August 26th, 2010
Nothing has inspired me to write for a while…certain things in the meda have aggravated me but not enough to put fingers to keyboard.
Florence Rose Endillion??? Oh get a grip!!! Enough said!
Life has been life, some ups some downs some still unsure ofs, hence not knowing if to post. Can’t report on things that are in the pipeline as I don’t want to count my chickens before they hatch.
Happy bits n bobs 
)….. Happy that number one child has a uni place YAY! Happy that number two child has secured an ICT GCSE at the end of year 8! Happy that am approximately seven weeks into a new relationship! It is all very new so trying to take it slowly, not get excited, not rush about telling everyone (so here it is on the internet?!?! But I am still not convinced anyone looks at this blog and the ones who do don’t know me from Adam) but so far it has been a very pleasant experience )
Waiting bits n bobs…..looking for a new job, waiting to hear from a University regarding an APEL application I submitted, should hear this week and waiting to hear from a solicitor regarding a financial legality I am dubious about…
Lots of good news and hopefully more to follow…fingers crossed!!
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July 7th, 2010
Don’t you just love non-reporting? Something that barely gives facts or reasons behind a story? Take for example a recent “survey” which is suggesting that more than 1 in 5 peope are failing to save towards their retirement and that women are contributing less than men…. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you surprise me!
Lets see hmmmmm most people WERE saving and most pension schemes invest in the stock market. Over the past few years they have seen monies contributed slashed by in some cases up to 50%…. so slap £1000 away for it to be worth £500 and due to inflationary pressure be worth 50p in the future? Then you have the view of “I led a frugal life to invest in my financial future to see all the fritterers and scroungers have a better life style than me and in old age get more than me through benefits and STILL have a better lifestyle so why bother?” Which personally I can identify with.
Until the disparity in male/female income reduces men WILL contribute more than women, and as long as women remain on the whole the parent with care ditto………
Stupid bloody surveys……..stupid bloody reporting………. pay me more, don’t cut my hours, do something to help economic recovery and safeguard my investments and I MAY just MAY be able to contribute to a pension…….some people need to get out into the real world………..
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June 28th, 2010
… and about time too…. how annoying was it that they took £5 notes out of ATM’s. Now there is going to be a pilot scheme of FREE atm’s that will dispense ONLY £5 no matter how much you withdraw.
No-one ever has and change, everyone looks at you in disgust when you offer a £20 when all you want is a pack of chewing gum….all ask “haven’t you got anything smaller?” Look pal how can I get anything smaller when the damn machine is only giving me £20? It ran out of £10’s ages ago and every bugger has the same attitutude as you…. “I want to hang onto all my change” Then there is the other scenario where they DO have change but no £5 notes…….so you end up with a pocket full of coins weighing you down! I don’t want to have to buy something I don’t really want/need yet JUST TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING SMALLER!
How long did it take for some think tank to devise this though and how much did they get paid? I could have told you people wanted £5’s back YONKS ago….. and for free………..
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May 10th, 2010
Back in March I had a cold. I now have another one coming. How unfair is that!
Applied for a new job, didn’t get shortlisted. How unfair is that?
I want to the weather to be warm. It’s cold. How unfair is that?
On the upside all my coursework is complete and I need to sort out Uni application… I am determined to do it! Have had an ego boost romantically but not sure it will come to anything but made me smile for a few days ;o)
On my “I need to do something different” each month I have been remiss is uploading what I have done but I am on track, even if not totally new place something different anyway 
I am determined to track down all the Elephant Parade Elephants in London. This will take me to places in London I haven’t really been to before, maybe passed by but not actually stopped in…..about 50 done 200 to go roflmao. Have until the end of June so hope to achieve it.Will keep you informed….
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April 25th, 2010
…..is everyone else getting into a right tizzy over this Pope memo? I personally laughed like a drain and think that anyone who is taking this seriously has had a humour transplant. Worse is said on Have I got News for You, Mock the Week or in any local stand up comedy club.
Ok so “officially” the government shouldn’t have such views but what happened in my opinion is some people had a serious brain storming session then the daft ideas came out, an error of judgement was made in emailing something on official channels and some arse sent it to the papers.
Sorry I rather like the idea that civil servants can laugh and poke fun at things, did anyone suggest the fun stuff was not done during a lunch break? Oh well I guess I just appreciate the irreverant!
Apparently the document, obtained by the Sunday Telegraph, suggested Benedict XVI could:
:: bless a gay marriage;
:: launch a range of Benedict-branded condoms;
:: apologise for the Spanish Armada;
:: sing a song with the Queen for charity;
:: show his hard line on the sensitive issue of child abuse allegations against Roman Catholic priests by “sacking dodgy bishops” and launching a helpline for abused children.
The ideas were included in a paper titled “The ideal visit would see…” which was distributed to officials in Whitehall and Downing Street preparing for the historic visit in September.
Very clever ideas indeed LOLOL
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April 24th, 2010
LOL woooohoooo there is a Mr PLANITZER who does the sound on Dr Who ..ok it would have been better if it was PlanEtzer but Planitzer does me…………….
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April 6th, 2010
and all things being equal I have enjoyed watching some old films…….High Society and Casablanca to name two and what struck me most about them all was how they were so stiff and “acted” back then and also OMG they all smoked like chimneys!
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April 5th, 2010
Was super! Usual bank holiday weekend weather, well not really as it WASN’T raining, but then again neither was it gloriously sunny, so decided to visit the cinema. Brave of me considering it was a kids film with kids watching it! I must say they were all really well behaved and made for a pleasant excursion.
