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[May. 19th, 2007|11:54 am] |
Well i spent a good deal of last night in casualty after stupidly snapping a ligament in my right ankle doing tae bo. What an arse. Hearing that snap i was sure that I'd gone and broken it and I was going to be stuck in a cast for weeks. But after a long long wait i was actually quite enthused when i discovered it was a ligament that had popped and i could be bandaged up. So happy not to have to have a cast on.
Thinking of Raven who has a lot less luck with the medical profession of late. |
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| Gardener retires at 104. |
[Apr. 20th, 2007|12:10 pm] |
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"A 104-year-old gardener is to retire after working on the land for 93 years.
But Jim Webber, of Stoke Abbott, Dorset, is to continue managing his own plot, growing vegetables for his own table and to sell any surplus to supplement his pension.
The widower said that arthritis in his knees had made it difficult for him to work for other people. He told the BBC: "I would do about 10 minutes and have to sit down, I couldn't carry on. That wasn't fair for the people I was working for."
Aw now i feel gulity about moaning about the gardening! |
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[Apr. 19th, 2007|01:00 am] |
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The kids at Plumpton Rocks last weekend.
Oh Benedryl why do you torment me? Is it not bad enough that my allergies have kicked in today? But when I try to take something to relieve the symptoms it knocks me out and i waste an entire kid free evening asleep. It always seems with allergy remedies that my choice is get the non drowsy ones that will keep me awake possibly till next week or the drowsy kind that knock you out. Now I'm all out of whack.
I think the culprits are dandelions.
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| Just for Bry! |
[Apr. 18th, 2007|12:22 am] |
Did i tell you so or did i tell you so!!!
The history of corn flakes goes back to the late 19th century, when a group of Seventh-day Adventists began to develop new food to meet the standards of their strict vegan diet. Corn Flakes was originally used as an all purpose curing device for such things as masturbation. Members of the group experimented with a number of different grains, including wheat, oats, rice, barley, and of course, corn. In 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the superintendent of The Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan and an Adventist, used these recipes as part of a strict vegetarian regimen for his patients, which also included no alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine. The diet he imposed consisted entirely of bland foods, since he believed in sexual abstinence and following the precepts of Sylvester Graham, the inventor of graham crackers and graham bread and felt that spicy or sweet foods would increase passions, while cornflakes would have an anaphrodisiac property or lowered the sex drive.
Steady the buffs now.
Cornflakes for brekkie? |
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| Maypoles ! |
[Apr. 17th, 2007|12:03 am] |
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http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j73/ammex/maypole.jpg
Why do i love maypoles so very much? On Friday I went to visit one and what a beauty it was. I wish now that I'd had my camera with me as the above pic is not it. I might go back and take one. A giant of a maypole it was.
If i had my own Maypole in my back garden I would dance around it, my heart filled with joy! |
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| Tarantino finally discloses what is in the Pulp Fiction briefcase. |
[Apr. 14th, 2007|11:29 am] |
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http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2020266603
A few updates...
Went to see Hot Fuzz a couple of nights ago ( a bit late i know, it's been out here for quite a while now.) I found it funny enough but i'm a little tired of the format I think. Being a fan of Spaced probably doesn't help, it seems as though they have been hammering this for a while now, but still not a bad night out. Watching the trailers made me sick of the way sequels are churned out. I don't want to see Spiderman 3, Pirates of the carribean 3 (Johnny Depp with amusing accent again...) or The Bourne Ultimatum (3) so i won't, so there.
I am going to go and see The Grindhouse though. I don't care if it ends up being poor at least it's something different.
My 3 favourite songs right now are...
Dizzee Rascal
"Sirens"
Not out yet but i love the video which can be viewed at
http://www.myspace.com/dizzeerascal
MIKA
"Love Today"
Dans Le Sac & scroobius pip
"Thou shalt always kill"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4
Remind me to rant about Maypoles tomorrow! |
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| Supermarkets and Bill Bryson. |
[Mar. 9th, 2007|04:21 pm] |
Another visit from my Dad this afternoon who supposedly comes over to visit the kids but is really escaping his overbearing (but of course lovely) hag of a wife. I was listening today to a story he's told me before about Bill Bryson walking in the USA while the locals all shouted "Good Luck!" It suddenly occurs to me that this is THE famous Bill Bryson, infact a friend of mine is something of a fan of his. Slowly Emma puts two and two together. This is the author Bill Bryson - ok.
