time listening to obnoxiously loud Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, going to the cinema with my dad and eating Tesco Value chicken kievs. This isn't exactly the Sex and the City lifestyle I would be hoping for.
Here's my tree. Sorry about the low lighting, it's supposed to be 'art'.
 
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[Nov. 19th, 2008|10:11 pm] |
"Aah! You have a woman's purse! I'll wager that purse has never been used as a rowing-boat. I'll wager it's never had sixteen shipwrecked mariners tossing in it."
That mighty Blackadder quote has become nestled in my head for the past two days, and pops to the forefront of my mind every time I get into my lovely 'new' car.
If someone had asked me what car I'd want if I were to get a new car, it's unlikely that I'd reply with 'Top Gear Car of the Year 1997' in green please! But who am I to argue with a very youthful Jeremy Clarkson, even if I am 11 years behind the times?
So that's what I've ended up with. It's so pretty:
It was driving like they did in that video which meant the old car is now ded from crash, but Gav is thankfully pretty much recovered from his cuts and bruises and very lucky it wasn't much more.
I really wanted a Ford Street Ka but Gav says they are too girly for his manly sensibilities - 'Ah - you have a woman's car!'. Exclaiming dramatically that it's Kylie Minogue's car apparently doesn't win you any arguments either. |
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| How update? How quaint. |
[Nov. 16th, 2008|02:21 am] |
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| |  tired but awake | ] |
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| | Boy Kill Boy | ] |
Do not adjust your set, there's a stranger in your flist midst.
This isn't the first time I've attempted to update, it's just been hard to do so, and I don't know why. It's a wonder I still have people to come back here to talk to, so thank you to those who are still here and a big raspberry to those who have tossed me out like yesterday's rubbish.
I've spent the majority of the evening going back through this little nook of the net I've carved out for myself - locking some of the more personal entries, flat out deleting the most embarrassing ones. What has struck me most is that it might as well still be 2006 - nothing has changed! I'm still working for the same marketing agency. I'm still in a nostalgic disposition, still wasting each and every evening lazing on the couch, watching the same telly and visiting the same websites, going to the same pubs. Still live in the same flat, with the same boyfriend who still has his job despite the tightening of corporate budgets and the threat of redundancy that looms upon us all. I'm still listening to the same Boy Kill Boy album!
So have there been any ch-ch-ch-changes* in the six months since I last posted? Well I've been working for Alfa Romeo rather than BMW since August. I was planning on going to New York for a wee break before Christmas, but that's just unaffordable right now. I'm actually surprised that 'unaffordable' is a word, it sounds wrong, whereas the Alice in Wonderland quote I've had in my head the past day, `Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats? Do bats eat cats?’, sounds in comparison quite normal and rational.
So how ya been?
*Well done Barack |
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| Earthquake |
[Feb. 29th, 2008|10:54 pm] |
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| | Nathan Barley | ] |
Along with a lot of the country I enjoyed my first earthquake this week. The pair of us sat bolt upright in bed at 1am a couple of nights ago with the blankets up to our chins like some cheesy horror movie. It sounded to me like someone was slamming the door in the other room. Gav thought it might have been mice. We couldn't have been that fussed at the time because we went straight back to sleep and I didn't even remember the incident until the next evening.
25 years until the next one. |
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| 2007 review |
[Dec. 31st, 2007|10:51 am] |
It feel like ages since Christmas, seeing as I've been back at work since the 27th. Overall it's been quite a boring Christmas, I was looking forward to Doctor Hot as it will forever be known now thanks to Ails, but I though the episode was a little bit crap.
My year in review, it's in photos because bored though I am at work, I can't face actually thinking back and trying to remember over the past year. I always get a little depressed doing so.
Happy New Year!
January - Innsbrück, Austria
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