Only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate...

I prefer Galaxy Ripple to Flake. I just used the Flake theme song lyrics because I thought they would make a good post title. Also, of all the ice-cream-that-began-as-a-chocolate-bar possibilities, I would choose the joy that is the Mars ice cream. Maybe because it's the first ice-cream-that-began-as-a-chocolate-bar that I ever came across. I have posed the same dilemma to people from the U.S. on Yahoo games, and they have told me it's the only one they have! I don't know if this is true, but if it is, I think it is rather sorrowful. Imagine never having had a Cornetto! I suppose the advantage of not having Cornettos would be the ability to avoid those annoying "Cornetto Love Potions" adverts: "I'm a man, surprise surprise. Give me Cornetto and I won't tell the guys" etc, waah they're sooo bad! But not as bad as the "You're someone very special" sickly-grandpa/sickly-grandson Werther's Original advert. Although I suppose the WO advert is at least rather amusing. Have I just filled a very large paragraph just babbling about chocolate products?

 

I love Knightmare in case you haven't guessed. It's fun watching programmes from my childhood - I wish I could watch "Through the Dragon's Eye" again - that was high quality entertainment. All I remember is Morris, Doris and Boris who were people dressed and made up in green, purple and orange respectively, and the episode where for some reason Boris ended up as an orange puddle on the floor and the trauma I experienced upon seeing this. Why do children's programme makers delight in producing deep emotional scars in their viewers?

Hello there

Blogspot seem to be improving their blogging opportunities - I can even justify the text now, woohoo. I'm online for some reason, can't remember what that is though. Well, it gives me a chance to tell you the news that Phil sent a letter to Televirtual, who made Knightmare, asking if there was any chance we could be on the new show. They replied!

 

"Dear Phil, Kylie, Ciaran and Alexander,

Thanks for your continued interest in KNIGHTMARE, and thanks also for the application.

I really don't know yet if Knightmare will return and the form it will take. 
There is no popular genre for fantasy adventure/role playing on world television, and the broadcasters' obsession with reality shows also doesn't help.

Where technology has been tried recently - as with Fightbox - the results have tended to discredit the approach.

So it won't be easy. However the support and interest of folks like yourselves encourage me to keep plugging away.

I'll keep the application on file. Who knows, it might get used yet!! 

 

TIM CHILD

CEO

TELEVIRTUAL"

 

Yes, Tim Child! He's on the original series credits - he created the series! It doesn't matter that we won't get on the show (well I think I can pass for 13), not now we've interacted with a LEGEND in the TV world. Or rather Phil has on our behalf. Hope you don't mind me telling everyone, Phil :-) I just can't contain my utter joy and happiness that Tim Child has mentioned my name in an email.

 

I will leave you with a rather unlovely sentence I just found having typed "fish poo" into Google:

 

"It eats every kind of fish food ever made, hair algae, the bloodwormsthat have gone white that nobody else wants, even other fish's poo!"

 

I don't know what creature it refers to. If you could extract fish poo from the water, and you tried to burn it, would it work or would there be too much moisture within the poo?

False Alarm

- If a false alarm can be bad. Laura rang up for ghostyhunt tickets and they had all sold out :-( and the next one with tickets isn't till the end of September. I might come home for the weekend and go to that one instead. Mnooo! As a result, uninterrupted boredom continues. Need job. My mother threatened to permanently move my piano from here (where I live) to my dad's house, because "it takes up too much room" and "don't worry, I'll pay for it to be moved". This annoys me much more than you might think. My dad promised not to let her move it since I really, really want it to stay here but my Mum is saying she'll move it while I'm away :-(((. Therefore, today has been blah and waaah. I'm bored, have not seen any of my friends from Leicester at all this holiday and have no money to do anything other than sit and mope and occasionally go to Sainsbury's with my dad. Yay(!)

Wooo excitement...