I haven’t read the books and knew nothing about them prior to seeing the film. It was lively, different and humourous. On getting home I googled it and yet again find that although it was a brilliant film the story line has yet again been tampered with beyond belief. Characters put in, others left out and the basic premise of the plot thrown out of the window?
If you go to see a film of the book , it isn’t, if you go to see a great family film I promise you will enjoy… especially if you have cats ;o)
Oh and for David Tennant fans, he has a few lines but I defy you to know who he is if you didn’t check beforehand!
Tags: cats.film, dragons
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March 23rd, 2010
Ohhhhhhhhhhh good telly. I love good telly! Being human was BRILLS…. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Flashforward is back BLISS. Sadly Skins ended and why oh why did they kill Freddy? When is Misfits back? And ohhhhh ohhh new Dr Who at Easter. I hope it’s going to be good. I am still mourning David Tennant though *big sighs*
Having said all of that I don’t watch that much TV.
Saw Avatar and thought it was a super film. Not sure it was worth all the raving but I loved the idea. The parallels to what we still do now with indigenous populations was quite scary. Percy Jackson………ugh how awful was that! Have I mentioned before how unlike the book it was?
I have a cold. It’s horrible. A few weeks ago I had the dreaded tummy bug and now laid low everything is beating me up.
Sprog number one has 3 University offers, hope that the exam results are ok come summer.
Sprog number two is turning into a “Kevin” and I literally get “ug” as a reply to anything I ask. So thats what I now say in return. Oh actually it isnt always “ug” sometimes I get the accusing tone and shouted at. I get my own back by remaining calm and doing the sweetness bit… oh and stop internet access, and confiscate controllers…. Well if he wants to hate me he might as well have a proper reason too innit?
Music…..even now I still can’t listen to some things…is it the same for you? Do you listen to Come Undone and remember? Or do you listen and forget? Or do you listen and it mean nothing? A really good friend lent me a freebie from the paper, it had live tracks on it, it came on, I wasn’t expecting it, it threw me. Why does it still do that?
I want a new job.
I can’t find one.
I guess it’s the current climate.
I want a new house.
I can’t sell this one.
I guess it’s not the right time.
I want to be alone.
I can’t as I have responsibilities.
I guess I am wishing my life away.
Don’t you think “The Highwayman” was a fantasic poem. And I loved “The Listeners” …what about “The Lady of Shallot”?…and Wilfred Owen…he has always been a hero, though I don’t think he would have chosen that word.
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February 28th, 2010
Simple observations. No pun intended ;o) How do we look at photographs? What do we expect to derive from them? Simple observation but no simple answer. There are so many genres and we are expected to take a different stance on each. Depends also on our own knowledge of the world and personal experiences.
Discussing with others this weekend three seperate exhibitions, we all gained, or saw, or felt different things from each. Again not everything dirived from experience or knowledge, some was simply personal preference. Looking at the way each individual photographer approached their topic also showed how they interpreted the “rules” of composition, lighting and focus. Lets just say half of them, if I had taken them, would have been left on the cutting room floor! Does that mean I am wrong, that I am being led by convention or is it I really am a perfectionist on if my horizon is straight? I was always fairly happy with what I had taken until some well meaning soul said “Well that would have been a good shot…if only your horizon had been straighter.” Listen chum if squinty lines were good enough for Garry Winnogrand and William Eggleston they are good enough for me! Having said that I am not a fan of either’s work 
Can I say that or is that being blasphamous? I don’t like following the sheep and raving about something just because the establishment suddenly decided they were great.
Another debate rages on titling. Should we or shouldn’t we? Does it influence how you feel or view an image? William Eggleston seems to have done the popular “Arty” thing of ‘Let’s not bother with an actual title, but have brackets and something thats twenty words long describing the image’ eg Untitled (Pink bottle, on blue shelf, against white wall, in bathroom, in Russia, with light coming thru window, in-between slightly open plastic curtains) *Cough* Why not call it “Bathroom” or “Russian Bathroom” (ps this is made up btw so don’t go looking for it pmsl. Unless I have just plagiarised him?)* Another hot topic being talked about here…Planet Yawn.
Is that lazy? Not debating an issue on this blog just linking to others? Ack if it was good enough for Michael it’s good enough for me LOL
Yesterday I also went to see an exhibition at the Host Gallery by an Irish photographer, Mark Condren. He has done a series of images with regards to the Human Rights Movement Front Line | The international foundation for the protection of human rights defenders his images can been seen on this website Defending Life with Life – Exhibition | Front Line
One of the areas of debate was were his images telling the whole story? Could they have been of anyone anywhere and only explained by the text with them? Some in my group thought he missed an opportunity with some. I’m not so sure. I quite like the fact that some were everyday shots. Do all images have to have gritty realism to be of value or make a point? I appreciate that people can wear many hats. We all do. I think it brings it home more that ordinary people living ordinary lives can have terrible things happen or experience different attitudes. Does a body of work about surgeons for example HAVE to include them in scrubs covered in blood, or can’t they play golf? Go shopping? Make plasticine animals with their grandchildren? OOOOOOOOOOH should I copyright that idea? Victims are allowed a day off too you know and possibly it is more powerful to show people in a different light whilst explaining their position?
What did I learn from today? Take pictures YOU want to, HOW you want to cos someone somewhere will hate it no matter what, but possibly, just possibly, someone else will get it.
* Google Plagiarism and see how many websites don’t have the correct spelling!
Tags: Front Line, HOST Gallery, Human Rights, Mark Condren, William Eggleston
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