The weather is amazing at the moment ( slightly cooler today) for this time of year, so I have been hurridly getting my gardening done! Last weekend I put some plants in and used some of last years compost, only to discover,to my horror, about 70 vine beetle lavae squirming around in the soil!! Arrrgh!!! Beasties!!...these guys absolutly love climbing plants, of which I have planted a veritablet ton of! So I had to carefully scoop them out and Iam not so sorry to say they ended their short lives as birdy snacks on my bird-table. Not cruel!!Just giving nature a helping hand and the birds are feeding young at the moment and will be greatfull for the extra protien in the lavae!!
On a lighter note my tomato plant seedings have just broke the surface and sprouted, to my delight. But I am still waiting for the billion other seedlings I have propagated in trays in the garden,they should only be a few days behind. They are nearly all hardy climbers including sweetpeas, black eyed Suzans, and Morning Glory (blue/purple trumpet) as I intend to get them to climb over the consevtory as a kind of floral camoflage and for added privacy. I have already added a bamboo curtain for privacy, but I think it will look nicer with the plants.....And its not all gardening either!! Today I am sorting out my black slate pyramid garden fountian (water feature, but I hate that term!) and it will spend the summer on my patio next to the open doors of the conservatory. My collection of garden birds which briefly departed during the construction of said conservatory, have now returned in abundance and are enjoying feeding, drinking and bathing at the back of my garden. The blackbirds and a couple of the Wood Pidgeons have been hopping up to the conservatory to have a closer look out of curiosity I think.
When the weather is nice during the summer(and I do say "when") Derek and I eat alfresco in the garden either on my garden dinning set or picnic syle on a blanket on the grass. However, I have to be carefull though as I have a nasty allergic reaction to garden grass! But for the Royal wedding ( a week tomorrow) mum is coming for lunch and if the weather allows, we shall eat outside. Why not BB-Q I hear you ask???? Well thats simple!!I FREAKING HATE BARBEQUES!!!!!!!! They stink, fumes give me asthma, and under cooked food causes food poisoning!! and yet much to my annoyence as soon as blue skies appear we get the stink of barbeque fumes wafting down our avenue!! and unfortunatly my immiedate neighbours are huge fans of said smelly, offensive outdoor cooking!! ...I just dont get it!!! Its far easier (and less smelly for others) to cook your food indoors and then eat outside!! Makes perfect sense to me!! and besides, who in their right mind wants hot food in hot summer weather anyway??? Salad is the thing for summer, methinks!! and Derek makes a wonderfull mixed salad!! and I make my own homemade potato salad and bingo!! The perfect summer lunch!! mmmm...... smoked salmon tureens with cream cheese are bouncing to mind here, as is warm, crusty French bread and a crisp white wine!!
*is making self hungery*
If you are planning a barbeque, please be considerate!!
Not everyone is a fan of barbeques and if my neighbours "spark up" while I have fresh washing on my line I will end up with a full load of washing stinking to high heaven of bbq fumes and will have to do the whole lot again!!! I would love it if my neighbours would just pop around and warn me of impending bbq session so I could bring my washing in and close my patio doors...but sadly the only warning I get is loud voices, squarking kids and the inevitable drifting of fumes and smoke into my garden.
*calmly sips tea as moan over with*
Really looking forward to my hot tub tonight!! *grinns* x

Heck!!!
Has i really been a week since we came back from Dorset???
Dosen't time fly??
Well the week in question was not very eventfull...it saw me back at the dentist have a check up and x-rays (I have had so much radiation recently I am glowing!!) only to be told to stop smoking (Yeah right!!!) and I need 7 fillings, a root canal and a possible extraction of one of my back molars! Lovely!!! and all this is to be done in a space of 3 months of 3 appointments. Emmm somtimes I wish I had false teeth!!....and I was back at the dentist yesterday but this time with mum who was having a new plate fitted for her dentures. Also it saw me and mum doing a drug swap with my left over ulcer tablets and some buscopan for half a box of zopiclone!! Hehehehehe!! not many folks can say they do drug deals with their 77 year old parents!! ...anyway, later we had a brief trip into the Weston Favell centre and then got the bus back to her house where Derek was waiting for us in the car.
In other news, I am getting very impatient for my conservatory to get tiled so I can fianlly set up my garden spa room!! Sadly, I must wait another 3 weeks for the consevatory to "settle" but I dont see any harm in taking a trip to the tile showroom today and pick out the ones I want and ask if they can recommend a local tiler...Now as I have a spacific look in mind for my spa room, I wanted lots of plants, but unfortunatly chlorine fumes kill plants so I am looking now at getting some flase folieage. I was not prepared, however, for the huge cost of false folieage!!! for some reason I was thinking it would be rather cheep but how wrong I was. Just for a med sized false tree type plant I was looking at £50!!!!!!! so I may well have to re-plan. I have begun to used jasmine spa oil in the tub and it zapps the chlorine smell wonderfully but I suppose real plants would still not like the fumes. I managed (stupidly) to kill a Bamboo plant I had when I placed it next to my spa!! Oh well, lessons learned and all that.........
back soon! x

Finally time came around to the holiday. Our holiday to be precise, which I have been whittering on about for at leat a year, both on here and on facebook....I had chosen our cottage about a year previous, from a website called "Classic Cottages" with the main attraction being the fact this one had a whirlpool bath and its very own private, heated swimming pool. Coupled with these things and the fact that I spent 2 days at the Thermae Spa in Bath, brought me to the conclusion of what I should call this entry, as I have never in my whole life spent a holiday emerced in so much H2O at any one time!!! Ok so we have stayed in some pretty awesome places with pretty awesome swimming pools (Bali, Indoniesia, bounces to mind here!) but frankly the places we visited were far more interesting than lounging about in some hotel pool all day! This holiday, however, was certainly a break from the norm, and I love every second of it!!
We took a lazy drive west on that Friday morning and dident reach our cottage untill about 5pm. Situated between the sleepy villages of Chetnow and Lewis, this place was idyllic! I kept telling myself that I would take lots of photos and video of the place, but sadly, I forgot, as it was so lovely!! It was a split level barn conversion with a very spacious lounge and open plan kitchen upstairs and the bathrooms and bedrooms down stairs...we were met by a jolly, weathered looking lady called Carol, who kindly showed us around and explained that she owned the 3 surrounding fields so Sirius was practially free to walk anywhere!! The upstiars living area also boasted its own wooded balcony which afforded lovely views across the countryside. It was gorgeous and I felt instantly at home! When she left us, Derek took Sirius for his long awaited walk while I sorted out our stuff and put the kettle on as I was gasping for a cuppa....Our drive had taken us through some of the lovelyist countryside I have seen since Derbyshire, and Derek had also took the route which brought us to the majestic Cheddar gorge. A place I have not visited since childhood.
This is a short, if albeit rather boring video of our drive through Cheddar gorge. I must appologise for the sound quality of the annoying car stero! My old phone picked out sounds better than my new Blackberry! Also ignore me singing at the start, but I was in a very good mood.
Also....lets play spot the Dalek!!!



Did you see my little black Dalek???

We had a cuppa when Derek and Sirius got back, and we continued to settle in. That evening I slipped into the whirpool bath, but was quite surprized at how gentle it was. The jets barely rippeled the surface of the water, but it was soothing and relaxing all the same and I added some fresh jasmine bath salts for a bit of aromothearpy touch to it. Lets face it though, I am very spoiled with my home hot tub (spa) and I had to keep it firmly in mind that this was indeed a whirlpool bath and not my home hot tub, with its hot, power bubbles for the massage. While in the whirlpool, Derek brought me a large glass of red wine and finally I was in Heaven!! I savoured it slowly, while I soaked and it was exquisite!! When I got out, which must have been nearly an hour later, I sat on the bed and phoned mum to let her know we had arrived safely, and we had a good chat...
The nex day after breakfast we headed to Sherbourne. A Pretty town with an Abbey and a small open air market. Derek went with Sirius to take some pictures and I browsed at the shops, finally meeting up together and had a slow wander back to the car. Our drive then took us to Glastonbury and again Derek and I split up as he went off to take piccies and I had a browes around the awesome shops in this town. My credit card was parted from me more times than I wanted it to be, but the things on sale we absolutly delightful. I got a Wiccan wrought iron Pentagram tea lightholder for the conservatory, several rocks and minerals to add to my already huge collection, and a gorgeous Kaftan (I wear these alot at home) with Egyptian gods and godesses on, with Hyrogliphics (need them translated) which came in very handy for my nightly trips to the heated pool back at the cottage....Now I wont go into massive detail of the week in great detail as it involved a huge ammount of driving and we took in Bournmouth, Southampton, Stonehenge, Portsmouth, Cerne Abbas (practially on our doorstep!) and ofcourse Bath....I had read up on the new Thermae spa baths in the city centre and they looked wonderfull, so I had very much anticipated this visit, and I was not dissapointed. My first session was just the basic two hour session, just to try it so to speak and on entering the changing rooms I very quickly realised how humid it was in there. Background music was coming from somewhere, which sounded like Nero plucking his harp!! But I got changed and locked my stuff in a locker with my electronic wrist band. However the changing rooms were rather like a rabbit warren, and when I finally managed to get out I could not find the lift up to the roof top spa pool, so I shrugged and took the steps...all 8 flights of them!! By the time I got to the top I was huffing and puffing like a good 'en (very unfit) and peeled off my large Ed Hardy towel, as well as slipping out of my flip flops, I turned and gazed in mild awe at this beautiful spa pool, glittering brightly in the afternoon sunshine. Gingerly, I slipped in down the steps and the water was delightfully warm and step by step I got further into this warm water. I stopped breifly and sat halfway down the steps, taking in the sun, and then just floated off into the pool in earnest. Its not a place to go diving as the pool is only just over 4 foot deep, and I could easily stand up in it. But dident want to, I floated over to the jacuzzi area and staked a claim nearby so I too could have a hot, mineral bubble session. As I looked about me I noticed a lot of people had these long blue tubes wrapped around their bodie's and floating about. At first I thought I would have to pay extra for one, but people were just exiting the rooftop pool and leaving them lying about only to be picked up by a new bather. So I spotted an unused one at the side of the steps and beant around my upper body and WOW!!!!!!!!!! What a brillaint boyancy aid this was. I now found that I dident need to swim to get about!! I just kicked my legs and floated on this simple tube. This, coupled with magnificent vews over the roof tops of historic Bath, well I thought it was paradise!!! I just bobbed about on the gentle bubbles, hot in the sun, with not a care in the world. Very soon the 2 hours was up though and I reluctantly made my way out and back down to the changing rooms, with a firm thought in my mind!! "I MUST come back tomorrow!!" Outside I hung about waiting for Derek and he appeared shortly after, and we began the drive back at about 4pm. Derek had taken a hundered photo's while I was doing my cork bobbing on the ocean impression, but my skin felt very smooth and I was positivly glowing! That night though I realised just how glowing I was! I had got sunburn on my arms knees and chest, and it was very painfull....the next morning I dident feel at all well, having hardly slept and my skin was creeping, hot and cold. For a time I was actually thinking of giving the spa a miss for this, our last full day in Dorset! But no!!! NOW WAY!!! I headed back there for a 4 hour session which included massage, steamroom, foot spa and hot stone thearapy, where you get your back massaged with hot stones. Sound painfull??!! No! its wonderfully relaxing. Also I got to take a dip in the indoor "Minerva" pool too, which was warm and the same depth as the roof top one, but thankfully less busy, so I just floated away in compleate bliss. At 4pm however it was a very reluctant yours truely, who hauled herself from the rooftop pool, to take the lift back to the changing rooms. I was so glad I had gone back to have the full spa expierence and when I walked out, rummaging in my bag for my ciggies, I fel like a million dollars!!
All in all a superb holiday (only blighted by the sunburn) and I am sorry this one has not been as detailed as my previous holiday blogs, but I have tonns to do today, and have not completly finished unpacking...perhaps, deep in my heart I dont want to unpack!! I just want to pack up and go back to Dorset, and my tranquill barn cottage in the countryside!!
Me waiting for Derek in the car at Bath!!!