I am going on a ghost hunt! Providing I can get the tickets. I don't know if any of you watch Most Haunted, but I think it is very much hurrah-worthy. If you do, you may recall a celebrity version with Vic Reeves and his wife, and of course the usual Yvette Fielding, the medium Derek Acorah, etc. It was at Belgrave Hall, which is now a museum thing, in Leicester. In the middle of a seance Vic Reeves felt an urge to chase a ghost upstairs because it was taunting him, and I think they heard a few noises and saw a few orbs/strange shapes too. And the place was in the news in a big way in 1998 because they were supposed to have caught a ghost on the security camera in the gardens, although a lot of people now think it was just a leaf or something, but it was haunted before then anyway. Well, as I'm sure you've guessed, that's where my ghost hunt is going to be! They're doing an all night ghosty evening from 8pm-4am which includes a dinner at the adjacent Talbot pub (v. old, built about 11th century I think and also haunted). I'll be going with my cousin Laura and a few other people I think. If I can get the tickets. I'm sure I'll regret it on the night and want to run away, but I'm going, oh yes. Hee hee hee. I may have to have a few drinks before they get me to go in. In the unlikely event that you read this today, watch Living TV at 12:00am, the Belgrave Hall/Vic Reeves Most Haunted is being repeated.

I can never think of good post titles

The past few days have been annoying. It's a bit like Groundhog Day (the film I mean) - I wake up, usually at some time around midday, watch morning tv, feel guilty for being very very close to my overdraft limit/not having got a job/worked hard enough on my degree, watch Richard and Judy and BBLB, lay about some more, watch repeats I've seen thousands of times on UK Gold and go to bed at about 2:00am. The next day, and the day after the next day, and the day after the day after the next day, are the same. I'M BORED!!! I need a job. Jobs are very difficult to get if you don't have any work experience. I sent my CV and filled in application forms at about 20 shops at the end of term 1 last year and got nowhere. Waaaaah!

By the way, next year, I give everyone permission to make me work, or I might just fail, and that would not be good. It nearly happened this year :-S. I'm hoping it doesn't affect my chances of getting a place on a PGCE course, although I fear it might. Then I might have to leave Warwick after next year, shock horror! I really don't want that to happen.

Holiday madness

Back in Leicester. No more living in Leamington. Damn it. Oh well, must look to the future and Coventry and things like that. Since moving out of my house in Leamington, I've been frantically (ish) looking for a job, had a load of setbacks in that dept but hopefully there's always Safeway down the road if I can't find anywhere else.

So, what have I been doing in the meantime? Well, I went to see Elton John last Monday. It was my first live pop/rock-type concert; I've decided I must go to more. I found it bizarre seeing and hearing him in person. Not used to this seeing famous people in the flesh thing, but who is I suppose? The only annoying thing was that me and my mum both had a double vodka and coke each just before it started (£8! Daylight robbery!) and despite going to the toilet just before we went to our seats, after about an hour we both really really needed to go again. We waited for an interval but it didn't happen. I nearly got to the stage of going up to Mr John and asking him if he was EVER GOING TO STOP as we were dying. But I didn't. Just had to miss out on one of his songs. Other than that, it was v good.

What else? Boredom to the point of going to the supermarket every couple of days with my dad and Smigel, his 80-something friend. She is very nice really but physically she really is a cross between Smigel and Dobby from Harry Potter. Oh and went to a car boot on Sunday, where I bought Ker-plunk for £2! I've been trying to spend my birthday money too, so a few trips to town were in order.

Ah yes, thank you for the birthday presents/cards/company on the last Thurs of term. Although you were prob going to Bows/end of term meal anyway, but it was still nice to spend my birthday with so many people around. The present-thank-you also applies to Ciaran, who gave me the following:

A "bitchass" window sticker
A "slag" patch to sew onto an item of clothing of my choice
A bottle of purple hair dye
A henna tattoo set
A keyring that makes orgasm noises for several minutes after its button is pressed, so to speak.

Ok so maybe I will not go so far as to use the window sticker and the patch, but I may make a compromise and use the hair dye in a small streak of my hair and the henna stuff on a small section of my arm. I'll wait till I get back to uni for that though. Who knows, I might be inspired to change my image... As for the orgasm keyring (aka the "orgasmatron"), that has already fulfilled its use by going off on a bus full of people, of course, much to my amusement. How I chuckled. That Ciaran, he is a card.