Anyway I've heard this story before, but then a second anecdote about Bills reflections on supermarkets when he first came to this country. My Dad explains that Bill feels the same way that he did when he "first came to this country too" ?!? Out of the 66 yrs he's been around my Dad has spent 56 of those living in this country, anyway i digress....
What is Bill's complaint? Women who don't pay fast enough at Supermarket checkouts...
I'd like to point out to Bill (as i did my Dad, who I could tell was regretting telling me this story)... when you are doing a weekly shop costing £100+ with 2 or more children often fidgeting in the trolley, loading it all onto the checkout and bagging it all up at the other end as fast as your poor little hands can muster what would really piss me off is to turn round and see Bill Bryson's smug little face tutting at me because I am 2 seconds late handing over my debit card as he stands there no doubt just holding a pint of milk and a porn mag.
Use the express aisle Bill!!!!
I'm sure he's a nice fella really....but stay away from my Tescos.
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[Feb. 22nd, 2007|10:01 am] |
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Yes it is a grower!! woohoo!!! |
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| BB |
[Feb. 20th, 2007|11:42 am] |
What would I do without Billy Blanks? Nothing, i'd just be a lot fatter.
I hear that he has started up a new workout in the States, where you wield around a big baton and burn up about a million cals a second.
Bryan pointed out that this would probably just result in knocking everything off the mantelpiece at regular intervals but it's a small price to pay for abs of steel.
I'm hoping that the new Killers album is indeed a grower. I'm disappointed with myself for falling into the Amy Winehouse trap :(
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[Dec. 31st, 2006|12:06 pm] |
Happy New Year!
I feel very unfit and unhealthy.....I've slipped back into a pattern of geeting up too late and drinking too much. Although I want to to last forever, I think things will be better when everything goes back to normal on Wednesday hmmphh. |
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| woohoo! |
[Nov. 9th, 2006|08:39 pm] |
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Jacob is "man of the match" after playing a great game of footie tonight! |
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[Nov. 7th, 2006|09:53 am] |
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I didn't want to be a dog! I wanted to be a sexy feline damn! |
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[Oct. 24th, 2006|11:20 am] |
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How long now until The Prestige comes out? Still ages....
i feel that I should have written something about Paris but I'm so lazy. I thought that my hubby had written a blog in his myspace journal about it and i was just going to pinch it as i'm sure we had exactly the same experience. alas no, only more stuff about Lord of the Rings. Maybe i can find an old email...
Yeah Paris was really cool, the weather was very good it just rained when we were at the airport which delayed the flight but that was the only downer really. It is quite a tough city in some ways, we did all the travelling on the Metro which is just like london really but thank god for my hubby cos my sense of direction is v.poor!
We really crammed a lot into the 3 days...Eiffel Tower, went to the top, I couldn't get over how beautiful it always looked from across the city. Notre Dame where you can also climb the tower to see the bell and all the gargoyles, that was probably my favourite place. The Louvre where we saw the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo, the museum is HUGE! The Bastille that was quite near our hotel, the Arc de Triomphe..climbed that too, walked along the champs elysees, the sacre coeur and the museum D'orsay where I saw lots or original Monets and he's my fave painter really. We were knackered when we got back. The hotel was just quite basic (nice breakfasts though) cos we were really doing a budget trip and you're never there really anyway!
All good fun, it's been 9 yrs since i've been abroad so it was really nice to get back into travelling a bit. My mum looked after the kids but i think she found it hard going!
In the book I was reading at the time some terrorists went around Paris blowing up pretty much everything we went to see in blood curdling detail and then blew up a plane too. i was glad i didn't get to that bit while i was actually in Paris...
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