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...

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!

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.

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You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant.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.

The World's Shortest Personality Test

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.

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...

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

The Amazing Meganame Generator

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!))

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

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)

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!

These small pleasures:


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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:

Take the quiz:
Which Hello Kitty are you?

Original Kitty
You are the Original Hello KItty. You're a classic cutie.

Quizzes by myYearbook.com -- the World's Biggest Yearbook!

Fun vid with pretty ladies here


note to self: spend less time on you tube

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!