tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73019355123108574392024-03-13T07:54:43.666+00:00Gledwood Vol 4 (new main blog) ~~ WORLD WITHOUT HEROIN ~~Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.comBlogger350125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-73504243884042470692017-05-18T20:13:00.001+01:002017-05-18T20:13:13.050+01:00Still Alive And WellI'm still here, haven't died. Hopefully getting a new computer soon, one that DOES go online! Hope everyone's well. Wow this is the longest I've ever gone without posting, more than 8 months. oops...Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-88357077917396649592016-08-05T20:07:00.001+01:002016-08-05T20:07:19.671+01:00Still Alive (& well)<a href="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/d4/1c/d5/d41cd5507937e08e92672187e2a77f31.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="159" src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/d4/1c/d5/d41cd5507937e08e92672187e2a77f31.jpg" width="200" /></a><b style="color: #3d85c6;">HI PEOPLE I'm still here</b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">. Haven't been online as no computer at home. My freak of nature tooth wasn't a tooth at all. It was a piece of toenail clipping or kettle scale (so to speak) erupting through the gum. It's now sitting on my TV set, waiting for the dentist to look at. I </span><a href="http://www.dentalfearcentral.org/forum/showthread.php?6469-Calculus-working-thru-gum"><span style="color: lime;">googled the matter</span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> and apparently you can get bits of bone working loose and coming through the gum. How weird is that.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">I hope you're all okay. Sorry I can't hang around today. The internet gives me panic attacks. Well, kind of. Take care xx</span>Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-78633960691928357462016-03-30T15:33:00.001+01:002016-03-30T15:33:43.691+01:00Spring at last/My freak of nature tooth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've got an extra tooth sticking out of my gum kind of NEXT TO the last tooth. I had an impacted widsom tooth in that corner but it was EXTRACTED. How <a href="http://www.healthboards.com/boards/dental-health/377536-i-have-6-wisdom-teeth.html">can I possibly get 5 wisdom teeth</a>? In fact I suspect I have ANOTHER unemerged tooth beside the one that's sticking out. It looks like a razor blade of white stuff sticking out of my gum. Nowhere near as red and horrible as the pictures I've googled up but they're surely "all time worst" teeth. (I hope.)<br />
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UGH! This is what mine looks like, but not as bad. Freaky, huh?<br />
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I'm going to the dentist just as soon as my paperwork is sorted out. I am pretty sure they need to let it emerge as much as it's going to before yanking it out, and it's only partially emerged. I really need an exray. Ugh. I HATE TEETH!Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-71547712734118758432016-02-22T18:26:00.003+00:002016-02-22T18:26:55.109+00:00RALPH FRIDGE MEGAMIX<span style="color: #444444;"><b>RALPH FRIDGE MEGAMIX </b></span><br />
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The 10 year old crossbreed, who was named "Elmo" by his rescuers was found covered in urine and faeces with multiple dislocated and broken bones. He was taken to a local RSPCA centre but had to be put down.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">WISHING WARMEST GREETINGS OF THE SEASON AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE XXXOXXX</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">Are you like this too: every time you seem just about to have got around to mastering one thing then another (which cropped up ages ago, unnoticed) has gone so ridiculously neglected it's like the enchanted forest around Sleeping Beauty's Castle... Well my life is like that!</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">Anyway, have a happy new year as well XxXxXxX</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">AVE MARIA: this isn't the tune most people think of when you say Ave Maria but it's a beautiful tune nonetheless. (Music by Gounod Overlaid with Bach's Prelude in C Minor)</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">This is the "proper" Ave Maria. There are loads of versions and although this isn't the strongest version it's the best non-operatic Latin version I could find without spending all day at the computer...</span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;">I'm listening to it again. It is quite good. What an amazing tune!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>I'VE BEEN so boring of late.</b> Haven't done any scandalous thing. Have been giving clean tests at the druggyclinic. Wow. The "cleaner" I am the more my mood cycles round and round but I don't care really. I have been concentrating on my writing. I need to learn to draw now ~ to produce lovely illustrations for my stories. Right I've got to go. No internet at my house so I'm very stretched for time here at the internet caff. All the best to everyone ;-)</span>Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-52329903737468912892015-09-08T14:40:00.001+01:002015-09-08T14:40:45.293+01:00Rare Duck! Near Where I Live ~ Shock Horror!