Friday, December 22, 2006

The Year in Review – 2006
Stolen from absolutely everyone...

Post the first line from the first post of each month for this past year.

Jan
Lunchtime distractions from the general realms of despair that are surrounding me
include typing random words into search engines and linking to the websites they suggest.

Feb
Centre Parcs highlight (and lowlights)

March
YAY, it's my birthday today (and I'm not finding it quite as hard as I though it might be).

April
I don't often remember my dreams, possibly due to the weird religious/horror dreams I had when I was younger.

May
Wonderful weekend in Hastings - we saw May Day in by rising before dawn to join the Morris Men on the Ladies Parlour to help dance the dawn in...it was pissing down.

June
I'm am currently in prozac withdrawal as I went to my doctor as I felt that I was still getting side effects from the prozac, he however thought that I needed a higher dose.

July
So I didn't get to see Nicky Wire but after a day in the heatwave sunshine at Europride and then watching the football and eating ice creams and drinking beer, I could barely move from Carla's bed let alone pull myself together to go to a gig!

August
How much fun is this?

September
I can't even begin to put into words how much this man means to me - he has influenced all that I am, fed into my dreams, my cultural and symbolic understanding of the world, I classify and communicate my experiences via the Manic Street Preachers.

October
Listening to Radio 4 yesterday "everyone has a mortgages". Eh, NO, no we don't David, that's why you will never be Prime Minister if I have anything to do with it....

November
Work is busy at the moment.

December
Running away to Egypt for 2 weeks - hurrah!

Monday, December 04, 2006

Running away to Egypt for 2 weeks - hurrah!

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Off 'Up North'

I'm about to drive off to Stockton for a two day work meeting and then I have two days to play in Newcastle - normal service will resume on Monday!

Here I come stottie cakes, wind swept coastal walks, a little bit of Xmas shopping and drinking with my mates and brother - it's cold up there, you have to drink to stop freezing to death...or at least, that's what I'm sticking to.

For the first time in ages I feel like I'm gannin hyem (check out this website for a translatation)

p.s. many thanks to those that have commented on the entry below!

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Happy Birthday Blog!

Today is my blogs' 4 year blog-sphere anniversary. It's been great fun - a place to let off steam, to link to things that my friends would like on the ether, a stop-off shop for mememes; it's been miserable when I have, manic when I have, happy when I have and now I think it's time for a bit of an overhaul but before I do I'd like to collect a few happy birthdays.

Please leave a comment below to say happy birthday to it with your name and location - that includes any lurkers too!

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Tarot - because work finishes in 5 mins and I'm wasting time!


You are The Wheel of Fortune


Good fortune and happiness but sometimes a species of
intoxication with success


The Wheel of Fortune is all about big things, luck, change, fortune. Almost always good fortune. You are lucky in all things that you do and happy with the things that come to you. Be careful that success does not go to your head however. Sometimes luck can change.


What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

The Weekend...

The weekend became a bit of a blow out. Saturday, boy and I rushed through recycling, charity shop drop offs and the market. Went up for a rushed pie, mash and pint at The Camel - which was lovely. I then to Tate Modern for a meeting with mother. Too busy, service in the members room was rubbish, I was too tired and ill...walked down the South Bank and came across the fireworks for Mayor's Festival. Went for ginger wine in National Theatre and home to collapse.

Saturday night was hard work - lack of sleep, vomiting, sweating - woke in the morning feeling even worse so I missed my Nana's birthday lunch. Slept through most of the day, was woken by the boy bearing the observer, lucozade and 10p crisps.

The week (so far)...

Generally knackered from the weekend illness.
Busy at work - the rush before going part-time in Dec and Jan.
Paul from N/cle was down in London last night so we met up for a drink with Owen, his boyf and flatmate too - it was lovely evening as I haven't really seen either of them for ages and we needed a catch up. So much has happened in the last few years...all that growing up we've been doing!

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Quagmires...

I dislike this time of year so much - sneezing, sore throats, coldsores, dark mornings, dark evenings, overheated travelling, trying to think of money saving pressies for people, knowing the diet isn't going to last the Xmas period, planning New Year celebrations, spending too much money on Starbucks gingerbread lattes "'cos it's nearly Xmas", writing obsessive to do lists full of things I'll never get around to, scared of drunk people after Xmas party drinking...I must, must, must improve my life (repeat to fade).

Blessings...

Eygpt holiday in 27 days.
Cheap Sanctury stuff at Deptford Market (spent £11 for around £35 worth of goodies!)
30th birthday planning for next March (saving for the deposit on Centreparc villas now!)

Monday, November 06, 2006

Cornholio!

Busy, busy, busy

Work is busy at the moment. Life is busy at the moment. My head is busy at the moment.

Blurg.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Halloween...

I love Halloween. A time to remember our ancestors - I made remembrance cookies for today and stirred my spoon remembering all those people that have made me what I am and have moved on from this life. Halloween marks the ending of the cycle, and of its new beginning — hence it’s the official start of the New Year We celebrate new beginnings, remember and honour the past and think about what we will contribute to the future. I’ve decided to let go of a few things that are holding me back…they include (in no particular order)…laziness, useless friends who constantly let you down, depression, being sloth like, dirty chemical laden food. I’m taking responsibility for my own happiness, time to put myself first.


Monday, October 30, 2006

Nabbed from Pepper-a-loo

Your Five Variable Love Profile

Propensity for Monogamy:

Your propensity for monogamy is medium.
In general, you prefer to have only one love interest.
But it's hard for you to stay devoted for too long!
There's too much eye candy to keep you from wandering.

Experience Level:

Your experience level is high.
You've loved, lost, and loved again.
You have had a wide range of love experiences.
And when the real thing comes along, you know it!

Dominance:

Your dominance is high.
It's your way or the highway when it comes to love.
You like to be very involved in your sweetie's life.
No question, you like to be the one calling the shots.

Cynicism:

Your cynicism is low.
You are an eternal optimist when it comes to love and romance.
No matter how many times you've been hurt - you're never bitter.
You believe in one true love, your perfect soulmate.
And if you haven't found true love yet, you know you will soon.

Independence:

Your independence is high.
You don't need to be in love, and sometimes you don't even want love.
Having your own life is very important for you...
Even more important than having a relationship.

Friday, October 27, 2006

Whoo-hoo! It's the weekend!

My beloved left me this morning with £40, a kiss and the words "don't get too bloody drunk tonight"

Mmmwwwwhhaaahhhaa!

edit: so we've gone down from 7 people to 3. Oh yay, rock on! Might get drunk while I'm getting ready...

