Backwards In High Heels

Who Needs Silicon?

On Thursday I took my friend out for a thank you meal as she was a huge help when Funny Bunny the cat went missing.  Knowing she loves roast dinners we went to a local garden centre which has a restaurant which does the best cavery I have ever had (and trust me I know carveries!).

A very pleasant meal was had followed by a lovely wander around their Christmas displays which are manna for people easily distracted by sparkly things such as we are. I'm going to have to go back and treat myself to the glittery mushroom decoration which looks like a knob, my puerile sense of humour demands it. 

On the way out my friend bought two pumpkins ready for carving (she is very talented in all things craft). A super bargain if you ask me - £1.50 each, see below. Can't think why people were giggling as she carried them back to the car!

As Wicked As A Witch

look at me ignoring my blog again. I should be blog flogged.

The last few weeks have had some rather fraught moments, including Funny Bunny the agoraphobic cat getting spooked, escaping out of the backdoor and going missing for 5 days. Cue a lot of sleepless nights, flyer drops and stressed stomach. Instead of recounting the whole affair I will skip to the happy ending of Funny Bunny returning home stressed, dirty but thankfully unhurt. Since his return he has a rampant appetite and avoids the backdoors and windows like the plague.

Other news. Well I hardly set the radio waves on fire on the latest series of RFTP. Items I did get through either stalled at the read through stage or if recorded didn't make the edit for the broadcast. Got some lines through into a merged sketch and some montage liners. As such I won't be recommended for the third series if it is commissioned. 

Now you may imagine that news had me wailing and brow beating but strangely not.  I cannot thank the producer and editors on the show enough for the opportunity and I have learnt a great deal which now stays with me. Admittedly I never felt quite in tune with the show and its genre/content but it has left me with new knowledge, encouragement and it would have been foolish beyond compare to expect that avenue to be the be all and end all.

As it is I have some momentum now, an immeasurable amount of new courage than 10 months before.  Yep can you believe it just 10 months since I said like a mouse, should I have a go at that BBC Sketch Factor competition? I'm ready to fight on and as such I have a couple of things in the pipline now and something lined up for the new year.

This positive new me is frightening isn't it?

I know what would help my writing - if I kept up with this blog for a start.

And yes, I'm going to go for NaNoWriMo this November!

We Are Not Playing Doctors And Nurses...

...no let's play psychoanalyst and patient.

They say doodles say a lot about a person.  The time I doodle the most is when I am on the telephone. Now the doodles can be wide and varied but always end up getting coloured in.  Here is today's doodle...what on earth is going on in my subconcious and do we really want to set it free?!

Perhaps we should start a doodle meme?!

doodle, doodling