<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I SPOTTED THREE GADWALLS the other day. They are "quite uncommon" according to the bird book. They look like ordinary brown (female) mallard ducks, except they're smaller, have yellow bills, and dive a lot. That's how I first spotted them, by the diving.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">This is what they look like. The nearer one is the male. I saw three females but they got really nervous with me crashing along the river bank and hiding near a wasps' nest. So they all took off and pinged away.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Today I saw a male and a female. They do look just like in the picture. Wow. I can't believe that I, of all people, actually saw a rare piece of wildlife ~ WOW!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">This is a female. Notice she is more duck-shaped than a duck! (Ie a mallard.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">This is a female mallard. Notice the bright blue speculum (that's the coloured band on her wing).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I'm being really respectable these days. Have been writing a LOT. I might have to start up another blog ~ a "writer's blog".</span><br />
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<br />Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-19899016463635208092015-08-16T19:10:00.001+01:002015-08-16T19:10:39.102+01:00Learning About Birds<a href="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/naturelibrary/images/ic/credit/640x395/g/gr/grey_wagtail/grey_wagtail_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/naturelibrary/images/ic/credit/640x395/g/gr/grey_wagtail/grey_wagtail_1.jpg" height="197" width="320" /></a><b>THE OTHER DAY I found an old Bird Book</b> I must have bought from a second hand shop. So I started learning all about Birds. Then I got a more modern bird-identification guide. Yesterday I took it out and went bird-spotting (without binoculars or any special equipment) and I saw ~ literally all these birds lined up in a row ~ a baby herring gull, a magpie, some Canada geese, a duck that was probably a male mallard in eclipse plumage (ie it looked like a female, only had a yellow bill) and this duck keeps diving a lot. Every time I see it, it's disapearing. 2 coots. And a (male) grey wagtail. If it wasn't a grey wagtail then it was a yellow one, but the birdbook said the grey wagail appears bluish on top, which this one did. Wow how exciting is that.I actually identified some real birds. I was hoping the baby herring gull was a giant skua (known in America as a jaeger) but no such luck. And that the mallard duck was a teal. But no. But grey (or yellow) wagtails are pretty rare so how cool is that? Also, I saw a pied wagtail near the wheelybins by the post office where it likes running along the ground picking off ants. Oh, it's a bird's life!<br />
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This is a great skua ~ notice how intimidating and reprimandy it appears. Aparently they harrass herring gulls and arctic terns etc until they drop their fish or puke up, disgorging their dinner for the skua to feast on. What charming creatures. I'd like to be one in my next life. No I'm just kidding. I'd rather be a vulture:<br />
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Oh. They're not the best-looking birds are they. If I wanted to be a beautiful vulture then I'd be an African lammergeier. I think these look brilliant:<br />
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Wow. OK I've got to go take care everyone ... :-)Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-76987268823237967332015-07-21T10:06:00.002+01:002015-07-21T10:09:56.000+01:00"Hamster in Tiny Playground" video gem"HAMSTER IN TINY PLAYGROUND"<br />
This is a pingpong ball-sized roborovski pygmy hamster, the tiniest type of hamster in the world. I used to keep them as pets.<br />
ISN'T THIS CUTE!<br />
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HERE ARE MY 3 LATE ROBOS<br />
Bashful, Itchy and Spherical<br />
This is the only Youtube video I ever posted:~~~ <br />
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WHILE WE'RE AT IT, HERE'S SOME MUSIC
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I don't know why but I found myself thinking about my past and feeling very kind of ... what's the word ... I dunno. Sorry for myself? Disgusted? Lost? Indulgent? Who knows?? Well that's the thing you see, I think my biggest problem in life has been that I'm separate and divorced from myself. This makes me incredibly "objective" and excellent at second-guessing myself. But terrible at actually knowing how I feel. Lousy at living a joined-up existence. And very bad indeed at being one person instead of a collection of perceptions scattered all over the place.<br />
