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View Article  Keep on Trucking..............
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View Article  HACKED??
DO NOT click on any of the links that have magically appeared in my last entry!!

ITS A HACK!!

I thought it was too supreem to be true....I had no hits from Greenland recently! ;)
View Article  Lisa Woodman...Ahhhh ITS A PUBLICITY STUNT!!
Admittedly it did take me 24 hours to figure this one out!!...but I am a little slow these day!! Its my age you know!!

Lisa Woodman is lining herself up to be on the Jeremy Kyle Halloween special!!

Seriously though, will folks stop at absolutly nothing to get cheap, gutter press publicity these days? And YES I am making it worse by blogging about it too. But as my comment about said "cheap publicity" was deleted on the Suns comments page for this article, I feel I just have to speak out!
So what next in the illustrious career of mum of 4, Miss Woodman?
Big brother, Strictly, Celebrity get me out of here, Jeremy Kyle and God FORBID, Dr Who!...?????
I shudder to think!
Ok, she is most likely a very nice lady, but let us look at what she is trying to achieve here. She is an aspiring glamour model!! But at the risk of sounding bitchy she certainly does not look 28. My old school girl mates, all now in their mid 40's look much better than this, and some are even grandmothers!! She looks at least 10 years older than her stated age, so lets say for arguments sake she IS 38, at that age she IS far too old for glamour modeling, as most glamour model agencies would tell her. In my own expierence I was signed to the Fiona Martin school of modeling and charm at the age of 4, and did child model catalouge shoots in the early 70's. I freaking HATED IT!! Basically I was a tom-boy and hated the pretty frocks and fancy hairdoo's with a vengence. Things came to a head when Fiona Martin loudly announced to my astonished mother...
"Mrs Short!! your daughter will never make a model!! SHE WALKS LIKE A FARMER!!!"
So whats the point of this I hear you saying?
Well model agencies (albeit legit ones) are generally very strict on who they signe. At the end of the day they are a business and are out to make money...very sadly I feel that this lady will atract the "wrong" type of offers, like porn work. And as a responsible mother of 4, she should think very carefully about accepting such offers, but if thats what she does want well all well and good, but personally I feel her children should be her first priority.
Now lets look at this ladies photo in modelling terms:
Frankly the good Lord did not bless her with pretty looks. But this should not really matter as lots of models are not pretty. Kate Moss is very much a plain Jane as are others I should mention, but these are mostly catwalk models, who really only need to look like a walking clothes hanger to make money. Glamour modeling DOES need a pretty face, to some degree. But any lady CAN look very pretty with the right make up. I am not pretty, and look like a monster in the mornings, but for years I have been told my green eyes are my best facial feature, so with make up, I can skillfully make the most of them. Someone also cruelly announced on a Dr Who forum that I "am ugly with a face full of zits" (spots). This upset me greatly as I suffer from polcystic overies and a symptom of this is spots arround the time of my period. But again with carefull make-up this can be easily disguised. However this lady does have a very good figure! Most women would kill for a figure like hers and she has even had 4 kids! But with the over inflated boobs she just looks odd to me. Women with naturally large boobs, myself inncluded, are usually on the dumpy side...if I was her I would get them reduced slightly, maybe to a D instead of her current FF cup. I can just imagin her toppling over for being top heavy! Basically if she wants achieve her goals I would suggest a total make-over, and loose the straw like blonde hair!! Straw like blonde, over-dyed hair does not look good on any lady of whatever age...Saying all this though I do wish this lady well in her quest. But pulling cheap publicity stunts like the one in the Sun, she is just lowering herself and what she really needs is a massive dose of self respect.
And FORGODNESS SAKE!!! LOOSE THE DOMINATRIX PORN CLOTHES!!
Reserve them for the privacy of the bedroom.

Anyway this is a VERY heavily photoshopped picture of Miss Woodman in super hero mode

"Is it a bird?....is it a plane?...no its... SUPER-BOOBIE-WOMAN"

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View Article  ????? *throws up*
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4079489/Woman-barred-from-every-club-in-town-over-sexy-clobber.html

Proof there IS a VERY FINE LINE between looking sexy and looking like a CHEAP 50p hooker!!
View Article  sending links to my email...??
Just a small request!

