roses 21 July 2010
The Husband admired some flowers in a vase last night and asked me who had bought them for me (curious, not digging!) – eh…that would be ME i had to reply – for it is I who buys me blossoms, mostly…ah well…and that’s not a hint to him – if he goes all ‘rosey’ I would be spooked.
Technology was AGIN me blogging last night which was probably just as well as I was having the flatline brain thing happen right then. I find that if I have even just over the surfeit of stuff to deal with these days a shutdown happens and I want to sleep -such was the way of it yesterday – and this has been the way of it, too, since a few months into 2010 – I am learning to cut myself some slack about that too and not feeling like its the end of anything but just a sign to slow down and relax.
Today? Not a moment to do anything other than The Acting – good complaint.
MURDERED with the humid weather and all the more NOT looking forward to me menopause as a result…
dogs 19 July 2010
Well, just as i was wrestling with strange flavours of food for humans I see an ‘ice cream’ for dogs has just been launched. I suspect it’s meaty (and SMELLY) and I know it has ‘bits’ in so I’m thinking I won’t be rushing to share any of it with my canine friends…
Two very positive reviews of THE TIME IS NOW at the weekend in the Irish broadsheets so I am well chuffed with those, and relieved – they were not without cavils but overall VERY positive and those of you kind enough to read the book will know it’s a departure for mw writing-wise (in a good way!) so this welcome for it is truly good to experience.
cup cakes 18 July 2010
Cup cakes are everywhere now, aren’t they. I find them a little like fruit teas at times – they often promise more than they deliver. But I really do love to see a good display of them. I was at a great bridal shower yesterday and there was a tiered cake stand with lots of pretty cupcakes and huge strawberries covered in chocolate..too good to eat really. A New York businessman has butched up the cupcake, apparently, for men – he’s making them with more formal toppings rather than the fluffy coloured confections we’re used to and doing flavours like beer or whiskey and one that sounds awful which involves bananas and crispy bacon…hmmm, bet that delivers exactly what it promises…
wonky 16 July 2010
SO, turns out the laptop hates falling off the table with the dongle still attached – this is the lesson of last night, learned just before I tried to blog. (I rather suspect it hates falling off the table even without the dongle attached). Anyhow, said dongle then stuck out at an even jauntier angle than usual and started behaving in a wonky way (sorry, there are times when only the most technical of language will cover a situation). As you all know I am of the school of ‘if the laptop is on fire, simply switch it off and then on again to fix it’ so I ignored it till this morning, bent the dongle vaguely back into shape and hey presto it’s working again. A bit like the old days when you’d give the tv a smack to fix any problem. Simples.
experience 14 July 2010
train travel, eh? good bits, bad bits. yesterday the main man doing the announcements wished us ‘an exhilirating travel experience’. i can’t quite confess to having had that – it was a fairly ordinary journey though not unpleasant. this evening it was mostly standing in the corridor for the majority of the travellers…and therefore mostly unexhilirating, i suspect…
lorraine kelly RULES, dale winton ROCKS.
events 13 July 2010
I’m off to record an episode of JEREMY HARDY SPEAKS TO THE NATION – I love the way that man’s mind works and think he is one of the funniest and most incisive satirists around. We’ll be talking about religion. You can hear it on Radio 4 tomorrow at 18.30 (or tonight if you’re lucky enough to be in the audience at the recording).
Tomorrow is a bit of a McLynnfest on tv and radio with me talking to Lorraine on GMTV (c.8.45am I think) then Steve Wright’s show in the afternoon, though the lovely Dale Winton is hosting that radio magic at the moment, then the aforementioned Jeremy Hardy show. Hope you catch some or all of those!
weetabix 12 July 2010
After a day of running around in stilettoes (MOIDAH on the toes/feet/STUMPSbelowmyankles) I did a pilates class and the only thing that kept me from hanging myself after was the hint from Mel (the Punisher) that weetabix and butter are a great combo* – I got left off at the Supermarket (as opposed to an Okaymarket) on the way home and got the makings of same and it is a GREAT thing altogether…actually maybe even better than that…I am in love again, though it’ll never take the place of kettle crisps in my affections (that’d be, like, IMPOSSIBLE)
*she is NEARLY forgiven for what she does to us for this…but NOT QUITE…
elderly 11 July 2010
Another anniversary of my 21st birthday occurred today – in fact an anniversary of my 30th (and, if I’m honest, my 40th and 45th) also occurred so it was busy in that way. I spent most of my time sleeping or lying across the bed pulling at split ends while my brain flatlined. All in all, it wasn’t a bad day, therefore. I eventually emerged from the cocoon, showered and got into a birthday frock purchased as a gift for me yesterday, was cooked a chicken dinner by Himself and nearly fell asleep (again) during the World Cup Final.
Oh, hang on, Spain have scored in extra time THANK THE GODS! I thought I might have to poke my eyes out with a pointy stick if the match didn’t improve…and yes, they have now won. It is done. For this relief, much thanks.
Paul the Octopus was correct, yet again. It was his tournament, really…
neb 10 July 2010
I have been having nosebleeds of late and last nights was a total gusher – very pretty colour red on the white paper (toilet roll, though for once a KIND OF luxury 2-ply – and not recycled, so I feel a tad guilty…) Any of you familiar with the size of my neb would not have been surprised by the amount of fluid it issued – impressive…
And there’s a fair old splodge of dried blood just below the chair I am sitting on at present. Proof that there’s life in the old gal yet, certainly, and that it sometimes escapes too…
book 8 July 2010
Well, it’s publication day! THE TIME IS NOW is on sale and I hope that those of you who choose to read it in the larger format, rather than wait till january for the mass paperback, will enjoy it. It’s about that whole construct we have chosen to measure the time we spend here by, how we make our mark on time, what’s necessary for that according to each individual, how art may or not sustain us and what place location plays – it’s all set in one house in Soho though at very different times. All I can tell you, personally, is that the last 2 times I read it I really enjoyed it…and I never would usually admit to such a thing – I’m proud of it!