This bloomin' tooth achey thingy has cost me dear!!!

Finally had it removed last week, where my tiny 6 stone lady dentist wrenched it out with all of her might, wrestling the horrid thing from my top jaw which remianed badly bruised for two days after...But all this has meant one thing I am very down about...Because of the toothach I had before it was extracted I was very hacked off that I missed my Lodge, due to the pain and the effect the painkillers were having on me, in that I was "out of it" on the bloomin' things so I could "just" function...Even after having a dose of morphine for my ulcer, at my last hospital stay that would (as my nurse put it) "knock out a bull elephant!!" I could still feel the pain. In retrospect though I should have had it done earlier as that tooth had been broken for about 2 years previous, but only started paining me about a month ago. But whats done is done and this has cost me my Raising which *was* schedualed for the 9th of April. Now although at the last Lodge my bretherin were to practice in the 3rd, because I am a Fellow Craft I would not have been admitted anyway, but this is hardly the point!! I should have been there and feel that I have let both myself down and my bretherin. Well there is nothing I can do about it now, but thinking about the day in question (when I was due to attend Lodge) I was all packed up and ready to go, when my tooth pain got to the "please tear my head off now!!!" level and I had to phone W.M Terry to let him know that I would not be able to attend and to offer my sincere apologies!!
Sometimes though things happen for a reason and I should not be too dispondent about my Raising being put back. Maybe now my Ceremony will be put back untill after the summer resess but I will now use the extra time I have left as a F.C, for more study and contemplation on my taking the Sublime degree!!!!
But for now I remain in the Middle Chamber...

In other news, the conservatory is now finished and looks absolutly gorgeous, but still has weeks to go untill it is tiled and usable as my garden spa room. The only thing that concernes me is the large gap around the base, as I am not sure it should have been left like that. I could just fill it with pepples, between the bricks on the foundations and the garden, but I am going to check with Anglian on the phone tomorrow...and thats not the only phone call I will be making as I have to bring forward my prescription at the chemist for next month due to our holiday, which I am really looking forward too!...Ahh the holiday!! well its all very well to go globetrotting all over the planet, like Derek and I have done. But what we should remember is that we have a lovely country under our noses, and holidaying here in the UK means Sirius can come with us...no jet lag...no faffing with travellers cheques...ect...But hey!! who am I kidding??? I DO miss globetrotting, and the hassle that goes with it. but I wont be parted from my dog!! :)

Trawlling through some old ELO videos this evening, I came across one of their songs that not only signified the sad demise of the awesome band, ELO but also at the same time, my first marriage to Adrian Goulding...a marriage that was never meant to be in the first place...
Looking back it was terribly sad as Adi had just lost his mum to breast cancer the same year he met me (1984) and one afternoon his dad was showing us some old family slides of his mum and I was really taken aback at just how much she had looked just like me. To be honest when I first saw those grainy pictures I got an icey shivver down my back, and realised with some dergee of horror that the only thing Adrian was looking for in me was a substitute for his mum!!!!!!!...Even now over 25 years later I am so sorry to say I was right!!!
It had been a evening when he had been on a night shift at the met office at Manchester airport, and I was alone in our cold, heartless house in New Mills in Derbyshire. The house was a tip!!! and I was basically living upstairs with Adi's ever growing computer bits and bobs and all I had for my comfort was my tv, video and my hi fi!!!....I would never sleep on those lonely night shift, nights...and just stay up all night untill he came home at 9am. One night it was late and I was listening to ELO's Ballance of Power Album and "Getting to the point" came on, and I got that same forboading shivver down my back as I slowly began to realise, I was living through, and watching my 15 month marriage crumble to nothing...

The Lyrics to this song say "exactly" what I was thinking and feeling a the time, which was sometime in early 1988
Here they are in full:

It's out of control (out of control)
And there's nothing I can do now
Out of control (out of control)
Spinning softly through the blue now
And look beyond these walls
As the meaning starts to dawn
It's getting to the point
Getting to the point.

It's out of control (nothing I can do)
Like a fire that keeps on burning
And nobody knows (what I'm going through)
And the thoughts just keep returning
And all you had to say
Was that you were gonna stay
It's getting to the point
Getting to the point.

CHORUS:
It's getting to the point
Where nobody can stop it now
It's getting to the point
Of no return
And all that I can do
Is stand and watch it now
Watch it burn, burn, burn
It's getting to the point
Where reasons are forgotten
It's getting to the point
Where no one knows
And all that I can do
Is say I'm sorry
But that's the way it goes...

Getting to the point.

Forever
Is a long, long way
Forever
Takes your breath away
I'd like to talk about it, try to understand
It's getting to the point
Getting to the point.

REPEAT CHORUS

It's getting to the point (getting to the point)
Getting to the point (getting to the point)
It's getting to the point (getting to the point)
Getting to the point.

****This is my ONLY remiaing photo of my first wedding day!! (thank goodness!!) I was just 18 years old and Adi was 21*****



(I divorced him on the grounds of his adultery in October 1988)

Later (and when I am in the right frame of mind for re-running these events) I will write them here in the hope that some young ladies might read and learn from my mistakes...and I have made many.......



**Music and lyrics are copyright of Jeff Lynne

Had my test (tummy biopsy) at the hospital yesterday and it was so very painfull I came home, took a heap of painkillers and was in bed by 9pm!! This morning I am ok though, and I am just glad its all done with, and hope I dont have to go back to hospital again.
The building on the conservatory has started in earnest now and my lovely garden resembles a builders yard at he moment!! Today the builders have had a break as the concrete foundations need to set, but it should be finished earlier next week (I hope)...and even then we have to wait six weeks before we get the floor tiled!! I have decided on a black and white chess board pattern!! Partly because it will be less costly than my original mosaic idea, and partly because I would like a Masonic feel to it. Derek has agreed, but we still have to find a decent tiler to do it for us, but at least we have 6 weeks to find someone!
Spent this morning cleaning out the spa and refilling it...but Derek recons I should leave it empty for 6 weeks as it will be difficult to empty and refill once the conservatory is up. Like HELL!!!! I am certainly not going to go six whole weeks without my evening hot bubble session!! *digs in heels defiantly* So I have refilled it, cleaned the filter and now its heating again (will add chlorine later too) but will take over a day to come up to 40 degrees. When the time comes I can compleatly drain it and with the help of some neighbours, haul it about 15 feet into the conservatory. I am still hoping to get a waterproof tv for in there too, but Derek sees this as a costly enterprise so I will just have to order one over the net and sneak it onto my credit card!! I can deal with Derek's wrath with my special leek, bacon and potato bake with roast cheese topping! (his favorite) or I will never hear the last of it! It was his birthday yesterday (54) so I cooked us an early evening dinner to celebrate, but was really not feeling too good because of the dull ach in my tummy where the Doctor took my biopsy from. Anyway its our holiday soon, and fingers crossed my ulcer wont bother me! I have planned lots of "seeing and doing" while we are in Dorset and being bothered by this bloody ulcer is certainly not on my list!!
That about it for now!
Sirius needs a good brushing and I must get dinner ready for his lordship!!! Tonight (and because the spa wont yet be hot enough) I am going to have a long soak in the bath and have a jacket potato and sour cream and chives for supper (ulcer friendly) watch Corrie and have another early night!!

back soon x

Just been watching the local news and there was an investigation on there about an elderly lady who, while in the James Paget hospital, had fallen out of her chair twice!! breaking her hip on both occasions and was later to die due to lack of care!! The ladies daughter had even recieved a letter from the hospial saying that her mother was doing well and would soon be allowed home!!! - AFTER she had been dead a month!!
This is beyond disgracefull!!!!!!
It should not be happening in 2010 in our UK hospitals...but horrifically it IS, and I have seen it too!!!

