Thank you, I am very happy to receive this prestigious award, I would like to thank my agent, my family etc etc It is a proud moment and I am thrilled and can't wait to get started!
please choose one of the preceding paragraphs to show how I feel about this award ;-)
so thank you very much Very Bored HouseWife I have to tell 10 secrets, and to be fair I'm not the kind of girl that keeps secrets, no really I'm not! so I may struggle, or have to tell 'secrets' that are actually known to a few people but not to all of you dear readers!
- I have CMT (charcot-marie-tooth aka Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy) sounds nasty? it isn't a bowl of cherries to be sure. But I have it very mildly, my ankles are weak, my balance is very poor (this icy weather is a nightmare!) and my hands are extremely weak, my fingers are clawed, I have witches hands. On the plus side it affects pain perception, if you ask me, having a baby isn't painful at all ;-) just a bit tiring.
- I own a sex toy that I bought when I was 18, used a few times and then wanted to get rid of it! I have no idea how to throw it away as I'm scared the bin men would see it! It's hardly the kind of item you can put on Freecycle or send to 'Help the Aged' either. So it's hidden at the back of a cupboard. I bet the batteries have all leaked inside it. I refuse to look.
- I regularly 'find' people when travelling, I have to date ; met a girl on a train that was going to the same college as me and we are now firm friends; met a nun stranded with no way home due to a train strike, so we shared a taxi with her; found a man in California that missed the same train we did, we took him to another station; and today collected 2 ladies at a bus stop waiting for a bus that I knew was cancelled...after telling them we ended up travelling together.
- I'm a snob. Not really a secret. but I'm not proud, I do try but I know I'm a snob, I hate instant coffee, can only drink it real, I prefer to use a fountain pen to a biro, I like posh things and generally enjoy the highlife. I'm much more Penelope Keith than Felicity Kendall in the Good Life
- I love camping more than almost anything else. Tents are my passion but I also long to own an old VW van. I love to do festivals with my daughter. I love it all the mud, the nasty toilets, the late nights, the beer, the friends, the strangers..........hhmmmm doesn't really go with 4 above does it? maybe I'm not so posh after all!
- I love the Twilight series (this is not a secret - more of a confession!)
- I am terrified of spiders
- I wish I had taken a different career path but am afraid to risk losing the money I make in order to change it.
- I'm hopelessly untidy and disorganised. I'm lazy and a procrastinator. I am happy with this.
- I always said I wouldn't diet but now I'm 10 stone I think I really should look at what I eat and how much beer I drink. I want to be 9 stone again, I liked it there it felt good.
Angie
Lucy Melford (cos I'm loving her Brighton Museum posts today!)
Hyla
Blunt Bloke
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Madam Salami
oh and also
Ruth
whythankyouverymuch
ReplyDeleteI shall do this next week after my darling Lucy has gone back to Teh Mericas. I shall need something to take my mind off it!
I've also had a number 2 situation, I think I wrapped it up in many hundreds of sheets of newspaper before binning it (bit of an adult pass the parcel if you like), I even contemplated putting it in a neighbours bin in the middle of the night but the thought of being caught put me off.
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bwahahahaha!! the neighbour's bin would be hilarious!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteFrom one tattooed Mummy to another - I have no idea how you can love camping. It is all damp mildewey and horrible.
ReplyDeleteSpiders are lovely and eat flies, which are yikky.
I had your number 2 situation, I just found a random bin and deposited it, then fretted for weeks that it would somehow find its way back to me...perfectly rational
I totally agree on the fountain pen and finer things..nothing like a bit posh to raise morale.
Getting rid of your unwanted sex toys is a problem, there's no getting away from it. I had one that was rubbish in every way, but what I found most upsetting was that it was sparkly pink. Seriously. Sparkly Who does that benefit, exactly?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, during one big clear-out I tossed this piece of sex junk into a bin-liner with a load of other stuff, left it by the back door (which happens to be next to my son's bedroom)and planned to think no more about it until bin day.
For the following two days we were plagued by this irritating buzz, but put it down to a dodgy heater. It was only when one of our cats decided to do a little bit of its own investigation did we realise where the buzz was coming from. My cat had thoughtfully uncovered it and there it was, resplendentaly sparkly, on the top of the bag next to - remember - my son's bedroom. He must have passed it a dozen times and not said a word!
Even now I cringe. But fair play to the batteries, they really do keep going longer.
Love your blog, hon!
Chastity x
ha ha ha Chastity - if there was a prize for hilarious comments you'd be the winner! Thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteReading this I almost thought it was me for a moment. You really can't beat posh in all things ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'm happily married to my little sex toy (and I have permission to write that!) Recycling is not an option :)
ReplyDeleteSpiders I can cope with; it's slugs that terrify me.
Thanks for the link... and thanks for making me smile.
Angie xx
thank you!
ReplyDeleteI fear I havent lives as have not owned a sex toy.
ReplyDeleteSpiders are very scary, they crawl in your mouth while you are blisfully sleeping!
I also share your career fustrations, I am slowly making a plan to tackle mine.