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Torchwood - Doctor Who spin off

The first two episodes played last night on BBC2. Fantastic. A grown up Doctor Who spin off set in Cardiff Bay with funny one-liners, sex obsessed aliens and odd characters. I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to more...ooohhh, looky looky at the flash site here, how much fun is that?

Ok, ok, I'm a nerd.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Art Meme nabbed from the ether...

The first five people to respond to this post, will get some form of art, by me, for them. I make no guarantees about quality or type, but I will assure that I will give it good effort and that the art will be individual to you, so if you get a mixed CD or some sort of painting doodle, yours is the only one like it.

The only catch, of course; as with most memes, if you sign up, you have to put this in your own blog as well.

Monday, October 23, 2006

Gordon Brown

"We need a forensic, analytical, dour workaholic like Gordon to save us from this tyranny or, God help us, the king of smarm Alan Milburn will make another comeback. Gordon's a hyperrealist: he may seem prosaic, but his results are colossal. He separates his religion from his intellect. His economics are almost agnostic".

Diary, New Statesman
Nicky Wire
Monday 25th September 2006

It's almost Halloween!

All Change Please...

Hels is off travelling (again!). Flying out of our lives with no real timetable of her return - she'll let us know moments before hand I'm sure. Leaving do was quite civilised for the rats - the term sodomized to hell was only mentioned a few times.

Lorna and Will are moving to Exeter today. Looking forward to visiting and catch up - haven't seen them for ages!

Julie may be moving to London in a week. She finds out today about the job she's gone for - fingers crossed.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Talking of the darkness...(and comedy)

My Chemical Romance new video here. Bloody amazing - camp, anthemic and gothy? Lovely!
Slogan:

"Endless possibilities with Boudicca"

Go get a slogan of your own!

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Disclaimer:

A few people have mentioned to me recently that my blog has a bit of dark, miserablist edge.

Point One: I am a dark and miserable person at times and therefore my blog reflects that. I like things with a dark edge - depressing music, meaningful poetry, black humour, angsty song lyrics, miserable novels with horrible endings, scary art, odd performance artists, violent video games and being y'know generally deviant in oh so many ways. I also don't take it too seriously (I was always a bit of a rubbish goth because I thought it was funny...). I embrace my darkness but also my lightness.
Point Two: it's been a fucking awful year what with my dad dying. I have been truly depressed but I'm on the mend.
Point Three: I have a great boyfriend who I adore and who worships the ground I walk on but as he's requested some privacy on this site I don't write about him too often.
Point Four: My friends totally rock and although I have found connecting with people hard over this last year, and have discussed those feelings here, I have had some damn happy times with them and am planning to have a whole lot more in the future.

I hope that clears things up for those of you who are, or have been concerned. There are happy things in my life and I'm OK, really, I am...
Strange day in New Cross...

Today I have:

Separately
spotted two gentlemen dressed to kill. The word dapper doesn't go far enough to describe them. One at 9.30am and one at 2pm. Are they going for a gangster meet up? An interview? A porno movie shoot? The mind boogles.

Eaten a cheese and jalapeno sandwich. Not made in sandwich shop but in pack from a newsagents. Weird. Seems made for me, the universe truly does work in mysterious ways.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Typical Boudicca motto

"You can't fix what isn't broken without smashing it up a bit first."

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Rubbish Day...

My mum went to hospital today...edit...some rants are better left off blogs...she's ok and that's all that matters really.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Seeing shows

On Saturday, I went to see 'Daredevas' by Akademi at the Purcell Rooms. Really enjoyable, a presentation of solos and duets inspired by Indian dance styles with a very British (or Finnish!) take. Enjoyable on many levels - noisy, beautiful, silent, fun, exciting, wonderful...

However, the night was topped off by a child who kept asking "what's she doing?" "why's she doing that?". Literally giving a voice to the audiences inner child!

Last night, I went to see 'Zarathustra Variations'by Compagnie Ariadone/Carlotta Ikeada at The Place - it was very strange but I'm still thinking about images from it this morning. Pretty intense parts where I felt really uncomfortable but other moments where I was laughing out loud. Butoh inspired and it made me want to search and find out more about the tradition.
Babies, babies everywhere...

In the last three days I have been sent pictures of two brand new babies and my maternal feelings are clucking over! Welcome to the world Sky and Lucia, you beautiful girls.

Friday, October 06, 2006

Work, work, work (and very little play) makes Boo a monster...

Spent last night lying on the floor bemoaning life, eating crap and watching comedy (Mitchell and Webb is improving (getting more preposterous) with every week) - Numberwank! Got an early night which was rudely intrupted by the neighbours at 2.30am singing along to shite music. Had to move to the floor in the front room instead - drunken, cunting bastards. Having fun while I'm not having any...as you can see, it hasn't helped my general dark mood at all...work, work, work, horror, horror, horror - looking forward to the weekend though. I'm hoping to get quite drunk...nice to have a life aim, it is.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Monday, October 02, 2006

David Cameron

Listening to Radio 4 yesterday "everyone has a mortgages". Eh, NO, no we don't David, that's why you will never be Prime Minister if I have anything to do with it....

Also, Webcameron...what the f**k?!? How terribly modern and cutting edge...and upsetting beyond belief.

Friday, September 29, 2006

Nicky Wire's debut album...I Killed the Zeigeist

The album is wonderful - ragged, post-punk, inspired, rage-filled, nihilistic, romantic and beautiful.

"I killed the zeitgeist
Switched off all the lights
Glazed like aching snow
Or metaphors for love"

"We will walk together
We will never part
We'll tattoo ourselves
And each others hearts"

Sound a likes - The Jesus and Mary Chain, Lou Reed, John Cale and Tom Waits.
'Well I think the British Government, they should really open their eyes and smell the coffee.'

- Muslim protester Abu Izzadeen in interview with John Humphrys

Yep, that quote sums up the interview really...
'Significant' happenings from the last week:
  • The abunance of car crash tv on the telly - I've seen so many 'real' people cry on tv this week (note to self: stop wasting your life on this shite).
  • Richard Hammond walking and talking - bless the hamster.
  • Smear tests - why oh why, do you ache for ages afterwards even if it doesn't hurt at the time.
  • Bad weather = the resurgence of warm, lovely food. Noodle tom yum soups ahoy.
  • Spending too much money on shows. Dance Umbrella line up rocks this year.
  • The reopening of the Young Vic and the surrounding publicity campaign - very excited.
  • Lots and lots of work...mainly accounts. The joy!

