Your eyes will go square

Mmmm I wonder why I am starting to hate digital TV? Is it the fact that if someone farts in another room we lose all the BBC channels? Is it the fact that I have become hooked on QVC (curse you….curse you and your overly expensive postage and packaging *shakes fist towards the sky*) is it because of the early morning (midnight ‘til 5am) quiz channels with the contestants who are stupid enough to believe that they have any chance of winning that £1000 cash prize (“its a colour; ends with ellow; what could it be?”). Arghhhh!

Could it have something to do with the fact that I will quite happily watch episodes of Scrubs/Cribs/Antiques Roadshow even though I have seen them 100’s of times before. Maybe it has something to do with my love of day time TV – come on who doesn’t like old reruns of Murder She Wrote (and before any of you think that I am being sarcastic I will have to let you know that I have the box sets of series 1 through 6)

I am weak willed – there are you happy now that I have admitted it! I will happily watch crap – hell, I would watch paint dry if they had ad breaks. I am a marketing mans wet dream. I love it – yet I hate it… she is a cruel mistress yet this is the reason why I am happy to come back for more. Now if you will excuse me its almost time for QVC decoupage hour…

I will leave you with this little nugget from early morning quiz TV home many time can you say ‘Come On’ before it get irritating? Where do they drag these people in from (and can I get a job?)

Why Don’t You…

sf xxx

(PS Monkey has also become obsessed with watching – and singing very loudly – along with Bonnie Tylers “Total eclipse of the heart”, should I be worried by this?)  

The emergancy exits are here, here and here…

It’s been an odd week. I have a range of jobs that I have to do and I have very little energy to do it. I feel like poo on a stick; I have had a sore through and stiff neck (maybe its something nasty!). But things are looking up; I have a job interview next week. I will tell more once I have found out more.

I leave you with this little nugget from Pam Ann:

With Love

SF xxx

She returns!

She is returning to me… my “bffl” or Christa as I like to call here. But she is only here for a while before she jets off to the other side of the world – Canardia. So the great friend that I am I have found here a job to apply for – click here

I hope that you all agree that she would be perfect for the job!

Attack of the 50ft Sprouts

a great little game to all those people who hate sprouts all you need to do is click here and enjoy some sprout mashing fun!

Questions – et al….

Questions from Wondy Woman

1. If you weren’t doing the job you are doing now – what would you like to be doing?

I would love to be doing something that makes the world a better place – charity work, environmentally friendly company who sells vegan stuff, you get the idea. I would also love to be a paleontologist, it’s what I was planning to become when I was at uni – but the cost of doing a PHd ment that it was out of my league (it would have cost me a little over 15K a year – and that’s without the rent and food to think of!) I just wanted to do it so I could become Prof. Paul Maxwell – how cool is that!

2. Name 8 people (can be alive or dead celebrities – or ‘real’ people) you would invite to your fantasy dinner party. Say why you have chosen these individuals.

I have to be honest, celebs do nothing for me – I think the only person who I would want to have dinner with who could be classed as a celeb would be Sir David Attenborough, as he is the coolest person in the world. So thats 1, then there would be Juliet Gellatley (she is the only hero I have – after members of my own family that is) she set up and founded Viva! And I have been lucky enough to have the privilege of working with her. 2 down 6 more to go – Richard Dawkins (‘cos he’s a God Botherer Botherer), Peter Tatchel – the most active human rights activist around at the moment. Emily Pankhurst – I like her style. Steve Biko – for being a true hero to the anti apartide movement in South Africa and for believing in non violence as the way forward. I am going to have to put Monkey in there as well. I think I am also going to have to add the wonderful WondyWoman as well!

3. If you could give it all up tomorrow and go around the world, where would you visit and why?

It would have to be all the places that may not make it, the coral reefs, polar ice caps, and South East Asian rainforests. All the places that in 50 years time may not be here because of us!

4. What do you look for in the perfect partner, and do you think you have found that?

He’s not perfect – but I think that if he was perfect I would have dumped him by now! Monkey makes me laugh, keeps me warm at night and irritates the fuck out of me as well. All you could ever want in a relationship!

5. What, in your opinion, is the meaning of life?

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darn – Ive been hit

Darn – Have been tagged from the Delite-ful Wondy Woman. This is what I have to do!

1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)
6) Tag 5 other bloggers to complete

Here goes…

Events:
1969 – Apollo Program: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon.
2001 – The London Stock Exchange goes public.
2003 – Richard Sambrook, the Director of BBC News, reveals that David Kelly was the source of claims that Downing Street had “sexed up” the “Dodgy Dossier“.

Births:
356 BC – Alexander the Great, Macedonian king and military leader (d. 323 BC)
1938 – Dame Diana Rigg, British actress (wow! I always knew that we had a spiritual link somehow)
1943 – Wendy Richard, British actress (even better – could only be topped by Barbara Windsor)

Death:
1973 – Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)

Holiday:
International chess day