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eroin.) It made me feel whole and I have never been that. When I went mad a few years ago I was hearing voices every day and the voices are a kind of separation from self. When I was really insane it was impossible to tell whether I was thinking, hearing or imagining somebody else's dream. Nowadays I only hear voices when I'm really tired (I'm not talking about a dream ~~ I mean I'm awake when I hear them, but maybe you could call it a waking dream.) I sometimes see things... but none of that bothers me. Depression bothers me sometimes. Insecurity used to bother me a LOT. But I'm still to this day separate from myself... so how am I ever going to find out WHO I AM???<br />
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I'm sorry to everyone I haven't been in touch with but after this I really have to run; I'm too scared of staying online. Don't you feel like you're being spied on? Or that the internet is sucking your life away? I think one day we'll all be washing dishes and get sucked down a digital plug hole swirling with the babbling memories of times past and then we'll get swooshed away into the communal sewers of 21st Century Blues and wonder where the hell our lives went. Know what I mean? Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-23584036798206929792015-06-04T11:55:00.001+01:002015-06-04T11:55:23.732+01:00Deathly Methly<a href="http://i1.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article1362980.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Methadone" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://i1.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article1362980.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Methadone" height="320" width="267" /></a><b>THAT DEADBEAT METHADONE clinic have given me a script that's one day short</b>, so I have to fly in there. I really hate going in that place. The appointments are only every 2 weeks, but somehow it feels like every 2 days.<br />
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My methadone dose has gone up again. A few weeks ago I went a whole week feeling ill and thinking the pharmacy had "somehow" watered my dose. Then he gave me a weekend script in a big old bottle that was the ready-mixed type (no margin for error then ~ the other type comes as a green syrup and they have to add a stronger methadone mixture so there have been stories over the years about pharmacists forgetting to add any at all. Or selling the strong stuff off.)<br />
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Of course I want to get off it but I can never stay stable for long enough. It's not as if I drink or take any other drugs apart from the odd bit of the "other". Also I keep catching illnesses like flu. The real flu. Not withdrawals. And other things. So there's always something. (A brilliant excuse.)<br />
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Oh I don't know. I didn't go to bed last night and I can't think straight. I've got to go. All the best to everyone. Hi Dreamer.Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-47005167574654714302015-05-06T17:25:00.000+01:002015-05-06T17:25:05.900+01:00Online Problems<a href="http://crystallakeoralsurgery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/security-digital.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://crystallakeoralsurgery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/security-digital.jpg" /></a><b>I DID GET A NEW COMPUTER but there's some problem stopping me getting online. We've tried EVERYTHING to try and get past this</b>, but I've a horrible feeling the computer's going to have to go to some repair shop. It's working perfectly but I reckon the security program is preventing me going on the internet. Eg the first day I got it I managed to use free broadband from the public library; two days later the computer was blocking this. I've no idea exactly what's wrong, but I reckon it's a security program interfering and kicking me off again, because my own broadband account says I HAVE been on, with a tiny amount of data uploaded and downloaded.<br />
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Anyway I've been busy writing and it would have been a distraction to have the internet right there when I was supposed to be directing my attention into Microsoft Word!<br />
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I hope y'all are well. Soon as I am back online I shall certainly be back here ~ hopefully that shouldn't be too long.Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-49570493228907148182015-03-27T18:47:00.002+00:002015-03-27T18:47:29.397+00:00Back online!<a href="http://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/_processed_/csm_LenovoM30_Quer_5baf2aad36.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/_processed_/csm_LenovoM30_Quer_5baf2aad36.jpg" height="258" width="320" /></a><b>BIG WOW! I got a new computer and I'm back online ...</b><br />
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<b> </b>But my home broadband doesn't work so I'm reduced to traipsing back and forth down the local library.<br />
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BUT GLEDWOOD'S BACK! WOW!!!<br />
