myrtlebaggins

I did not make this but I think it's rather splendid.

1) It is cake
2) it is cookie
3) it is Blue Food
4) IT'S A MUPPET



stolen from taperoo2k 

Gosh look at that, I didn't post for all of Feb.

Anyway,   I can't get onto the Bunker tonight and according to Teh Milkster it looks like it has been off a few days.  I have been informed that this is the problem:

The data center that host the server have power issue.

http://www.carostatus.com/2009/03/06/friday-march-6-220pm/

site will be online, once the they fix the problem.

So there we have it.  We are without our tin mugs and TVCs until power returns to wherever that place with all the acronyms are.  It's a shame I don't have any way to inform Boreas apart from snail mail.

I'm amazed at how little I'm using the computer since I left my old job.  Oddments of stuff:

• I have a new job, hurrah!  It's admin type stuff at a charity and so far it's been really interesting.  Well the admin stuff is admin stuff, but the environment is very interesting.  Unfortunately at the moment it's only 2 days a week but I'm hoping it might increase in the future because I heard my boss has already said to someone else that I'm *a gem* and that she'd have me full time if they had the funding.  On the plus side it means I can keep going to Gibside for the moment, so that's ok.  I may end up with half a day at a different charity to sort out their website as someone mentioned something about that this week, but I think they have to run it past the Management Committee first.  I'd like to say more about the interesting bit of what I do, but it feels too identifying or confidential or something so I won't.  My colleagues have been made of lovely so far.  In fact everyone in the building seems to be the happiest person I've ever met.  I worry that I may be giggling too much with my new colleague.  Am Serious Lady Of Business now. Must reign in the daft.
• I have a plan for my vegetable garden.  It has been re-drawn many times and called off, and called back on and called off again but last night I bought the wood and tonight JB came over with his fancy pants compound mitre saw wiv a laser onnit tonight and we cut it into 58 boards ready to knock them into beds tomorrow.  WOO!  Although sometime between now and then I have to find some soil to fill in the hole that the chickens dug under the run over 3 years.  It looks like a grave.
• I have been making some very nice ice cream lately. 
• Most of the people I know seem to be having a really crappy time so far this year.
• Due to new job being Out In The World, I've had to rush out and buy some office wear.  I haven't worn office wear since 1996 -I feel like someone else.
• I've just started playing the Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party that I got for Christmas.  I LOVE THE DANCING BIT.  
• I should never switch the shopping channel on late at night.  Last week found me phoning Ideal World (not even QVC mind you, Ideal flamin World!) at 1am to order a bonkers exercise machine type thing.  It hasn't arrived yet, but I'm already wondering if it really is going to magically reduce my unwanted wobbly bits.
• I went to see Khalyn and Oddbodd's panto last week.  It was teh lols :D 
• Which reminds me, In the office next door to me works SOMEONE FROM THE INTERNET FORUM I POST ON.  It's a little bit weird but I'm getting used to it.  I bump into him at the photocopier sometimes and I met him and his girlfriend (who also posts on the forum as it's where they met) in the cafe the other day so we had a natter.  Small world.  (Black Winged Angel and funbunny, for those who know them)
• I had a lovely meal at the Ravensworth Arms the other night with my family.   We very rarely go out for a meal together and we should totally do it more often, it was great.  A whole lot of lolling was had.
• The eglu lady and her boyfriend came up a couple of weekends ago and it turned out they were really lovely ackshully.  They were pleased with the eglu and we waved it off.  It's mad that it's living down in Oxford somewhere now.

I'm so sorry my update is so flamin' dull, but I can smell the chicken casserole that is nearly ready and it's all I can think about tbh.

Hey Draggy you can't MOVE for trebuchets in the shops at the moment.  I saw the Trebuchet of Wrong in Tesco on Wednesday.



I suggest you get both this and the Past Times one, pit them against each other and see just which one is, in fact, FTW.

I meant to post this a little while ago for dragonnade    . Saw this in Past Times and thought of you:




And gingerelanor     or the_milkster     - have either of you been in the changing rooms at the M&S outlet store in North Shields lately..?




Click images for near-magical enlargement to occur.

 

Yesterday's happenings.