This week I have to go back for tests for my ulcer and I am dreading it because of the horrible memories I have got from my two recent stays in Northampton general. For those who don't know, I have a lower gastrestinal cyst/ ulcer that made an appearence at Christmas last year in the form of my vomiting blood and having blood stool. I was rushed in as an emergency on the first occasion as it was suspected that I had a life threatening internal bleed, but fortunatly this was not the case....However my treatment while in hospital was absolutly awful!! and my second stay a month later was worse!! During the first stay I was moved to 3 different wards in less than 24 hours and all I was given for pain relife was paracetamol, while I was in agony!! I was not seen by a Doctor for over a day, and the only time I saw a nurse was to take my obs (observations of blood pressure ect) or to change my drip. If I wanted the loo or anything thing else I had to ring the bell which I felt really guilty about, and woo betide me asking for a cup of tea!! as I would be told "I am a nurse its not my job! ask the tea lady on her rounds!" with a really evil look!! Also because I was taken in as an emergency in an ambulance I did not have my medication on me, on the first night so I did not have my zopiclone sleeping pills!! So on my first night I asked a nurse if I could have some but she abruptly told me I would have to present a "current" prescription to *prove* I was prescribed them by a Doctor!!! Shit!!! she made me feel like a drug addict!!!!!!!!! It was horrible!! and to make matters worse I diden't have my mobile so I could not phone Derek to ask him to bring me some!! As it is I am on a repete prescrition (monthly) so I dont actually have a "paper" prescription!!.......and a month later I was back again but on a different ward!! The second stay was far worse as regards care and not just for me, but for my fellow patiencts too!! Again the only time I saw a nurse was to do the hourly obs (unless I called) I had made sure this time they had been informed of my prescription but they dident have the right dose for me either!!!...Then there were two fellow patients who suffered along with me. The first was a young girl with suspected appendicitius who was crying out very loudly in obvious pain, but non of the nursing staff took any notice of her!!! The second and across the ward from me was an elderly lady with a fractured hip, and twice she was not given the food she had ordered for lunch, and told to choose somthing else! Whats the point of filling out the menu cards!!!!??.. The second time the lady had ordered sausage and she was told they had non so she was offered some alternatives all of which she wearily declined, and I dident blame her!! The food was absolutly vile!!!!! One morning breakfast was not served untill nearly 10am and the coffee was stone cold and liken to gravey!! Now the ward I was on which was called "Knightly ward" is a million miles from anywhere in the huge spralling rabbit warren that is Northampton hospital, but this coffee was so dreadfull I took it on myself to haul my carcas out of my tiny rock hard hospital bed, and take the 45 minute round walk to the coffee shop in the entrance!!! It was painfull but worth it!!! I got the equivelant of a pint of American hot coffee, sweet and gorgeous!! But because of the distance of the walk back I had nearly drank it all by the time I got back to my ward!!!
"Where have you been? The Doctor has just been to see you!!! your not supposed to leave the ward!!" Sister Zeig heil squarked at me!!!
" Well if we were served brakfast on time, and the coffee was drinkable, I would not have left the ward, would I?!" I retorted, angrily!!!
But later that day she had revenge.......
At 3pm I was due to go down for a gastroscopy (camera down the throte) and so I sat patiently waiting to be collected with my tummy rumbling loudly as I was not allowed lunch, because I was having this proceadure. By 4 pm I was still waiting but I had asked the nurse if I could have my dinner on my return as I was starving bloodly hungry!! She said yes and I filled out the menu card, like a good little girl. Eventually I was wheeled down to have my camera about 20 minutes later, but I was still kept waiting another 2 hours before I was wheeled in and seen too!!! Then I had to wait another hour before a porter could be located, to wheel me back up to my ward. It was nearly 6pm by the time I got back, and my long awaited dinner was nowhere to be seen........I asked an orderly where my dinner was and the young lad just looked vacant (as young lads do!) and said he would find out. An older man came over and explained to me that he was not given any intructions for my food and said all he could offer was cottage pie!! I greatfully accepted but what I was given was some non-discript dollop of brown and yellow that I would have been ashamed to have given to Sirius, my dog!!! AND it was stone cold!!!!!!! Well by now I was fuming!!! and to top it all I found out that the old lady had not had any food all day!! I blew my top and called for the ward sister and I really laid into her as politly as possible!
"I know its not your fault but I have had no palatabel hot food all day, and the lady over there has had nothing either!! This just is not acceptable!!" I explained, making a point that I was going to make a formal complaint!!
Later that evening I was reprived when my mum and Derek brought me sandwiches and crisps...hardly healthy for someone with an ulcer, but marginaly better than the pig-swill I had been insulted with!! I was later to stomp down in the lift to have a much needed ciggie outside reception, feeling I had been treated like a piece of meat and not an ill human being a all!!!
Now dont write me off as just an old moaning grump! But I thought nurses were suppose to "nurse" their patients, and care for their needs and help them get better!! Not ignore them!! and surely part of a patients recovery is down to being served half decent food, so they may build up strength!! Instead, myself and the old lady were left neglected and hungry...I was discharged the day after (bet they were glad to see the back of me) but I dread to think how the old dear was treated after I left, to say nothing of the young girl who was writhing in agony without pain relif!!! I have no idea what has happend to hospital care in this country but I have recieved better care when I have been ill in 3rd world countries!! and I really do mean BETTER CARE!!!....there should simply be NO PLACE for neglect and complacency in the nursing profession in the UK today!!!!!!
We are certainly in a sorry state if our nurses stop caring.........and the sad thing is, I think they already have........

Got up fairly late this morning as Sirius had kept me awake most of the night trying his best to sit/sleep on top of my head, so at 8:30am and after he had pniched one of my slippers, I made it down stairs, lead by thoughts of a steaming cup of coffee....
Last night there was absolutly "jack s*" on tv so I ended up watching one of the music channels (vh1) after my spa as I couldn't be bothered with a video, and too my annoyance vh1 came back on when I turned the tv on, with the song I have been driven bonkers with recently in tv advertising!!!....yes...its Katy Perry with her "Firework!"...I had not seen the video before and was struck dumb by what I was watching!!

What were the writers/producers/director ect thinking of????



At best this looks like a badly done charity commertial...at worst its an insult to teenagers, who have problems or hang-ups and may well have the reverse effect of making them worse!! In short I think this video is dangerous!!!
I exaggerate NOT!!!
Firstly we have Miss Perry, a self boob obsessed, talentless bimbo, shooting fireworks from her tits, while simultainiously playing at mother Teresa...then we have teenager attacking his dad because his parents are arguing. Next we have fat girl at a pool party too embarraced to get undressed in front of her skinny friends, untill she gets her "firework" and strips...and then we have a child with cancer wandering around barefoot, while watching a teen mum give birth!!!!!!!
Im am sorry, but this is just SICK!!!!!!!!!...and thats before I start on the gay boy teen kiss!!!
This video is supposed to be inspirational but what we have here is a mish mash of gooey teen tripe, coupled with a "celeb" who can't sing a note, taking on a Micheal Jackson roll of "heal the world" in what turns out to be the most tummy churning tripe I have seen in a long time. But what really got my goat up was the teen mum birth scene! No attempt was made, whatsoever, to make the "mum" look older, and I can imagin teenage girls watching this and thinking "I will get pregnant and then I can have my firework!"...the girl in the video looks about 15 and her young looks are even accentuated by a pony tail too!!!



What kind of a mother would let her daughter star in this roll, well I shudder to think...as well as the effect this could have on teenage girls who want their firework!! ...Do the people who make this rubbish stop to think about what effect a pop video has on a young person??
I did some research into what teenagers really think about this by reading comments left on teen websites and it appears that todays teenagers are pretty savvy and dont swollow this crap, with most of them saying "great song...crap vid" I admit it is a catchy tune but the video is a disgrace in my opinion. Simply slung together by money grabbing media types who have nothing better or more important to do. Ironically the "Glee" tv show version is far better, and the young lady who sings it can actually sing!! Unlike Miss Perry who appears to screech just a moderatly high note. I could sing better, fast asleep and absolutly pissed off my box!!!!.........
..watch this space and I will prove it!! LOL!!!

