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I watched 'Your Country Needs You' last night that I'd recorded from Saturday evening.

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Survivors -
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I've got some more piccies from Scarborough and a few from my day out on Sunday to Matlock Bath.

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I went to college on Monday. My tutor was very understanding about not having my presentation ready to be filmed. As it was there wasn't enough time during the morning for everyone to be filmed so there are about three other people who are going to film theirs after the May Day Holidays. I have arranged for friends to come around to my house next Tuesday to film mine and hand it into him at college on Wednesday next week. So it means I'm not so behind with the work.

Not bad to say I've had an op and that It had taken me a bit longer than I thought to recover!

Monday did actually tire me out  so I didn't do much yesterday except carry on with my Lostfest. I'm really enjoying it. I thought I has seen series 2 up to about ep 16 or so but it turns out I'd not seen past ep 4! So virtually the whole of this series is new to me.

This morning I have been working on my second draft translation of my presentation - cutting out unnecessary bits, changing the sign order etc. I'm now just about happy with this version and will sit and go through it later today and see how it flows and whether anything needs tweaking.

I'm now going to have a little afternoon nap! I slept badly last night and am feeling quite tired.

Oh and just a short moan -  I've noticed in these last few days just how many people ring for a bit of 'Auntie Carol' advice, sympathy, encouragement etc. Now usually I really REALLY don't mind - at all, but it's really noticeable how I've not had any of these calls for the weeks I have been recovering but since Saturday I seem to have been getting loads -

- &  I've just had to break off writing this for 15 mins as I just got a phone call from a friend who's upset!

there you go!

As I was saying usually I don't mind but as I'm not feeling 100% yet I realised yesterday how long I was spending on the phone and felt frustrated by it all!

That's enough moaning from me for today!

It's afternoon nap time!

I've felt really fed up these last couple of days.

On Saturday, typical of me, I over did it. I had been feeling quite good so Steve took me to the supermarket where I spent too long a time walking around. I had a lot of shopping to buy - he carried it for me but I was tired by the time we'd finished. Sunday I woke up quite painful which lasted throughout all of yesterday as well.

And I suppose I was being a bit in front of myself, hoping to be well enough to get into college yesterday - I suppose it is still only two and a half weeks since the op! It has worked out well though, What with the two weeks off for the Easter holidays and then next weeks class being cancelled, I'll have only missed yesterday's class. So I'm now aiming to go back on Mon 21st and video my presentation. It has to be 10 - 15 mins long in bsl with three people being able to interrupt at any point and ask me questions about it.

I'm going to be talking about The British Sign Language Bible Translation Project - http://www.bslbible.org.uk/
I've not prepared or practiced anything yet, but I will over the next week when I can get my head into gear.

On a happier note - Friday was a day when I had a couple of friends call round to visit me. Heather, bless her, called in the morning and had me laughing my head off and on Friday evening (before the mad neighbour incident)  Lisa called round, she's a mature student doing a fine art course and wanted me to sit for some portrait sketches for a project she's doing. After giggling a lot I settled down and sat still!

Yesterday I started my Lostfest - I got S1 and S2 for Christmas but had been waiting to finish my Tribefest first. I'd forgotten just how much I enjoyed the show when it was on tv! (and just how gorgeous many of the cast are!)

Oh yeah and I also wrote this weeks lyrics quizzes in 70s_stuff and 80s_stuff

Firstly I have got to start by saying how lovely it is that my NEW computer is working. It's actually working. HURRAH!!

The one I got in December had given me nothing but trouble. It never worked properly from the day I bought it and I have lost so much college work, stories, music and stuff in the past four months. On the Sunday before I went in hospital it suddenly wouldn't start AGAIN!! so I rang my friend and armed with all my legal rights (thanks to Consumer Direct and Trading Standards) took it back to the shop. They said they would match it like for like, but as we looked around the shop, computer prices had gone down slightly so I actually managed to get a computer that is FAR better than the one I originally bought.

Secondly, Steve was an angel on Sunday. He knew how desperate I would be for some countryside without me having to say a word!

He turned up with picnic prepared and took me out to Bakewell in Derbyshire which is about 35 mins drive from my house, where we sat by the river to have our picnic -

Then today I have sat and caught up with the last two episodes of Ashes to Ashes, The first two episodes of the new series of House and the first episode of the new series of Brothers and Sisters.

What a catch up!

I'm now gonna catch up on a few stories that I haven't read and I feel in the mood for writing so I may try to be creative later.

Brilliant music again this week.

Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Into The Valley - The Skids
Same Old Scene - Roxy Music
Mirror In The Bathroom - The Beat
Chant No. 1 - Spandau Ballet
Kids In America - Kim Wilde
Vienna - Ultravox
Golden Brown - The Stranglers
Ghosts - Japan

Alex drove the Quattro...Gene wasn't happy

Chris was sat reading a copy of 'Smash Hits'

Chris and Ray playing 'Space Invaders' and saying about the graphics being good really made me laugh.