• I woke up to a text from JB asking  if I fancied a ride to the Metrocentre to help him shop for his niece's birthday and I found that I did actually, so off we went.   Everybody and their dog had apparently decided to do the same thing so even with skipping along the back roads instead of sticking to the A1 there was still a certain amount of being stuck in traffic to be done.  We went to the Disney shop to stock up on High School Musical goodies (omg the Prince Caspian costume/clothing is aces.  I found a child left on its own in a buggy and I was *this* close to just dressing it up and leaving it.) We seemed to have lots of bags when we came out but I only got a magazine and a postcard. :(
• We scooted back to mine to check on Betty (still ill), have pizza and make a personalised HSM birthday card for aforementioned niece, then I had to eject JB as I had tickets and went to see
• Khalyn, Oddbod and Khalyn's scarf in Pygmalion which was cool.  That theatre is gorgeous - all stone walls and wooden beams -  and I got to see the bar this time which is also very dainty and cute, as I stopped by for drinks in the interval with K's friend N.  I didn't hang around afterwards as I was worried about Betty who had been making frequent jerky movements with her head before I left.
• In my absence and the fading light she had espied a fleece of mine that I'd untidily strewn over the back of the seat out there and had somehow managed to get herself up onto it and snuggled down in the fleece.  It was the cutest thing evah but I had to get her down sadly, in case there was pooing in the night.  She followed me back out to the eglu and spent the night in her own house.
• ( Doctor Who stuff behind cut in case of spoilers. )
  

This morning I woke Betty up and she followed me back to the house and climbed into her sick bay box for a lie down, poor thing.  I noticed he comb is started to get a bluish tinge, which I think might be related to her heart but I'm not sure.

My brother rang yesterday and they have a possible date for the wedding - a month earlier than we were expecting :|  We now need to look at flights (had a quick look last night and they seem to have gone up £300 since I last checked, which is Ungood) and I really really need to make those dresses!

On Saturday I

• Got up at the crack of because Betty is poorly again and the vets do an hour open surgery on a Sat morning and I was meeting up with K at ten to 11 so it was panic stations.  When I got there it turned out everyone else was up at the crack of for the doors opening too so it took ages AND some unidentified creature did a really cheesy fart and I had to not breathe for a couple of minutes. Vet said it was fine to keep feeding her toast if that is all she'll eat and I had to go home and wait for her to poo then scrape it up into a little bottle for testing.  She obliged as soon as she was out of her box at home.
• Met up with K - I still managed to get there before him - HAH :D  and went to see Prince Caspian.  THAT IS SO MY KIND OF FILM!!!  I loved it.  About halfway through it starts to differ from the book but I thought the film was better than the book and it's not often that happens at all.  The only tiny thing I didn't like was that at the end there is a song that seems really out of place.  After the film we called at Dalton P for shopping and eaty things.
• When I got home Betty had perked up slightly so I took the Eglu to bits and did a big old clean and disinfect and covered the inside with mite powder as I'd seen a few red spiders kicking about and thought I'd better, just in case.
• I made friends with Mrs. Blackbird by throwing bits of toast for her.  Mr. Robin was trying to screw up his courage to come over too but he'd get so far then have a panic attack and fly off.  Betty was all *EXCUSE ME, that's MY toast thankyouverymuch*
• I watched Doctor Who and got a bit annoyed with it.  The Doctor story was good but the Torchwood/Sarah Jane stuff felt like it wasn't aimed at me and tbh I was kinda hoping they'd be exterminated early so we could get back to Doctor Who.  I think I was supposed to care about them, but I dunno who they are.  Maybe next week's will be more doctorific.  I'm also quite surprised at everyone being all :O at the regeneration thing as I'd just assumed they'd find some way to fix it at the end - they did do a random close up of his hand-in-a-jar at the start.  Overall I was very *meh* about the whole thing.
• I'm sure I did something on Saturday night but I have entirely forgotten what it was...

On Sunday I

• Slept in like a sleeping in thing on account of being very tired.
• Discovered Betty and the Eglu all covered in egg yolk.  I wonder if that's what this has all been about?  I've tried to find out what happens when chickens hit the menopause but to no avail.  She's now gone off toast and onto pasta.
• Went out furniture hunting and then for a drive around.
• Faffed about on the internet
• Cleaned and mite-powdered eglu AGAIN on account of Yolk Incident
• Harvested some potatoes for dinner
• Ordered a new shade for the run because mine is all ripped and they do them in colours to match the eglu now, and they've started making plastic roosting bars now  so I ordered some of them at the same time.  They'll be much easier to scrape egg off than the wooden ones.
• Brother is considering getting married up a mountain.  I may be barking up entirely the wrong tree as regards suitable wedding clothing.  Perhaps I should be looking in Millets.