Ok, rant over with....but sometimes I thank God I am 43 with a ton of life lessons behind me!! *sighs*

On the 9th of April 2011, I will be Raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason!!!
...and I can hardly wait as I am now crossing off the days on my calander...since I was about 5 this has been a life long ambition of mine, and I am about to live it too!! I can't really put into words just how excited I am about my Raising, and Brother Sally from Hexagon House, has promised she will attend my ceremony, which is wonderfull news!! So soon I will be able to take Office and vote in open Lodge and one day (many years from now) I maybe elected to the Chair, T.G.A.O.T.U willing!! :)
Because of this major period of my life I am desperatly trying to loose weight too!! I made a good start when I was in hospital with my ulcer as I lost over a stone!! But its leveled off now, so I have bought an excersise bike to shift those stubborn pounds!! At the moment I am a size 14 but would love to get back to a size 10 before my specail day...Sadly though, now I am older its much more difficult to loose weight, and I do still love my red wine of an evening so the going will be slow! I suppose I will be happy if I make it to a size 12!!...The bike is great, but exhausting, as I have not done any serious excersise since I did my training for the Everest trek in '95. The training involved hiking trips in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, covering about 20kms per day, and I was the fittest I have ever been!! But I was only 26 then!! *coughs* I am 43 now!!!...worryingly the first time I used the bike, 2 weeks ago, I finished a half hour "spinning" session and slipped straight into my 40 degree spa straight after and suddenly got huge pins and needles in my hands!! I normally have a ciggie or two in a half hour spa session, but these pins and needles were so bad I couldn't hold one!! So I did some internet research and apparently its very dangerous to spa straight after excersie as the body has to "cool down" first before you have a spa, so now I stop bike spinning at about 8pm and have my spa at 9pm, and the pins and needles havn't come back, thank goodness!! the only problam with the bike is the fact thas its giving me nice legs but I still have "Bingo arms"...not that I play bingo, you understand!! Bingo arms are tha horrid flabby bit under the arms!! I hate the weird "trendy" words like bingo arms, camel toe, and the dreaded pantie line!!...eeeemm...."thinks" I might take up weights!!
In other news I have a final meeting with the conservatory surveyer a week on Friday, just to make sure everything is as it should be and all the little bits and bobs I have chosen for colour and syle of handles ect is correct. Waterproofing is paramount as its my new spa room, and this is down on the surveyers report, but I also need ultra safe power points for the spa RCD plug and bathroom grade lighting as well as ventillation. When I started out on this project I haden't even considered all this stuff, but its certainly put my planning brain in gear!! As soon as the building starts I will be looking at non slip tilling for the floor! I want mosaic tilling but I have not looked into this yet and my choice may be limited for saftey purposes. Untill now (touch wood) I have not slipped getting into or out of the spa, but mum almost fell when she got out once! (I caught her) but she said she was dizzy, rather than slipping! Personally I thought my mum was very brave to try my spa, as she is nearly 80!!! But she loved it!! and wants to go in it again when the conservatory is built!
Well going to hopp off now, like a good little bunny, and have another go on the bike for a bit, before I get Dereks tea ready!!
Corrie tonight, folks!! :)
love Vix x

My long awaited first lodge of the New year is tomorrow and I am already, ready and sorted, but I must spend sometime today in study of my book, and my F.C. questions in preparatioin for my Raising to Master Mason soon!! Can't wait!! :)
Derek, however will have a very quiet afternoon a home!!

When I am made a Master Mason I would like to spend as much time as possible travelling to other Lodges, and seeing as many differing ritual as possible, as I find it very enlightening!! When I visited Hexagon House at the back end of last year I expierenced my first Scottish lodge, and the Lauderdale ritual which is very different from my own Verulam workings. It was a wonderfull couple of days and I learned many things, as well as meeting lovely bretherin from all over the world!! Our Order is truely an International Order, which I love with all my heart as this embraces my love of travel also!!...I have already missed a trip to Vienna due to illness, but hope to do lots of visiting very soon!! ...I have a deep love for Africa forged from travels in the east and west, and even safari in Kenya! My dream would be to visit lodges in South Africa, and see first hand the hard work the very excellent Bretherin are doing there in their communities!!
There is no much else to tell in other news, except for my burning ambition for the conservatory to get started!!
I just hope I can still used the jacuzzi spa while its being built, but I am not intirely sure that will be ok, as I expect lots of brick dust flying around and this would possible wreck in air inlet on the spa, so I may just have to empty it and keep it covered while it is being bulit...
For Valentines day I have got Derek a bottle of his favorite Malt and I am making him some of his favorite home-made shortbread!!

opps...gotta go...important call!!!...

I has been a while hasn't it??

Oh dear!! I do get behind with things and rather a lot has been keeping me busy a the moment, including two stays in hospital to have a gastric ulcer invesigated! This started on Chrismas day last year, of all days, in the morning and had to be rushed to hospital because I was vomiting blood...I had just about every test under the sun, x-rays and all kinds of stuff, and so many needles I felt like a pin cushion. But it all came down to an ulcer blocking my gastric tract (what ever that is) and several weeks ago I was back with the same thing. Now years ago my mum had exactly the same problam, so I am kind of half betting I have inherited it from her!! Cheers mum!! UGH!! Anyway I have to go back in a fortnight to have my colon investigated too...crikey!! that will be fun!! NOT!!
Derek has finally sorted the plans for our conservatory, and work will begin next month. We had several quotes but choose a local, but well recommeneded company. The conservatory itself will house my spa- jacuzzi and excercise bike as well as my 8 inch reflecting telescope and some furniture, and at the moment I am trying to talk Derek into geting a waterproof TV (Yes they do exist!!) so I wont miss Coronation street while I am bubbling and steaming away in my spa! The conservaory we have chosen is a Victorian design, that opens out onto our garden, and talking of the spa I am well looking forward to it tonight, and just waiting for it to heat to a lovely 40 degrees!!...We also have our holiday in Devon soon!! Not quite as exotic as our past travels, but as I have mentioned before I wont put Sirius into kennals so we have to choose dog friendly holidays. I coulden't bare to be parted from Sirius-pud!! soft arse as I am!!
As I am now rushing head-long at the hill that says 44 years old, I thought it would be a good idea to write down some memories, that make stories and so far I have wrote quite a bit.(its very private for now) A very good friend of mine said they should be published, but I would have to change the names to protect the innocent!! LOL!! and have a bloody good editor to sort out my hopeless grammer and spelling!! hehehe!!! I am trying to put together a huge piece about our travels around the world, as well as backpacking in Asia and trekking on the Everest trek, but I have figured it would read like some kind of odd disaster novel!!! With bus crashes, hotel fires, ameobic dysentry, rats in a dormatry in Kula Lumpur where I ran off and booked myself into a 5 star hotel being sick and tired of the hovels we were saying in, as well as geting stuck in a snow storm 15,000 feet up on a pass in the Solu Khumb region of Nepal....Fortunatly for the past 16 years or so I have managed to keep a fairly accurate travel diary (s) about 4 in all covering everywhere from Costa Rica to Vietnam with a huge chunk dedicated to my all time favortie place, Bali in Indoniesia...Well if I do decided to write it, it will possibly take years, so I may just do a bit at a time....and while I am on the subject of time, I do not have much time left as a Second degree Fellow craft Freemason, as I am due to be Raised this spring and I have so much study to do to prepare myself! We have our first lodge of the new year this Saturday and our new Right Worshipfull Master will be installed which I am looking forward to, and indeed seeing my excellent Bretherin again!! It will be a very specail Lodge indeed and I have been wondering what to take for our Festive Board...one of my Bretherin asked if it would be another "wonky" cake!! hehehe...its a long story!
Well thats about it for now, and I shall be slipping into my spa in about an hour, and then watch a film and have a bottle of wine. I am off the Port for the moment as I am trying to diet so I have switched back to dry white wine for now!

see you soon! luv Vix x

My indoors hot spa has not come without hassle!!
But now all is well and I am ready to rumble once again, but several things are niggling me!!
First and foremost is the fact the the plug will get damp with condensation!! But I have built a cover for it so I am hoping it wont. Its an RCD plug so it should trip if it does get damp, as it did yesterday, but I dont want to take any chances!
Also the spa is over chlorinated at the moment due to my chlorine shock yesterday, and the level has not dropped. I have even had the cover off to help it to drop but that hasn't helped so tonights test spa might be a little stinky!!...because the spa is now set in my dining room I have had to cover up the light switch and wont be able to use it when the spa is running. But I have set up to 15 candles around the spa so there should be ample light, and it should equally make it very relaxing! Oh and my towelling gown is now drying in the dryer so that will be nice and warm too!!
In other news:
Absolutly freezing today, and there was also a dusting of snow during the night, but that soon melted...we are about the only place in the whole of the UK thats has missed the snow this week, thankfully!!
Derek and I have also been on a bit of an Opera fix with the Magic Flute and Wagners Das Rhinegold! He got the dvds from Amazon and this come as a nice surprize midweek!! Derek has also booked our spring gettaway at a delightful cotage in Dorset! It a gorgeous converted barn with its own heated swimming pool and jaccuzi bath. Now I have never has a jaccuzi bath before so this will be new! It should be like the spa only less powerfull, with gentle bubbles insted of my spa's "massage" power bubbles! However, I am really looking forward to it, and the cottage is in an area close to Cheddar gorge which I loved visiting as a child!! No dought we will have many walks with Sirius that week! *grinns*
Ok thats it for now...will be back soon!
love Vix x

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Well I am glad I gave this a jolly good rest, but now is the time I shall re-open my blog, however commenting will remain disabled and stuff posted here will be carefully maintained so as not to reveal "personal" thoughts or feelings. Those posts will be on my *private* blog which is active but can only be accessed by invitation only. In other words I must know you personally!! If I dont, access wont be granted, sorry!
So whats been happening?
Well Derek and I had a fantastic time in the Snowdonia national park, and my masonic convention in London went very well indeed!! It was a very long weekend and I was absolutly shattered when I got home late on Saturday. It was also the first time I have attended a Scottish Lodge which I felt was a special privledge...I have also been delving much deeper into Masonic study, which has included Sacred Geometry and is a subject of amazing fascination that it just blows me away!!! Anyway I have no idea at the moment when my Raising will be, but I want to be fully prepared in mind and spirit to be able to take my Sublime Degree. I still need to work on my F.C. Obligation and the questions though, but I am getting there!!!
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Its been fun folks, but all good things must come to an end. I apologies to my genuine friends for the inconvienience!

