tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71426073868019976242024-03-05T08:38:22.166-08:00Not Just A Mum!I write about everything! Follow me on Twitter @KatyClement1 and I'll keep you updated with new posts!Dink47http://www.blogger.com/profile/12762693068122998052noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142607386801997624.post-29863359273678175972011-11-08T13:10:00.000-08:002011-11-08T13:11:02.182-08:00Ugly Fashion<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'M BACK!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sorry, it's been a while... I'm really blimmin' busy. No time. Busy busy busy. Mustn't stop. Always rushing. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyway, welcome to today's blog post. It is confused. It can't make up its mind if it's angry, sad or just laughing at you. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've become tired of 'fashion'. Fashion just isn't my thing... I'm more of a 'see it, like it, wear it' kind of girl... And at the moment, I am just not seeing much I like. Which is probably a good thing, seeing as I'm poorer than I HAVE EVER BEEN.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, here is a list of a few of the ugly fashions. Some of them may not be recent, I don't know... They're just weird trends that I've noticed - and to be frank - I hate.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. Loafers</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The first one - loafers. Ugly shoes offend me, and these are quite simply no exception. Do you want to know why? It is really, very simple... I'm pretty sure my Granny has had shoes like this. And she's in her 80's. So I can only conclude that they are not chic, sexy or attractive in any way, shape or form. Even worse than the ones pictured here, are brown loafers with tassels, or any colour loafer with that kind of, goldie lookin' chain on the toe... You know the one I mean. Maybe that's where the crap band got their name from. Ugly shoes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. "Vintage" Jumpers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now, this time I am referring to a fashion that your Grandfather may have once been involved in. He probably wore this on chilly winter evenings while listening to the wireless and smoking his pipe. I honestly believe that if I came home in one of these, the Mister would probably bash me over the head with something and take me to the nearest mental hospital.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. Brogues</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let me introduce you to these little wonders. If you've never seen them before, let me explain their purpose - They're really very baggy around the top, and tight at the bottom. This means, you can store all your things in there, and bish-bash-bosh no need for a handbag! Sorted. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5. Women's Tuxedo</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6. Palazzo Trouser</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now I'll be honest, I don't hate ALL of these. On some women - mainly tall, and very very skinny ones, they can look quite elegant. However, on a NORMAL person, they look ridiculous. I especially hate patterned ones...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think if I was wearing this, I'd feel like I should be hanging from someone's ceiling. In a dungeon. In my knickers. And I'm not into that. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">8. Collar Accessories</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Uuuuum... I'm confused. Could she not decide what to wear? Because that dress/top thing is actually quite sexy. Her hair is pretty. Her makeup is very well done. And then some fucker cut the collar off of her Dads shirt and glued it to her neck, and now she is stuck with it forever. That's all I can assume, because I don't think she'd have worn that out of choice. Would she?</span><br />
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<br />Dink47http://www.blogger.com/profile/12762693068122998052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142607386801997624.post-13519269801604869712011-10-30T06:57:00.000-07:002011-10-30T06:57:16.542-07:00Too BUSY!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've been severely neglecting my blogging duties. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Work at the day job is really full on, plus I'm doing my course, plus copywriting work, I'm tired.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My hair, to start with was black. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Start with black black hair. Like this.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You will like your black hair, but you'll get bored of it. Or I will. I got bored of it. I needed a change. So I wrapped my head in clingfilm, for a look that says 'come and get me fella's... Oh wait. No it doesn't.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now then, this is stage one. Using</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Colour-B4-Hair-colour-remover-extra-strength-by-Scott-Cornwall-hair-expert-_1000976/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Colour B4</span></a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">from boots, this was the first attempt to lift some of the black dye out of my hair. My hair is naturally a mousy brown colour (with a hint of ginger and damn proud of it) but I've been dyeing my hair since about age 11 - starting with wash in/wash out colours, moving on to semi permanents, bleach, highlights... then on top of that bleach, dark red, purple and black dye. Basically my hair no longer has a 'natural' colour as such. Colour B4 aims to remove only dye pigment from your hair, not touching the actual hair pigment itself. It contains no bleach and no ammonia so is quite nice and gentle.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now, the first time I used Colour B4 was to go from dark brown. It took me to a VERY bright blonde/ginger (previously bleached colour) and was pretty easy to dye. This time... Not so much. It just took me to this...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, after Colour B4 AND 60 entire minutes of bleaching, my hair looked like... This.