Banksy. Not everyone agrees with this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6575345.stm




I was sent the above link thanks to a good friend in class. I am still shocked by what the article is about. Take away a work of art or at least an interesting piece of painted work and in its place put up nothing...just black paint....all over. Then wait and see what happens.

nearly done....yippeeeeeee

Been hard at work since first thing this morning working on my assignments. In particular my dissertation and weaving webs assignment 2.
Glad to say that as I await my daughters 5pm return home, the Weaving webs assignment 2 is 80% complete.

Its here

at the Zoo...

Ever since I was little I've loved going to the zoo.
Yesterday we went for a day out...great fun...and the craziest part of the day....well, I knocked over a large drink completely and across the floor. It WAS funny though and I had to fight to keep a straight face in the cafeteria. Hardly blame me when you're given a drink like that and no lid given!!!!!
I could hardly pick it up without it wanting to spill.

Another blog

I don't remember being content like this for a long time. I'll explain more later but basically I've realized the truth or meaning of life is actually as simple a thing as just helping others and doing whatever we can to leave my mark.To be able to one day turn around and say I did many positive things that were never going to benefit myself. You see, It's only recently that I've discovered how much of a precious gift it is when one is hit by the realization that those handed down genetic bits and bobs that make us who we are (from generation to generation and so on) are more relevant that I ever imagined. Point being: that I've started seeing myself in a different light. And I like what I see. I guess it's my recent age change and birthday that have changed my thinking and perspective on life in so many ways. I'm certainly realizing now that this world needs everyone who is able to, to help get it spinning faster again. As far as I can tell our planet seems to be getting all wonky and is perhaps in danger of coming off it's axes (metaphorically speaking of course). So many terrible things are happening. I've been noticing a lot more recently that even the good ole BBC are lacking in the default "always give the audience a happy ending short new clip" after the main news bulletins and headlines. How things have changed since I was a teenager.
(alert alert alert....panic driven self doubting auto thought coming up....!!!!!)

I hope this blog is not too scattered and all over the place as it IS early and boy are my eyes a little tired. But I AM trying....
My Inbox.... I got an email reply back yesterday from my favorite charity. I don't want to go into it too much as I've learned that its tempting fate to talk prior to going on a mission.... You see, I've had this plan for a little while whereby I not only help myself by partaking in some much needed weight loss regime but get to do something good for the benefit of others too. I have a feeling that I may just gain some fresh prospective on life at the same time too. I'll go into a lot more details as and when I have worked them out. Over recent days I've been forced yes forced to make notes on paper as appose to simply jotting them all down via digital pen and paper on my little pda gadget. I've learned the hard way recently that it really is true what they say about not putting all your eggs in one basket. heck, even my two journal is backed up in print AND on a backup drive. I had a Trojan a few weeks ago and along with that my phone was replaced so all in all I am NOT taking any chanced with loosing anything. Especially when my diary as far as the amount of content goes, is fast looking more like the acknowledgments supplemental of a Maria Carry or Madonna DVD. I'm not kidding. I'm thinking of hiring a secretary!!! lol Right now, it's a quarter to six in the morning or at least it was a little while ago. I got up ages ago. Isn't it amazing how a very small ball of fluff with a very loud meow can penetrate through thick walls even when the windows are closed. So I end up letting the cat in now just after i get up or there abouts and once Freddie gets her milk, water, dry food and whiskas I am allowed to sit down in front of the computer with my coffee for an hour. Freddie will always come into my room and jump onto my lap and plonk herself in between the keyboard and monitor and simply fall asleep..that is, after I get my obligatory nose lick of gratitude for feeding her and letting her in. lol



Oh well, I think it's about time to end this blog. I've got one heck of a busy weekend coming up that for sure. I have got to put a website together for my daughters favorite cousin, I have 6 books or there abouts to read through and make notes. And to be honest I am not the worlds fastest reader but there you go, catch up on phone calls (forgot to return two)

Will be visiting a friend on Sunday.We caught up during the week having lost touch for a while. We had lunch and Sophie thinks she's the bees knees which was great. Together playing that game whereby you show your friend a few items on a table and they have to shut their eyes whilst you remove something. They then have to guess what's been removed. Sophie is excellent at it. My grandparents used to play it when all the family came at Christmas years ago. I think its called Kim's Game.

Now thats timing...I am now being summoned by number 1 special daughter as she does when she awakes..DADDY.....CUDDLE...NOW!!...bless her....if I take more than a moment she'll shout even louder ...LOL

cu

Happy Birthday to me !!

Not every takeaway is as nice as the last

Yesterday could have been a little better.


