I said this last week....

.....and I'm gonna say it again now....'it's been an odd old week' for various reasons and mostly I haven't really known which way is up for the most part! I could regale you with the details but I'm not going to, or not yet at any rate and I seem to have a temporary case of 'bloggers block' into the bargain, so any attempt at formulating more than a few coherrent sentences would doubtless be a bad mistake anyway!

Thankfully the working week is almost over now though and maybe I even learned a little along the way (learn? me? change the habit of a lifetime!?). Whatever, it's Friday, I can breath a sigh of relief and look forward to the weekend.

Have a good one :o)

Gizza cuddle

A suitably fluffy post on a day when my intellect can cope with little of a more challenging nature!

Sound on. :o)



*Thanks JW.

The ultimate Brazilian!

The male alternative to waxing!


Hmmmm...what did he think was going to happen?!!

Ewe'd love it!

The stuff of sheep or to be more specific, Cypriot sheep, of what am I rambling I hear you mutter, ok, Halloumi, a Cypriot sheep or goat cheese, is what this is about.

Belive me, if you have never tried it it's worth a trip to absolutely anywhere that stocks it, this is the food of the God's, heaven on earth. Ok, yeah, I liked it!


I thought there wern't many cheeses I hadn't partaken of over the years, I 'do' cheese in a big way, for half my life I have had cheese after dinner most days and never let it be said that there are many repeats...my mother is expert at persuading the verynicelady on the local Waitrose deli counter to find new and interesting fare to try.

But Halloumi had evaded my taste buds until yesterday. One of Fletch's stronger points is his ability with all things culinary (this is good, I don't 'do' cooking and he can really cook, like for real) so for my delictation at breakfast time, along with some damn good coffee, there was Halloumi, fried gently with garlic and in fresh muffins.

I have rarely tasted anything so utterly, simply, good!

Misty morning sunrise

St Ives, this morning, there are a few benefits to not being able to sleep!






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How much is your blog worth?

Hmmmm....pity no one wants to buy it! heh.

My blog is worth $23,146.14.
How much is your blog worth?

Well....

...I've had a slightly odd week this week and I had a long post all typed up here ready to go....and then I read it back to myself and it sounded something akin to the ramblings of a mad woman (shushh at the back), so I deleted it and this is what I came up with in it's place.....damn all!

Like I say, an odd week, I'm blaming it on a distinct lack of sleep, so I'll just wish you all a happy weekend and see if I can't come back here marginally more compis mentis next time! ;o)

Have a good one guys.

White van surfing!

Call me am addict but this I like! Courtesy of Opera mini and an unlimited data package (very reasonably priced I might add) here I am sitting in a picturesque lane in the white van from hell blogging and surfing to my little hearts content! :-) Yes it's a tad on the fiddly side and hardly high speed but it does help relieve the boredom of the average white van day. Ok... I suspect my employer wouldn't approve but my employer does nothing to earn my loyalty sufficiently that my concience has any difficulty with this new found passtime! ;-)

Custody hearing of a Shih Tzu!

Would the money not be better spent on psychiatric care for the mayor than dragging such stupidity through the courts at doubtless signifigant cost?!

Give me strength!

Some days...

... you just can't but help having have a big fat stupid grin plastered all over your face! :-)))

'Blood Diamond'

We watched 'Blood Diamond' on Saturday night....for light entertainment, not!

Don't be fooled by the fact that Leonardo DiCaprio takes the lead, this is most definately not of the romantic, lightweight, chick flick genre of films, it was amazinng and if you have a couple of hours to spare well worth a watch.

It's not fun, it was one of the most harrowing films I have ever watched, in parts I thought I was going to have to stop watching such was it's power, but it was an education and from one who always believed in the saying 'Diamonds are a girls best friend'....believe me if I ever get lucky enough to buy another one I will do with much more 'attention to detail' than just the cut or the clarity!

Defining the moment

There are moments in our lives that bring us to a point from which we cannot recoil, from which, regardless of the seemingly insurmountable ahead of us, we cannot ignore, moments that in an instant but also in a lifetime of traveling to that time and place, move our lives, our minds and our physical being from everything we were to everything we are about to be.

A moment, a fraction of a second when with unexplained clarity we know our path, it is not asked for, it is not bidden, it is inherrently all that we are, the end of a journey, the single option, an understanding of the unexplained, the touch of a lifetime's experience amalgamating with powerful frission.

There is no option, in the quiet sunlight, in apparent peace, turmoil fear and hope collide within, in utter silence, in deafening simplicity, one defining moment in a swirling darkness of timeless search , from which we know that which we sought in confusion, in denial, in fear.

There is no gentle return, there is no place to hide, there is no longer ignorance, comfort or masking veils of reason. Bereft of choice, courage and hope sustaining against an unknown void, the path is set, immovable, unquestionable.

With pounding heart and mind and blood, with only love and life in which to place our trust, alone we face our clarity, our life and mind's dictated course. In cold bright light, with new perception we take a breath, we close a soundless door and tread a road of hope and faith and fear, of clarity and profundity, the only place we know, the only route left for us to go......


*For two very important people in my life the title of this post should be 'Jump', if you understand why then you are one of those people.

About Charley

Charley is a beautiful tabby cat with a difference, Blogger seems not to like the code to display the video clip but if you hit THIS LINK it will take you there. :o)

I don't have a good record...

....with technological hardware! Phones, computers, you name it and I can break it...or to be more specific I expect it to work like it says it will on the box! That seemingly is too much to ask, and furthermore, over the years I have learned that if I want technical help on one of these subjects the place to go is most definitely not the manufacturers or providers technical helpline, for it is there that one is most likely to get nothing in the way of technical help!

Mobile phones, my current case in point. My last one lived for three months before the email client died. I updated the software, I reinstalled the software, I called the helpline for further assistance and I was told I knew 'more than he did' (jeez) and so finally (and this is not the first time believe me)I 'persuaded' the provider to exchange it. Quite a feat of persistence in itself.

The replacement arrived. I charged it, I turned it on, I saw the email client for a moment.....and then the software died again and it fell off the phone completely!! FFS.

More phone calls, two and a half hours worth to be precise and a replacement of a different model was agreed. This was promised for two days later, in actual fact it took another two hours of phone calls and six days to get it to me in reality!

And they call this service????

Among all of this the most ironic and amusing aspect was that the guy I was dealing with gave me his email address and asked that I mail him instead of call because it would reach him more easily. Here is the ironic, frustrating, amusing f*ucking ridiculous bit.....

This was o2, I have an o2 contract, my phone emails through an o2 server.....but 'Sonny Jim's' o2 work email server classifies this server as spam and wouldn't let my emails through!!!!!

Give me strength. Is it just me that finds all this unbelievably aggravating and stupid??

But finally my new phone arrived, a Nokia 6500c, intact and apparently working (touch wood), I can email, I have the joy of Opera Mini (they have this sussed, it's so easy to use and surfing the web is such a good distraction from the daily white van grind that I have felt it 'appropriate' that I add to my monthly contract unlimited downloads! See they know how take our money, no problem there), the email works....and works well, I can even blog and comment from this little marvel, in fact all would be hunky dory, save for the fact that the 3g connection seems defunct and despite copious amounts of setting changes and calls to the un-help guys at o2 it remains defunct!

Maybe I just expect way too much in my assumption that technology does what it says it will on the box!