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

So, Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive final installment yesterday evening depressed me. I have suffered from a number of depressive episodes in my life and have had an eating disorder from a young age (which, fingers crossed, I no longer allow myself to 'suffer' from) but this programme made me so angry. I'd love to be able to "let go" and let myself slip into my black moods but I can't. I don't have my fame/fortune or mummy and daddy to fall back on. I have to work, I have to keep myself afloat, I have to keep myself together enough to get to work.

That's not to say that I don't have my dark periods when I feel like I can't go on. There are period when just getting out of bed is an effort but I have to make that effort and bloody hell other people should too. The sheer self indulgence - my madness is my creativity, I refuse to take medicine that may help stabilise me (although you claim to care what the people close to you feel like - what do you think they feel when you're majorly up or down?). What a load of annoying rubbish.

Might have been those diet doctors that put me in the bad mood first though. Over-indulgence and under-activity were the flaws this week...made me want to eat chocolate and not exercise...oh, I do that already...

Monday, September 25, 2006

"I'm more interested in the future of the Arctic circle than the future of the Arctic Monkeys"

Gordon Brown is wonderful*. I watched Panorama about him last night and it made me even more convinced that he should lead New Labour into the next election. I don't mind that he's a Scot who has a dark moods (hello, Winston Churchill! - for much of his life, Churchill battled with depression which he called his 'black dog') he will be a great leader.

*I've alway had a bit of a thing for Gordon Brown. Yes, I know it's wrong. He's my DYLF (dad you'd like to fuck), that sweeping hair thing he does sends shivers down my spine.
At last...

I've been involved in planning a surprise party and it's finally happened so I can now write freely about it - it's been so difficult keeping it quiet! Jane, Helen and I organised a surprise wedding party for Jess and Turtle. They thought that they only had a family meal to deal with on Saturday night but when they came through to the gallery at St Martin's they found they had a whole lot more! All the hard work was worth the look on their faces when they came in.

Edited highlight (and lowlights)

DJ Nonce throwing out some love classics
Drunken/drugged mates dancing to the love classics
Too much fizz
Seeing all those family and friends mixing and chatting
Jessie's sister in law coming to London even though she's about to give birth at any moment (and looking positively blooming of course!)
Proud parents
Wonderful, supportive chats about the death of parents and how you get through the dark times and move on
Bloody taxi queues
Carla getting mugged and bitten
Homophobic abuse and teeth getting knocked out
Too many black eyes to mention

Usual night out for the rats!

Friday, September 22, 2006

A charity single that rocks...?!*?

I've just heard the great new song for Strummerville - a recording of The Clash track 'Janie Jones' by Carl Barat, The Rakes, Mystery Jets, The Holloways, We Are Scientists, The Paddingtons, Larrikin Love, Cazals, Noisettes, Good Books, Lady Fuzz, Kooks, Jack Penate, Laura Marling, Maccabees, Lisa Moorish, Light Speed Champ (Test Icicles), Jamie T, Jeremy Warmsley and Guillemots. The single goes on sale on 30th October and the proceeds raise money for the Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music.

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Richard Hammond....

I don't really have a passion for cars yet I watch Top Gear for the lovely Richard Hammond, I'm very sad to hear about his accident and fingers crossed that he'll pull through.
It's been a busy, busy time...

11th September
Stayed up late, getting drunk with the ladies waiting and waiting for Jess and Matt's wedding broadcast - we found out (at midnight) that they hadn't paid for the broadcast! All that over excitement for nothing...

12th September
Get up horribly early and travel to St Ives. Wonderful views from the window - fields, white horses and seascapes.
Arrive at the B&B - amazing view over one of the many beaches that St Ives has.
Find the nearest ale pub and eat mussel's - yummy!

13th September
After various work phone calls/texts the boyf finally manages to get me to turn my phone off!
Tate visit - not really very inspiring but the cafe and views are nice.
Eat and drink a little too merrily...

14th September
3 jugs of Long Island Ice Tea have taken their toll on my body. Feel awful and sleep on the beach while boyf makes sand sharks. I wake with a painful strip on sunburn on the small of my back.
Eat at the St Andrew Bistro - I manage 2 starters and a pudding. The art on the walls is interesting but the food is too expensive for what it is...

15th September
Rather rough boat trip to seal island, boyf goes a lovely green colour. I'm rough too but I adore being on the sea!
Go to a pub for a Cornish night and a Cornish Seafood Platter. I manage to find the only gay in the village behind the bar, boyf is impressed. Cornish Platter is...good god...I'm lost for words...amazing...wonderful...yummy.

16th September
Swimming in the cold sea. I laugh out loud, full of joy and mouthfuls of seawater. Truly relaxed and happy for the first time in months.
Last min gift shopping - try not to eat too much of the Cornish cream fudge myself!

17th September
Journey home is nightmarish - 8 hours due to a fire near the tracks outside Reading. London transport hectic but still chilled from holiday and still feel happy and full of energy.

18th September
Chilled out day before I go back to work.
Get creative.
Have Hels around for coffee and then go back to the ladies for yummy fish pie.
Catch up with the newly weds, look at photos, hear stories from Burning Man and Las Vegas.

19th September
Back to work!

20th September
Get some nail extensions put on and immediately turn into a lady!
Wicked at the Apollo Victoria with Richie-roo. Catch up with him and his San Fran/Las Vegas visit. I can say without hesitation that Wicked is the most wonderful musical that I have ever seen - laugh out loud funny, great voices, great set, great costumes, great flying monkeys!

I'm keeping a picture of the view from our B&B on my desk so I can gaze at it during the day.

Monday, September 11, 2006

6 Music Heaven cont:

...and now Daisy Chainsaw's 'Love Your Money' - I don't think I can take anymore pleasure!


6 Music Radio Replay Heaven and Hell

Hell:
Trevor Lock (from Russell Brand's Sunday show) not being on last Sunday's show due to alleged rape charges - the theme of Russell's show 'innocence'.

Heaven:
CUD's Purple Love Balloon being played by Andrew Collins. I loved CUD for the 10 seconds they were famous, the track span me straight back to 1992! Must dig the albums out when I get back home...

"The first time that I saw you,
You were running scared,
You assured me,
Your clothes were making chase,
Your mouth made shapes before me,
The second time you touched me,
Your hands sent ripples through me,
My shirt was made of paisley
It's bright so I can find me.

You're one in a million, take me home,
Vague hazards roar, vague hazards moan,
You're one in a million,
And I will see you soon,
I want to take you high in my...
Purple Love Balloon.

