My favourite Xmas pressie...

My lovely mother-in-law knitted me this fabby jumper & leg warmer combo,

I absolutely love it!

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A very Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everybody,
hope you are all having a lovely time!

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Scribbles from a lifetime ago...

When I was snooping around in my folks loft on my last visit, I came across an old scribble pad from when I was in my early twenties full of poems, lyrics, thoughts & endless to-do lists.

Even though I know I wrote it, some of it just feels as if it’s somebody else’s personal scribbles, a testament I suppose as to how much I have changed since then.

I remember writing this little poem after a late night red wine & soul baring session with a flatmate whose mother walked out on him & his father when he was five years old...

MOTHER DOG

Mother, escaped her role

Freed herself from the rope tied to the totem pole

Liberated from what keeps women like dogs, in their place

Claimed herself a brand new face

Mother, was a bitch

With an itch

To be free

Or perhaps, to just be

The masters’ hand

Will no longer rule her

This bitch is wise to all the tricks

And she’s fed up fetching sticks

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Fire Upon The Deep

Today I learnt how to use Windows Movie Maker.
My first “guinea pig” was an old video clip that my hubby & I made a few years back when I got my first digital camera.
"Guinea pig", that expression invokes allsorts of evil laboratory testing related images, not nice, anyway nothing was harmed whilst I was experimenting with making my very first edited home video clip.
I have to say that it is in fact much easier than I had anticipated & if I can do it without getting my husband to help me every two minutes, then it must be very easy indeed!

Here is the product of my not so arduous toil ;)

FIRE UPON THE DEEP

Deeper than I thought I could go
Thoughts arresting in their free flow
Keeps me tied up, to be put down
By those opinionated small frowns

Can you feel me
Can you heal me
Can you save me
From a fire upon the deep
Can you save me

Licking flames devour inside of me
Leaving nothing but ugliness to see
I try to smile but I feel so uptight
Cause I know what’s in store for me tonight

Can you feel me
Can you heal me
Can you save me
From a fire upon the deep

Now the tears don’t wash anymore
Grace is lying slain upon my bedroom floor
Screaming, dreaming, begging for more
Wondering why, what was it all for
What was it all for

Can you feel me
Can you heal me
Can you save me
From a fire upon the deep

From a fire
Can you save me
From a fire
Can you save me
From a fire
Can you save me
Save me…

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A year in outfits...

A selection of my favourite outfits of 2009 :)

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Razzle but no dazzle!

I'm no radge Mary Whitehouse prude by any stretch of the imagination but is this not just a bit too much?

These AA campaign pics look as if they've just been ripped from the pages of a tacky 80s soft porn mag:
I quite liked the idea of a lace unitard before but these pics have put me right off it...
Alluring, sexy...in my opinion, nope!
Looks more like "Horny Helen from Hudderfield"...
or "Lusty Leanne from London"...
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Sheer layering...

Today's Ensemble:

M&S sheer wrap top (car boot sale)

Re-vamped Topshop skirt (charity shop)

DKNY mesh cami top (car boot sale)

Bodycon pant-skirt (market)

Sheer fairy-sleeved top (pressie)

Knee-socks (market)

Benetton faux-fur (car boot sale)

Tights (M&S)

Granny lace-up boots (Barratts)

Pom-pom knitted scarf (pressie)

Kilt-pin (haberdashery)

Wrist warmers (re-vamped opera gloves)

Baker boy hat (TK Maxx)

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