<br />Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-41830762880987843152015-03-17T13:00:00.000+00:002015-03-17T13:00:00.221+00:00Pets Wear Specs...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>I KNOW THIS IS CORNY...</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">But isn't it oh so cute!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Is this the most intellectual cat in the world?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">These glasses are even bigger than my old ones</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Wow!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Computer meets a new kind of mouse...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Should have gone to Specsavers, mate!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">People used to think I used to look like this..!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">... Looks like our old religious studies teacher!...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">I would luuurve to have a pet chinchilla...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Considering how slowly hedgehogs move, it would take half a lifetime </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">just to make it to the opticians</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">(+another half a life to get back)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Cheep-cheep!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i>Here's an hour+ of music...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Mickey Finn Starlight 1992</span></center>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">This used to be one of my favourite rave mix tapes...</span></center>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Until I was stupid enough to lend it to someone...</span></center>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Who never gave it back!</span></center>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Similar style of music from same year...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">This is less "hardcore" + more tuneful ...</span></div>
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Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-30836643482582223722015-03-16T17:41:00.004+00:002015-03-16T17:41:52.921+00:00Hammies and Guinea Swines<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: red;">HAMSTERS LOOK A BIT LIKE MINI GUINEA SWINES...</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Guinea pigs are more button-eyed and stoic; hamsters specialize in looking surprised!</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">That guinea swine's absolutely enormous!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Hammy! You're tiny!</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">some rodents look very intellectual too...</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">aww... ain't they cute!...</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">... and last but not least, here's a hammy with a baby rabbit...</span></div>
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Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-65961013223210740892015-03-12T15:46:00.002+00:002015-03-12T15:46:48.982+00:00Coming Together...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>SLOWLY... SLOWLY I get this feeling at long, long last</b> that my life is finally <i><b>starting to</b></i> come together.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;">Spring is springing...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;">The writing project I'm doing is turning out well...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;">I should hopefully be getting my own computer soon, which means I'll be back online at home ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;">... and able to post more than once every blue moon...</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #93c47d;">MUSIC: PPK RESURRECTION</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #93c47d;">I have wanted to post this up for so long ~ yet not known the name of the track ~ and PRESTO up it pops at random from youtube this very afternoon...</span><br />
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<b>I went into Town on Sunday.</b> The place was fresh and twinkling all over in the golden morning sun... it was as if someone had waved a magic wand over the city and teleported me to New York or Paris ... except this was LONDON, my own gorgeous lovely and adorable town. I'm always pleased to see tourists in great numbers coming to see my own private and personal territory. It's really flattering. And London is such a wondrous place. I walked from Holborn station all the way along Oxford Street past Bond Street and Selfridges.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I had a poke down New Bond Street, which is where all the designer stores and diamonds and ultra-high end stuff is to be found: Tiffany, Cartier, Harry Winston, Boucheron, Boodles, Bulgari etc etc. There's nothing like a nice 17 ct blue diamond on a Sunday morning twinkling it's head off in the London sunshine as far as I'm concerned. I wish I had someone to buy all these blue diamonds for. Come to think of it, I wish I had a couple of hundred million or so <span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">—</span> y'know, to purchase all these blue diamonds to begin with.