Monthly Archives: December 2008

Have a great Christmas, dear readers

and I shall see you in 2009, with less money but more memories. And I leave you with something Arizaphale sent me:

and also here is also a re-made song which reminds me of school discos. Quality 90s (though this is the 2008 release… will do a post on my fave 90s tracks in 2009).

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Childhood Christmas #2

When I think of Christmas I get excited. I think this is to do with the many amazing Christmases I had as a child that nothing can compare to. On one particular Christmas day I remember leaving my Auntie’s house and crying, because I didn’t want Christmas to end, because, in my 8-year old opinion, [...]

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MrC’s music meltdown: Pixelh8

A new column by MrC:
By popular demand (SSG’s edit-I think he means me) I have been asked to write a weekly music post where once a week I will present one band /artist that is my new favourite sound and will be the greatest thing since Coldplay!
This week it is going to be Pixelh8. [...]

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Her Bad Mother’s Basement

Check out this blog:
Her Bad Mother’s Basement. It’s where people go anonymously to blog about things they can’t or don’t want to post on their own site. Makes for interesting (and sometimes depressing) reading.
Update: something similar on Bartender Face.

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Wednesday wallpaper

Before the wallpaper, I just had to share this:

hahahahahahah!!!!
Ok, this week’s wallpaper… well as I will be away next week a couple of Christmas-themed desktops for ye!

Christmas wallpaper by Mychelle;  Christmas volcano by vladstudio;  White Christmas by adni18
As usual, click to enlarge.

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Rom-coms spoil your love life (from the BBC)

Rom-coms ’spoil your love life’

Films like Four Weddings and a Funeral could promote unrealistic expectations

Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life, a study by a university in Edinburgh has claimed.
Rom-coms have been blamed by relationship experts at Heriot Watt University for promoting unrealistic expectations when it comes to love.
They found fans [...]

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Childhood Christmas #1

When I was young I used to get very, very, very excited about Christmas. I am quite an excitable person, but Christmas would take the biscuit. I wouldn’t be able to sleep for days before. I was excited in November about the upcoming Advent- the lead up to Christmas was almost as good as the [...]

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Fighting the writing

Sometimes I find it very difficult to write anything on this blog, and at others I am bursting to get stuff out.  Anyone who knows me will know I find it hard to make a decision. I keep thinking the choice I didn’t make was probably the better one. Or that there is another option [...]

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Music (A guest post from MrC)

Hello, since I have been off sick and I am also quite clueless about cultural things, MrC has stepped in with a guest post about one of his favourite things…
Music is many things to many people: just hearing a song can bring back memories of past loves, a shit first kiss at the school disco, [...]

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Wednesday Wallpaper

Today, Beware of the Tram by Da Bu Di Bu Da
Click to expand.
I have thre lurgy today. I have a sore throat, cough, runny nose and am shaking I’m so cold.

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