Well here we are, we've survived Christmas. I just hope the same can be said for my bank balance after the sales. I was touch and go myself for a minute just now as my colleague told me she was thinking of getting a £125 bag and a £150 purse in the sales and had to grip the desk to steady myself against the desk. I nearly collapsed when she said that those -are- the sale prices!
I've been spoiled this year and had two Christmases. (You know it's been a strange time when you have to think of the plural of Christmas.) I had one in Bangor and one back in Brockham. Somehow there was more food in the meal paid for and cooked by students. But then in a Dickens-esque moment we did have goose at home. I can now inform you that goose meat lies somewhere between duck and beef in flavour and look. If you can imagine that you've got a better imagination than i have; I struggled to do so when I was eating the thing.
I was out last night to celebrate Anne's (aka the Munchkin's) 21st birthday. We had a great time in the pub, but why oh why do pubs need to be so smokey? Yes people, it's soapbox time! It's a disgusting habit from which I refrain, so why must I have it inflicted upon me when I want to go out with my friends to the only easily accessible venues? I do not like the smell of cigarettes on me, and because I'm not constantly surrounded by it or am spending £5 a go to poison myself and deaden my senses I can smell it on me for ages afterwards. It's so overpowering that I have trouble getting to sleep. I can smell it on my bedding for days after. I can smell it on me now and I've showered since and am wearing absolutely nothing that I was wearing last night. There are enough warnings about the dangers of smoking and every year 5 million deaths are directly attributed to smoking making the second most common cause of death after cancer. With all this information and warning out I find it not only stupid that people continue smoking without even trying to quit and mind-boggling that more people start smoking every day.
I keep discovering e4 are showing late night reruns of 'Smack the Pony', only the createst sketch show ever invented. More importantly the DVDs are available for the first two seasons. Though strangely, not in England... the show's country of origin. But in Germany, on their version of Amazon. Until I finally resort to buying them I have reruns and YouTube:
I hope Sallyann reads this post.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Monday, December 04, 2006
An Average Medium
Okay, so It's been a long time since I've posted, I hope the three readers I have forgive me! Wish I could say I've been off having many adventures and enjoying myself. Alas, dear reader, I must confess that I have simply been enjoying a period of no ongoing assignments by sitting on my ass!
Though on Saturday I went on a "field trip" (I say that just because I don't want to say 'ghost hunt') with the speculative analysis society to Plas Teg, supposedly the most hanuted house in Wales. I've been there before and had a good time on both trips, mostly because thy didn't involve screaming, fear and running through forests. Don't think we're a bunch of Yvette Fieldings people, we were running from the local chavs at Gwyrch. Not the most pleasant experience, not least because I stepped in a very large puddle. Least I didn't fall down a hill like Nicola!
So yes, the evening sessions at Plas Teg have been taken over by a new group as the previous group were stealing things and fixing events to make it seem the paranormal activity was happening. The head of the group introduced himself as a 'spiritualist medium', which should have set of a few alarms really, and explained that this was their second night running trips round Plas Teg, which isn't much better than a self-confessed spiritualist medium. The guy had an air of Derek Acorah around him, he rather lived up to this.
We set about business as usual with a bit of a tour round the building with talks about the rooms and just seeing if anyone would make their presence known. Sallyann and I found a very cute cat in the drawing room, sadly this is how we discovered that Sallyann is not just allergic to live cats, ghost ones make it hard for her to breathe too. As we were making our way upstairs most people had a feeling of swaying or rocking while standing on the stairs, we were then told that the wood for the stairs was taken from an old ship, which was interesting to learn. We then made our way to the upper floors and the bedrooms and after spending time in the rooms it became fairly obvious that the whole atmosphere was very different than in the previous visit. The best example of this was in the 'Twin Poster' room, where there are the spirits of two children who were very active before. This time, however, while they were still there, the young girl (Emily) was runing all over the place when we first went in, after we got settled and started up they were almost drowned out by something else and spent their time hiding amongst the curtains. Apparently the new group had been moving items in the house back to 'their rightful locations', whether or not this is responsible for the change in atmosphere I don't know.
When the whole of both groups (the Spiritual Friends Association and the Speculative Analysis Society) were together in the great chamber pretty much every member of the SA soc. were very much aware of a spirit right in front of the 'Spiritualist Medium' that he seemed completely oblivious to. The SFA also, so I'm told, used the speaer system to pump low frequency sounds into one corner of the room were a number of people stated feeling ill and unsteady. Oh, but the cat back back to see us, that was nice.
Okay, So I'm now expecting a flurry of comments saying how much of a fool I am to believe such nonsense and to warn me off 'dabbling'. Does 2 count as a flurry?
On subject matter more people may hopefully appreciate, I found the video to 'Lithium' by Evanescence on Youtube. The single is due to be released on the eighth of January. Till then, enjoy....
Though on Saturday I went on a "field trip" (I say that just because I don't want to say 'ghost hunt') with the speculative analysis society to Plas Teg, supposedly the most hanuted house in Wales. I've been there before and had a good time on both trips, mostly because thy didn't involve screaming, fear and running through forests. Don't think we're a bunch of Yvette Fieldings people, we were running from the local chavs at Gwyrch. Not the most pleasant experience, not least because I stepped in a very large puddle. Least I didn't fall down a hill like Nicola!
So yes, the evening sessions at Plas Teg have been taken over by a new group as the previous group were stealing things and fixing events to make it seem the paranormal activity was happening. The head of the group introduced himself as a 'spiritualist medium', which should have set of a few alarms really, and explained that this was their second night running trips round Plas Teg, which isn't much better than a self-confessed spiritualist medium. The guy had an air of Derek Acorah around him, he rather lived up to this.
We set about business as usual with a bit of a tour round the building with talks about the rooms and just seeing if anyone would make their presence known. Sallyann and I found a very cute cat in the drawing room, sadly this is how we discovered that Sallyann is not just allergic to live cats, ghost ones make it hard for her to breathe too. As we were making our way upstairs most people had a feeling of swaying or rocking while standing on the stairs, we were then told that the wood for the stairs was taken from an old ship, which was interesting to learn. We then made our way to the upper floors and the bedrooms and after spending time in the rooms it became fairly obvious that the whole atmosphere was very different than in the previous visit. The best example of this was in the 'Twin Poster' room, where there are the spirits of two children who were very active before. This time, however, while they were still there, the young girl (Emily) was runing all over the place when we first went in, after we got settled and started up they were almost drowned out by something else and spent their time hiding amongst the curtains. Apparently the new group had been moving items in the house back to 'their rightful locations', whether or not this is responsible for the change in atmosphere I don't know.
When the whole of both groups (the Spiritual Friends Association and the Speculative Analysis Society) were together in the great chamber pretty much every member of the SA soc. were very much aware of a spirit right in front of the 'Spiritualist Medium' that he seemed completely oblivious to. The SFA also, so I'm told, used the speaer system to pump low frequency sounds into one corner of the room were a number of people stated feeling ill and unsteady. Oh, but the cat back back to see us, that was nice.
Okay, So I'm now expecting a flurry of comments saying how much of a fool I am to believe such nonsense and to warn me off 'dabbling'. Does 2 count as a flurry?
On subject matter more people may hopefully appreciate, I found the video to 'Lithium' by Evanescence on Youtube. The single is due to be released on the eighth of January. Till then, enjoy....
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