The second time you touched me,
Your hands sent ripples through me,
My shirt was made of paisley
It's bright so I can find me.
The third time that you loved me,
A dragon was inside me,
Assured that you were of your soul
I found the essence of your whole.

You're one in a million, take me home,
Vague dragons roar, vague dragons moan,
You're one in a million,
And I will see you soon,
I want to take you high in my...
Purple Love Balloon.

I want to take you high,
In my Purple Love Balloon,
I want to thumb a ride,
In my Purple Love Balloon,
Come on baby, let's get high,
In my Purple Love Balloon
I want to take a ride
In my Purple Love Balloon
I want to make you cry
In my Purple Love Balloon"

Friday, September 08, 2006

There are advantages to your boyf being bored at work - he finds answers to all those little annoy ing questions/statements that I bombard him with at bedtime...

Where does the term straw poll come from?
Octopuses and how they poison people

He also sent me this picture of a cute kitten stating "
Love you too and here is a yucky picture to prove it! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

That boy rocks!


Stuff from the last few days

The other day, I boarded the East London line train to be greeted by the voice of my favourite driver who always says "[insert station name], if you are ending your journey here, whoever you are, whatever the weather have a fantastic day" - he always cheers me up...

I've been pretty busy at work developing a risk assessment and a fire emergency plan - it's been quite enjoyable and today I got into work and the boss had but a post it note on the work with 'Excellent work!' and a girly pink star. You often feel like you're too old for that sort of thing but I really appreciated it!


On the personal front, various people have been reappearing into my life. Some have been invited but others have appeared of their own accord. I'm looking forward to catching up with them all.

Next week:
I'm planning to watch Jessie and Turtle get married in Vegas via Carla's laptop. Hurrah!
I'm going on holiday with boy/f in St Ives. Hurrah!

Monday, September 04, 2006

Friday, September 01, 2006

Nicky Wire

I can't even begin to put into words how much this man means to me - he has influenced all that I am, fed into my dreams, my cultural and symbolic understanding of the world, I classify and communicate my experiences via the Manic Street Preachers. To say I am "a fan" is an understatement.

To say he doesn't have flaws would be incorrect but negatively and positively he has influenced me, this man (and the rest of the band) guided me through from my childhood into my now adulthood; I accepted and used his words, images and influences to influence my own life. He didn't know me so it was with a non-judgemental eye I was guided.

“It’s scary to watch someone you love go into the centre of himself and confront his fears; fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little to come out the other side” Break My Heart Slowly, Nicky Wire


Thursday, August 31, 2006

I have signed an online petition: Petition against the redevelopment of The Intrepid Fox pub.

You may wish to support this cause by clicking on the link below and following the instructions.

Me, I want to save The Fox

I've spent many a happy hour in there getting horribly drunk with the goths and metal kids and avoiding going in the black toilets - what joy!

Taken from today's Metro

"Pisces - Taking some action on a long-term plan, even if it’s only a teeny tiny step, somehow makes you feel better. It makes you feel like you’re getting somewhere. Like your life is not stuck in a swamp of confusion and frustration. Always helps."


Swamp of confusion and frustration - sums up the last few weeks! Better take some action...

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Highlight from bank holiday weekend:

Joe's grandma revealing that just after the war when she was in Winchester one of the boys in the barracks asked her to get Lady Chatterly's Lover out of the library. The book went around the whole barracks before it got back to her and she didn't have time to read it before giving it back to the library!

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Quote of the Day

"But saints are often mistaken for lunatics. But not as often as lunatics are correctly identified as lunatics." Richard Herring

Check out his webblog
here, I have become addicited to his daily updates of normality and oddness.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Good and Bad Technology (it's a bit like the Terminator view of the future...the robots have taken over! Oh no, it's ok we can use the technology to build robots for good too)

A memory stick has ruined my life and has meant that my to do list is slowly building up behind the work I now have to redo...my faith in technology is at an all time low. Apart from last night when I made this wonderful spreadsheet that can record the number of entries and has colour coding and flashing lights and bells on! Hurrah, my faith in technology restored!
Spent the weekend ill, wilting with weakness and had to take to my mother's bed to recover. Last train from Hastings cancelled on Sunday evening so had to travel early on Monday. Still ill but still had to be convinced that I should take the day off. Still not feeling great but the 'to do list' was pulsing violently on my desk and had to tend to it...

Still bloody raining. Can't wait for our holiday in St. Ives in September...a whole week to relax!
Little bit of time wasting at lunch time...

Your Personality Profile

You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant.
Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle.
You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs.

For you, comfort and calm are very important.
You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection.
You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong.

Friday, August 18, 2006

The new Morrissey email out has a picture of him licking an ice cream...gasp at those blue eyes, that quiff...bloody hell what a nice addition to my day full of building bitching, transcription checking and depressing rain.

*Boo does a little shaky booty dance of pure happiness*

How your mood can change!

Rubbish People

Sometimes your gut instinct is correct. I mean, if I responded in the way I wanted to the respond to the selfish, brattish behaviour surrounding me the shit would hit the fan so let's just leave it...I've reached my limit of understanding some people's behaviour and I can't be bothered to make the effort anymore. It's yet another little thing but boy do the little things build up to a bloody huge mountain that you can't climb over.

Gosh, my patience is at an all time low.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

After coming home the other night after a creative coaching session (more of which later) I had a very interesting conversation with boyf. He was saying that he feels like what he really needs is a "soul wank" to help clear himself and his blocks. The disturbing thing is that I know precisely what he means...

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Planning your own 30th birthday party over 5 months in advance - obsessive behaviour? Discuss.
A bit of time wasting before work starts!

Boudicca Lee Maloney's Aliases

Your movie star name: Cheese Patrick

Your fashion designer name is Boudicca Paris

Your socialite name is Boody London

Your fly girl / guy name is B Mal

Your detective name is Cats Heaton Manor

Your barfly name is Yogurt Drink Rum

Your soap opera name is Lee Edward

Your rock star name is Dark Chocolate Dash

Your Star Wars name is Bouraf Malnic

Your punk rock band name is The Tired Fluffy Cow

Monday, August 14, 2006

Oddities from the damn busy weekend of working on the Mela:
  • Finding that all 3 ladies in the office had bought Red magazine for the free make up cases and utilized them as pencil and 'important things for the site office' bag. Very worrying.
  • Slipping into overusing of spaz voices when getting into the stuck in the site office for over 10 hours moment.
  • Being challenged by drunk kids from the catering tent demanding to know if I was related to their art teacher called Anna...
  • striking up relationships with people on radio who you actually never meet in person.
  • Running away from the free after show drinks in hospitality to curl up in the hotel bar and drink rose.
  • Still managing to steal a wine glass from the hotel although I wasn't even that drunk.
  • Choreographers with crushes on Bollywood pop stars are very amusing (also you must never tell a mouthy Liverpudlian that you fancy someone, they'll only go and tell them and drag you over - this is a lesson I have learnt at the very hands of our very own mouthy Liver Bird (every house needs one, I tell you!))