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Pudding hasn't been well following our day out in Birmingham.....
He started nibbling at his back leg and he has obviously got something in there, but I have looked carefully and I can't find anything. He has licked it so badly though he has made a bald patch on one of his toes though, so Derek and I have been bathing it with salty water and disinfectant, and wrapping his leg in socks so he can't nibble it! Yesterday evening we considered taking him to the vets, but decided to give it one more day to see how it goes...fortunatly this morning he seems much more perkier, and in a better mood and he has just shared breakfast with me...he is now sat in the window waiting for "Nanny!"........
Last night on the phone mum asked if she could use the spa today as he back has been bad. I said ofcourse!! But the house is a tip at the moment so I had better get some housework done before she arrives at 12pm!! My spa is great for all kinds of aches and pains (including Derek!!) but this is the first time mum has actually asked to use it, so I think she must be bad. However, mum is a notorious hypercondriact and infact she is fitter than me!! But my spa does need a bit of work this morning before mum uses it at lunchtime. Last night, just before I got out of the spa I noticed some foaming and this usually indicates my water is not right, so I will have to do a water ph test and see what the problem is. Also I must top up the chlorine level and give it a run through, and all this while keeping an eye on my Pud to make sure he dosn't nibble that sock off!! All in all this will be a busy morning, but hopefully will be worth it. Our lunch is poached cod with chive mash and to cheer her up a bit more I have her favorite comiedian, Dave Allen on DVD!! Crikey!! I must sort some fresh towels also.........*zips off to do work*

Over the weekend we went to the British Briard Club fun day, at Bickenhill near Birmingham!!

We arrived shortly after 4pm and it was raining so we had to wait in the car for the rain to stop before we could set the tent up, in the far corner of the field which was "Briard Central!" There was loads of gorgeous champion Briards, mostly twice the size of Sirius, and as soon as we set to work putting up our medium sized tent, a delightful lady came over to invited us to do some fun agillity!! Fortunatly I had managed to explain to some via a forum that Sirius is a cross breed and not a proper Briard, but there were still many questions to be answered as to what he is crossed with!! We still don't know, but most were saying some kind of spaniel, then another lady came over quiet in awe at my Pud and she was a breeder who said he was possibly a very rare breed of European sheep-dog! Many said "does he heard?" Oh yes!! I had said as Sirius does indeed hurd me and Derek together and its worse if Mum is about...if Derek and I are not together he sulks and sits grumbling too himself...Anyway here is a short video I took on my pod of my baby's attempt at the fun agillity!! Sorry for the quality! It was raining and Derek got in the way too!!



After this we carried on organising the tent and our stuff and later we were invited to a quiz, and the evening had a delightful "doggie rave" air!! I nearly fell off my chair in shock though when one lady announced over a megga-phone that the winner of the fun agillity for the non Briard was........SIRIUS!!! Derek and my pud went to collect his prize which was a an excellent "dog walkers companion" featuring water carrier, travel bowl, treats pouch and play bone all in one delightful package!! I had not expected that!! There were other non Briard dogs at the event who were much better behaved that my hell-raiser pudding!! Anyway we joined in the quiz but it was getting late and pudding was restless so I took him back to our tent, and left Derek drinking with his new quiz team mates. When Derek didn't come back for half an hour, Sirius was certainly getting irritated, but much to my relife he appeared shortly after slightly tiddled!! We soon settled down into a comfy and very cosey nights sleep!!
The next day at the event was strictly "Briard champions only" and a proper dog show, where a lot more people appeared and indeed more dogs. We took a short drive for breakfast and then came back to see the rest of the show!! The Briards were truly magnificent!! But as it was hot, Sirius was becoming restless again, and I think he was getting quite spooked as he had never seen so many people and dogs before!!! Indeed when we got back and got to bed last night, he was certainly not himself and kept us awake for a while panting and grumbling. I think he was just a bit overwhelmed by it all, and if we go to another doggie day out I feel he would be better off at a smaller event. It was, however, a superb day and will be long remembered!!

What would I put in "Room 101"?....mmmmm.....thinks........

4x4's and people carriers

my mother's hypocondria!

intolerant anti-smokers!

over-sized baby buggies!

crap daytime TV!

reality TV shows!

someone's got talent, shows!

charity adverts!

Trendy over-priced sports drinks!

The England football team!

Katie Price!

..........ok....really do need some retail therapy now!!! *blinks*

Just looking back over my blog and I have only just realised I have made much of the hard work involved in having a spa....and absolutly nothing about how nice it is!!
As we come to the time of the year when the darker nights are coming in, I have been adding lights and candles to my spa's gazebo and the ambience the lights create is stunning!! I got some Chinese lantern type "string" lights from ebay that are solar powered and they are delightful, along with a small camping lamp and tea candles set in free standing lanterns....even on a trip to TK Maxx recently I found a gorgeous, Veniceian Jester mask, very ornate and beautifully decorated, and I have set that in the gazebo with a light behind it to shine through the eyes!!! (I always like the macarbe!) Also privacy is paramount with my camping curtians covering the windows of the gazebo...
Now because of my very "time aware" dog, my evening spa has turned into something of a routine, as Sirius gets more and more restless as 9pm approaches!! Even from 8pm he will sit under my chair in he living room, and if I dont show signes of making ready he will begin grumbling and pawing, untill I move...so it goes as follows:

4pm....switch on spa to begin heating for the evening! The lid holds a lot of the heat in but I need the extra time to get it up to 39 degrees!!

8pm....water garden if we have had no rain. I have two massive tomato plants and some 6 foot high sunflowers as well as others!

8:30pm....change into swimwear and gown, fill Sirius water bowl, and bring treats into the gazebo

8:45pm.....prepare supper, open port, and prepare mp3 with waterproof headphones!!

9pm......Sink into hot steamy bubbles, give Sirius his snacks and chill out listening to fav tunez!!

Very regimented isen't it? muhahahahahaha!!! ...and needless to say I will be late tonight as I am writing this!!....But its not the same every night and some nights I dont have a spa at all. Perhaps the weather is too cold or I have just done a water change when it will need a full 10 hours to re-heat!! or even if I can't be bothered at all or Derek will use it, or both of us! but Sirius will still want his snacks!! But saying that though, Sirius seems to like the spa as when I get in he likes to lay next to it and watch the garden!!
Ok...gotta go.....his lordship, Sirius is waiting!! :)

Derek, changes his mind like a big daft woman, yet again!! *rolls eyes*

When I was a travel agency manager he would have driven me loopy, changing his mind!!!
Yesterday I had got our motorhome holiday "almost" in-the-bag!! as I had got a final quote, and info on insurance, as well as other bits and pieces sorted, and I was ready, phone in one hand and credit card in the other....then I phoned Derek.......
It was clear to me from his voice that he was having a bad day, so I just said "do I go with this or what?" but to my horror he said no!!! and that he wanted to talk about it tonight!! Good grief!! Anyway the "talk" about it tonight, did not happen...I gave him his tea, and then he skulked upstairs for the rest of the evening, on his computer! By now I had quite given up, and Sirius was reminding me that it was nearly "spa treat" time, so I took his mind off it with a game of ball in the garden!! AT about 8.50pm me and Sirius came in and I got ready for the evening bubble session, when Derek suddenly appeared!
"I found this cottage on the Dogs Trust website, and its £200 cheaper than doing a motorhome!" he exclaimed!!
and then he told me he had sent me a link!! I went into it and the darn thing just gave me an error message, and by this time I had a sulky dog giving me evils as if to say "get in the spa now!! I want my treats!" at this point I gave up and I shouted upstairs to Derek that I would look tomorrow.
Now Derk and I have done a Welsh cottage before, years ago in November time. Although the place was very quaint, the only source of heat was a "real" fire. Now as I had not got a clue how to start a real fire, it took me about an hour to get it going properly and even then it kept going out, and belched thick, acrid smoke into the small living room...and it was freezing cold!! Well, as I don't want a repeat of this unpleasent expierence I am non to keen about doing a "cheepy" Welsh cottage again!! If we did, I would take a convector heater, and my portable dvd player!! and I wont be too happy about it ! Also we have done a fair too many cottage holidays, and I want to explore different avenues of holidaying with a dog, like the boating trip we did, so the motorhome seemed like a good solution. Derek's argument is the cost of diesel and the fact that the van only does about 25 miles to the gallon, max! But what does he expect? Its not a tiny runarround, car. Its a bloody great 4 ton van!!!!
As for tonight, I have been promised the said "talk" about it again, but like last night, it wont happen, after nearly 20 years together I know him too well!! and he will just come in, have his tea, and vanish into his office!!!
I think I have resigned myself to the cottage holiday!!
As for today, well I have a ton of house work to do, as well as searching out new tracks for my ipod, and cleaning the spa area!!
Ho Hum!!!!

Just yesterday, Derek admitted he had been looking at boating holidays in France, which suprized me some-what as he has not mentioned boating since our Norfolk boards trip. As it is, it was me who was planning a trip on the North Norfolk broads in a bigger boat...I hadn't even considered Europe!!....