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I WASN'T on psychedelic drugs last time I posted; just very very tired and my brain feeling very UGHKHkkkhhhhy indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Did you know Binky thought I was a crackstable still? "Crackstable" is my nice word for a crack smoker. Of course I'm not on crack. She did admit I was probably hypomanic on these supposed "cracked out" occasions. LOADS of people have accused me of being on coke when in fact I was on nothing at all, except a naturally Elevated Mood. It IS possible to BUZZ on nothing except one's own private neurotransmitter collection y'know!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Hey I have great news I shall be BACK ONLINE before very long at all as I'm hopefully getting my OWN COMPUTER BACK. Not the same one as b4 but a wizzy new and improved version...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I've seen borderline personality disorder up close. It shares with bipolar an extreme instability of the emotions but that IS the difference. Borderline is an emotional condition; bipolar is a mood condition. Moods underlie emotions. In depression, emotions can become paralysed; in mania a person is extremely reactive and yet, paradoxically, there's a huge "don't care" component when it comes to the feelings of others.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">I do reckon that there's more going on than the mere throwing of a genetic switch. And I think a bipolar state is more than just a drought or surplus of dopamine or serotonin. They sometimes theorize about a "manic defence" (and she alluded to this in a rather oblique way). The Manic Defence hypothesis theorizes that in order to avoid being slayed by negative feelings, a person instead becomes manic, grandiose and euphoric. I believe this may very well be true. But what the theory doesn't explain is why only one person in a hundred will ever experience full-blown mania during the entire course of their life. Why is it that some of us become manic, yet the overwhelmingly vast majority of us never do?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Anyway I'm more interested in computers of the silicon-&-plastic type than the vagaries of the human biocomputer at this point in time... I have some tech-related questions to anyone with an answer...</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1. what package do you usually use for wordprocessing? Is Windows Wordpad any good?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">2. what software do I need for audio/video editing? I'm talking about simple stuff, eg if I record myself giving a speech and want to chop out the boring bits, or use parts of a take-2 interspersed with take-1, that sort of thing... what package would I use for that?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">3. if I want to make "photoshopped"-looking video (ie to put in surreal special effects) what package would I need then?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">4. can anybody recommend a good printer for printing out text in black and white? Are lasers still better than ink jets? Because they always used to be. Laser printing always used to be waterfast, which is an advantage when you're an inveterate cocoa drinker like me and get runny ringmarks on everything...</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">5. what advantages, if any, do MacBooks have over PCs?</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">6. if I think up a 6th question I'll let you know</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">YES QUESTION 6 I'M LOOKING AT THE LENOVO M30, has anybody got any comments on this laptop?</span><br />
<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">THANX FOR YOUR HELP!</span></b>Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-90812137353880517492015-03-05T17:38:00.003+00:002015-03-05T17:38:35.698+00:00All over the place<b>MY BRAIN feels a bit like this today</b>. But not in a good way. I wish I had never got out of bed...<br />
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Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-9524055218231199562015-01-31T18:32:00.000+00:002015-01-31T18:32:44.451+00:00Celebrity Big Brother Addict<a href="http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article4988356.ece/alternates/s615/Katie-Price-MAIN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article4988356.ece/alternates/s615/Katie-Price-MAIN.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a><b>I'M ADDICTED TO CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER... Yes!</b> To those of you on foreign shores who may have seen local editions of the show many moons ago I have to inform you that Big Brother is STILL showing in the UK, 15 years after first airing. Celebrity Big Brother is in its 15th series (showing twice a year now).<br />
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Back in the day, I and most of my friends were glued to the first couple of series of "normal" Big Brother... but for me at least the novelty of that show has completely worn thin and I wouldn't watch it even if tied down and forced. It's full of wannabes and talentless weirdos.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.corrie.net/profiles/actors/morley_ken.html">Ken Morley</a></b>, who played the hilarious supermarket manager Reg Holdsworth in Coronation Street was chucked out for "wholly unacceptable and offensive" comments. Poor fellow. I think the older generation find it hard to navigate the vagaries of today's politically correct world. He was deliberately trying to be irritating/entertaining/controversial but crossed the line ~ and got the axe. I kind of feel sorry for him.<br />