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">SO. After an hour of Colour B4, 90 minutes of bleaching (in stages) I was ready to put the colour on. I chose a Crazy Colour dye, in </span><a href="http://haircrazy.com/product/cyclamen/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Cyclamen</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">. And now I look like this...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm pretty pleased with my pink hair... I am NOT so pleased with the fact that in not one of these photo's am I wearing make-up. You've seen me at my worst. Shit.</span></div>Dink47http://www.blogger.com/profile/12762693068122998052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142607386801997624.post-27332572524955273292011-10-21T13:04:00.000-07:002011-10-21T13:04:17.795-07:00A short diary update!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Helloooo!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have neglected my blogging duties for a couple of days due to being poorly - seem to have the full works going on, headache/earache/sore throat/bad neck/high temp/dizzy. It's pretty sucky but my lovely Mum and Sister have been helping me out with Mini-Me so some rest has been had and hopefully I'll feel better in the morning. Mum also delivered me a 'red cross parcel' - pain killers, throat lozenges, cold thingys to go on my head, berocca, soup. What a legend.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Anyway! Some good stuff has happened over the last couple of days! My course material arrived, which means I am finally able to stop waiting around for things to change and start kicking some writing ass (haha). I have set up my 'business' page - </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Katy-Clement-Copywriter/234389403282739"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Katy Clement, Copywriter</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> and I've got a few little jobs lined up already. I'm really optimistic about the way things are headed. Hopefully I can keep the momentum going!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That's all for tonight as I need to go and wrap myself up in a duvet and snuggle the cat, but as soon as I can blog without wanting to rip my face off and bash it on the keyboard I will be back...</span><br />
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<br />Dink47http://www.blogger.com/profile/12762693068122998052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142607386801997624.post-81791540455080754342011-10-18T12:10:00.000-07:002011-10-18T12:10:17.889-07:00Inspiration<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I'm feeling a bit low or demotivated, I usually search the internet for some wisdom to pick me up and remind me what I'm all about... Here are a few of my favourite quotes. </span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Big Brother</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Made In Chelsea</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Turn it off. Turn It Off. Turn It OFF. TURN IT OFF. TURN IT OFF. TURN IT OFF OR DIE."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That particular program fills me with a soul destroying rage, and I can't put my finger on exactly why, but it could be any or all of these things:</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The 'look'. I really really hate the look of all of these people. I mean, their faces... (I'm going to borrow a phrase from one of my bosses now) Their faces really offend me and affect my day. Alright, it's not so much the colour of their eyes or hair, but the expressions. Don't they always seem to be pulling a face that says 'I think I'm SO AMAAHZING.'</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The point. I really, can honestly say I do not understand what the creators were thinking...<br />"Hey I've got this idea for a new TV program"<br />"Oh right... What's that then?"<br />"Well, we make a reality TV show, but we script it."<br />"Right... So do we use real actors then?"<br />"No. We take completely talentless people, and script their real lives so that we have a massively unentertaining and unconvincing television program about literally nothing."<br />"I LOVE IT! Let's do it."</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once upon a time, my Fiancee informed me that he finds the accent on "Made In Chelsea" attractive.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now, as for Big Brother - FOR FUCKS SAKE, JUST GIVE UP ALREADY. Just let it die. It's not exciting. It's not interesting. It is not a social experiment. It is getting a bunch of complete tossers into a house and making them do ridiculous things. Which would only be entertaining for me if I was in charge.</span></div>
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<br /></div>Dink47http://www.blogger.com/profile/12762693068122998052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142607386801997624.post-75063761152454588752011-10-16T09:25:00.000-07:002011-10-17T06:41:16.902-07:00Big Sis.<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I was younger I used to share a room with my big sister. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Little girls idolise their big sisters, for the most part anyway and I don't think we were any exception - I used to love sharing a room with her, used to try on her clothes when she was out, play with her makeup, walk around in her shoes, read her diary. Yeah. That happened Sis. Sorry about that. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At night time, she occasionally used to make me sing her to sleep. Or we'd sit up talking and she'd tell me about what her wedding would be like (she'd been planning it since about age 6 I think...). We'd have some awesome sisterly chats about boys and once, on Valentines Day early on in my secondary school career, I was a bit miserable because I didn't get any cards. So she made one, signed "?" and sneaked it into my bag... Aaaaw. Lush.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">All sisters bicker... But once, I sat on the top bunk and whacked her over the head with a recorder because she was being particularly irritating. I'm fairly certain she deserved it, although I can't entirely remember why. (This wasn't as bad as it could have been to be fair, our older brother <span id="goog_2042605272"></span></span></span><a href="http://hairybobbingmanass.