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I'm still here you know!

So, I am sorting out some paperwork and I found this scrawled in a notebook...its the start of something but I obviously got distracted or gave up...or maybe it was finished...

Rose-tinted glasses obscured her view, and ignorance her eternal bliss. Despite what friends told her was true, he was hers and she was his. If ever she was sad and blue, a cuddle, a smile, a kiss. Was all it took to start anew, there was no greater love than this.
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Stitching, adventure & catastrophe!

Hello All!

Its Monday and thus its stitchy upate time...

I have been carrying on with the sampler that took my fancy a week ago and have managed to put in about 4 hours. It doenst look like I have by my progress but I am happy with it. I really do like the variegated thread and although time consuming the effect is far better than two separate colours. I am considering using some of the thread from the original kit as a second colour (it will make sense once I finish all this colour on this page) and a dark green shade for lines.

Anyway, here are some pictures of my progress...you may recall that I had the letters B, O, P & Q before and now I have almost finished the letter A. It is the largest letter.


and a close up of A....


Next up, is the catastrophe...although it wasnt that bad or at least I hope not, but my new kitten Muse managed to hurt her leg today, subsequently she is on painkillers for a few days to see if it improves or if she needs an x-ray. Some amongst you may even …
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Girls Best Friend: Part 4.25 BONUS

...All day I have wanted to write and I pushed it to the back of my mind and told myself to wait until Friday, that I can't go spoiling my readers, because soon enough they will grow to expect a bonus post. But I really need to write it down and share it with you guys...and if i'm honest, you are all rather lovely!

One thing to note is that there is no part carried over from the last part and that will become clear in about...ooh!...2.5 seconds?! Are you ready? Hey, no talking at the back!, its story time....

*** It had been a long night and he was really hungry, he could hear his stomach growling and he looked across at the men in the room and wondered how he had got there, then he remembered; he had been kidnapped.

It had been like any other day. He had spent most of it going about his business; making sure that everything had been done, and everything was where it should be. He had even eaten breakfast much earlier than usual, and thinking back, he should have realised that…
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Girls Best Friend: Part 4

Millie sat at her kitchen table, with a steaming hot cup of tea and a slice of her favourite lemon and poppy seed cake, Elvis looked up at her in the hopes that she might share it but Millie never shared cake. She looked down at Elvis and said 'Elvis, darling boy, we are going on an adventure on Saturday, a race against time too, it will be just like that film....the amazing race..and if we win Elvis, if we win...we can move somewhere with a garden for you and a bay window for me...and we can...we can...' Millie trailed off. Elvis changed position and laid across Millie's feet as she fell asleep at the table.


Millie had the weirdest of dreams, a dream that ended with her free-falling out of an upside down umbrella into chocolate pudding and marshmallows, even though the landing was soft, she still woke with a start. As she sat up she felt a sharp pain in her neck and began to slowly massage it. Her bum was numb, her mouth was dry, and she seemed to have accumulated a lot of…
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55 word challenge

This is my contribution to the 55 word challenge, I used the image below as a prompt.

A screech rings out as metal grates metal a searing pain in her head as the train stops squinting through clouded eyes to see the hefty conductor approach turning sharply with narrowed eyes he speaks she hears a blur he evicts her and once again she is forced to roam by foot  through the wasteland.
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IHSW inspiration

Hello!

You'll never guess! Whats that? Oh...well okay then, maybe you will.

After Sundays post about my lack of finding something I wanted to stitch I set about looking for a pattern. I opened exactly one drawer and was reminded of a kit I won back in September in a blog giveaway.


I received the pattern,, the black aida and the threads. When I saw it I decided straight away that I wanted to stitch it especially since I had seen a lot of samplers of late and was just jumping on the band wagon.

I did not read the instructions or look closely, I thought the thread was variegated and it turned out it was two shades, dark and light.  I decided to swap the thread as I had some variegated threads - you see I never realised my error until I had started! - and I had a choice of six colours. I believe that I have an orange soul and opted for a peachy orange/goldy yellow shade. DMC 4128.

