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Via Mornington Crescent... [09 Nov 2009|10:52pm]

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Just went to recording of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue at the theatre.
Jack Dee, Graham Garden, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke Taylor and David Mitchell.
Two episodes, to be broadcast on Nov 30th and Dec 7th.

Very good fun, very silly.
I liked it!

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Who decided? [08 Nov 2009|08:18pm]
A combination of walking past a funeral directors every morning and revisiting Six Feet Under recently inspired this. It is not finished and I have not recently been bereaved.
Sometimes I just begin to from something in my head and I like to get it out by writing it down.




Who decided that death was monochrome with silver details? Who chose the classic look? Why is death furnished with hIgh backed upholstered chairs and heavy gilt lamps. Muted lights at a respectful distance. A heavy expensive finish.
My grief is not classic. Or quiet. My grief is bile and mucous and salt. It is guttural and choking.
My grief will not lie peaceful in a silk lined case.
It rallies and claws to escape, tearing with scalding fingers.



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[16 Oct 2009|11:39pm]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir

I am too livid to comment. What a poisonous bitch.

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From the mouths of babes... [03 Oct 2009|11:34pm]
 Overheard conversation in class:

Luke: (Apropo nothing) Katie, what would you do if you were the last woman on earth?

Katie: Erm... Have millions of marriages probably.

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[13 Sep 2009|08:48pm]
 So we had a lodger from the middle of June to end of August. Gina was an actress. very thin, very beautiful and very good at what she does as it happened. She was in The Grapes of Wrath at the theatre and played a Bible-bashing Southerner. She had a schedule almost entirely opposite to ours which made her pretty easy to live with! She left after us in the morning and was home after we were asleep.

Two days after Gina left Hannah moved in. Hannah is a PE teacher that I worked with at a previous job. Hannah is responsible for the most death-like hangover I have ever experienced. Hannah has energy and makes things happen. She cannot sing. Truly she can't. A fact she likes to demonstrate. Hannah has moved in and suddenly there are black mascara smudges on my towels, spirits in the bread drawer of the freezer and I found myself being dragged to a club at 1am last Saturday.

Long may it last.









At least for a little while...
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[13 Sep 2009|10:21am]

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I love this. I think I need to make one...

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[31 Aug 2009|12:53am]
How utterly terrifying is this cake?

I'll have a slice of wrist please... 
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[12 Aug 2009|05:15pm]

Lunch with friends and Fairy Cakes!

Teresa, Debbie, Sarah and Maria were very impressed…

 

 

 


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[11 Aug 2009|05:54pm]

Inspired by Kirstie Allsopp we have been scouring junk shops and car boots sales in search of shabby Chic bargains and things we can do up for ourselves and others.

These are my boot sale finds this morning:

 

Some pretty material to cut up and use in my patchwork projects and a cute gravy boat. We don’t have one and I liked the retro Bisto design!

Pics of Mark and Iso’s wedding patchwork cushion to follow

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[11 Aug 2009|05:48pm]
 A little while a go I made a candle...


First I melted an old candle down in an old saucepan.



Then when I knew it was all melted and it was the right temperature for pouring I put it in my mould. I used an old milk carton just for my first attempt.  Oh and I added a wick of course. The straw is holding the wick in the right place.



Then when it was set I tore it out of its mould and trimmed the wick...

...and lit it. Not bad for a first go eh?

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[28 Jul 2009|09:56am]
 This house in this place feels like an almost tangible link with my childhood. Never more so but in the mornings. Looking out of the tiny square, Primary-school drawing windows at the rain. The smell of bacon in the kitchen. Always bacon. Bacon that was bought from the butcher on the high street in Builth. The shop I didn't like because it smelled too clean and because of the busy importance of the young men in red aprons and white hats. The white trays of meat fringed with red and green plastic decorations. Bacon that was cooked until the rind was taut and golden. Bacon that was cooked until it snapped under the gentlest pressure from your knife. Ladled gently onto a thick brown patterned plate and set on the table. Bacon that was served with a dollop of Daddies' Brown sauce. The sauce that lived permanently in the centre of the kitchen table alongside the jar of Ploughman's Pickle. The postman that knocked on the door and handed the letters over. The postman that stopped to talk, exchanging news and funny stories. Morning TV. Sitting on the threadbare carpet that was rough to the touch and smelled of woodsmoke. And still, and still they are here. Here in this house. I feel them always. Gran and Grandad. Jim and Gwen.
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[23 Jul 2009|12:00am]
Found this on my Facebook page. Did it ages ago.

