Putty face

Oh my God, this is so wrong and yet so....addictive.

Try it if you dare.

Putty Face Upload a mugshot and start modifying their face as if it were putty!

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Desert Island doings

"Our last phone call and you've renewed your
subscription to a writing magazine?"

The Terrifyingly Talented Tommo has tagged me for a Desert Island Discs-type extravaganza. Which is nice. Especially as the sun has disappeared this morning, so here goes...

"So my lovely castaways, as a treat YOU are being sent to that Desert Island. (An exciting prospect yes! or maybe no!) To add a quirky twist to the journey, before you leave you're going to be granted a final three course dinner to include drinks of your choice to be cooked by a world class chef.

So tell me what you want to have for your:

1. First course I don't do first courses. They fill me up and leave me no room for pudding
2. Main Course Spam, cheesey mash and baked beans (no-one said it had to be classy)
3. Sweet Sticky-toffee pudding with custard (mmmmmmmmmmm...)
4. Drink Tonic water with a little bit of ice and lemon (bit 1970s, but I like it)

Whilst your dinner is being carefully prepared, all you now have to do is sit back in your comfy chair with your pre-dinner drink and chose the items you are going to take with you to the desert island:

1. One piece of music/song. I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash (always cheers me up)
2. One book. Adrian Mole - he makes me laugh
3. One luxury item. A bed. Can't be doing with all that sand in m'pants.

Right...I'd better pack my bags go to work.

What would yours be? I won't tag anyone, but feel free to let me know down below.

Distraction

This is fun, if you've got a minute. Quite addictive, actually. (Like I need any more distractions.)

It's rather like Countdown, without Carol Vorderman. Or any numbers. Which is just as well, in my case.

I'll tell you my best score if you tell me yours...

Sticklebooks and tea

It must be the silly season. I ordered a couple of things today, just because I liked the look of them. One is a bookshelf that looks like this...

Groovy, isn't it? It's a Sticklebook apparently. "An alternative to a regular bookshelf, it comprises an aluminium bracket and combed strip that grips the cover and pages of paperback books. It is totally secure and fall-proof." Well, I need somewhere to shove my Enid Blytons'. Not to mention all those upcoming novel-racer novels...

I also ordered a completely unneccessary mug. Unneccessary because we have tiled floors and it'll be smashed to smithereens within a month. Probably. I'm Classic British, in case you can't sleep for wondering.

6 word memoir

I've been tagged by lovely Yvonne. Yay! I have to choose six words that describe me. Boo! I thought I’d ask my daughter, seeing as our perception of ourselves is different to other people’s, but she doesn’t enjoy this kind of exercise, and it shows…

Serves me right for asking. She couldn’t even manage more than 3.
I’m a loser for blogging with ‘imaginary friends’ but I’m mad ‘in a nice way,’ apparently. She came up trumps with three though, so I forgive her.

Apart from that, I am…

1) Cake-loving
2) Loyal
3) Fun
4) Irritable
5) Perceptive
6) Self-critical

I’m going to tag Maddie, Tommo, Lily and Helen. So there.

Realism

YOU ARE A REALIST You don't see the glass as half empty or half full. You see what's exactly in the glass. You never try to make a bad situation seem better than it is... But you also never sabotage any good things you have going on. You are brutally honest in your assessments of situations - and this always seems to help you cope.

Are You An Optimist or Pessimist?

I was hoping for optimist, but being a realist is no bad thing.

After your kind and insightful comments re: The Dilemma, I've decided there's no point having a thrombo (as the Teens would say) or hunting down cake for Comfort. Actually, I don't need an excuse to eat cake, but I digress. No. What I need is a New Angle. A USP as they say on The Dragon's Den. When they're persuading Duncan Ballantyne to invest in an Anti-Eating Mouth Cage. Actually I could do with one of those (see Cake reference above...)

I've had a good old think today, and am fairly certain I've got a firm grip on the slippery beast once again.

I hope to Christ it's all going to be worth it in the end.

Just an illusion

Funny how the eyes and brain mislead you when it comes to editing. Just reading this through, I noticed a couple of grammatical errors - and I'm still not convinced I've spelt grammatical right.

I once read a book called 'Angels' by Andrea Newman and it wasn't until months later, while packing to move, that I noticed it was actually called 'Angles.' Bet you had to look twice!

Just for fun (courtesy of hemmy.net) have a look at these words...

The white bits spell OPTICAL while the coloured parts spell ILLUSION


The black is GOOD, the white is EVIL


Teach on top, learn underneath

The opposite of love

Ooh and here's another one, that's not too difficult to understand.........

KAREN - GET ON WITH THE NOVEL

Feelgood

A meme, from Womag Writer.
Five ways you raise your vibrations...(keep it clean, now).

Walk through fields of sunshine with Molly-dog
Or rain. Or snow, or hail come to that. Not wind though. Especially not when it's combined with rain. Or snow. Or hail. Especially not hail.

Play my guitar (badly)
Like writing, I find it totally absorbing. One day, I may take my talents to the underground stations of Old London Town, and you can all toss pennies at me.

Read
Books have always been like friends to me. No offence to my real friends, of course. There aren't many situations where a good book won't make me feel better (once the jealousy has worn off).

Dance to loud music
I love dancing. I used to frequent nightclubs when I was younger, and throw interesting shapes on the dance floor. Now I just throw my back out in the living-room.

Spend time with my lovely family
It always reminds me why I'm in a bad mood what the point of everything is.
Well...not always. You get my drift.

Lots of people have already done this, so I 'm going to tag Mike Sarah and Sarah *G* on the off-chance they haven't. And I don't think they have because I do read their blogs, you know.

Look forward to your answers :o)

This can't be right!

Quite flattering, but I detect a prank somewhere.

Distractions

This is fun:-

http://bluepyramid.org/ia/bquiz.htm

I'm The Great Gatsby apparently!

This is a lovely song (not if you're feeling weepy though).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCeS-yorGtc&feature=related

Okay, back to the writing. I'm on 12,000 words with NaNoWriMo, which is way behind, but it's 12,000 more than I'd done a few weeks ago, which has got to be a good thing. Right?

First, I've got a photographer from the paper coming round to do a 'proper' picture to accompany the book review. Ooh, get me! Hope he's got a shatterproof lens.
I feel a bit embarrassed with myself, actually. There's something about putting yourself 'out there' (in however small a way) that smacks of showing off a bit, isn't there?

Still - it's hardly the X-Factor.

Helicopter Game

I've copied this from Cally Taylor's website (yeah, thanks a lot!) Now I'm officially never going to Get On With It.

www.hurtwood.demon.co.uk/Fun/copter.swf

Highest score so far...548. Come on - it's harder than it looks.