As you may know with a variegated thread you need to do complete stitches before moving onto the next sti…
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Surprise! Bonus GBF post..pt 3 & a quarter.

Afternoon,

For those who wonder aimlessly through my blog wondering what the 'eck is going on...here is a bonus post before Fridays part 4 of Girls Best Friend.

Its not very long, but long enough to have a bite of cake and sip of tea, so take a moment and get warmed up for Friday with part 3 & a quarter.


He was alive. She grabbed the phone with her sleeve over her hand and used a pen to dial the police. She took the pen and left the office as fast as her feet would carry her, ran into the car park and jumped in her car. She sat there knuckles white from gripping the steering wheel so tightly, her stomach was doing somersaults and the adrenaline was pulsating around her body, she started her car and sped off into the night. She felt alive.

Millie swung her car into the parking space outside her block of flats, leapt out and ran up the stairs as fast as she could. She struggled to find her key quick enough but when she did she pushed open the door with such a force that it hit th…
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Detective Rob Mason

In November, I participated (along with thousands upon thousands) of others in writing a novel. I started on 1st November and finished on 30th November. It is a murder mystery. I know, if you have read my serials they are not of that genre, but I loved writing it. I decided not to work on it until January 1st and hence the Christmas Serial. It is almost the end of January and I havent yet finished reading it through. I did post a couple of glimpses and anyone who read my Nano posts will know that one of my main characters is called Detective Rob Mason.

However, I was overcome with the desire to write something today and all my usual prompt haunts were coming up empty, so I just started to write and this was the result. It looks like my detective has a new case! I best finish tidying up the first one. Feedback always welcome :D


The feeling of fear was overwhelming. Her whole body was instantly cold. Her breathing became rapid and leaden. Her heart was pulsing blood so fast through her …
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Invisible

Morning!
I wrote a poem at the weekend that turned into a song...the thing is...its quite personal...and I just keep singing it in my head...maybe if I appeal once again, a nice musician will stop by and add some music?! Even if they don't I will work towards getting some music for it, even if it requires me learning an instrument of some sort...I hope you like it. I see it as very much a ballad/love song full of love, angst and hope. Comments welcome but please be gentle.
I used to wake up almost everyday thinking if there could be some other way that I could make you notice me standing by your side You made me think that it was me and wonder if you would ever see that I never really wanted to be invisible.
But it’s just one of those days, when whatever I say Is lost in the atmosphere, Never reaching to your ears Flying off to outer space being heard in some other place I might as well be talking to myself I might as well be talking to myself
Every day that passed Was just another strain …
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IHSW & Xmas exchange

This weekend was the first IHSW of 2013 and what did I stitch....

I am too embarrassed to show what I stitched, I wanted to stitch and I did start a quick pin cushion with a Celtic design, I managed somehow to miscount which has meant that I have already begun to redesign it. So I stopped.  I might pick it up again next IHSW.

This year I have had my stitching  mojo back, I lost it for a while last year, but even though it is back and I have been ready to stitch I have lost my desire. By this, I mean finding a pattern that I have just wanted to stitch. I have had this problem  for a while, I have begun to stitch and then stopped after about 100 stitches because I just wasn't motivated by the design, I liked it but nothing was compelling me to stitch it. This isn't the same as losing my mojo; whereby I just don't want to stitch. I want to stitch but just haven't found the pattern. I had this same problem at Christmas and it is half the reason my exchange partners had the…
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Girls Best Friend: Part 3

Millie didn’t want to get Anne the receptionist in trouble but needs must and so she replied to her saying that Denise had asked her to tell Anne to change the date to the Friday after next. That would give Millie an extra week. For the rest of the day Millie had struggled to keep her concentration, she had been on tenterhooks waiting for Anne the receptionist or Denise from Marketing to say something, but it seemed that the date change had gone unnoticed. She had little work to do and had been using the time to finish her plans. It wasn’t until she was walking home that she realised that Denise and Mark were a "couple" and was surprised that this could even be true and immediately wiped the image from her mind. On her evening walk with Elvis, Millie ran through her lists again in her head, she knew that she was being particularly meticulous but the devil was in the detail as they say and she thought about what she still had left to sort out. She wondered how people managed t…
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Black Books: Series 1, Episode 4

Today, I prepared myself fully for Black Books, I bought a bottle of wine and drank a nice glass of it during the show. One single glass and yet I feel a bit giddy. I am a lightweight when it comes to drinking as I maybe have one glass a month on average. Anyway, this wasn't one of my favourite episodes but it still had some silly fun moments. As usual Bill Bailey was the source of greatest amusement.