Friday, August 11, 2006

A great tool for deciding where to travel to...

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Your personality type is RLOAI
You are reserved, moody, organized, accommodating, and intellectual, and may prefer a city which matches those traits.

The largest representation of your personality type can be found in the these U.S. cities: Oklahoma City, Albuquerque/Santa Fe, Indianapolis, Reno, Greenville/Spartanburg, Cincinnati, Memphis, Chicago Area, Pittsburgh, Orlando, Louisville, Providence and these international countries/regions Czech Republic, Guam, Austria, Luxembourg, Philippines, Iceland, Indonesia, Portugal, Taiwan, Hungary, Israel, France, New Zealand, Slovenia, Canada

What Places In The World Match Your Personality?
City Reviews at CityCulture.org

Thursday, August 10, 2006

My mother teaches English to lots of people. Recently she's been working with Chinese head teachers. She gave them my blog to read through to explore informal patterns of writing, slang and phrases...these are the words/phrases that they found interesting and/or didn't quite understand with my mums explanation notes added in brackets. Makes for a highlighted version of my blog...I like it a lot. Made me laugh out loud!

Exploring the language of a blog

(Here are some of your findings I have only included words and phrases, which I think you will find useful. I have omitted those idiosyncratic to her.)

Informal English (including short forms)

v. drunk (v=very)
pj’s (pyjamas)
bday (birthday)
gonna (going to)
wanna (want to)
20x (20 times)
baby bro (younger brother)
Xmas (Christmas)
x (kiss)
I’m mega busy (mega =very)
y’know (you know)
Ex (past boy/girlfriend)
yuck (horrible)
TGI Friday (Thank God it’s Friday)
hurrah (good news)
Like crazy (lots/very much)
grotty (not nice)
G’day (Good day –Australian influence)
ciggy (cigarette)

Swear words

Careful – only use very informally – any may offend people!!

IMPOLITE shit, crap, bloody, bitches, damn, God, twit
TOTALLY TABOO fuck, twat, cunt

Foreign words

Tres chic (French for very fashionable – also uses tres with English adjectives)
Per se (Latin for as such)
Tequila (Spanish – strong spirit drink)
Unazukin (Japanese doll)

Metaphor or simile

To juggle (to manage lots of things at the same time)
Social butterfly
Spidering the web (www)
Rock star like ego
We ran like feral wolf children
Looking like a bum
Feel like shit
Look like a plague victim
My throat becoming razor blades
Floods of tears
How on earth can I get out of this hole?
Worrying like as rocking chair
Sending shivers down my spine
They are rocking my world (disturbing my reality)
Full of beans dance routines

Idioms or other unusual phrases and words or phrases you do not understand:

Albion (poetic word for England)
lb (pound – weight before metric introduced)
witty (funny with words)
Pilled up (on drugs – usually ecstasy)
Flatmate (like room mate or house mate)
Clamber (climb over)
VAT (value added tax on shopping)
Tesco (large supermarket – brand name)
Ecstasy (drug which gives one energy for dancing and makes one happy for a while)
E’s (short form of above)
Porno (short for pornography)
Backpacker (traveller + rucksack)
Tepee (native American tent)
A learning curve (difficult learning experience)
OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder – a medical problem, when actions are repeated needlessly)
Temper tantrums (fits of angry)
Goodies (sweets or treats)
Side effects (effects from medicine not desired)
Bump into people (meet them unexpectedly)
Goth ( sub culture, dressing in black and into death, loud music and shocking the rest of us!)
Geek (computer mad intelligent guy –usually wears glasses!)
Quality time (giving someone your full attention)
To flirt (chat to someone you fancy, to get them interested – or pretend to!)
With a short fuse (likely to lose temper fast)
Voyeuristic (like looking at others –usually sexually)
Wee hours (late – 1,2,3 am)
Pimp (man who sends women out as prostitutes)

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Y'know the trouble with listening to radio shows that hardly anyone else seems to listen too? No one 'gets' your jokes anymore - PIIIINNNNCCCCHHH MY SKKKKIIIINNNN!

Monday, August 07, 2006

These small pleasures:


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Friday, August 04, 2006

Nabbed from Sgt Pepper

You Are Lightning

Beautiful yet dangerous
People will stop and watch you when you appear
Even though you're capable of random violence

You are best known for: your power

Your dominant state: performing


yep, yep, yep - bloody hell, a mememe that is correct!
A little 3 mins waste of my lunch break:

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Original Kitty
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Fun vid with pretty ladies here


note to self: spend less time on you tube

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

How much fun is this?



Although - they didn't have different body figures and this is what I'd look like if I lost around 1/2 my body weight!

Monday, July 31, 2006

Some non-work things to look forward to over the next busy month:
Saturday was spent in Shoeburyness - didn't spend long there but it was a lovely train journey there and back along the Essex coast. I left my swimming costume at work with under used gym kit, so couldn't jump into the sea but enjoyed watching kids jumping off rusting framework and the windsurfers. I did fulfill some seaside requirements and received an odd sunburn on leg due to placement of shells and stones and ate fish and chips and ice cream.

I do love a day trip.

Yesterday was spent working in the production office on a Sikh festival out in Hounslow, it went well I think...certainly a learning curve of a day!

A busy week ahead...no, a busy couple of weeks...actually a busy month. Once August is over I'll have a little time to breathe until it starts again with meetings and arranging fireworks.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Bloody funny!

Lovebox - we braved the on/off rain to see strippers, insect circus museums, Coldcut - who rocked as always but we had to evacuate from the tent midway as it had become a roasting hot sauna, various DJ's (I have no idea who!), fine burgers, hugs from random pill'd up strangers, bumping into boyfs New Zealander relatives, teepee tents (unfortunately occupied by Secret Sundaze - good music but why oh why do all the fashionable wankers end up there?)

Sunday was spent chilling out, playing with the new pocket PC (oooohhhhhing and arrrhhhing at every new thing it does!), walking in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and generally being dismayed at my current lack of available friends to play with...