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Dave<span id="goog_2042605273"></span></span></span></a><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> has been known to throw many things at her face, including a basketball, and a shoe. I think he once winded her by hitting a tennis ball at her) In fact, thinking about it, she must have been a bit of a prick at times for us to want to do these things to her... It couldn't have been anything about Dave and I needing anger management or something.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She came up with that game all by herself. Sneaky cow. I was only little, and I fell for it... More than once come to think of it. She never had to tidy the room, and I DEFINITELY never got to be the Queen! </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I will post pictures of her on my blog.</span><br />
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Here it is. Here's the truth about what we REALLY get up to. It's steamy... You've been warned.</div>
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<li>And finally... Jesus is basically Lego. According to (in Tania's words) "the the the the the the ummm.. Mmmm. Man with the thing that came in yesterday and I don't know if he is called a Vicar or a Reverend, or a Minister or a Priest, but he was a man". Discuss.</li>
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<br />Dink47http://www.blogger.com/profile/12762693068122998052noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142607386801997624.post-20979965346387341462011-10-12T04:48:00.000-07:002011-10-12T05:08:26.152-07:00Crazy Politics?!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Having a read through the BBC news website today, as I do, I came across an article that made me quite literally speechless for at least half an hour... Now that I've collected my thoughts, I figured I'd share it with you and see what you think.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15255357"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Where Child Sacrifice is a Business...</span></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll summarise this for people who may be viewing on phones or who can't be bothered to read the full article - basically what's happening is that children in and around Kampala, Uganda children are being kidnapped by Witch Doctors. The Witch Doctors are then sacrificing the children on the behalf of the countries 'elite' because they believe it will bring them great wealth.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I almost, ALMOST don't know where to start with this one. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">According to the article, at least one of the people responsible for child sacrifices has been named, a man called Awali. The reporters posed as local businessmen and asked around, and were pointed in this guys direction. When they met up with him, to cut a long story short, he offered them some options. Which were...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Bury the child alive on your construction site"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Cut them in different places and put their blood in a bottle of spiritual medicine."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If the child involved is male, he is beheaded and castrated. The body is then dumped somewhere. And apparently, this makes someone really quite wealthy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Awali admitted that he has sacrificed many children and boasted that he is really quite good at it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The reporters handed their notes in to the police, and yet Awali is still free, and still 'trading'.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now, my first thought is this:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We - and I mean the entirety of the UK pretty much, and other countries as well put an ENORMOUS emphasis on the protection of children, and quite rightly so. They are the future after all! We don't just focus on the children of the UK - there are hundreds and thousands of charities which dedicate their time and resources to protecting children in countries such as Africa from starvation, disease...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What I can't understand is why we can't do anything to protect children from being slaughtered in the name of greed?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't know if it's just me, and I haven't really had the time to think this through a great deal so I may still change my mind as I mull over it some more. But does it strike anyone else as strange that we can put this happy, smiley and helpful front on - </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"We'll give you clean drinking water! We'll teach you how to make the most of your land to feed yourself! We'll help set up schools and hospitals!"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And yet we aren't able to do anything to protect the poor babies who are being snatched as they walk home from school, savagely tortured, maimed and killed, all for the alleged benefit to big shot businessmen?! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These children are no less important than our own. If the Ugandan Police won't do anything about the situation, we should be able to send some troops over there to take Awali down and teach the bastards a lesson. Oh but... We can't do that. It's not our place. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">7. I have hit over 1600 views now... Thankyou to everyone who has had a look. Please follow me, that would make me smile even HARDER. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">8, 9 & 10. Today I have signed up for The Institute of Copywriting's Copywriting Course! This is a VERY big deal for me. I'm not academic. I hated school. I hated homework. I dropped out of 6th form. And this is the first time in my life I've felt motivated enough to actually WANT to do something like this - and I really, really, really wanted it. It's going to make so much difference to me - I like to know what I'm on about you see, it's all very well doing an amateur blog, but I want to get PAID to write. It's so exciting to think that this time next year I could be working from home - hopefully earning some decent money. My long-term plan is to earn enough to put the Hubster through a course that he wants to do (considerably more expensive than this one) so that we can both do jobs that we enjoy, earn enough money to be comfortable and generally have a slightly simpler life. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today's subject - Damien Fowkes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now, lets just start right at the beginning. This guy is Ian Huntley:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I would hope most people would recognise his face and remember the story - but for those of you who don't, this upstanding member of the community was a caretaker of a school, and after an apparent blazing row with his girlfriend Maxine Carr, called two young girls into his home and brutally murdered them. He then tried to dispose of their bodies near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. In 2003 he was convicted of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not so famous, this one, but this lovely young man had a string of convictions from age 15 for assaulting young boys, and was jailed for the murder of 7 year old Sean Williams while he was on parole for a previous child sex attack.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In March 2010, Damien Fowkes fashioned a 'home made' knife from (I think) a razorblade attached to a melted toothbrush handle or something - and unsuccessfully attempted to murder Ian Huntley by slitting his throat. He left a 7 inch gash needing 21 stitches but Huntley survived.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So - that is the story up until this point. My thoughts?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That's not to say I'm not quite grateful to him for doing what he's done though. I'm not talking about trying to rob someone by knifepoint, that probably wasn't entirely necessary, I'm talking about attempting to rid the world of two men who can only bring darkness, misery and hatred into the world. The worst type of criminal in my opinion. Men who have destroyed children and families and would almost definitely not hesitate to do so again. And again. And again.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My friends and family will know this already, but I'm a very protective person. My need to defend the people closest to me is at times a little extreme - there are probably times that I should keep my nose out and I really don't. I can't help it... The thing is I can't even imagine what my reaction would be if someone was to hurt my daughter, or my niece or nephew. I don't think I would be myself anymore - I really think that a huge part of me would change dramatically and I would become someone completely different.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fowkes obviously made a lot of questionable life choices - someone willing to rob an innocent person at knifepoint for a drugs fix must have been falling into a pretty big hole. Not really thinking about his future, or consequences of his actions. Only thinking about his need for drugs. And I can imagine (scarily), that someone with that outlook on his life, combined with a need to protect his and other peoples children, probably wouldn't think twice about ridding the world of a couple of dangerous, evil men. When in that close a proximity, given the chance, I think that actually there's a lot of people who like to think they'd have done the same thing!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not in any way glorifying what Fowkes has done - but I'm definitely on the side of the fence that says he has done the world an enormous favour, and I only wish he had done a better job on Huntley.</span>Dink47http://www.blogger.com/profile/12762693068122998052noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142607386801997624.post-11631254555578023782011-10-06T12:23:00.000-07:002011-10-08T14:26:43.322-07:00My top 5 most annoying adverts...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Very brief blog as I am currently cooking Winner Winner Chicken Dinner for the masses. You might get this recipe at a later date. Anyway...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Some adverts make me so rageful that they make me a) want to never buy or have anything to do with the product or service they are advertising and b) want to hunt down the creators and exterminate them. With fire. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is my top 5 most irritating, rage-inducing adverts. Enjoy. I hope you hate them as much as I do. Really. Please share my pain.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm pretty sure most people who hear her name think of the sort of attractive girl, big cans, always in some kind of meaningless competition with Katie Price, usually pretty much naked in public. Good body by most people's standards - in proportion (except for those massive boobs. Although to be fair, they aren't as bad as some) and sexy, if you like that sort of thing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">*I'd like to point out, there are a lot of other things that make me happy too. Like my man, Mini-Me, my family, my friends, the cats, driving my car, a million other types of shoes, all of the Edward Monkton pictures, looking at crazy wedding dresses, walking my parents dog a billion other bands and songs, Big Bang Theory, Banksy, Barbara Kruger, cocktails, dancing, festivals, gigs, moshpits, blogging, saying 'Grow some balls' and 'man the fuck up' when people are being pathetic... and so on and so forth. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, I own a lot of leopard print stuff - to start with there's underwear, obviously. I have recently aquired a pair of grey leopard print skinny jeans, which I'm completely and ridiculously in love with. I have a good few animal print tops - various colours. And I definitely have some animal print socks. I have both a leopard print and a zebra print handbag. And some leopard print shoes. Heels and flats. Yeah.