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I thought I hadn't posted for a couple of weeks but was pretty surprised to see it has been almost 4 weeks. Can I use writer's block as an excuse? It would be a lie but...ok, I won't. So an update…


Music
I have been listening to music and I have been away and I had all good intentions but somehow I just became lazy. That isn’t the right word exactly but it’s the best I can come up with that might make some sense.

I still have some bands to interview and I will get back to it – I was slightly unsure about doing it as no-one ever comments on music reviews, there are plenty of people out there writing them, not just people but dogs and pigeons and …one of the bands I reviewed was a bit, I don’t know – not rude or anything but just unresponsive. I didn’t want them to throw a party, I didn’t even want them to say it was good but I would have liked some feedback. Even if it had been, your review f*ck*ng stinks would have been better than nothing. I suppose…

So a mini-update - I didn't get as much done as I would have liked - so much drama all at once!

Here is an update...

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Apologies for the shoddy pictures!

This weekend is IHSW and I am hoping to start page two of Spaniola - yes, you heard right! I am ready for page 2. This is the exciting page as it is the lady's head as opposed to brown background. I am hoping to hide away and hermit properly as I have two days off next week which I will be spending with my nieces. 
The eldest is 6 and I am going to take her to London for the day, she wants to go to the Natural History Museum to see the dinosaurs and I have booked us in to queue jump, she also wants to see Big Ben and go to the aquarium and to Buckingham Palace. As we are only going for the day, I don't think we will get to see all of this and none of them are close together! The middle niece is 3 and I will spend the second day with her - I think it is nice to sometimes to have some one to one time with them - but I really don't know what to do with her. She is quite easy going but I want to do something different to the norm, so if you have any suggestions??....
I have also…

So my plans to stitch whilst watching the Olympics only partially worked until I ended up getting distracted and putting the stitching down.

Here is the last update picture that I took but I have actually done a bit more - the end of page 1 is near! :)

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I probably have about 300 stitches left to do as I have also stitched some red and black - so hopefully this week will see it finished and then I will start page 2 at the next IHSW!

I hope you are all having a great summer, enjoying the Olympics and getting some stitching done.

Today the new prompt was released for five sentence fiction and I have decided to spend 10 minutes writing it, ok it was more like 5 but still.

I have definitely noticed that I have a different style than others - I tend to write quite simply and veer more towards feelings than surroundings and this is also true of my poems.

So with victory as a the prompt, can I just say...tadaa!

There was no such thing in her mind as a small victory, they were all huge, and she resented that her best friend said that there were. If it was a victory (regardless of size) then surely it needed to be celebrated and preferably with dinner and cocktails at her favourite restaurant. Had she not had to fight the urge to give up when it all seemed insurmountable? Had she not had to delve into the deepest caverns of a well hidden mental resource and manipulate herself into not giving up and achieve her target? It was a victory, a battle she had won, today she would not be late for work.


Have a great weekend!

K…

I missed the five sentence fiction for 'Scarlet' because I was wallowing but have now written something for 'Perseverance'.

I think I really do need to start drafting and rewriting things, but to write just something has been a real change for me and I am taking baby steps. After writing it I wondered if it counted as perseverance or determination or belief but I am leaving it up to interpretation. Hear it is:

She had dreams and aspirations that seemed as far away to her as the stars in the sky. She wanted to believe that it was possible to achieve them and she shared her dreams. They told her that she couldn't do it and that she was setting herself up to fail and she believed them. Then someone told her that she could do anything that she wanted to do with hard work and determination and she believed in herself. When she achieved everything that she set out to do with the support of that one person and that belief; they believed.

I missed the five sentence fiction for 'Scarlet' because I was wallowing but have now written something for 'Perseverance'.

I think I really do need to start drafting and rewriting things, but to write just something has been a real change for me and I am taking baby steps. After writing it I wondered if it counted as perseverance or determination or belief but I am leaving it up to interpretation. Hear it is:

She had dreams and aspirations that seemed as far away to her as the stars in the sky. She wanted to believe that it was possible to achieve them and she shared her dreams. They told her that she couldn't do it and that she was setting herself up to fail and she believed them. Then someone told her that she could do anything that she wanted to do with hard work and determination and she believed in herself. When she achieved everything that she set out to do with the support of that one person and that belief; they believed.

Surely you couldn't expect me not to blog about another Manchester band? So here it its...this band were getting mentioned a fair bit by people I follow on Twitter and I decided to see what they were tweeting about. I am glad I did.  The band have only been together since 2011 and so the back catalogue is not yet overflowing, not yet.


A twitter buddy of mine - can I coin the term 'Twuddy' (@luvthafrobro) thought they sounded like early Bluetones. I can actually remember having the Bluetones first album but I have real difficulty picking tracks for comparisons, mainly due to the fact that I get totally distracted and end up listening to everything, and so the Bluetones track I have chosen is my favourite from their first album - and quite possibly irrelevant, but lets have a listen to some early Bluetones anyway....

Bluetones - Can't Be Trusted'


They did remind me of  The Seahorses a bit...

The Seahorses - Love Me and Leave Me



So let me introduce you to...

Duke and the…