If you send me an email with a link in, could you please explain what is in the link and why you would want me to look at it!!
Not difficult is it??
Otherwise I will not open it if I have no idea what it is, and will simply delete it!

thanks
View Article  ...and tonights "Creature Feature" is...The Thing!!


Its seems like a billion years since I last saw this having almost worn out my video copy!!
Over Christmas and New year I have been on a bit of a 50's-60's sci-fi horror kick and as a result I have recently enjoyed the original version "The Thing from another world" much to my pure delight!
In the orignal based on the 1930's short story "Who Goes There?" by Don A. Stuart. Scientists at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out with an electric blanket! (of all things! pardon the pun!) and I belive the 1951 version directed by Christian Nyby was the very first film to use a fire suit for a body on fire scene!...anyway, now that I have refreshed myself with the story I stupidy realised I could no longer watch my Capenters 1982 video as we don't have a video recorder anymore. So yesterday while shopping in town for my mums birthday present I popped into HMV and picked up the dvd for £3!!...£3 for what I consider to be a masterpiece of sci-fi horror is almost insultingly cheap I thought!!
Now let me take you back in my very own Tardis to 43 Thelwall lane, Warrington, sometime in the spring of 1985!
At the time I was living at my dads and on my way home from work one evening I picked up "The Thing" video for my local video shop called the Box Office. Like me, my dad enjoyed both sci-fi and horror (he sneaked me into see Jaws when I was only 10 years old and so scared I spent almost the entire movie hiding under my coat, for which he never forgave me!)
"I got this for tonight!" I exclaimed, brandishing the video under my dads nose.
"Lets have a look then?" he said taking it off me and studying the back of the box
"Kurt Russell is in it!" I had grinned, as I had the major hots for Kurt Russell at the time. Dad knew this and rolled his eyes and then said "this sounds like a remake of an old film" but he coulden't remember the name off-hand.
At 8pm dad and I settled down...he with his good sizing of rum and black and me with an equally good sizing of Malibu and coke. He flicked the living room light off and I slid the black cassette into the video....
Now normally my dad was a bit of a film critic and while watching any film with him he would always make critical comments about what ever we happened to be watching. I knew somthing different was going on as the film began as my dad was totally silent...and remianed silent throughout the film! Several times I looked over at him expecting to see him asleep but no...his eyes were fixed on our TV!!
AND with very good reason!!
Very soon I began to realise the film we were watching was a compleatly NEW dimention in terror!! This WAS a MASTERPIECE!!! and in my view even made the awesome "Alien" look like an episode of Play School!! Several times I stupidly realised I was sat open mouthed, un-blinking, with my fingernails digging into the fabric of my chair...when it ended I was actually shaking as I greatfully turned on the living room light.
"Well? did you enjoy that?" I asked
"Uhuh-uh" ....was all my dad could manage untill he had drained his bottle of Lambs Navy!
Lets just say that night I dident sleep too good and became convinced the scarey spider head monster was lurking under my bed, like I was some 5 year old kid when infact I was 18 at the time!!!!
I can honestly say: to date, John Carpenters "The Thing!" is the ONLY horror film to ever give me nightmares.
Several years later I was not surprized to learn that Rob Bottin, just aged 22 when he did the amazing special effects for the Thing had actually worked so hard on the film he suffered severe exhaustion, so bad that "creature creator extraordinaire" Stan Winston had to be drafted in to cover for him. To this day the genius that was Stan Winston was never credited for his work on the Thing. Very sadly he died in 2008 at the age of 62. I am hoping to see a credit for his fine work on my new dvd, tonight.
Tardis zings forward to January 2012....
Last year a new version of the Thing was made and I have not seen this yet...infact I am almost afraid too, incase it has been ruined as sometimes remakes can be, and as most of the shape-shifting monsters in the 1982 version were actual puppets, I find it hard to invision how modern day CGI will replace that kind of mastery...untill then, all I will say is that the latest retelling of this fascinating story has a HELL of a lot to live up to!!