I finish working most weekends by September by which time most of them will be away getting married, moving, planning their around the world trips...the last 6/7 months have been strange. I moved out from living with my 3 best mates, then my dad died and it's been difficult to reconnect with those and other friends. Not to say that they weren't amazing and supportive but that I didn't and couldn't have the same priorities as them while I was 'healing myself'. I assumed that once I was 'better', I would go back to being the same 'me' but the whole process has changed 'me' dramatically - perhaps not on the outside but certainly on the inside. I suppose it's all part of the process of growing up (and as a certain person in my life keeps saying "Boudicca, you are almost 30").

Note to self: must plan well in advance more outings and visits with friends.

Friday, July 21, 2006

In the last 24hrs I have:

Taken an hour to travel from Paddington to Marble Arch (damn TFL and emergency tube closures)
Bought a HP iPAQ rx 1950 series (Wi-fi, one of the joys of the modern age!)
Laid in bed and been bathed with ice cubes by a drunk boyf
Moved bedding to front room with its large open windows to try and escape the heat (no such luck)
Been locked out my office for 2hrs (cue sunburnt cleavage)

London isn't made for weather this hot; all are rude and impatient including me...

This evening will be spent under a cold shower and tomorrow will be spent getting horribly drunk at Lovebox

Friday, July 14, 2006

I've just bought an unazukin and I've become so obsessed with her that I've:
  • taken to reading through my work to do list and seeing what she says I should do and shouldn't do...
  • put her by my speakers to find out what radio station I should be listening to (she likes 6 Music by the way)
  • allowed her to control my food intake all day - she says a diet of biscuits and I follow like a fool...

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Yesterday evening I went to see Fuerzabruta at the Roundhouse (after pre-theatre catch up, drinkies and snacks with the Fairy Uncle - thank you!). Umm, well I went expecting a spectacle and that's what I got but for all the exciting, beautiful, striking images within the show; I was still left slightly disappointed by it. The more I think about it the more parts of it I felt didn't work. I wanted more...I'd liken it to a ghost train. Ghost trains are exciting and funny while you're in there but the minute you come out nothing remains with you apart from "oooh, I liked that bit when the cobweb fell on my face"...and another thing, using African chats within upbeat (did I really just say upbeat???) ravey music doesn't work. On anything. Especially women in their pants throwing themselves through water above the audiences’ heads.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Yet another amazing gig from James Dean Bradfield at ULU last night. Beautiful,

Boyf got chatting to David Quantick (only of course after I'd said don't talk to David Quantick!) . He bought us pints and we chatted about the Manics and their solo careers. The consensus was "thoroughly nice bloke" - even took the time to take the piss out of the cure t-shirt on one of our party...

Quote of the night:

"I'd turn up to see the Manic Street Preachers shit" David Quantick

Nicky Wire - pink suited, middle-aged parent teachers evening ranter, poet, shambollix
James Dean Bradfield - beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, when someone uses a guitar to take you to another place, it literally leaves me breathless...also having a parent that has recently died, Ocean Spray meant more to me than anything last night - thank you (I try hard to refrain from bursting into Thank you for the music by ABBA!)
Sean Moore - what's the next step? Industrial hardcore? Freeform jazz? Electro soundscape? Come Mooro pull it out the bag boy!

Friday, July 07, 2006

During the last 7 days

Bad Things:
Work, work, work...bloody work

This bloody weather - veering from blood-boiling hot to thunder storm central!
Slipping back into caffine drinking (naughty Boo)

Good Things:

Visits to Winchester to see Bollywood Steps
Horniman's Museum for
stunning music and dance from Yemen with traditional instruments and full Sanaani costume.
Drunken weekends with brother and mates - too much vodka!

Things to look forward to next week:

James Dean Bradfield
at ULU
Fuerzabruta
at The Roundhouse
The Now Show
at Greenwich Theatre

Monday, July 03, 2006

So I didn't get to see Nicky Wire but after a day in the heatwave sunshine at Europride and then watching the football and eating ice creams and drinking beer, I could barely move from Carla's bed let alone pull myself together to go to a gig! There'll be another time I'm sure.

Yesterday was great fun - we got down to Hyde Park Calling made all the more better by the fact that my brother and mates weren't working so we all proceeded to get horribly drunk and stoned and lie in the sun all day. I'm feeling a little delicate today...



*vomits in lap*

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

During the last 7 days

Bad Things:
Temper tantrums
Finance quagmires
(VAT)
Too many chocolate biscuits
Floods of unexplained tears
Lack of gym visits
Crap eyesight (that's getting much much worse)

Good Things:
Cooing at babies

Receiving a strawberry tart from my work mate - afternoon tea rocks
Pink butterfly filofax and notebook covers

Visits (short but sweet or should that be drunken?) from brother
New phone/MP3 player
New contact lenses
Dreaming of tattoos
A moment of pure enlightenment during my last counseling session (I 'got' how and why and wherefore now I just have to do something positive with it)

Inbetween:
Finding Russell Brand increasingly attractive - wrong!

Saturday, June 24, 2006

I've been blogtagged by Jessie

Here are my 8 “interesting” things about myself.

8. I have a filthy temper, but I now am ok at repressing it (generally).

7. I self-published my first book of poetry at the age of 8 (I still dream of writing poems, plays and novels - but never really get around to it!).

6. When I'm nervous I bite and/or touch my lower lip.

5. I have met a number of celebrities:

a) The Beautiful South and Eddi Reader in the same evening at a Womad - Paul Heaton said some very rude things that I didn't 'get' at the time but as I've grown up I have realised they totally inapproaiate to say to an 9 year old girl. Eddi Reader was lovely and spent ages with me and my brother telling us silly jokes and doing impressions of other pop stars.

b) I've met all the Manic Street Preachers (a couple of times). Richie was really lovely and spent ages chatting with me and a friend about all the bands, music, writers we were into. Nicky was a bit of a twat but kept my brother entertained for ages - Nicky still owes my brother his pink sparkly shirt!

c) Neil from The Divine Comedy once actually asked me "do you know who I am?" I replied "yes I do and I'm never going to buy one of your records again" - TWAT!

d) I worked at a nightclub and I was in the toilet backstage once and Brian from Placebo started banging on the door and swearing at me - I came out in a right mood - it turned out that he thought his bass player in there. (for information - I'm 5' 8" and pretty big, Brian is 4" and legally classed as a dwarf, he was shit scared)

e) I once had the chance to meet David Bowie backstage but I had to walk past him instead - I could bearly breathe let alone talk...

f) Lauren Laverne is lovely but is very boring on stage.