Derek has never traveled in Europe before, so this came as something of a shock.....Normally he isent interested in anywhere unless it involves a considerable amount of stress, endurance or wild adventure, but obviously our global jaunts have ceased now we have Sirius to consider...Derek was only put him in kennels "over my dead body!" as I will never leave him....
Way back when I was 14, I got my first trip abroad by pure accident!! It a long story but basically mum and dad had a row about Mothers day and they didn't speek to each other for weeks after. Thier favorite restraunt was near Northwich and called the "RhienGold!" and as dad dropped me off at school one morning he told me he was going to take my mum there to make it up!! Anyway mum actually though he said "book for the Rhienland!!" and not book the Rhiengold, so before dad knew anything about it mum had booked the 3 of us on a week long coach holiday!!! I found it really exciting, and I enjoyed every second of it because Germany is so very beautiful...on a side note this trip triggered my smoking as dad bought 200 JPS (the same brand I smoke today!) and shortly after we got home I discovered his "stash" behind the fire canopy, and decided to try one in the bathroom...Needless to say it was love at first puff!! Anyway it had been a coach tour and we took in other European countires going out and coming home, and not all were as pretty as Germany, and one of them was France which I didn't rate much compared to Germany!! So yesterday, when he told me he had been checking boats in France, I just said "Germany is much nicer, and the food in gorgeous!"...to my shock he said he had checked that too, but both had proved to be far to expensive at around £2,000 per week!!! Crikey!! I could book us the Carribean for that, I thought!!
Now sometime soon we are to attend a Doggie fun day and we are able to camp, but Derek is very reluctant about camping for some reason. Which is a shame as I was going to suggest camping in the Isle of Mann, another place I visited with my parents as a child, and Derek has not been too!! I have been looking at dog friendly guest houses on the Isle of Mann but nothing is certain yet, and the choice is quite limited. Also I still quite like the idea of boating, but I only wish Derek was able to steer one, as the prospect of another week stuck at the helm is not as appealing as it was once!! Well there are plenty of places to go boating in Britain, it dosn't have to be the Norfolk Broads!! Another thing I have considered is a dog friendly static caravan or perhaps going back to his aunties caravan in Ireland!!...there are many options to consider, but one thing is certain, it wont be soon.....Unfortunatly...

This blog is going to be a very serious warning about the new craze sweeping the internet!!

I-Doser!!!!!!! NEVER LISTEN TO THIS!!!!!!!!

For those of you who have not head of this, iDoser is a neural stimulation system, using pulses of sound at different frequencies through left and right headphones, to mimic the effect of drugs. Its legal, its free, as its on both limewire and youtube but most of all it messes with the brainwaves and indeed the brain, something which we don't compleatly understand the workings of!! and its here and sweeping the internet like the virus it is!!
Several days ago I read this blog on the Telegraph website...but I dident take it seriously enough, until I investigated...and listened to it!!


http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tomchivers/100044998/the-digital-drug-terror-that-is-sweeping-the-nation-possibly/

you will have to copy/paste, if you want to read!

I had read all kinds of things about this "legal high" and I naturally thought "year, right!" and dismissed it until I reminded myself that at the moment I am indeed using Solfeggio 528 Hz sound for relaxation and peacefullness...Next I thought, Vicky, don't be a hypocrite and try it for yourself so I did....

This video is of someone doing I-doser, and its not pretty!!
PLEASE DO NOT WATCH IF YOUR EASILY FREAKED!!



Bravely I clicked a link to a youtube video!! *not the one above* But one which contained the real sounds of one of the idoser...Its not music! its just an alternating beep, but my God, the effect on me was immediate!!!
...and I was not even wearing headphones!! (I aint that brave)
Instantly these frequency's hit my ears I felt as if I was going to fit!!! and it got worse by the micro second...horrified, I tried to move my finger over the mouse pad to stop the video, but to my horror, my finger would not move, so I had to use a heck of a lot of will power to move my finger to the back button!...When I managed to stop it, I was shaking, sweaty and very dizzy and still feel a bit dizzy now, an hour or so later!!!
Anyway, having the expierence of listening to it, if albeit for only a few seconds I would concluded that this might be the most dangerous thing to hit the internet!! I am not trying to scare anyone here, but I think we should all be aware of this horror and how kids are activly using this to mess about with their brainwaves!! Brainwaves are not there to be messed about with, and I have a feeling, if they are messed about with the consequences could be permenant brain damage........I know that a lot of my friends have teenage kids and I want them to be aware of this happening!!

DO NOT LISTEN TO I-DOSER!!!!!!..........unless you WANT to be sectioned!!

....and did you have your ears on!! (CB slang for on-air!)

As some of you know, my dad was a lorry driver and as a kid I was totally obsessed with "going down the road" with him!! So much so it effected my education, and frequently got my mum into trouble with which ever school I was at, at the time! (I went to 4 different schools) But oh it was fun...I had, had a bit of sulky week though, when sometime in 1981 my dad refused point blank to take me with him anymore, as he was getting snide, micky taking remarks about me from other lorry drivers. They were mostly related to the fact I looked much older than I was and already had a huge chest. They used to joke "Oh your awright for tonight then!!"...to which my dad would reply, very red faced, "Actually that's my 14 year old daughter!!" so for a while I was grounded from Dad's truck trips, and I was not happy about it!!
It had been a dark October evening when dad got home in his oil stained overalls one eveing, at about 7pm.
He had brought something with him, heavy, weighed down in a scruffy carrier bag! He just grinned at me, and told me to wait as he set (whatever it was) up on the kitchen table!!
It was a large black and chrome C.B. RADIO!!!
Mum and I looked on in awe, and for a moment I was so excited I could have popped!!!
Dad explained he had bought it off a fellow lorry driver for £15 as the driver in question had got a newer model. Mum had briefly remarked that £15 was worth a weeks shopping to which dad replied, it was for me, to cheer me up a bit!! Cheer me up? I was delighted!! But my delight suddenly gave way to the fear that I would have to use the thing too, and the push down microphone really did scare me at first. However, after just a week of having my new C.B. in my bedroom I was going at it like an old Ham!!! My ariel was a "Cherry Halfbreed" and only about 3 foot tall, attached to an old busquit tin covered in tinfoil. It got me as near as my mates in the next street, which was not satisfactory for my 14 years old self and I began to research getting one of the best aireals available, a 18 foot D.I. Thunder pole!!! After a bit of creeping from me, my dad got me one and this massive pole graced the back of our house (much higher than the tv areal ) until we moved in 1984....The C.B my dad had got me was a CBMaster 20-80 AM, which was actually an 80 channel *illegal* radio, but I didn't care as I was having the time of my life with it, and now with my huge areal I could DX over to the States too!! (dx-ing is a term used by ham radio people to *bounce* their signal around the globe when weather conditions are right) I even had California once!!! and I also kept a small notebook of all the "copies" I had, had...my *Handle* was Cherry Brandy, which at the time was my mums favorite tipple!! Also it didn't take long to meet my first on-air boyfriend, a chap from Padgate calling himself Peanut (real name Paul Humphries) he was several years older than me and it only lasted a couple of months until I found out he was seeing another C.Ber and I finished with him. Then I met someone else on air who I had vaguley known from school...His handle was Fire-Dragon and his name was Ian Struthers and we were together for several years after this, but that eventually ended too!! C.B was fun though as I made a lot of friends, and in a way it was so much more personal that the internet, but only in some respects!! Eventually the govenment clamped down on C.B'S like my poor AM radio and dad got me an FM C.B but that didn't seem to be as much fun, maybe because it was legal!! Lots of C.Bers like myself were put off and by 1985 the British public had fallen out of love with the C.B radio and the airwaves went silent!!
It was such a shame....and I would love to C.B again!!

10-4 for a copy good buddy?

How sick is this?
A well known collumist for the Sun and the News of the world uses the horrific story of Raoul Moat and the sick facebook page "RIP Raoul Moat you Legend"...TO DEMONIZE SMOKERS!!!!!!!!!!!

I quote:

*****SHE stood there, fag in hand, blowing smoke, declaring how incredibly funny it was that Raoul Moat had managed to hide from the police for a whole week.*****

Carole Malone is taking about Siobhan O'Dowd who began the sick facebook page "RIP Raoul Maot you Legend"
What Miss Malone fails to adress is the fact that Siobhan O'Dowd is a very stupid, brainless chav, not worth commenting on in the first place!!!
Its thanks to collumists like her and the media in general that made that sick facebook page so popular in the first place!! Good grief, is there no common sense in the world?
Now normally I read the Telegraph because its interesting and focuses on world events much more than other papers and infact reading this paper became a habit while traveling as you are given it free on most long haul flights...but occasionally I will decend to the tabloids and when I do it always annoys me in some way or another. Such as the News of the world, today on its paper website has no less than 4 stories on Jordan (Katie Price) alone!!! I really don't give a F*** what this waste of human existance is doing in her love life or elsewere! She is just a freaking Barbie doll!!! Surely there is more news worthy stuff out there...and then I get around to Carole Malones page and nearly fell off my chair when I read the first sentance of her "story". What the hell was she thinking? I will tell you what she was thinking..."Ohh having a jolly good whine about a sick face book page will make me look good in the public eye, and while we are at it, I shall demonize smokers so that everyone believe its only smokers who have the intelligence level of Siobhan O'Dowd...I'm sorry but Carol Malone has just proved she has the same intelligence level as the sick mare who started the facebook page in the first place!!! I know I have moaned about the anti smoking brigade more than once, but this sinks to a new, more sinister level, and I find it more than a bit creepy. Its thanks to people in the media, like her, that law abiding smokers like myself face abuse from strangers in the street, because all smokers are obviously stupid, inconsiderate chavs who blow deadly smoke into everyones faces!! Carole Malone needs to wake up and live in the real world, a world where todays smokers (like myself) try their very best to not let their enjoyment of tobacco infringe on any non smokers beautifully clean air!!This collumist actually thinks its trendy to demonize smokers, when we are just human beings like the rest of mankind, but we happen to enjoy tobacco!! What happened to tolerence!!? I would say to Miss Malone, why not turn your talents (if she has any) to more comment worthy articals instead of just writing what you think the sheeple will enjoy? Why not write on the Burkah debate, or how the coalition govenment is going to claw back the massive debt that Labour left us with? Yes there is indeed much more to the world than some thick woman who starts a stupid facebook page!! I mean its not as if the page is still on line! It was taken off on a few days ago! so why is it comment worthy? Collumists like her need to buck up their ideas and do some research into subjects before they start using horror stories to yet again demonize smokers! The media made this page as popular as it was, and even I who use facebook most days, did not know of its existance untill it popped up on the national news!! So I did indeed look at the page in disbelife!!.....and its crackpot author just "happens" to smoke!! WOW!! that must be comment worthy, Miss Malone!! I have skipped your page often, but I will be totally ignoring it in future!
As a side note I have left a comment on her page, which is heavily moderated by the way.....let me guess...my comment wont be published!!