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What I mean is, don't make yourself look like a low class hooker. It's not awesome. It will get you all the wrong attention. Unless you like that sort of thing in which case, crack on, but you HAVE been warned.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5. It's probably best to stay away from Lycra/Spandex etc. I don't think I need to explain this one really. That's a rule most people should stick with anyway, but especially when it comes to animal prints.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My Mum is an excellent cook and I enjoy most things she makes, but her cakes are seriously good. So in short, I got brought up eating awesome cake (amongst other things).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I would quite happily bake every single day of my life. For about a month and then I'd probably get fed up of working in a hot kitchen and all the washing up, but you get my point. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I like to bake for other people - I get a lot of satisfaction watching somebody enjoying something I have made, and I always like to be told I'm good at something... Everyone loves a little ego boost from time to time! I quite frequently bake on a Thursday and take the goods to work on a Friday. It goes down well, I'm not going to lie. In all fairness I think it is one of the only reasons my boss likes me (not you Em, the other one). She only started to like me after I started feeding her cake.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today, I've made Toffee Apple Crumble and Apple, Raisin and Cinnamon flapjacks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thought I'd share a recipe with you. It's been adapted off the top of my head from a recipe for flapjack that my Mum gave me, and I THINK that it came from my Great Aunty... Who knows, it could have been from either Granny, I'm sorry that I don't know that.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So. You will need....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stir it all together and heat gently for a little while. Like... a minute. Then put about 1/3** of a can of condensed milk in and stir it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">* I really don't know if grating apples was the right thing to do. Maybe they would be better off diced or something, or even dried apple... I will experiment. Feel free to let me know if you decide to try it out.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll be really honest, they're pretty good but I think these sorts of things could always be improved upon. If you have any idea's please leave me a comment and let me know... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This has got me thinking about why we are so worried about ageing, and what lengths we will go to avoid it... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am 24 years old, 5 foot 6 inches, 10 stone 3lbs and a size 10-12. Reasonable I'd say, pretty much average for the UK woman. I don't hate my body, I don't hate my face... I'm not the biggest fan of my hair but that is why I change my colour and style every 10 minutes and have been dying it since I was 11. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not too worried about going grey - I just figure I'll be one of these old ladies who has a pink/purple/blue rinse and tattoos and a pierced nose. I'll age gracefully, in a way. I don't even really care about wrinkles that much - I figure they just show the ups and downs of your life... Laughter and frowns.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can understand celebrities wanting to stay looking young - they must worry that in that business, once your looks are gone, if you're as talentless as most of them are you've basically got nothing going for you. And no fall back plan either, unless you marry someone richer than you while you're still hot enough to catch them... And even then there's a good chance that when you do get old, they'll just dump you and replace you with a younger model. Harsh.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">BUT. This does not mean I agree with the lengths people go to, to stop their lovely wrinkles appearing and boobs from sagging and waist from getting less defined and chin drooping etc etc etc...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anti-ageing creams and lotions are everywhere you look now - TV, magazines, posters on bus stops. What is the obsession about staying young? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can safely say I will never have Botox. I will never be committed enough to plaster my face in cream every single day. I barely moisturise anyway, the women who work at the Clinique/Clarins counters would faint if I told them my 'skin care routine'... "uuuh yeah so I put my makeup on, then I sometimes remove it with a babywipe. But not before I've slept in it. And then I put more makeup on... and sleep in it, and remove it with a babywipe." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've lost my trail of thought a little bit because I got very distracted looking at pictures of botched plastic surgery. I have spent a good 15 minutes gasping at Google Images.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The point I think I was trying to make is - Stop obsessing about looking young. Look after yourself, eat healthy food, drink lots of water and all the other good advice that people give. But try not to go too mental, because if you get to the point of looking like this:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You don't want to end up like that. </span>Dink47http://www.blogger.com/profile/12762693068122998052noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142607386801997624.post-32258416612185749792011-09-30T11:23:00.000-07:002011-10-08T14:29:23.492-07:00Children... and Parenting.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Children. Can't live with them, can't live without them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My little Mini-Me is 2 years and 5 months old (nearly) and is completely loopy. She's also VERY clever (I'm not exaggerating, I'm sure. She uses words such as 'fanspastic' and 'berlicious' and frequently tells me i'm 'brooafool'* so she must be clever.) She is a whirlwind of energy that has thrown my entire life and all of my priorities up into the air, and they've landed, on the ground in a rather muddled mess, with her sat RIGHT on the top with a cheeky grin on her face.