I awoke yesterday with an awful tummy bug. It was only when others telephoned me who had also eaten from the same local takeaway that we all realized that something wasn't quite cooked correctly. It's not the next day at 10:41am and I am still in half sleep mode owing to still feeling a little off colour.
I ended up having dropped my daughter off to her mothers for the weekend staying in bed for most of the day. Would've been great had I been able to get some sleep. Unfortunately others like to party on a Friday but even with headphones on (which I end up doing a lot living here otherwise you are forced to either hear sounds of making out which I mistook for a dog in pain the other week and I kid you not!!) I still can't shut out enough.

However that aside and going back to early yesterday morning..... having taken my daughter to her mothers (she hates mummy days but that's another story) I went back to bed with a bad tummy and put my laptop beside the bed. First things first, I check my email as I guess most people do. I received a confirmation auto email from the Housing Exchange site I am registered at which is run and owned by Heritage Housing the people who took over maintaining and running the once owned council housing department. The email that had the usual link for me to follow explaining that the automated DB had found a match. Someone was looking for a place like mine. I was intrigued and in a great hurry to go find out more details. The person ended up being a woman who I rang at 9am first thing in case I missed out. She sounded pleasant enough and after telling her that I was calling because of the email and that she had failed to add details as to what she was looking for, she said she would call yesterday evening as she was then off to work. I waited for at least two hours past the usual end of work hours, and having phoned her twice, got to thinking she wasn't really interested. It was mainly down to the having the phone answered and being instantly put down again that gave me that notion. So once again as I have been waiting for a while, I simply put it down to bad luck and perhaps it wasn't the right time or place for us. Would have been nice if she'd had the decency to have returned my call even if it WAS a no go show. I guess we can't all be nice all the time. Maybe she had a bad day at work...who knows.

I'll leave this blog for now and put a photo up which has more meaning to anyone whom knows me that can be imagined. it's part of the reason why I want to move and part of the reason I am soon going to be able to dare I say put some icing on the cake of GYOB.

enJOY...

101 things to do with an unwanted burger.

.....say hello to the Burger-Crab

What a week!!!

My replacement phone came the other day, and I don't mind admitting to being so overjoyed that I could have cried. You see, I had more of less resigned myself to the fact that I was never going to get anywhere with Orange even though it was bought and paid for from an official Orange UK shop in Ipswich. Several Orange reps when I did phone up simply repeated the same points to me: You'll have to go back to shop you bought it from who are likely to send the faulty phone back to the company who made it. The company are called HTC and make all kinds of PDA Phones that have become so popular recently in Japan, USA and the UK. AND USUALLY HAVE A REPAIRS TURN AROUND WITHIN 4 TO 8 WEEKS !!!!!

Anyway.... as you can imagine I was furious and on my last call to Orange and out of sheer desperation I pleaded with them by case. The person on the other end was completely different that the others I'd been forced to deal with. This rep sorted out everything and arranged for a brand new replacement delivery the very next day. WOW

I guess part of my problem as to why I was so upset was because my phone is not just any old phone. You see I use my phone to keep my entire life together, such as ALL my assignment work for college, and am also able to keep my daughter occupied if we go out for the day; by storing her Tom and Jerry, Pink Panther or and full feature films on it.I usually make a copy of the best dvd I buy for her and store them on the phones memory card. So you can see that life without sound and the prospect of having no replacement was very upsetting.
So thank God for not so small mercies, and in this particular instance / case 'Small Miracles in the shape of a little black and silver box of tricks!!'

I am going to keep this log short as I have a really upset tum and need to go lie down. We all ate a take away meal from the local Fish and Chip shop near the traffic lights and we ALL have the same upset tum problem. Strange that isn't it.

Bye for now.

Another Day....

I am listening to: 'true Colours' by Cindy Lauper

I am thinking about: "How I wish I could motivate myself to loose some weight" (still!!!)

I am wishing for: "A good day,as we're all off to Eastern Farm Park for the day"

I am drinking : "Coffee coffee coffee and even more coffee" (as per usual)

I am proud of: "Quiting smoking. It's been four / five months now". (still)

I am waiting for: "My Student Loan, a new laptop as this ones seriously ill" (will have to wait I guess as more important things to buy these days)

My phone needs replacing.....

Hello world.

I am listening to: 'Colour Blind' by Counting Crows

I am thinking about: "How I wish I could motivate myself to loose some weight"

I am wishing for: "my New Phone and I want it NOW!!!"

I am drinking : "Coffee coffee coffee and even more coffee"

I am proud of: "Quiting smoking. It's been four / five months now".