4. As I grow older I become more interested in things like murder mystery novels, board (bored?) games, visiting museums, taking an interest in flowers, etc...I'm 29 going on 80 plus. It worries me...

3. I love to cook almost as much as I like to eat.

2. I verge on OCD constantly, in everything I do.

1. My name really is Boudicca, my mother named me after looking out of the window of the hospital were I was born over the Thames after I was born and saw the statue and it stuck. I've grown into my name over the years - I am a warrior queen through and through.

"She was huge of frame, terrifying of aspect, and with a harsh voice. A great mass of bright red hair fell to her knees: she wore a twisted torc, and a tunic of many colours, over which was a thick mantle, fastened by a brooch. Now she grasped a spear, to strike fear into all who watched her." Dio Cassius

I've realised that I lurk on lots of people's blogs but don't make contact with a lot of them - so I have no one to tag that hasn't already been done by my extend linkage...if there are any lurkers out there, you're welcome to accept a blogtag from me!

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Feeling slightly better today, spent yesterday clearing those pesky 'to dos' from my list. By the end of this week my aim is to cut my 'to do list' to 1/2 a page of a4 rather than usual 2 sides!

Then I spent the evening with Jessie, we forced ourselves to go the gym and then back to hers for pre-pay day fodder (which was damn yummy!). I got overtired quite quickly so had to retire early but enjoyable nethertheless.

Tonight, we're visiting Lucy, Kev and the kids - which I'm really looking forward to. There's nothing better for the soul than playing with toddlers and snuggling cute, fat babies.

Song Lyrics of the Day: Together by The Raconteurs
"You want everything to be just like
The stories that you read but never write

You gotta learn to live and live and learn
You gotta learn to give and wait your turn

Or you'll get burned"

Monday, June 19, 2006

I'm veering from one extreme to the other. I've spent some of today looking for anger management classes, starting a psychology of high performance course, ticking off my 'to do' list and working out ways of sorting out my life...
There are a number of things missing from my life - motivation, energy, self control. I don't know who I am anymore. All the things that I have used to measure my 'self' are in disarray and don't mean anything...My likes have turned into dislikes and I see myself reflected in the tantrum tempers of the Big Brother wankers for fucks sake!


I feel
overstressed, out of control, nervous, overwhelmed, uneasy, tense, confused, unwanted, unappreciated, powerless, victimised, frightened, infuriated, spiteful, listless, unoccupied, restless...

How on earth can I get out of this hole?

Friday, June 16, 2006

Today I have mainly:

~ cried at my desk (general darkness, nothing in particular).
~ shouted at artistic directors.
~ slammed about the photocopier.
~ perved on clearly gay dancers during rehearsals (shake that ass in a bollywood way for me boy, etc!).

~ had a rushed telephone conversation with Janimal to welcome her back to the UK - she's currently nursing midge bites and feeling much happier to be home.
~ wished my brother a great big "
Happy Birthday"

basically...I can't wait for the weekend!!!

Thursday, June 15, 2006

I should go to the gym this evening but all I want to do is go home and chill out. Take advantage of the peace and quiet while the match is on...take a long bath with lots of goodies and get an early night. Mind you, early nights is all I seem to be doing at the moment. I feel in some ways that I should mourn the loss of my 'wild side' but I'm pretty sure that it isn't gone completely. I mean, after all, I even drank some real caffeinated coffee this afternoon (mistake - just force of habit during a meeting!). Rock on! Living on the edge!
My Lovely Family Updates:

Last email from Janimal in Russia

June 15th

"This is my last day and all teaching has finished. I made my first and
probably last Russian joke. G'day is Dobre den and the guy who runs the sub marine internet caf is called Dennis - you got it #Dobre Dennis#. It raised an ironic smile - not bad.

Last night we gathered on a balcony to drink beer (not me) and eat take away pizza (hot - a special treat - the food here is luke warm if u r lucky - in the sanitorium not the whole of Russia) We provided mosquitoes with plenty of blood and I sloped off when the whiskey
arrived!

Today all the other teachers are playing pioneer ball - like volley ball but you can run with the ball & pass it to your team. As the towels are being removed they will all be sweaty on the plane I fear. I will not be watching, as they thought! Sounds too much like work and it's near the mozzie area - had enough of that. So, I came in to town to send this missive. I am also trying to track down pine vodka which is a local speciality as we are surrounded by pine trees - quite handy for my nature walks. On nice days they have to go out for activities and while all the sporty set jump around with balls and hoops with htem, I've been taking them for nature walks. Reminds me of when u 2 were little. The river for a chat about fish, then to see the ducks, goose and swan and collect feathers, then to see the horse and the pony and lastly you can
pick wild flowers to take back! Lots of English and kids often not knowing what the hell I'm on about - some r only 7! Still pleasant enough. Oh yes and they collect pine cones - that's where I started."

Dash recently did a shark dive for charity (thanks to all of you who sponsored him!)

Here he is before he got in!

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

One of those ridiculous mememe’s that are doing the rounds on blogs:

A - Available: certainly not, how rude.
A - Age: 29
A - Annoyance: rudeness in other people (I don’t mind it in me!)

B - Best Friend: The Rats and extended rat family
B - Bar: don’t really ‘do’ bars, certainly don’t have a favourite.
B - Birthday: March 7th

C - Crush: Gosh, there are so many where should I start? Howard T J Moon (AKA Julian Barrett) is my current paramour, Matt Willis, Christopher Walken, Carl Barrett,
Brendan Fraser, Johnny Depp, Robin Ince, Stewart Lee, Nicky Wire, Jack White, Cillian Murphy, should I stop yet. I adore looking at a beautiful man. It’s all in the eyes…that knowing sparkle!
C - Car: none, although I have been thinking that I should retry my driving test again soon. The idea of being able to escape is currently very appealing.
C - Cat: none but I’d love some, I currently have my online kitten to your right and I have soft toy that I’ve fallen in love with…

D - Dead Pet’s Name: Cats – puzzle, zebadee. Hamster – too many to mention!
D - Dad’s name: Lee
D - Dog: none, boyf would like a Jack Russell though. Not too sure – I’d quite like a labradoodle just so I could laugh at it!

E - Easiest person to talk to: my mum
E - Eggs: well done, I hate those see through bits in the white when they aren’t cooked right.
E - Email: biteme@youloveus.com

F - Favourite colour: black, red, pink
F - Food: there’s nothing that I don’t enjoy but I always go back to pesto, cheese, nice bread, hot pepper sauce, sushi, miso soup, rahmens…
F - Foreign Slang: Boo, as in a boyfriend or girlfriend e.g. "I love you, Boo." – not that I’m self centred or anything.