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now. I am not a perfect parent. There are times when she drives me completely mental. She can be VERY naughty and has, as I may have said before, got my attitude. Except worse. With her, the attitude has been squished right down into a very tiny, concentrated package.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nowadays, you see 6 year old girls (and younger) being paraded around on a stage in front of a panel of 'judges' with full faces of makeup on - hair extensions in and hair styled with curlers/straighteners. Fake eyelashes. Fake tans.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My big sister is 5 years older than me, so when she started wearing makeup at - Oh I don't know - 15 years old!? I used to LOVE having her do 'makeovers' on me. We'd sit in the garden in the summer time, or in our bedroom and she'd try out different eyeshadows, lipsticks and other stuff. Occasionally and NOT with my permission, she'd make me look even MORE ridiculous than a 10 year old in makeup usually looks. It was fun though.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">However, had I thought of leaving the house aged 10 with a full face of makeup on, I think I would have been given a hiding. Saying that though... I don't think the thought ever crossed my mind. At 10 years old I was happy with my face, and never dreamed of having to get dolled up to go out. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't think that aged 6, I ever thought about putting on a pair of 5 inch heels. I was too busy taking off my babies clothes and re-dressing them, or putting high heeled shoes on my BARBIE for crying out loud. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Before then... FUCK. NO. Nobody is going to be pressurizing my little girl into wearing makeup, having low self esteem, poor body image and knackered feet and back. Get away from her, or I will scar you for life. Just sayin'.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*These words, translated, are 'fantastic', 'delicious' and 'beautiful'. In case you were wondering.</span>Dink47http://www.blogger.com/profile/12762693068122998052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142607386801997624.post-19946724874448198942011-09-29T12:42:00.000-07:002011-10-08T14:30:13.111-07:00"Alternative Models"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now, before I get started on my rant, I'd like to say not ALL alternative models make me want to punch them. For example you have the exceptionally beautiful Fae Raven - see <a href="http://www.facebook.com/LittleMissFaeRaven">http://www.facebook.com/LittleMissFaeRaven</a> And you'll see what I mean. Her photo's definitely do not offend my eyes. She is a legitimate model, and her pictures are lovely to look at. See also Charlotte Herbert - <a href="http://www.facebook.com/CharlotteHerbsModel">http://www.facebook.com/CharlotteHerbsModel</a> - I really like this chick too, she's got a gorgeous body, a lot of attitude and fair fucking play for showing off your assets, both of you. Respect.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, this is something I have thought for quite some time now. What is an 'alternative' model? Because it seems to me it's just a label that people use as an excuse half the time for really rough looking girls to take their clothes off. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm aware that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but really... The photo's that you put up are just. Plain. Offensive. To my eyes. I mean really, you make me want to gouge my eyes out, with a hot hot spoon. I'm sure someone, somewhere will pay you a compliment for your efforts, but I assure you, 95% of the population do not want to see it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not going to name any names, because I'm a bitch but I'm not brave enough to publicly slag people off on a blog (I think that is a touch TOO mean) But WHY do girls nowadays - between the ages of 16 and 30 usually - feel it is necessary to take off their clothes, get into a 'seductive' *coughskankycough* pose - usually involving a motorbike, or a guitar - and get their pervy male friend photographer to take photo's of them? Just to post on Facebook? They are not promoting anything. They are not showing off their assets. Some of them, have an acceptable body... But your face needs a paper bag over it love. The world will be a better place if you COVER YOURSELF UP. Seriously.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now some people may read this and think I'm jealous. Or that I just don't have a body that I'd like to get out and display in public. Jealous? No. I am however a realist. I am proud of my body - but my boobs are less than perfect due to nearly a year of breastfeeding, and I have stretchmarks that go OVER my belly button that can be blamed on the same perfect little minx. I am happy with that, I accept it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Call me old fashioned but... Surely it's better to be valued for your mind, your sense of humour and your passion for life, rather than your excellent ability to get your tits and fanny out at a minutes notice?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The thing is, we are feeling rather unappreciated. We know you work hard, and we are grateful. But so do we. We go out and do the shopping for the entire week. We plan the meals to try to save money. We cook the meals every day. We do all the washing up and tidying of the entire house. We wash all of your horrid pants with holes in and smelly socks with the same love and care that we show to our own favourite jeans or best knickers. While you're at work we do DIY to keep the homestead ticking over just so. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While all of this is happening, we are looking after the children and animals. Which involves more feeding, cleaning and dealing with vomit, snot, blood, wee and poo in volumes you've never witnessed, and could probably never imagine. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All we ask, men, is that you show us some appreciation. We are not saying we work harder than you, just that we seem to be getting a lot less recognition - as most of our work is done out of love, and not to earn money. Cook us dinner once in a while. When you get in from work, put a load of washing on or do some dishes. Offer us a back rub. Run us a nice bath, with bubbles. We're not asking a lot, we are actually quite easily maintained for the most part.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Most importantly, if we seem stressed, distant or snappy, don't take it personally. Ask us nicely what is wrong. If we don't want to talk about it, give us a cuddle, leave it a while and ask again. If we do talk about it - be it logically, rationally, or in a hormonal crying rage, just listen. Don't argue. Don't try to blame us. Don't get angry.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Understand that for the most part, everything we do is to benefit you in some way. If we are snappy, it is probably because we are stressed to the point of breaking, and we are scared we could melt down at any second. Which would leave you right in the shit to be honest now, wouldn't it?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Shoes play a very big part in my life, and I think it's fair to say a lot of other women are the same. There </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">is just something about buying a nice new pair of sluttily high heels that makes you go 'yeah, I'm fucking </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">AMAZING'. If any woman tells you she DOESN'T agree with this, she is either insane or a liar and she should </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">be disposed of immediately before causing any harm to herself or others.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I probably own about 35 pairs of shoes. Which isn't a lot if you compare me to like, Posh Spice or someone, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but it is a lot if you compare me to a small child from a third world country, Santa Claus (because he only </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">has black shiny boots), Wall-E (got no feet) or if you take into account the fact that I live in a small, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">one bed flat. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Did you do it? Are you finished? Aren't they incredible? I like the ones that look like they could bite you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Just to be clear, and this is an important fact, when I talk about shoes I very rarely mean flats. Flats are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">FUNCTIONAL and very rarely BEAUTIFUL and they don't make you feel SEXY and anything less than a 10cm heel is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a WASTE. OF. TIME.*</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is safe to say that I have literally no idea how to do that.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't really know what I'm like, or what I sound like, or my 'Katyisms'. Apparently the Mr loves my 'Katyisms' or so he told me after I said something along the lines of 'Jesus TITS I'm warm' when we were in the car in the New Forest at the weekend. At first when he said he loved my Katyisms I thought he meant my bangin' love cushions but he just meant the way I talk.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've also been told I'm a bit of a social chameleon. It's cool in a way, I'm pretty adaptable to most situations and I can get on with most people. Unless the person in question is a prick, and then I generally don't bother, and in most cases will move along quickly instead of offending anyone.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Being a social chameleon can be a bit of a bitch though to be honest. I can't really recognise what mannerisms belong to me or which ones I've stolen from someone else. I only have to spend a couple of hours with someone and then I start talking like them. Seriously. It's weird.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyway. This blog is starting to sound a bit like a diary and any minute now I'm probably going to tell you what I had for lunch, so moving on...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last night, I put Mini-Me to bed, and then thought I'd surprise the Mr when he got home by putting something sexy on. So I did that. I'm not going to go into detail about how that went, because I'm scared that my Mum or even worse my DAD will read this, and that will be humiliating for everybody.*</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, we had a really exciting game of Jenga, and then I started cooking dinner. Then one of the Mr's buddies came round for a bit of a natter, a catch up, you know...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It wasn't until about an hour and a half after he had arrived that I realised, I had left some VERY saucy undies, on the hanger, on the living room door. As you know, the living room is also my bedroom, and apparently I sometimes forget that other people come in there too. I spent a good hour sneakily glancing at the guilty undies, which were hanging on my door with neon signs flashing over them, wondering if I could move them without him noticing, or whether he'd already seen. I did try to move them with my mind too, but I've got to practice that more, it's not perfect yet. He did go out of the living room at least a couple of times, walking past the guilty undies at head height. I fail to see how he would not have noticed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Also on the list of inappropriate people to have probably seen my underwear would be my future mother-in-law, and her best friend. They came to the house as a favour to wait in for a shiny new front door while me and the Mr were at work, and decided they'd have a tidy up. In the bedroom. Where I very rarely put anything away. Fuck me sideways that is embarrassing on SO many levels.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">By the way, I had MacDonalds for lunch. Screw you all with your ethics (I jest...) and whinging about it being made out of </span><br />
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