*makes pot of tea.......lights up!*

Yes, you read the title correctly...the planets are "singing" to us!

Yesterday I had my interest re-fired in the pineal gland, sometimes referred to the "third eye" because it contains the same properties that are found in the human eye and it is light sensitive! I say re-fired because I first heard of this on my travels in India, Nepal and Tibet as far back as 1995!...The pineal gland is a tiny (about the size of a pea) gland in the geometric center of your brain that is mostly active in childhood and adolescents and even used in puberty (my puberty was very early starting at 10, and traumatic) By adulthood it lies mostly dormant and calcified, unless awakened. During my travels I was amazingly privledged to be invited into temples and monestaries and crossing my legs and contemplating the sounds I was hearing, I felt my spirit greatly uplifted and quite renewed!! For this reason Derek frequently *lost* me when I was on a "monestary hunt" I didn't really know it at the time but these *pure* chanting sounds were directly effecting my pineal gland!!
So whats this blog all about?...I hear you asking!
The pineal gland can be awoken by listening to certain sounds such as the "love" frequency 528, and by meditating on these sounds and using our dormant pineal we can become more self aware as well as spiritually aware! Descertes reffered to the pineal as the "seat of the soul" and the eye of the soul! and why not?...afterall this gland is centered at our deepest, most primal part of our brains!! ...When I was about 5, I actually believed I was the only, if albeit small person, in the world who could "see" as only I could see through my eyes and not through the eyes of others! Wacky, I know, but I was a wacky child as well as an adult, although I dont believe this anymore. But could this thought have been prompted by my "then awake" pineal gland? Who knows! Now as someone who has been through and indeed suffered from depression, I would find it very beneficial to re- awaken my pineal through meditation, and this is where the planets come in...The planets realy do sing to us through electromagnetic frequencies just as the monks sung when I was uplifted in the monestaries!! I will begin with Jupiter, our largest sibling and protector!! I say protector as Jupiter acts as a giant cosmic Dyson cleaner, because of its massive gravity, which sucks up comets and meteors in huge numbers! Without Jupiter our planet would have been destroyed a millenia ago! Jupiter really is our baby-sitter and after the Sun this is the next celestial body we should be greatfull for our existance!! Now Jupiters song is indeed at the magic 528 frequency!!! God's frequency, some call it!! and I shall be researching into this for many years to come, as its a "knock yer socks off" awesome study!!
Below is the song of Jupiter!!
Try and listen to this with head phones while meditating!!



Next is Saturn, our other giant protector!!!



and Uranus!! which incidently is the same colour (pale green) as that which pertaines to the 528 frequency!!



Wouldn't it be wonderfull if we could all take some time out from this mad crazy world, to contemplate and mediate on the songs of our planets, and re- awaken our pineal gland to find spiritual peacefulness and the deep joy in our souls!!

Believe me.....that joy really does exist!!.... We, as the human race, have just forgoten how to re-discover it!! :)

A very big pet hate of mine!!

This week is the 25th anniversary of live aid and I hopped over to youtube to watch some live aid footage to remind me of the time many years ago that I watched this event in a Warrington town centre pub, with a very good friend of mine!! Jane and I were both 18 and mildly drunk on halfs of cider and black, but had an excellent day out!! (yes...at 18, I was a lightweight!!) I vividly remember Quo doing "Rocking all over the world" so I tapped this into youtube search for a bit of nostalgia!...and indeed did other searches for bands that took part. Now attached to my laptop is a small but rather powerful, ipod docking port which doubles as computer speakers for me. Several vid's almost blasted my speakers to bits and yet other ones I could hardly hear!! For a time I thought I was either going deaf or there was something up with the docking port! NO....its simply annoying youtube sound levels. and its make even worse wearing headphones. With all the techy stuff we have today, surely youtube could have a standard sound level adjustment??
The same thing happens on TV!!
Who on earth has not noticed that adverts are so much louder than the programmes?
Gold and Watch channels are the worst culprits of this, I think!
Now think about it for a second....we, as the human race have advanced to put man on the moon, fly 8 times the speed of sound, connect live, instantly with others around the world and launch probes to other worlds and yet we must suffer from overly loud adverts as apparently there is no technology in existance to adjust sound levels on tv and computers without actually, physically turning the volume up and down..?? Ok, perhaps I am just too lazy to use the volume controle, but you would think with all the advancement we have today, such a thing would exist!! or perhaps I am just getting old and grouchy (lol) and a wee bit deaf after all my time dancing next to 10 zillion megga watt speakers in Mr Smiths club for many years!! or listening to my Sony walkman casette at full volume!! No, its just annoying geeks who can't be bothered with such a thing as standard sound level adjustment software!! If anyone has ever heard that such a thing exists, please email me!! I would pay good money for it!!

Last night in my drunken negotiation's with mum we agreed to meet today for shopping and lunch at Morrisons!

I had warned her about the heat, and standing around in bus stops but she assured me she would be ok, and she was desperate for cat food so I eventually agreed...Earlier this morning I phoned her and tried to put her off as the forecast was set for 31 degrees. It was all to no avail, she said she was going anyway, with out without me! So, at 11:30 I sauntered down to the bus stop for the short trip to the shop and lunch. Mum had been waiting at my stop when I got off, and instantly began wailing about the heat. I felt like saying I told you so but didn't, I just let her moan on. We shopped and I picked up a large plastic table mat which I wanted for the table in my spa so I wont get rings on it. Mum liked them too and she bought two of them, they are wipe clean and very handy....I was just about to find out just how handy they are.... Then we had lunch of fish and chips of which I had a pensioners portion (smaller) as I was not really hungry and we parted company at the traffic lights outside Morrisons car park! Mum didn't want to come back to my house today as it was indeed too hot (shock) and she wanted to get back for the cats, so we went for our seperate bus's. Now the wonderful smoking ban forbids smokers from smoking in bus stops so I stopped in the shade of a tree about 100 yards from the stop and lit up, and enjoyed my ciggie! Ahead of me at the said bus stop were several older people, and it looked pretty crowded, but I finished my ciggie and went to join them as the bus was due. I managed to squeeze my ever widening backside onto the end of the red bench next to a very frail old lady and a man and a woman in their 50's. It was indeed absolutly stiflingly hot as I waited and looked up the road for my non existent bus. Quite suddenly the frail figure next to me began to slide forward and in horror I realised she was fainting!!! The couple in their 50's were her daughter and son in law and began to help her. Without thinking I gently but firmly got hold of her arm to steady her, and suggested to the couple that they should take her jumper off as her face was bright red and she was obviously boiling hot! The th'ree of us eased her out of her blue cardigan as my mind was buzzing with things I could do to help this poor lady!...suddenly I got it!! Out of my bag I got the plastic place mat and began to fan her vigorously with it.
"Oh that's wonderfull!!!" the man had exclaimed "Thank you so much!!"
The lady began to come round, with the wafts from my place mat, and the glazed "not with it" look gave way to a more focused gaze and a delighted smile form her! As We waited and I wafted, I spoke with her daughter and son in law. It turned out this lady was 88 and had suffered two bad heart attacks last year!!! ...why on earth would they bring their frail elderly mum out in 31 degrees heat? this really had really got me baffled!!! The elderly, like babies also, do not have the same heat regulations systems that we have as adults!
By the time the bus arrived (which was late) she had come too sufficiently to stand with aid from her daughter and we helped her on the bus. They could not stop thanking me, but it wasn't thanks I wanted, I was just helping, and I hoped they realised that taking out their mum in heatwave weather is not a good thing, in fact its down right dangerous!!!
I hope there was a lesson learned today...as I wont be around next time!

Just watching the local news and got the shock of my life when a piece came up featuring a pub I was landlady at back in 1992!!

Back then it was called "The Rifle Butt" but during these politically correct times it is now called the Hart of Duston!!!