happy nightmares and love Vix x
View Article  Covent Garden Opera house - some notes!
Some of you may remember Derek and I went to see War of the Worlds ALIVE in Birmingham a while back and I was able to take many photos and video (subsequently posted to youtube) of the awesome Fighting Machine!
Covent Gaden is a very different kettle of fish!!
Absolutly NO photos or video is allowed so I wont be able to post any of this magnificent peformance anywhere, unfortunatly! I will be taking my Blackberry but it will be firmly switched off. So big appologies if anyone was looking forward to seeing any pics or vids of the said event.
I have never been to Covent Garden before so I have been reading up on it rather a lot of late and from this I have gleened that my black and white ballgown is out as it would be too impracticle with all the stairs we are going to negociate. And besides there is no formal dress code anyway which raised my eyebrows a little. So after much mooching about in my wardrobes I have come up with my Miss Sixty purple satin dress trousers with my best "Dark Angel" corset top and a black velvet waistcoat with my Masonic watch fob and chain. Smart, slightly Bohiemian but very me I think!! Oh and not forgetting my bag and opera glasses and the all important page of nicorette to stave off the ciggie cravings. There is only one interval in nearly 4 hours so I will need them!!! hehehe
Anyway must crack on with chores and much study....see you soon! :)
View Article  When Derek met Vicky 1993-94



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and the same day on the cliffs!

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and on a visit to a Tudor manor the same day!

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and this is me age 25 taken at mums about the same time I first me Derek in October 1993!

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View Article  Catherine of Aragon *16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536*
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and an absolutly stunning modern artists impressions of Catherine in her mid 20's

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View Article  Freemasonry
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Photobucket
View Article  twitter!!
is having much fun on twitter!! :)
View Article  Masonry... our becon!
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View Article  The song of my people!!
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See you sooon!!!!! x
View Article  Bolivian bus horror...and flashbacks...
Firstly please let me say dont click on the link if your upset easily...

It also shows an incredibly brave, hereoic bus driver trying desperatly to save his double decker bus from a landslide...He dident make it, but fortuenally he off loaded his 50 passengers, in effect saving their lives, before attempting the move. May God bless this poor man! its just such a shame his insane bravery cost him the biggest price of all...I felt my heart break when I saw this yesterday, and it even brought me to tears as I began to have vivid flashbacks of our incredibly lucky (perhaps lucky is the wrong word!) bus crash on the Chinese/Tibetian highway in the Autumn of 1995

***In respect for the dead driver, I have decided to remove this horrific clip***

This is the notorious Camina De la Murerte, literally translated as the "Death road!" even the locals pray and make offerings to their gods for their safety before travelling on here. And the one thing I have learnt fom my years on the road and thats if the locals are praying for safe passage then you KNOW your in trouble...Uptoo 200 people die annually on this highway to hell and thank goodness I haven't been there!! Which is just as well because Dereks taste for adventure travel can be just as insane as the bus drivers we encountered on our Asia oddesy. I can well remember watching the Bolivian Top-Gear special with him and he kept saying how exciting it looks! "We must go somtime!" he grinned at me *not bloody likely* I thought...Thankfully the nearest we got was our tour of Costa Rica some years ago, and even that included some very hairraising rides though the jungle.
But oddly enough there is a thriving tourist buisness that centers around this road!! Mountain bikers looking for the ultimate challenge (Derek loves mountain biking) Backpackers just taking the bus for the hell of it and then tell their friends "we travelled on the death road!" There is a huge ammount of travel snobbery between backpackers...So I am really happy to say this is one area of the world that wont be seeing my ever widening backside, anytime soon!!
All the same last night I could not sleep as the memories came flooding back.
And I pray God bless the soul of this brave driver who saved 50 lives! he was a true hero!
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About me!!.......... Barm pot, and Tudor history obsessive! Travel addict who has authored articles for Lonely Planet travel guides, namely Everest Base camp trek, and has written for the Travel Trade Gazette! Dr Who manic weirdo, widely outspoken!! Expert Port artist and perfected in the arts of sprouting crap and making strange observations! Passionate lover of horror movies and science fiction. Freemason and proud of it! Loves all the arts and sciences and all things Masonic! Often has difficulty in making sense due to huge amounts of said Port! Enjoys cooking! Is an active member of PETA and IFAW and campaigner for animal rights. Collector of odd looking Troika pottery. Owned by a huge furry French Sheep dog called Sirius and bonded in matrimony to quiet, non drinking university educated, hippy backpacker and banker, Derek F. Harrison! has no sprogletts! and is now a lounging, lush lady of leisure!!