G - Gummy Bears or Worms: neither, sour jellies
G - God: Right, are you ready…“god” is basically an easily understandable symbol, humans use symbols to describe difficult or abstract concepts like the interaction of spirit and body. These symbols or allegories allow us to understand things like energy and spirit and self, they allow conceptual thinking…i.e. all religion is allegory. We are hard wired for belief - we need to make some sort of sense of the world around and inside us...

"So God is dead, like Nietzsche said/Superstition is all we have left" 1985, Manic Street Preachers

G - Good Time: long, hot, relaxing baths with candles and smellies!

H - Hair Colour: dyed black (red black, blue black makes me look like I’m about to die)
H – Height: 5'8"
H - Happy: really happy only quietly…and not too often.

I - Ice cream: I like the grown up stuff - vanilla, coffee, pistachio and if I’m feeling wild a ‘99
I - Instrument: none, although I did once get a grade 1 in flute –rock and roll!
I - Idol: Again, so many! Brian Patten, Nicky Wire, William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Joss Whedon, Roman Dirge, Jhonen Vasquez
the list goes on…

J - Jewellery: 4 silver, one rope pattern one from Lorna on my left little finger, one curly one on my first finger of my right hand, one amber one on my ring finger of my right hand, one curly, Celtic one on my little finger of my right hand.
J - Job: Arts Administrator
J - Joke: ok, are you ready for this because you will weep with the joy that this joke gives you?

When a pee falls from your plate onto the floor, look at it and point and say “Escape-Pee”.

What do you mean it isn’t funny? That’s the funniest thing in the world, a joke for all. The universal joke, if you will.

K - Kids: none yet…”I want a fucking baby!”
K - Karate: black belt, mate. Why? You wanna start something?
K - Kung fu: Bruce Lee’s got nothin’ on me!

L - Longest Car Ride: I get car sick, they all feel like the longest ride…*vomits into lap*
L - Longest Relationship: I once almost made the 6 years mark…I’ve been with the latest one for 2 years and 10 months. I don’t really do short relationships, I’m in it for the long haul.
L - Last thought: trying to remember my colleagues password that I gave her and where I put the cunning numbers instead of letters

M - Milk Flavour: Loveliness = McDonalds Strawberry Milkshake
M - Mother’s Name: Jan (or janimal the animal, depending on mood)
M - Movie Last Watched: X-Men 3 at the cinema (I sobbed like a child when Xavier got killed, so glad I went by myself!) and Serenity at home (which was kick ass great)

N - Number of Siblings: 1 baby bro (I say baby, what I mean 27 this week...)
N - Northern or Southern: Well, Southern by birth but Northern by traits and where I’ve spent the most time.
N - Name: Boudicca Lee Maloney

O - One Wish: after just spending half an hour trying to sort out my finances – never to have to worry about money again…
O - One Phobia: Moths – bloody hate them
O - Otter Pop: Eh? Otters I like. Pop I like. Together I’m not so sure. Am I missing something is otter pop some weird sexual thing that I haven’t done yet? Just done an internet check and it seems that otter pops are ice pops, in which case I like the blue raspberry ones.


P - Part of your appearance you like best: I’m a goddess, we don’t have to choose the best bits we’re totally amazing (moi ego be bloody quiet for one minute, eerrrhh, eyes?)
P - Parents, are they married or divorced: not married but cohabited (but only after the children had grown up and left home)
P - Part of your personality you like best: see above

Q - Quick or Slow?: Quicker than lightening
Q - Queen or Queer?: Queen of Fucking Everything!
Q - Quiet or Loud?: veer from one to the other at alarming speeds

R - Reason to smile: when listening to your CD player in the street or on the tube and you actually want to jump up and air guitar to the best bit but you can’t – a smile to yourself is enough!
R - Reality TV Shows: hate them but once they are on I can’t turn over.
R - Right or Left: Politically left, right handed

S - Song Last Heard: The new Embrace World Cup football song. Danny McNamara reaching some amazing high notes quite badly. Shit but I know that I’ll be singing alone within 2/3 more plays on Xfm
S - Season: Autumn
S - Sex: often, thank you.

T - Time you woke up: 8.20am – I should have got up at 7.30am…but I’m lazy.
T - Time Now: 2pm – doing this is more fun than going out for lunch.
T - Time for bed: I’ll go to bed at 10pm but won’t get to sleep until the pips go on radio 4

U - Unknown Fact about me: a really embarrassing one – I was once so bored during a school assembly I sat there eating my bogies…I was 8!
U - Unicorns: love ‘em, always eating the roses in gardens though.
U - U are: you are, if you please.

V - Vegetable you hate: I quite like vegetables – I used to refer to the broad bean as the devils bean but I’ve grown up a bit and quite like them now.
V - View on Politics: I used to want to be a political journalist and I still like to listen to Today in Parliament but mainly to moan about it all.

V - Victoria's Secret: that she’s anorexic and dreams of having a breast larger than 22 A???

W - Worst Habits: I have so many…nail biting, remote control hogging, swearing like a navvy, the weird OCD habits, etc
W - Where are you going to travel next?: Planned holiday - Egypt – 2 weeks in December. I’m already overexcited. I'm also hoping for a holiday with the boyf in September if I can get the time off work - anywhere...just hot and cheap.
W - Weight: I’m a lady, I don’t need to answer that.

X - X-Rays: quite handy for looking inside you?
X - Xylophone: I played one once during a school play, I rocked out!
X - Xenon: Number 5 on the periodic table? (interesting fact: xenon is present in the Martian atmosphere to the extent of about 0.08 ppm)

Y - Year you were born: 1977
Y - Year it is now: 2006
Y - Yellow: nicotine stains and wee

Z - Zoo Animal: Crazy llamas a
nd the day the llama got out, went crazy and started hoofing the public, "hoofing doctors, hoofing vicars". There’s only one way to calm a llama down:

Calm a llama down
Calm a llama deep down in the ocean blue
Like a barnacle
Sitting in the tight place
Laughing like a monkey arm
Pulling like a china boy
Caraway caraway caraway noise
Boing chika masala
Boing chika masala
Ooooooo tooth tooth (sharp intake of breath)

The Mighty Boosh

Z - Zodiac: Piscean.
Z - Zoolander: a quite rubbish film that I watch because David Duchovny was in it!