Random stuff

Oh life is good!
The sun is warm,
The cherry blossom is painting the grass,
The bluebells are awash under the woods,
I have new specs,
Yay...did you hear that...NEW SPECS!!!! :D
[ I luuuuurve them glasses ]
[ I'll take some photos when I get them, but they are Lulu Guiness, black cats eyes with little white scrolls on the temporal edge and 'be a glamour girl' in twirly white script down the side, and I'm excited about them, ok ]
:D
Ahem, back to happy, happy things....
I had SUCH a great time last night, and I'm still awestruck by just how great Ocean sounded live.
[ I went to see the John Butler Trio at the Roundhouse ]
I think Matt may be back in Sevenoaks, so i may be able to get the Lilies on my back slightly more defined,
I tried the new Mars Planets, and they are totally scrummy *drools*
And I'm giggling over the poodle sheep scam.
:D :D
But I want to see the photos!
I mean....exactly how CLOSE did they look once they were clipped?

Tempus Fugit far too quickly

I've been a bit remiss in my blogging on here .
I have phases when I use one of my blogs over the others [ yeah, its sad , I have more than one ]
I'm trying to thin it down.
The trouble is I'm not sure if i use them to offload on or if they are for keeping in touch withpeople or letting them know wht I've been doing.
Maybe once I've decided that I'll be able to come up with some rationalisation.

However...

I'm going to play catch up a bit here.
Now as this involves digging deep into the aging memory banks and giving them the obligatory thump to get them moving I can't guarentee that the order will have any relation to the actual timespan.

So, what have I been up to?

Oh, as its still relatively fresh in my head, i took Emma to the Sit-Up tv studios yesterday to see what goes on.



This is the kind of stuff they film there.

One of our friends is a camera operator on the channel, and as she knows that its what Emma wants to do she asked if we wanted to go see.

It WAS interesting :D

What else?

Erm, I leaned to be a spy with Jo at the Science of spying exhibition at the science museum.


They had loads of fun stuff there.





This is getting too long to be manageable now, so I'll leave the work/awards/patchworking and anything else for next time.

NOT a date

So when is a date not a date?
According to my daughter [ who is out as we speak on her very own 'not' a date ] its when it happens in daylight.

This seems to be important. ok, and No, i don't get it either.

I don't ask you to understand where she's coming from, but the whole daytime thing seems absolutely pivotal.

Of course right now its pitch black outside aand she's still out with her 'not' date :D

She rang me...well, alright, I rang her [ but only because this not-date was only supposed to be for a coffee after school and it was already 7pm and i didn't know if i could go out with Dave to watch one of our friends play her singles match in a pool tournament]
I was NOT checking up on her.

*cough*mainly*cough*

And said phone call left me as confused as ever.

She was still out with him, but they were both on their way up to see one of Em's best friends [ who happens to know the not-date ]
Not the best friend who thinks it kind of stalkerish for him to have remembered her [ that is my daughters ] name after, let me think....7-9 years, but the one who thinks he's ok.
Lucky that.

:D

Sooooo.....
Either she's had fun, likes him, and he's dropping her off at Kezia's so that she can go over in great detail everything that has taken place on this not-date...
or...
oh heck.
There are far too many possibilities.

I just hope she's had fun.
And gets home before I fall asleep so she can tell me how it went!

Nosy!
Me!!
Nah!!!
:D

Showgirls

I guess it's not completely unexpected to see a programme celebrating Kylie's return to the stage with her showgirld tour, but it's appropriate for me to find it while I'm flicking through the TV channels on the evening after I've taken emma up to the V&A to see it.

Normally i would have passed on by , but it's interesting to see the costumes as they were intended, with the right lighting etc.

We had a good day out.
Sushi, Kylie and Harrods.
Although it was slightly marred by being locked in to the V&A durign a security alert.
We guessed that something had been taken , as it included bag searches before anyone was allowed to leave and a complete shut down of all exits.

I didn't get over to Fopps to see the John Butler Trio who were doing a preview gig , but i was just too tired.

It seems like recently I'm having more and more trouble trying not to fall asleep at some incredibly early hour.

And now I'm waiting for Dave to get home from football and trying hard to stay awake.
I don't think I'm winning :D

V&A

I went to see the Kylie exhibition yesterday at the V&A.
The showgirls section is amazing, and I would have loved to take some photos, but unfortunately it was NOT allowed.
So all I have is my memory of the most elaborate confections full of glitz and sparkle , and a photo of the wall outside the exhibition where visitors posted messages for her.
I guess they ran out of hearts at some point, but the plain old yellow post-its somehow make the whole thing.