The current landlady called Lorraine Wager was on the news telling it like it is about the smoking ban, and how its affected her trade! She looks like a lovely lady and I wish her all the best in her excellent business, and hope that this ban might be lifted!! Its just a shame that this pathetic smoking ban is closing tens of pubs by the day, and when Derek and I are out for a drive we often pass closed, boarded up and sometimes vandalised pubs, which is indeed a very sad sight. It saddens me too that this was my chosen trade in life!! (thank goodness I got out) and I trained heavy and very hard for it, sometimes working almost 70 hours a week!! While I was at the Rifle Butt, my wages budget did not allow for a cleaner 4 days a week so I was up at 7am every morning cleaning, regardless of what time the regulars would let me lock up, which was normally about 2am!! Its not an easy life and I dread to think what its like now!! I admire Lorraine for her candidness in speaking out and I applaude her, loudly!!
The Rifle Butt was the first large pub I had run on my own!!
I think I mentioned somewhere else in my blog that I was there with a chap called Peter McKenna and every morning he would leave me too it at 7am only to return about 1am!! He got sacked because he was never there and I had to carry the ship on my own so to speak!! After Peter went I went with another lady to manage two other pubs in Northampton, before going on my travels....but my time at the Rifle Butt was a miserable and lonely one!! When I moved in there was no carpet up stairs, and it was draughty and damp!! It was an absolute tip upstairs, and down stairs in the two bar's it was not faring much better. I can remember on my first day, thinking "What the heck have I let myself in for?" and my question to myself was indeed justified. The lounge side was almost reasonable at this time ('92) but the bar side was a right "hole"...I could say Peter and I, but I wont as he was never there so I will just refere to me as singular....I had been promised a full referbishment but this never happend. In fact it only happened when I was off traveling in Asia almost two years later. I am happy to say the pub looks superb now!! Although I have not walked through those door since I left!
Good luck Lorraine!!!!!!!!
Your a star!! Keep up the good work!! x

Below is singer/songwriter Joe Jackson speaking on the "Forest!" smokers rights website!!

Guest post by JOE JACKSON

Ten reasons why the smoking ban stinks:

(1) It disregards property rights. The air in a pub ‘belongs’ neither to smokers nor nonsmokers, and certainly not to politicians, but to the publican, and it is the publican who should decide the smoking policy on his or her own premises.

(2) It sets a terrible precedent by blurring the boundary between public and private. A law court is a ‘public place’ – a nightclub is not, and neither politicians nor doctors have the right to legislate what people do in it. If we concede to them that right, they will inevitably extend it to our cars (as they are now trying to do) and then to our homes (which has already happened in parts of the US).

(3) It removes freedom of choice – not only the smoker’s freedom to enjoy a legal habit, but everyone’s freedom to work out their own compromises and solutions.

(4) It is anti-democratic. The government’s own Office for National Statistics found 68% opposed to a total ban, but like every other smoking ban in the world, it was imposed regardless. The only opinions which have been heard are those of medical authorities and lobby groups, and directly or indirectly, the pharmaceutical companies which fund them.

(5) It is socially divisive and encourages intolerance. Government is blatantly stigmatising a particular group, who must change their behaviour or be excluded from ‘correct’ society (a recent NHS campaign used the slogan ‘If you smoke, you stink’). Well-intentioned or not, antismoking authorities have created tremendous animosity between friends, neighbours and family members. They have also encouraged people to think that government can, or should, intervene to stop other people doing whatever they personally don’t approve of.

(6) It is hypocritical, since tobacco remains legal and the Treasury makes around £10 billion per year from taxing it. And, incidentally, there is a smoker-friendly bar in the House of Commons.

(7) Despite ever more frantic and contrived efforts to ‘prove’ otherwise, it is bad for business. Pubs and clubs are dying, and although the ban may not be the only factor, few people in the trade would deny that it’s a significant one.

(8) It is technologically backward, since it is not difficult, with decent modern air filtration, to make smoke virtually unnoticeable, and certainly harmless.

(9) It does not stop people smoking. Even if we find it appropriate in the first place to ban smoking in pubs in order to pressure people into quitting, it doesn’t work. In many countries smoking rates have risen since bans have been imposed.

(10) Finally, and most importantly, the government claims to be setting aside all these considerations in order to tackle a deadly health threat: 
‘secondhand smoke’. But there is no actual proof that even one person has died from this phantom menace. After 40 years of studies, antismokers can still only produce computer projections based on dubious statistics, and ‘relative risk ratios’ which sound scary but mean nothing in the real world. That’s why we see, for instance, posters telling us that tobacco smoke contains various nasty-sounding chemicals, without mentioning that they are present only at infinitesimal, harmless levels.

If we accept that such feeble evidence justifies a smoking ban, we are setting the level of acceptable risk so low as to justify banning just about everything else, too: cooking (which produces carcinogens), candles, incense, open fires, perfume, etc. Thousands of products, from household cleaners to cosmetics, contain higher levels of toxic chemicals than tobacco – and are still harmless.

Ultimately, the problem here goes way beyond ‘to smoke or not to smoke’. There is a worrying general trend towards more and more intrusive legislation, justified by more and more dishonest and misleading junk science and fearmongering. (Typical of this are recent claims that the continuation of a long-term decline in heart attacks is ‘caused by’ smoking bans, and the invention of a new threat, ‘thirdhand smoke,’ on the basis of no scientific evidence whatsoever).

What’s needed is not just the repeal of the smoking ban and other petty, oppressive laws, but a return to healthy scepticism, fairness, and common sense.

www.joejackson.com

I applaude you sir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love Vix x

This morning I realised I was about to run out of ciggies and as the local shop is miles away I decided to get the bus into town and get some at Sainsbury's...what I haden't realised was that today the gods were against me shopping!!
I have a terrible phobia of escalators which was brought on by that dumb escalator information film from the early 70's, so I got the lift up to the second level of the Grosvenor center via the New Look shop. My eye was caught by a huge display of bikini separetes and eagerly I stalked over to have a butchers, lead on by a huge pink sign announcing "20% OFF!!" ....Great!! I was thinking as I began to shuffle through the hangers to find styles I liked. As I ususally find, sizing is my problem, and most of the sizes were a tiny 8 and 10. However I am a 16 top and 14 bottom!! Everything was jumbled up and I would find a top in my size that I liked only to be dismayed when I found the matching bottoms were a size 10!! Time was getting on and my bus was due in a few moment so I hurridly decided to buy un-matched separets!! Afterall they are only for the spa. If I want to show off on a beach (not that I would) I would wear my Ed Hardy swimsuit. Anyway I came to the counter with 3 tops and two bottoms. To start with I nearly fainted at the price!! £58!!!!!! (what had happened to the 20% off) I asked the sales assistant if that was right and she said yes, pointing out that the sale things were not the designer items I had chosen!! "Well they were on the same rack!" I had exclaimed. Well I decided to keep my items but I was not happy about being charged the full price when a sign above the rack clearly said 20% OFF!!! I may not shop there again, methinks!!!
Later while hanging about in line for the bus, I had began to wish I had got a taxi back as the pungent smell of old people wafted in my direction!! I love old people as they have fascinating life stories to tell, but this bunch of four realy were NOT fragrent!! To top this the bus was late arriving, and then he parked in the wrong bay!!
On getting home I inspected my purchases and to my horror of horrors I found one of my black bikini bottoms was not a size 14..... it was a f**king SIZE 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......Unbeknown to me, I had gone on the size it said on the plastic hanger and not thought to check the size in the garment itself!!! Crikey I have not been a size 8 since I was 25!!!! and would certainly not even get one bum cheek in the bloomin' things today!! Well I can't even be bothered taking them back, and besides, I am a dab hand with a sewing machine, so I will cut the tops of the legs and make ties for them.
In other news:
On Sunday me, Derek and Mum took a drive to our local garden centre and I was delighted to find two tea candle lantern holders on 4 foot poles, and these were in the sale!! They make a wonderful addition to my spa zone and look really pretty when lit!! I suppose they will look better when the nights get darker. Also I have decided to collect the Royal Dulton limited edition "Henry and six wives" set as an investment! My first piece which I sniped at 5 seconds is "Anne Boleyn" for a bargain price of £133!! (worth about £200 at auction) and she arrived today! I am delighted and the piece is exquisite! Now I have 6 pieces to go!! However, I am a wee bit worried about the cost as a Catherine of Aragon piece from the same set just sold for £350 on ebay!!!
Lastly, last night while I was listening to my ipod in the spa, I got an annoying voice on one track saying "this is an illegal download" over and over again, and I can't see how the heck I picked it up as I don't use illegal downloads! *scratches head* So I spent the morning, today, trying to trace this rouge file and I think I have now deleted the right one....as for tonight, well the usually bubble session and port at supper time!! :)

Another list!!

Just the current songs on my iPod in no order what so ever!! Some fairly new, some golden oldies to remind me I am 43 this year!! Ugh!!!
Not all the tracks I have will be listed here....just the ones I love the most!! ;)

Armin van Bruuen - Burned with Desire (Chillout mix)

A guy called Gerrald - Voodoo Ray

David Guetta - Delirious!

j-Lib - The Red (Instrumental)

SoHo - Hippy chick

Benny Benassi - Starship!

Dont stop beliving - Journey

Freemasons - Uninvited!

KLF - Last train to Transcentral

Marylin Manson - Beautiful People

Bronski Beat - Hit that perfect beat!

DJ Tiesto feat Tegan and Sara - Feel it in my bones

Scouting for Girls - This aint a love song

Seleena Gomez - Comes naturally

Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love

Bow wow wow - I want candy

Agnes - Release me

Space Cowboy - Falling Down

David Guetta - Love takes over

KoXo - Step by step

Cicaine - Hiding all the stars

DJ Rui Da Silva feat Tietso - Touch me

N-joi - Anthem

Moby - Disco Lies

Prascilla Reena - Dollhouse!

Ce Ce Penistone - We got a love thang!

Bellamy Brothers - Its the reason

49ers - Come on and touch me

Jeff Lynne - Sooner or later

Kelis - Fireworks (4th July!)

Freemasons - Love on my mind

The Beloved - Kind of love that takes me higher!

Fleetwood mac - Abatros!

Def Lapperd - Animal

Mika - Love Today


Just a small selection of old and new that I like...may post some more soon, but I change the track listing so often its difficult to keep up with myself!! But at the moment I have an odd liking for DJ Tietso!! and the Freemasons (not just because I am one!) as well as other DJ type dance music! Trying to re-live my mis-spent yooff!! hehehehehe............