I just watched Saturday's Doctor Who. I loved that. LOVED IT. It was spooky and scary and it had the best Library ever in it (apart from the monsters etc). I really really hope the second part is as good. It is episodes like this that remind me that I do, in fact, love Doctor Who and I hadn't imagined it.

On Friday I made jelly with my new jelly moulds (I haven't had jelly for yeeeeeeeeears) and chocolate cakes with melted dairy milk on top. They were Very Nice Indeed.



Then I planted lots more radishes and spring onions because I've eaten all of the other radishes I had in and the spring onions seem to be taking ages. Lookit my potato trees! The flowers are just dropping off the early ones without flowering. I've looked it up and it seems that that happens with some varieties. How are you supposed to know when they're ready if the flowers have dropped off though? (only the front three are buckets, the one behind is a taller potato barrel. I'm waiting to see how many more potatoes the barrel gives up)



Yesterday I eventually got around to tracing and cutting out the pattern pieces for the dress. I'm so dreading making this thing that I put it off for most of the day. Then I decided to cut all of the pieces out with markings for size 10 and size 12 on it and then Aunty K could advise on how to make it fit, so I set away with a roll of greaseproof paper, some pens and some blu-tac.
I got a call from Khalyn halfway through to say he'd been to the fabric shop to get some white satin and fringing to make a fancy scarf (the kind that gentlemen wore over a coat across their shoulders in the early 1900s. He's in a play, it wasn't for him to wear to town or anything) and although he'd arranged for his friend to make it for him, it was the photoshoot for the programme and posters tomorrow (well, today now) and would I have time to whip one up. Happy to leave off from tracing pattern pieces I agreed :D It's really quite nerve wracking sewing something while the recipient is watching. I was all *worried I'd make a mess of it*. It was fine in the end though and here he is wearing it at the photoshoot (he is going to be playing Freddy Eynsford-Hill in Pygmalion)




After that I went back to the pattern tracing and watched most of the Britain's Got Talent final (watching ITV is always a guilty pleasure), then the I'd Do Anything final. I thought Cameron Mackintosh wasshocking. He was choosing his words very carefully and clearly wanted Jessie to win. If he wanted to choose his Nancy then he shouldn't have asked the public to pay money to choose THEIR Nancy tbh. My favourite won, so that's ok and it was all *tense* and I thoroughly enjoyed it and will miss it of a Saturday evening.

( ..large picture of Betty being Nancy under the cut... )

This morning I had a proper lie-in, the like of which I haven't had for weeks and didn't wake up until about 11:30am. It was lovely.
I watched the last episode of Pushing Daises in my pjs. Pushing Daisies is great. It's so odd but so bright and cheerful and Anna Friel wears gorgeous 50's type outfits and the Piemaker is very nice indeed. I've noticed similarities to Dead Like Me and I saw the other week it's made by the same bloke so that'll be why.

Had a quick trip to IKEA this afternoon (they do veggie hot dogs now!! But they had none left :( ) and nearly got some fabric for 99p a metre to make a practice dress in, but then didn't. Aunt K came over this evening for pattern fun and we cut out a trial version of the top of the dress in scrap fabric and we've decided to cut the whole thing out in a 10 :| and raise the waist up by about 1/2 inch. SO I'm on with altering the pattern pieces now and then...I cut the fabric. But probably not tonight because I'm way too tired. I'm going to start with the spotty fabric because a) it was the cheapest and b) I bought that in a shop so can get more of it if it all goes wrong. I need to get some lining and I need to decide whether to line it with anti-static lining or white satin. I'll see what the prices are like.

It strikes me that this dress would be goooooorgeous made in drapey satin with the little sleeves in a Marilyn Monroe stylee.

I was outside taking washing in at the weekend when I looked up and saw two ducks on the roof, one of whom was the smiliest duck ever. Clickable Evidence:



I also have some photos from Saturday's excursion to the botanic garden (the ones of me were taken by Khalyn. Always important to credit the photographer. *nods*)


Yesterday I went with Mum to a Mother Of The Bride shop so she could have a looksee as it is going to be a spring wedding so we really need to be looking for clothes now. It was an odd, but enjoyable experience. This little designer shop that has been there for years is tucked away in the unlikeliest place - where they filmed a lot of Billy Elliot. As soon as you go in you are escorted into the back of the shop and instead of looking at what they have (which is what we expected) they ask your size and what you're looking for and then they come back with different outfits to try on. Mum tried on a couple that she would never have dreamed of trying on the rack, but they were Very Smart Indeed when they were on. While I was sat there other ladies were coming in and trying on outifts and hats and things so I got to see them all. It was quite lovely seeing everyone get all dressed up in Finery. We didn't get anything but at least we have more of an idea as to what kind of thing to look for for her and it is entirely different to what we thought. They also sell size 2 shoes, so if I need some formal ones I might be able get some there. Hurrah!