I am waiting for: "The return of my daughter who comes back home on a Sunday at 5pm"

I most love in my life: "The moment my daughter gets out her mums car and runs back into my arms telling me how much she has missed me"


Right now I am trying to console myself as I am sad at the fact that my three month old phone went wrong yesterday. The speaker which incidentally is built into the back (stupid really) has stopped working. I have phoned Orange today knowing they'd not see me suffer for too long. I've been a good customer for years, so I expected more from them.
But I was told I have to wait till Wednesday WEDNESDAY!!! for anything to be done as a flag has come up against my name and the guy explained that the insurance dept have to be notified and need to be the ones to look into the problem.
I'm a very honest person so I don't mind the world knowing that a flag against a name means that for some reason the company need to do further checks before dealing with a replacement or repair. I wouldn't mind this fact but the flag was originally placed against me because several years ago I used to send phones back to Orange for the smallest scratch and they would replace them. It doesn't take a genius to know that quite a few other people did just the same. After all who wants a scratched phone when you know it can be sorted out under the insurance that is paid for as an extra by the customer which at the time was £5 on top of the monthly bill. Orange have made a lot of money out of me I don't mind telling. I've also made sure that whenever anyone asks for advice I recommend Orange as the tops as that usually IS how I feel.

Anyway. Going back to the insurance situation: All has changed these days as not only has the Orange policy changed regarding claims, but they are stricter and charge differently. In other words one is expected to pay the first 25 pounds or there abouts on a claim if my memory serves me correctly.Anyway, the days of simply sending a phone back for a cosmetic reasons have long gone. Most of the time phones are as I'm sure is the norm these days with most peoples experience reliable and last a good few years. my last phone called an SPV M2000 lived with me for well over 2and a bit years !

Going back to the present phone it is really bugging me as I have a legitimate phone fault that one can tell a mile off is down to a component failure, so I thought I would have a look around the internet and find out if others have had similar or the same problems with their Orange M600 phone.
I enjoy researching anything that steps in my way that I want to know more about, so I spent about ten minutes thats all and found literally scores of sites with complaints as to why this model has such a lousy speaker that seems to go wrong so much.

By the way, the Orange rep I spoke to this morning actually made a point of telling me from the off that this model phone is well known for suffering with speaker failure or as he called it "a broken ringer" fault.
On the research side, many people I came across just sent theres back for a replacement which is how it should be. After all speaking for myself I had to pay cash to get my phone as I wanted it so badly and my previous phone was becoming more and more ill. So, it was NOT a free phone or anything like it and is legally covered by the 12 month guarantee that I guess most products like this carry.

Anyway Dear Blog/Diary, this morning as I write this I am really upset as not only do I rely on my phone so much and keep everything on it, but my daughter loves playing one of the games that is built in as standard called Bubbles. She's really good at it too. I think her top score is 698 or 658 one or the other. Put it this way, she is much better than me at it. I guess luckily shes several Thomas the Tank engine dvd games that we play together on the dvd player. So at least she won't dwell on daddies phone being soundless...LOL


On a much lighter note....
At the moment we are waiting to hear from the Ipswich council who have agreed in principle to find us a house with a garden. So I'm now waiting to hear about a property when it becomes available. I just hope it doesn't take too long as I hate waiting and under the circumstances it can't come quick enough.
(thank you K for kicking me up the (metaphorically speaking) bottom and getting this matter taken care of)


I really hope that at some point in the future, I am in a position to turn my notes, scribbles and daily rambling (journal entries) into a book. Now that would be interesting reading. So much has happened and so much IS happening. It's certainly a crazy world we all live in. Since moving to where we live now, my mind has become waterlogged with various thoughts as to why people are the way they are and why they do what they do. I have no desire to elaborate on this but luckily in the future I know all will be made clear and I can show the world what and why specific events happened. I know that sounds a little cryptic to say the least, but rest assured it won't later on down the line. I guess out of all the things I have learned about myself recently is that when I need to I can be VERY patient indeed. I am one of life's original moaners when it comes to playing the waiting game. But I have now realized that to get certain things done and loose ends tied up once and for all, one much wait until the time is right. Yes...more cryptic sentences.

Tell you what, I've been getting into taking snaps recently off Street Art, not graffiti! no no no. I am not into staring at someones quickly sprayed name, tag or logo on some wall somewhere. The Artwork I have been watching out for is all around Ipswich. And what nice about it is the fact that it is created without ruining any of the structure or paintwork it sits on. The best is paper art or art that is pasted up via the use of the artwork first painted on a strip of paper or similar. (think its called pasting or something) I've posted tons of photos that I've taken in and around Ipswich. The club which is hosted on the flickr site can be found here
I've also made a fool of myself and joined YouTube and have uploaded a quick video of me playing the piano....it not too good but heres that too. here (you have been warned)

Oh well, I think that's about it for now.

Question

Who really reads this stuff anyway.........?