Here's 25 things you may or may not know/want to know about me.

1. I love buttons. I had a big chunky lucky button when I was a kid and I've loved them ever since.

2. I once page turned for the pianist in the National Orchestra of Wales in a concert. I like that fact because it's so naff. Was nerve wracking though!

3. I have a brother and a sister. They are both amazing and I have a lot of fun with them.

4. I like streams and rivers, but not so much lakes or the sea. I spent a lot of time messing about in brooks as a kid. Maybe this is why...

5. I try hard to not be a lot of things I am. Like scared of insects, the dark, blood etc. Mind over matter.

6. I don't generally expect people to like me. I am pleasantly surprised when they do.

7. I am struggling already and I have another 16 things to think of.

8. My middle name is Emma.

9. My favourite colour is brown. I like autumnal colours, brown, green, burnt orange, purple.

10. I wear silver jewellery but never gold.

11. My earliest memory is waking up in the early hours of Christmas morning with presents on the end of my bed. Mum says it's from my first Christmas when I was not quite 1yr old. Impressive, huh?

12. I have a very good memory. A memory for silly, inconsequential things. Like a silly comment in the dinner queue in Yr9 or a song we made up on a walk on the hill with my cousins. I am often hated for it.

13. I think Jason Mraz has pulled me through some of my weirdest, darkest times this Autumn. I salute thee.

14. I like toadstools.

15. I like the sensation of meeting someone new that I click with straight away. Happens rarely... but it's so good.

16. I still have no idea what I want to do with my life.

17. I hate meeting people I know in town. Especially if they see me before I see them. No idea why.

18. I miss the Theatre. So much. I am going back as soon a I can.

19. I like teaching RE. Especially world religions. It's a rare chance for reflection.

20. Stripes are so cool - especially on socks.

21. I love pebbles and I have a bowl of them in my classroom. I like their tactileness. Big blue pebbles with white lines from Devon are the best.

22. I really, really want to go abroad for 2 years to teach and have some life experience. I know it's unlikely it'll happen.

23. I haven't worn black trousers or black shoes in years. I just don't like them. I only do brown.

24. There is no greater sensation than getting a freshly made bed with clean sheets, all crisp and smelling yummy. Mmmm, Mmm, Mmmm.

25. This is probably very boring. 
 
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OK, I need your advice... [11 Jul 2009|11:33am]
 I have been saving some Fat Face vouchers and my beloved pink Birkies are falling apart after 3 summer's good service.


These leather flip flops are nice - little sparkly beads.
They also had some gladiator style ones that I can't find online.
Bit like this but tan leather and not as high up the ankle...



Which ones?!
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[03 Jul 2009|11:58am]
 I want...

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[06 Jun 2009|02:09pm]
 Child in my class on seeing a Union Jack:

"Oh, that's the Britain's Got Talent flag..."
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[04 Apr 2009|06:01pm]
"You know - the American president, Aqua Obama..." - Child in my class
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[07 Feb 2009|06:26pm]
 






See these films!
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[02 Feb 2009|05:51pm]
 SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!

Loads of it. Well, loads for Sussex anyway. Lots of schools were closed. Apart from mine it seems. I did have a toddler style temper tantrum. Fingers crossed it'll be shut tomorrow.
Went out with the kids at breaktime and got snowballed within an inch of my life.
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[21 Jan 2009|06:18pm]
 Iggy Pop is selling insurance?

There are no words to express how I feel about that. Or at least there are, but there are many of them.



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[15 Jan 2009|07:19pm]
 I suppose I might look back on this one day and laugh.

Beck started her new term and more job.
It was awful, behaviour terrible and she was so unhappy that she has left after just a week.

We will manage for a bit without salary. Not too long. Have tiny amount of savings to cover rent for the next month.
There are a few things in the pipeline, possible return to old job and she has joined a supply agency but it will take 3/4 weeks for CRB check to come through.

Anyhow, positivity and all that ;-)

I need money saving tips. People keep telling me to stop smoking, cancel Sky subscriptions, not go to the pub. Oddly enough they are not things that will help! 
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