Noticed Alex's settee was one of those horrid 80's Gray/Back/Red striped things. I'll have to remember to look to see if she has the black wood furniture to go with it.

Alex's obsession with her mother is driving me up the wall! Stop been such a jibbering idiot woman and leave your mother alone!  If you've really got to save her take a step back and do it sensibly.

The Photographic image of the episode award has to go to -  Gene shooting the glass....Fantastic! I was in awe!  and then when Vienna started playing, WOW!

Gene and Alex gave each other more looks. She said on GMTV the other day that something happens between them before the end of the series - hmmm  I'll not hold my breath just yet.

When Gene was resuscitating Alex I just wanted him to kiss her.

Great episode!

 

Wow!

I just watched the first episode of The Bionic Woman on ITV2 and I was actually impressed with the programme.

I sat down to watch it, fully expecting to hate it because it was going to be a sad, second rate remake of the '70's show and it really wasn't. It was well made, but not so high budget that it loses its characters to all the visual effects.

There was a crash scene where a lorry crashed into her car and it caught me totally unawares and really made me jump - good start!
Also some characters in it have potential 'psycological thriller ' personallitys with the capability  to scare the pants of me in the future.

Oh I'm excited! It's coming towards that time of year again - time for the UK to pick their  'Song For Europe'.

I absolutely love the Eurovision Song contest - please understand that I adore it for all its naffness, its boring songs, it's brilliantness and for Terry Wogan narrating the contest to us in his own witty way.

hmm... maybe I'm not as excited about us actually winning now I've heard clips of the entrants - listen to them at - http://www.bbc.co.uk/eurovision/vote/

It's on tomorrow evening and as usual someone somewhere has picked six songs that don't really stand a chance of winning the contest. Also why do all the artists have to have appeared in one of the music talent shows - are people in Romania and Ukraine really going to be as impressed with their fame as we are?

We've got three songs -The Revelations, Love Shy and Michelle Gale, that sound exactly like people in the UK think a Eurovision song should sound like. Most of the UK seem to be stuck alongside Bucks Fizz in 1981 when it comes to Eurovision. They don't seem to have noticed that time has moved on and boom bangy la la la songs just ain't winning anymore! See Lordi - 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' or Ruslana - 'Wild Dances' Then think Scooch - 'Flying the Flag' !

Two songs are slower - Andy Abrahams and Rob McVeigh. Ok so a ballad won last year, but I don't think that these have got what it takes.

The one clips that sounds a bit more like it is Simona Armstrong - but it is only a clip, the rest of the song could turn out to not have the edge it promises to have.

From what short bit I have heard of each song I predict that people of the UK will vote -
1. The Revelations
2. Love Shy
3. Simona Armstrong
4. Michelle Gale
5. Andy Abrahams
6. Rob McVeigh

The Eurovision Song Contest is on the 24th May in Serbia

BTW - The Irish entrant, Dusty the turkey is causing uproar in his homeland  - he's a puppet!

Just watched tonight's show and enjoyed it although I didn't understand all the political information - I wasn't that up on politics in 1981 but I do remember living in a state of constant fear that Russia was going to drop a bomb on us at anytime!

I liked Alex's jeans this week and in 1981 I wore similar clothes to the political girl - but I didn't wear a beret, well not in 1981 anyway! ;o)

Great music again -
Girls On Film - Duran Duran
To Cut A Long Story Short - Spandau Ballet
Green Door - Shakin' Stevens
Reward - The Teardrop Explodes
Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Love Action - Human League
London Calling - The Clash

I've been listening to the Human League this afternoon.

and it seems that Evan is Alex's Godfather.

Just watched tonight's episode -
Again, how many off the shoulder tops can Alex wear!

I had to laugh at the computer in the opening credits. We had a computer just like that at school, in those days it was on a main frame so our school was linked with the university and if we ever needed to use it we had to ring and book a telephone line space. In the two years that I did computer studies at school we NEVER got a line.

I want a red phone like Alex had in her house.

Good point made about how even now it's a the low percentage of rape victims that actually go to court .

Good soundtrack again -
Planet Earth - Duran Duran
Lets Stick Together - Roxy Music
It's Different For Girls - Joe Jackson
Happy Birthday - Altered Images
Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz
Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey - Modern Romance
Over You - Roxy Music

and two songs that I didn't recogise one that sounded like The Buzzcocks and the other sounded like The Beat

Also it's very scary but tonight's episode gave me stirrings for Gene Hunt.

I've just been watching this programme and feel that I had to make some comments.

Who decides on these lists!



Out of interest send my your top 10 pin ups of all time - I'll post mine when I've had a think about it.