I didn't try anything on there but I've been trying on the odd thing here and there in other shops and it has come to my attention that I most likely will have to make my dress because it is either that or get a boob job and making a dress is cheaper. I was going to say and less painful, but then I remembered Sewing Rage. People must be an awful lot bustier than they used to be. Most 10's are really tight over my tummy and hips, but I could fit a baby elephant in there with me up top.

I think I want something bright and colourful and 50s ish - something a bit Anna Friel in Pushing Daisies - praps to be worn with a little short sleeved cropped cardi thing. There are lots of patterns I like out there - I think finding the fabric will be the hard part. I really like turquoisey teal at the moment, or pink, but it depends on what I can find. My fave pattern at the moment is this one from Vogue and I'd probably do the sash in plain pink or teal, depending on what fabric I'd made the dress out of.

In Vegetable news, I picked and ate 3 of the radishes yesterday (v. nice) and put some net over the seed tapes I planted the other day because a blackbird was identified as the thing that is going in and digging them all up.  It was seen digging up a piece of tape, taking it to the bird bath to wash the soil off it, and then flying off.  Flamin' Cheek.  I don't know how many are left in there so I'll give it a few days and it nothing comes up I'll replant it.  The potatoes in the potato barrel have the flower buds on now :D

Today was GORGEOUSLY sunny and warm. I's made arrangements to the Botanic Garden and praps the woods with Mr. Khalyn and it only occurred to me this morning that it was not the brightest of things to do when my hay fever has just started being all hay fevery BUT I found some Bendryl in the cupboard and it's great! Not so much as a sneeze until about 7 hours later. I forgot to put any sun cream on and I forgot to take sunglasses. Happily Mr. K had spare sunglasses and I haven't burned so hurrah! We took lots of pretty photos of trees and flowers and woodpeckers, had a Little Something in the cafe and then came home to play on the Wii for a bit.

After Khalyn went home I went and sat outside with Betty for a bit and read some book. Bit worried about Betty atm - her poos are behaving oddly. Occasionally she'll be off colour but then she perks up again. Not sure what that's about. If it continues I'll ask the chicken forum.

The four baby rabbits that have been scampering around the back garden have dwindled to one. Some of them were spotted with swollen eyes before they disappeared and someone said that someone else said that they knew someone that went rabbiting with ferrets and THEY said that there is a lot of Myxomatosis/some other rabbity disease about at the moment which is a bit ick to have in your back garden (although not quite as ick as it is for the rabbits.). Chap-Next-Door put forward the theory that praps Betty has caught something from them but we both decided that chickens probably can't catch it. Whatever it is.

My potatoes are coming on a treat, and I've had two radishes already despite some unknown creature (suspect bird-type creature) knowing telepathically where I have planted radish seeds and digging them up the next day. Why I oughta...

I painted another geek shirt tonight - the pink smiley 80s cyberman on black. This time I did a coat of white and then the pink shimmer on top, which is probably what I should have done with the blue tardis one the other day. I made a couple of Ood stencils too but try as I might, I can't seem to make them attractive enough to want to wear them. The T-Shirt in clickedy thumbnail format:

The rules are easy, just post 10 things that recently made you happy! Then tag 10 people and force them to post this meme on their LJs. (although I think everyone did this already)  Because it is good. Everyone needs a little happiness once in a while.

1. I ar a normal weight

2. I have the best fambly

3. My friends be teh good

4. Elsie Chicken is still with us 10 days into the new year

5. Betty Chicken makes me lol muchly

6. I managed to get some sleep last night

7. I don't appear to have lost any weight yet, despite having some of the ole difficulty eating in the last couple of days

8. We are now closer to the end of January than we were 10 days ago, which means closer to February, March, April, May and June.  HEY!  It's nearly summer!