Episode Title
The Blackout

Scenes i.Coffee And Cups
ii.The Night Before
iii. What Happened To You?
iv.Nasty And Nice
v.Slightly Indiscreet
Synopsis
Manny has been up all night drinking coffee and watching The Sweeney (a TV cop show), he ends up chasing after a thief who steals an old ladies handbag outside the shop, he catches up with him and then jogs past the mugger. The old lady thinks he is police and he ends up being mistaken for a detective and is taken to the police station and helps interview a criminal.
Bernard goes to his old friends house for a dinner party and when they bla…
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Five Sentence Fiction: Forgotten

Five Sentence Fiction: Forgotten Its been a long time since I participtaed in five sentence fiction and I have missed it. I have a post to write tonight and I need some kick in it so I thought this might help me to focus. Without further ado...

The bench was cold, hard and smooth from constant wear; thousands of people over a hundred years had sat on this bench at Moorecroft train station, just as he was now, and most likely filled with anticipation of their journey or the arrival of a loved one.

His feet barely reached the ground and as he waited he swung his legs back and forth, first the left, then the right, then both together.

He had no concept of time but had sat eagerly awaiting each train, grinning inanely at the fast trains as they whizzed through the station without stopping, and sitting bolt upright to see through the windows to the people on the trains when they stopped there.

Everyday he sat here, hoping she would come, fearing that she wouldnt.

All he knew with any certainty…
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Black Books: Series 1, Episode 3

I have had to remember to press the stop button on the DVD player because I have been ready to keep watching after each episode, which considering the number of times I have seen it, is a great thing for a TV show to be able to do repeatedly.


Episode Title
Grapes of Wrath

Scenes 
i.   A Faith Wizard
ii.  Nice Arse
iii. In The Cellar
iv. Old Wine Is Good Wine
v. My Legacy
Synopsis
The episode starts with a friend of Bernards, trying to convince him to house sit, bribing him with a shiatsu neck massager. Manny is tired of the disgusting living conditions and hires a cleaner to clean the apartment/cellar/back room. In order for him to do a thorough clean he needs the place to be empty and so Manny convinces Bernard that they should house sit. The man has a wine cellar and he tells Manny which ones are not to be touched and which he can drink as much of as he likes. Manny gets it the wrong way round and they drink all the expensive bottles (costing a total of £7000). At the same time F…
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Black Books: Series 1, Episode 2

Series 1, Episode 2 of Black Books Watchalong.
This episode is aptly titled 'Mannys First Day' as at the end of episode 1 we saw him offer to do Bernards accounts for him.

The five scene titles & brief synopsis are:
i.Run Away
ii.Flip The Sign
iii.A Gap In Accounts
iv. Just Browsing
v. Minding The Shop Manny goes to Frans and she is surprised that Bernard has hired him. We get to see the night before when Bernard hires Manny in the pub which is a really funny scene.  On his first day Manny is proving himself to Bernard but he gets on with the customers and sells lots of books and Bernard says thats not the kind of operation he is running. Manny goes to say goodbye to Fran and she tells Bernard not to sack Manny.

Highlights
Bernard tells Manny that people dont buy books in the morning and at that moment a man walks in wanting to buy a book and wearing an 'I Love Books' t-shirt.Manny tells Bernard that just before his mobile phone rings he gets a sharp pain in his he…
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Introducing….MUSE

Good Morning,
Just a quick post for those who have somehow missed all the news bulletins regarding the new addition to The Suddenly Kate Show. I was tired of running this show alone and needed company…then along came Muse.


