Emotional Rollercoaster

Funny old world…

My garden looks gorgeous at the moment. I sat out there today in the blazing sunshine, hidden from the neighbours by the 8 foot fences and absurdly high foliage, reading my book very happily. The flowers are trying to out-pretty each other and my poor camera keeps running out of batteries as I run about like a demon snapping anything that stays still long enough. Oddly a lot of the flowers come out blurred which leads me to think my camera really requires the Earth to stop spinning to get a clear photo.

The book is ‘Heretic’, a novel by Bernard Cornwell – this is a coinscidence (I bought a Cornwell book – ‘Sharpe’s Havoc’ – at the start of term and read it in the blazing sun in the garden…) and it’s also book 3 in a triology which is a new concept for me – usually I read in order. However I’ve managed to keep up despite missing about 1000 words of back story which I think is credit to Mr Cornwell. And to think his books end up as £3.75 in Tesco. Sharpe’s Havoc was 19th C and this is set in 14th C – the man certainly does his history homework too.

Hell’s Kitchen has finished and I’m feeling oddly empty as a result. Jen won (go girl!) and she so deserved it. I love James Dreyfus but Jen as just great – she really enjoyed herself. The phrase “emotional rollercoaster” was used a ridiculous number of times in that last show! I miss Mr Ramsay and the gang. Quite pathetic. My mum and I have to find something new to talk about! Back to discussing Holby City then. However the two week series of which I only watched the second week has had a good effect on me; I’ve been inspired to cook. And so, I am buying Mr Ramsay’s book ‘Kitchen Heaven’ – not to be confused with ‘Heaven’s Kitchen: Living Religion at God’s Love We Deliver’… does that not sound like one of the spam email subject lines…? Pick 7 random words and assort into something that sounds like it should make sense, but, in fact, does not.

I bought a griddle! This is in order to fully dedicate myself to my new hobby. Looks decent too, cost £10. From Tesco of course. Orange, if you care. I bought a tin too, but that was £1.50, Tesco Value. I can’t help it – I’m 1/4 Scottish.

My body is crying out for it’s hot choccy, little read of the book and then bed. However I have more to natter.

I had two convos at the forum today. Both were rather interesting. One was about Harry Potter and went from “What did you think of the film?” to “The Harry Potter books and their affects on the literary appetites of the youth of today. Discuss”. At one point it came up that HP was reducing kids’ fear of Witchcraft, and that Witchcraft was dangerous. I think if anything it increases tolerance to Earth faiths – and tolerance of rapidly growing faiths isn’t a bad trait in anyone.

Religion has come up often at this forum, but because it’s a public forum for kids I’ve never discussed my faith – I wouldn’t want some foreign woman talking about her faith to my kids without me knowing so I won’t do it to other people. Besides as I said, I don’t volunteer info. If people don’t ask, don’t tell. It just encourages prejudging and invites uncomfortable questions and discussion. However it does make defending your faith rather tricky if you can’t mention it 😉 On the other hand, is that a bad thing? By keeping it non-specific you probably give a better arguement – get into the specifics and people can discount you as being biased.

This feeds in quite nicely to the second convo I had at said forum. It was about goths, and whether they were doing it as a shock tactic or whether they were genuine. To me, anyone who discusses their religion in a public place has one of two things in mind; either it’s a shock tactic or it’s recruitment. There is the third kind which is genuine mutual discussion for the interest of all parties involved, but that is a rarity and often only occurs between friends – not in public places. Even if done with good intentions in a public place there will always be a few Kai’s in the crowd who suspect you of recruitment :p

I worry that sometimes I get carried away – I’m quite good at presenting my arguement, but the end result is I leave people no where else to go – so they shut up. Kinda kills the discussion. I do that in the other forum as well.

D-Day, 6th June, 60 Years On I missed it blog-wise but not ex-blogus. Uncle Sid was there – we visited Normandy and the beaches a good few years ago and sent him back a postcard with a little arrow written on it saying “Sid Was ‘Ere”. :laugh: He enjoyed it 😉 Good sense of humour, that man.

She’s alive! And she’s reading my blog. Good girl.

Where have all the midis gone? Long time googling… I remember (cue scratched grammaphone record) when midis could be found at the drop of a mouse mat. You didn’t have to pay or fight popups or sell your soul to get the little tinny beasts. Considering the Napsterish stuff that’s out there you’d think midis would be less protected than they are. I miss my midis!

Arg this is not good! My psychic side is kicking in again! Compare and contrast this to the flowers pic I linked to above before reading mwk’s… see the white flowers at the bottom right of my pic…? :confused: *whimpers*…