9. I seem to have calmed down from the Christmas induced spend-o-mania.

10.  I have nice boots.

I might have been struggling a bit at the end there :D

It's here (nearly) and I'm knackered. WHY DO I LEAVE EVERYTHING TO THE LAST MINUTE?!?

The tree finally went up last night - officially the latest it's every been put up...hardly seems worth it really. We've been quite sparing with decorations in the house, although we seem to have boxfuls and boxfuls in the loft. We're going for minimalist/no hassle this year.

Mr. Khalyn came over to help with putting the ridiculously long string of lights on the tree and for present swappage and a general catch up because I haven't seen him for ages then after I had dinner and a rest Mr. JB came over for present swappage, 'cept his forgot his present so he helped me wrap presents and sort out sis' room instead.

About half an hour after he went home, around midnight there was an enormous bang and it turned out that someone had lobbed a brick at the front window. Very festive! Luckily they aimed it at the big front window, which is toughened glass because the panes are so big and not at the other front window which is normal glass and which I was sitting behind at the time. Also lucky that JB had gone home or it might have been his windscreen, or he probably would have run out and perhaps got himself all stabbed up or something. O' course it would have been even luckier if they hadn't thrown it at all, but you can't have everything. The brick had spent around 37 years quietly holding the front gate in place, minding its own business. It's not even easy to see from the path so whoever did it must have had to come into the garden anyway. Who does that? People are MAD. And not very nice.

Sis is driving up from London today - hope that's going ok. Haven't heard anything since she set off. It's her first long drive and they spent hours in London waiting for the thick fog to clear at that end, except it didn't so they gave up around 1pm and set off.

We've just done a frantic trip to Tesco, where elbows were needed, and where we forgot to get quite a lot of stuff, despite needing 2 trolleys to get it back to the car. People were doing strange stuff there as well - like getting halfway through the checkouts then realising they didn't have enough to use a coupon so saying 'hang on a minute, I'll just go and do some more shopping' while the rest of the queue waited, and in one case asking the checkout girl to take £10 off a case of beer even though they'd picked up the kind that wasn't on offer. Christmas makes people crazy.

Tomorrow we're up at the crack of to go to the farm and pick up the turkey. We have no way of knowing if they got our order or not until we get there so fingers most definitely crossed that Neville is there waiting.

I have this nagging feeling I've forgotten to do something reeeeally important.

I just had a marvellous weekend during which I had a lovely date with prettimouse who was dressed all up in his finery.  We went to a stitch and crafts show thingy at Doncaster.  The show wasn't that big but the free goody bag was most impressive.  I bought some bits and bobs and some daft wool with which to attempt to knit a scarf.  It should be ready in about 5 years time.   gingerelanor got a couple too, and has started knitting already.  

Weird dream last night.  (I did eat a lot of cheese yesterday though.  I wonder if that is true about cheese and dreams....I always thought it was a myth)


I am very much enjoying my Wii.  I wish new games didn't cost so much though.  I don't want to spend £40 on something that might be a pile of pants so I think I'll pop into Blockbuster and see how their games rental works.  The best ones seem to be the ones you can play with other people.  We LOVE the cow racing on Wii Play. 

I didn't like Harry Potter at first, but after spending an hour and a half with it on Saturday morning I'm getting more into it now.  The castle is Enoooooormous and I love that it's not all that linear so I can just take myself off to the dungeons if I feel like having a word with Snape.  It also makes me smile that nearly every time I talk to someone they give me something else to do.  JUST LIKE REAL LIFE.  It's a single player game though, so it's less lolworthy.

On my want-to-try list:
Endless Ocean - because I don't really understand what it is supposed to be.  It doesn't seem to be a game exactly.
Lego Star Wars - because I remember Lolly playing it on some other format ages ago and liking it and it looks like it might be funny
Rayman Rabbids - because it gets good reviews and seems to be a mini game, multiplayer one
Carnival - cos lilbebebaby said it was good, and I think it's a mini game multiplayer one
Playground - mini game, multiplayer one, haven't read anything about it so it might be rubbish, I dunno.

I'm definitely getting Wii Fit when it comes out. 

I seem to be addicted to this fabric painting lark. I'll have to stop soon though, there are only so many T-shirts with nerdy things on I can wear. Also everything I want to do seems to need a new colour.