She is a she and is 8 weeks old almost 9 weeks, she has lived with me for four days but it seems like longer, she loves to play and is a very sociable kitten. The nieces have been around and played with her and made a lot of noise and she was very good with them and fit in perfectly. It seems she was destined to be with our family as she loves the camera and a cuddle.  Getting to know her has been fun so far and some of her personality is starting to show. For example; she keeps climbing on things she shouldn’t and when they fall down she runs straight back to me and starts purring and being all cute and cuddly.

Well, she is officially this blogs cat and you needn’t even worry if you have cat allergy’s!

I hope you all had a great weekend…I’m off to write Part 4 o…
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Black Books: Series 1, Episode 1

Its been a year since I last watched the complete series of Black Books.  Black Books is a British TV sitcom. It ran from 2000 until 2004. I never saw the show originally when it began, as that was when I was living overseas, but rather watched the repeat showings.  It is one of those comedy shows that you can watch repeatedly and however many times you have seen it or heard the joke it doesn't lose any of its comical effect.

To make my life easier in the inside of the boxset case there is a brief description of each of the characters;

'Meet Bernard Black a foul tempered, drink fuelled and eccentric bookshop owner who loves his books and hates his customers.'

Bernard Black is played by comedian Dylan Moran, and I may be biased somewhat but... I think he plays it to perfection, how he keeps a straight face I will never know. He has the perfect face for it too and a very young looking one in Series 1.

'Manny, Bernard's long haired and long suffering assistant, a breath…
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Girls Best Friend: Part 2.5

Good afternoon :)
I felt slightly guilty that last weeks instalment was a bit brief. Here is another half to add to it. I hope you like it and thank you to all those who voted. 
Looking at all the lists laid out on the table she was happy that she had started on her adventure, after all, the planning was half the adventure. Yawning she looked across and saw Elvis doing the same and laughed ‘Come on you, lets go!’.

'Beep...Beeep...Beeeeeeep'
Millie opened her eyes to the sound of her alarm beeping at her and reached across through screwed up eyes to switch it off, as she did so she managed to knock the cup of tea over that was sat on her bedside table, as soon as she felt it begin to topple over and heard the splash she was up and out of bed like she had been laying on hot coals. Millie dashed to the kitchen, grabbed some kitchen roll, and dashed straight back to start mopping up the tea. This really was not the best way to wake up she thought, although if she was honest, it ha…
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Girls Best Friend: Part 2

Part 1 can be found here.

Millie turned back around, pushed the stationery door open and leaned down and scooped up her crumpled notes up out of the bin, glancing down at her scrawl, she stuck out her chin, threw back her shoulders and told herself; this might just be the adventure she is looking for.

Millie opened the door to her flat, went straight to the sofa and slumped down in her favourite spot. She looked around; it was dark, cold and stark and nothing screamed out homely to her. She sighed for the millionth time that day and pulled out the screwed up piece of paper on which she had written instructions for finding the hidden diamonds. She was about to screw it back up and forget that the whole thing had happened when she felt something wet on her arm. Elvis had left his bed and was now pushing his head under her arm as if to snuggle. Millie looked down at his big brown eyes and that droopy face, ‘you know what Elvis, we can do better than this mangy flat but it means …
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Music Review: Woodmanstone

Hello! How long has it been since my last music review? What’s that you say? Too long. Okay that’s a fair cop, guv! Oh dear, the influence of the next artist has already affected me. He has been extremely patient with me, as I lost my notes that I had prepared before I sent him the questions and I was determined to find them…alas I could not and my Gonzo pad is forever lost, or until tomorrow when I have posted this and no longer need them!
Anyway, this person, is someone who I came across on Twitter, it was via a mutual follower who also asked if I would review him. This is only the second time that someone has requested that I write a review about an artist and so of course I agreed. I had been following them for a few weeks and tweeted a couple of times which I sometimes think might not be best as then it could be a biased review – but it turns out (as most will know by now and although I am repeating myself here), when I review music I do so because I love it and I don’t conside…
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