Once Upon A Blog

I am lurking here somewhere, I promise you. Lack of recent posts has been down to me working on a new theme for this here blog. Yes I know I have been saying I was going to do one for ages, but this time I have actually found something that once I start designing I actually still like.

A few of the elements are giving me grief but hopefully I should have it live in the next few days.  I might implement a style switcher so you lovely peeps can decide which one you want… I know the one E made is lovely, and mine won’t match up to it but I try ;).

Until then, I leave you with this small teaser:

Topical Tuesday is a new meme intended to inspire the art of discussion via our blogs. Each week, on a Tuesday, a new topic will be placed on the main site for people to post about. Topics are open, and don’t necessarily need to be intended for serious discussion - after all a meme should be nothing if not fun!

When going on holiday to a foreign country I always want to experience as much of the local culture as I can, sure laying on the beach is all right but not something I could do for the full duration, in fact I doubt I would even last they day. You can just as easily get a nice tan by walking around, experiencing things than you can laying on a beach. I extend this attitude to the food that I eat. I would much rather seek out the non touristy restaurants and experience true local cooking and food than to go somewhere full of tourists, eating a fried breakfast… To be honest if that’s what I wanted to experience I’d go to Blackpool for my holiday.
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Topical Tuesday is a new meme intended to inspire the art of discussion via our blogs. Each week, on a Tuesday, a new topic will be placed on the main site for people to post about. Topics are open, and don’t necessarily need to be intended for serious discussion - after all a meme should be nothing if not fun!

More and more young girls (I say girls as I think they still are) are becoming pregnant and having babies nowadays, not all planned but some are.

It was quite rare even when I was growing up to know someone that was pregnant. Apart from one girl. She was quite a good friend of mine and was quite good at school up until we were about 14 (she is actually in the photo’s below this post). Then she got herself a boyfriend, he was a bit older at 17. Of course we all thought she was cool for going out with an older boy. A few weeks into their relationship she announced they were going to try for a baby. Most of us assumed she was just kidding, some girls (not me might I add) may fantasies about having a baby so young but most of them snap out of it quick, or so we thought. About a month later it was discovered she was pregnant and she was overjoyed. She continued with school until she was about 6 months gone and then left to have the baby. She was intending to return to school after the pregnancy (her mother was going to help out with child care) but after giving birth she quickly fell pregnant again. I haven’t seen her since she left school but we found out that by the time she was 17 she had 4 children to three different fathers.

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Someone just posted these on facebook, i have no recollection of what they were for, or who the two people in the middle are.

And I don’t know why they are in black and white… surely I’m not that old?

I have had a mild cold the last few days, just a sniffle and a sore throat but yesterday while at work I was starting to lose my voice.

I woke this morning to find that today I can barely speak. If I concentrate hard I can just about get a few words out at a squeak. It’s quite comical really. Because of this, I decided it would probably be best if I rang in sick today so I can rest my voice. Well I attempted to, I had no idea if my boss would be able to decipher my quiet whisper so I sent an email too. He replied saying they were having a good laugh at my phone message in the office. Charming.

By chance I happen to have tomorrow and Friday off to use up my last two days of holiday so I am now off work till Monday. Lovely.

Apart from my voice, I feel fine in myself. The other cold symptoms I had during the weekend have gone and my throat doesn’t overly hurt. So apart from not being able to talk I feel quite fine.

Only problem is, I don’t know what to do with myself now. After I rang/emailed I attempted to get back to sleep but I couldn’t so resorted to watching weekday morning TV which I have not seen since around this time last year and I see it hasn’t improved at all. I am even considering tidying my room… I must be bored!

I am however annoyed at the fact I needed to take a day of work for something so silly, so close to the end of my placement. I rarely get ill and even more rarely take sick days from work. I was hoping to get through my entire placement year without having to take a sick day.

Welcome to Topical Tuesday - a new meme where we try and get people to just discuss topics on their blogs. Topics are posted on Tuesdays. Post your thoughts and opinions on your own blog! Pass it around!

I believe that many of my morals stem from my upbringing. My family did quite a good job of teaching myself and my sister what is right and wrong. And, even though she has been gone for 6 years now I can still hear my gran telling me the rights and wrongs of how to behave in the world. I will admit that because of this I am quite old fashioned in my values, even if its simply opening doors for people or giving up my seat on the bus.

I am definitely someone that treats others as I would like to be treated, however I don’t always expect the same in return. I think if you do then you would soon give up trying to treat people right as while there are a lot of grateful people around, there are also those that are not so. Because of this, when I unexpectedly do get it back it always makes me smile.

Welcome to Topical Tuesday - a new meme where we try and get people to just discuss topics on their blogs. Topics are posted on Tuesdays. Post your thoughts and opinions on your own blog! Pass it around!

And yes, I am aware this is very late.

I am quite lucky I guess to say that I haven’t had many bad experiences in relationships, but I have had a few hiccups, admittedly most of them my fault, apart from one time in particular.

I used to (note the USED to) get too close far too quick. Typically this would result in me getting too clingy and more often than not pushing which ever poor sod it was away.

One time however, the opposite happened. I liked him, and was willing to give it a go but he was suffocating. Constant phone calls, which started of nice and friendly but quickly became tiring and intense. He wanted to know about every element of my day and was incredibly jealous whenever I went out without him.

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Here I was, bored at work (well it is half term, not much to do) when one of the guys I work with told me to go and look out the window into a little court yard in the middle of the college. So i did and I was confronted with the cutest site ever!

(sorry about the quality of the pictures, I had to take them through a dirty window on my phone)The mother must have flown into the courtyard and then laid the eggs as it is completely enclosed so there is no way they could have walked in. We called the RSPB and someone has came and rescued them who says they will be monitored for a few days and then released back into the wild once the chicks are a bit older.

So that brightened up my day a bit. And while I am uploading the cute photos here is a couple of Poppy, one of our nutty cats: (more…)

I know I keep saying that I am going to try to get back into blogging then nothing comes of it. I really don’t know why I am finding it so hard to do. It’s not like I don’t have the time, but recently when I have had nothing to do I just like to sit and do nothing. Lazy I know, but sometimes you just can’t beat doing nothing.

So if anyone has any tips on how I can get back to blogging and stay here then please share them.

I am currently doing my rounds of all the blogs that I have neglected to visit recently (sorry all!). If I haven’t got to you yet, I will hopefully do so today.

Ahh it’s good to be back! I won’t even pretend that I know what went wrong with this site but thanks to the persistence of my web hosting mistress Eliza (who still seems to be afflicted by whatever happened) I am once again blogging. And yes, I do still intend to do the redesign… when I get round to it.

Can you believe it’s already May? And more unbelievable is the fact that I only have 3 months left on this placement. I have enjoyed working here but I am looking forward to it ending so I can get back to uni and finish this degree.

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