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I think the most drowned-out personality, which is a shame, because she's one of the coolest people ever to go on the show, is the American singer and TV and radio host <b><a href="http://www.buddytv.com/info/michelle-visage-info.aspx">Michelle Visage</a></b>. She's fascinating but I don't think we're going to see her shine because it's so much the "Perez Hilton Show"...<br />
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Perez Hilton <b><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ofcom-inundated-complaints-perez-hilton-5071173">caused a stir</a></b> by winding up "soul legend" Alexander O'Neal, who ended up walking and Katie Hopkins rather unconvincingly, I thought, made a huge deal about how anyone who crossed "the big man" (Alexander) had also made an enemy of her. I just think she was sucking up to the soul legend and trying to position herself centre-stage. And it worked. Ever since he and Katie have been at loggerheads and it's been very entertaining. Perez is also hated by Cami Li, who is some sort of American tattoo model who dated a reality TV star from TOWIE (big wow) ie she's not a real celebrity at all but she's entertaining to watch. Other people in there are 90s pop star Kavana, 80s kids' TV presenter Keith Chegwin and 2000s "playboy" model Calum Best (son of famous socker star George Best). Yeah so that is what has been grabbing my attention over the past week. Watching celebrities at their undignified/entertaining/heartwarming/pathetic best and worst. It's gripping viewing!<br />
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PATSY KENSIT SINGS PET SHOP BOYS<br />
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Ukh guess what yesterday I had a shyte morning. I had to get up early, so that didn't exactly put me in a great mood. Then I ended up down the shops. I went into Tesco (the little convenience store type of Tesco), but didn't buy anything as they have a lousy range of ready meals plus their French sticks were way too crusty ~ more like dry stone walling material. I like my bread nice and doughy. So I didn't buy anything. Anyway I'm half way up the high street when there's this tap on my back and guess what ~ it's Security saying "can I look in your bag?"<br />
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I showed him the contents of my very empty-looking carrier: old Christmas cards, a chewed biro and a three-breasted pink bra. OK I'm making up the last thing. But it was EMPTY. I demanded DO YOU SELL THAT? Then yelled F OFF. And he stomped away.<br />
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I mean really. Aren't they supposed to actually see you taking something before they intervene. I had floated round that shop touching NOTHING ~ bar that overdone French stick and that was gigantic! I wasn't exactly hiding THAT down my trousers or I'd have looked very pleased to see him indeed.... So anyway. I do feel a bit guilty about swearing at a stranger. That's not my style at all.<br />
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THEN I went in Iceland (chavtastic supermarket) and the lady made a massive hoo-har about checking my £20 note "just in case". I pointed out (very nicely this time) that if it was indeed a fake it was the best I've ever seen with bang-on holograms and a perfect silver "line of value" which weaves in and out. That security line is said to be almost impossible to fake. But she accepted my dosh and I swanned off home. Still feeling a bit guilty about my foul-mouthed outburst. But the cheek of it! I hadn't been NEAR any of Tesco's goods except that giant French stick. I mean, who do these security think they are.<br />
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More to the point I think I really need to change my image. You know to look a bit less like a homeless down and out. Presumably that is what I did look like. Even though I was dressed head to toe in new clean clothes. (Without holes.) O I don't know...<br />
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I hope y'all are having a happy new year...<br />
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RALPH FRIDGE: PARADISE KOMAKINO REMIX<br />