I did a silver Dalek on black with silver and blue sequins a couple of weeks ago and I was pleased with how that turned out:



but that clearly wasn't geeky enough for me and I fancied doing some Lord Of The Rings-y T-shirts. A Riders of Rohan one for my sister (to ride in, obv) and a White Tree of Gondor one for me (to sit about in, obv). I'm really happy with these as well, although I'm not sure about the Fellowship leaf on the back of the neck :s.





I'm going to do some sort of monkey T-shirt for JB and then I'm stuck for ideas but I think it's time to leave the T-shirts alone for a while and find something else to paint.

• I finally got around to finishing my new laundry bag which didn't take long at all - it's pure laziness that it's dragged out this long.  I copied gingerelanor's incredibly neat method of doing seams as seen on my ducky mobile phone case (originally a sunglasses case but when I got my new phone I saw lots of warnings about it scratching easily and it fits it perfectly, and is the same blue, hurrah!)  No photos of the laundry bag because it's got my laundry in it and I can't be bothered to empty it for photos at the moment.  Also, it's a square bag so not all that interesting.  The fabric has trees on it though, which is kewl.
  

Um whatelsewhatelse....nothing much has been happening lately, hence lack of updates.

• OH, I had some more blood stolen this week to test for what I keep calling celeriac disease.  Pretty sure that will come back negative as well.  I got the Lovely Nurse again who took it out of my other arm this time and I didn't feel a THING which was much better. Weight is still shockingly low despite me eating a lot more normally again.  Stoopid body.

• I did my first sewing repair job this weekend when JB ripped his trousers at work.   He ripped the seam of the back pocket, ripped another pocket right off at one side, and put a hole in them.  I was a bit nervous about it because I've never done repairs before and I know what a perfectionist he is with he DIY.  There may have been a touch of grumpiness and sewing rage when I was doing them because the material was reeeally thick and the machine was complaining.  I fixed the back pocket, cut the other pocket down and sloped it to match the one under it and reused the label that had been on the ripped pocket as a patch for the hole.  The stitching was a little wonky because of the thickness of the material, but it wasn't tooo bad.  He said he was happy with them anyway so YEY.

• I won £10 on the lottery yesterday.  That was nice.  Well, £5 cos I split it with Mum.  I'm Putting It By until I decide what to splash out on.

• It has rained a LOT here lately and the garden keeps flooding.  The chickens have finally worked out that it's a good idea to head back to their run when it's tipping down.  They stand there looking all depressed.  I went to Chester Le Street yesterday to get some thread and after meeting 2 big floods (wimped out of one, drove through the other) on the way when we got there half of the shops were closed and mopping up, including the thread shop.  :(  I noticed the charity shop were using their stock as sandbags. You'd be a bit upset wouldn't you?  lol.

OH it's actually stopped raining for a minute so I'm off to clean the chicken coop while I can.

I made a spinny music quilt thing on Last FM. No sewing required.

 

*edit* None of the Last FM *post to your blog* stuff bloody works!

Currently waiting for an admin to turn up at The Forum to delete me. No big fall out or anything, I just don't seem to have the willpower to stay away for more than 4 days unless I'm physically away from the PC and that to me smacks of addiction. I have too much to do and I'm wasting time so I need to go cold turkey. I'm sure I'll re-register (under my usual name - I don't do aliases) shortly when I'm a bit more sorted and up to date.

On my travels on Saturday I went through Washington and we passed 3 pink buses (and a very pink car, but that's by the by) and I thought of El.  Look El, these were they:



(I didn't take the picture, but shamelessly stole it from a site that appeared to be all about buses in the North East)

Oh lookit that, LJ has gone all pink.

Anyway Oo oo, I just got a valentine email.  I thought it might be a virus at first so I was all *unsure about opening it* but then I thought 'sod it, at least it's a valentine virus and the chickens have so far had more valentine greetings than me' and I opened it and there was  a PINK DALEK ON IT and it was lovely.  Gosh, I wonder who that was from.  Obviously it didn't say so I couldn't possibly work it out.

:D

In other news, JB got his card :)

Not to be confused with MemePronouncedMeem ;)

I've been tagged by taperoo2k to do this thingybob where I tell you five things you possibly don't know about me then I tag five of you to do same. (Is this a Pyramid Meme? ;) )

1. I am long sighted in one eye and short sighted in the other.

2. I find it incredibly difficult to lie.

3. I really REALLY wish I could sing.

4. My nickname when I was young was Chootle Bopper

5. I have never seen any attractive qualities in an avocado.

I tag:
gingerelanor
lilbebebaby
dragonnade
digitalphoenix
eepio