Warning, it doesn't even begin to get going till after 1 min 20 through...<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><b>HELLO EVERYBODY I've been having a moody time</b> of late but I'm feeling absolutely fine now. Well almost. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">I saw Binky today and she thinks I'm still mental from the other day. I kind of had a lost weekend when the "Full Moon Feeling" (</span><b><a href="http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/181/2/94.short"><span style="color: lime;">hypomania</span></a></b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">: which is when I'm high without any drink or drugs) hit me pretty full-on on Friday/Saturday night and I barely slept at all all weekend then did conk out and came back to life at 7 o'clock with absolutely no idea whether it was the AM or PM (it was 7AM).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Ukh I hate this time of year, don't you?? But I hope you like my dancing elf figure. Seriously this was the best thing I got when keying in "elf animated cartoon gif" ~ ha ha!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">I was going to do Xmas with Binky but she "has to" do it with her Supported Care Home, so I'm pretty glad I got out of that one. It just would have been roast lamb + massive cab fares all for a day I don't give a French toss about anyhow... know what I mean?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">But having said that I DO with you all the MERRIEST OF SEASON'S GREETINGS + AN AMAZING NEW YEAR IN 2015 XxXxXxX </span><br />
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Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7301935512310857439.post-15948114978244097942014-12-02T13:26:00.000+00:002014-12-02T13:26:14.363+00:00Puttin' It Back Together... (Again!)<b style="color: #76a5af;">I'VE BEEN TRYING to put my life together of late.</b><span style="color: #76a5af;"> I'm learning Japanese again. (Dropped Arabic. Me and Semitic languages do not get on.) As some of my longer-term friends will know, I've been circling around the Japanese language for years. Trying and learning a bit and stopping... But finally I gave up on the Teach Yourself type book/CD combos and went for the type of books they use at evening classes and beginner's uni courses, ie: </span><b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Japanese-Busy-People-Kana-Audio/dp/1568363850/ref=sr_1_1/280-1830204-4415036?ie=UTF8&qid=1417525044&sr=8-1&keywords=japanese+for+busy+people"><span style="color: cyan;">Japanese for Busy People</span></a></i></b><span style="color: #76a5af;"> (the most frequently recommended textbook but not necessarily the absolute best), </span><b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Yookoso-Invitation-Contemporary-Japanese-Edition/dp/0072408154"><span style="color: cyan;">Yōkōsu! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese</span></a></i></b><span style="color: #76a5af;">... and so on. Japanese for Busy People came complete with stuck-on 70-minute CD and is completely in Japanese kana. </span><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Busy-People-II-attached/dp/1568363869/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417525003&sr=1-1&keywords=japanese+busy+people+2"><span style="color: cyan;">Book 2</span></a></b><span style="color: #76a5af;"> is in kana + some kanji, which are the Chinese characters...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">O I'll shut up about this. Suffice it to say I've learned so much I can understand entire written sentences in full adult-style script. Wow! Even the introduction to the advanced-level dictionary I found in Sainsbury's carpark years ago is no longer just an exotic mystery of characters, I scan through and see 新語、古語 etc which means new words, old words etc... or in more dictionarian language: <i><b>neologisms, archaisms etc</b></i>... So wow I can read Japanese! (A Bit!)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">But I'm still feeling kinda lost, miserable, depressed deep-down... and not so deep-down... I really want to get a dog. A furry waggy doggie with a piggly curled-back tail. A Japanese 忠犬, an Akita-inu or a shiba-inu (which is like a baby akita that never gets big...)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">I don't even know what to write now because I just want to get offline. But isn't this cute? It's an Aussie marsupial called a quokka. About the size of a housecat, it's only found on certain small islands off the Western Australian coastline... (not far along from Perth):~~~</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;">... Pretty Professional, isn't she!...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">This Aussie documentary dates from 1994 when Burma was the world's biggest poppy-grower... which stupefied crown is now of course proudly worn by Afghanistan...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">This is a stupid portrait of Mozart but I love the tune.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">It's Lacrimosa from the Requiem Mass, which of course means tearful and sad, but it doesn't sound sad to me... More uplifting &c...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">OK I have to go now. Sorry I haven't got a lot of stuff to say bu</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">t </span><b><span style="color: lime;">hi to y'all</span></b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9;">and I hope y'all are doing well...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">Smith's Vole is the only type of vole native to Japan...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">+ They're related to the common European water vole...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">That means AREN'T THEY CUTE!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;">私はあなたにすべての陽気な週末をお祈りしております。</span></div>
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