Rope necklaces

I am officially obsessed. I. Must. Have. One (or two or three!)

May even try my hand at making one!! Hmmmm (contemplates where to get all the sh*t you'd need to do it yourself....)

Cinema cool

There are certain films that come along, that one feels compelled to watch on "the big screen" and not on DVD (or, lets be honest, some dodgy, shakey-cam download).

"Life of Pi" is one of them for me. Cannot wait to watch it! I had a little chuckle though, when I read this review:

Very Disappointing

Reviewer: Important Info

Date: 03/01/2013

Went to see this with my family and we were looking forward to it. We were very disappointed and i wouldn't recommend this to families. Some things that are in the film shouldn't be shown as it could disturb people so why you would show a child, I wouldn't want to describe why animals were shown getting killed. Overall there wasn't much good about it and the story line wasn't very good either. I WOULDN'T recommend this at all. Very disappointing. I would have chosen no stars.

WTF!!! Were they expecting Disney? Where the Hyena and Orangutan do a duet? Everyone living happily after? Obvs this person has never heard of metaphor and/or has been living under a rock...
*sigh* I hope that they wear a sign, so that others are forewarned...  

Coolness in cold climates?

For avid followers of this blog, it would appear that nothing cool was worth hunting in a cold climate since June 2012. Or perhaps that the climate warmed slightly, making the title of the blog erroneous... This, however, is not true. The climate is still cold, and there are still cool things worth hunting (and blogging about) - but the author was otherwise engaged in her reappearance on another social media site. How annoying...

A summary of some of the cool things that one would have written about during the less cold moments in said cold climate...:
1. Southbank in Summertime... loved the old school fairground feel of the Wonderground (complete with freakshow acts like the Lizard Man, scary rides, striped deck chairs, Tons of Pimms (jugs of) and hotdogs...) and the rooftop gardens...

2. Oh, another highlight was the little event called the Olympics... One was lucky enough to go and sit in the rain in a plastic poncho and watch beach volleyball. Mah-velous... Turns out it's not only scantily clad ladies who compete!!!

 And the cheerleaders really... uhm. Well. What can I say... They were cheerful!

  
One interesting innovation that stood out for me at the Olympics was that foncy new sports tape... supposed to help with injuries. But looks really pretty too! And comes in multiple colours!!! I loves it.

 

 3. Proms in the park - Fantastic annual concert in the park, featuring well known artists (like Kylie, whoop whoop!) singing with an orchestra! Kinda like Kirstenbosch except not... (as summer is only a week long here, it's cramped into a shorter time frame)
Note: Proms can even be enjoyed after a power-drinking session, seated on glaring strangers' blankets, while quaffing wine out of a plastic bottle (or *cough* multiple bottles)...

*sigh* And that only covers up until September!!! 

Rather than task her memory too much, this blogger shall resume regular posts, as far too much sh*t happens for her wine addled memory to summarise in this fashion. 

 ta for now.. 
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Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....

Someone looking for a cool short guy is obvs misguided, but check out #3 search keywords that led to my blog. 

Ah-sum. 

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Pineberries

I cannot contain my excitement - how good does this look?

I read an article that for this year's Wimbledon, Moet are serving pineberries with their bubbles. I. Must. Have. Some!

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It's all in a name...

With the internet being our sole source of information nowadays - things can get quite tricky in terms of the accuracy of that information.
My failure to join social networking sites such as facebook and twitter has clearly left the door wide open to imposters...

Like this twitter user, who has used my name. 

Now - people who barely know me, can google my name, and assume that I don't know how to spell "school"...


I vote we all get barcodes from now on - names are so 90's ;-)

Concert time - baby!

I had the best time EVER* this past Friday!! Shaunie had an extra ticket to Coldplay and kindly, graciously, magnanimously, (and need we say selflessly) invited me!!!!!!! MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I am truly the luckiest girl in the world. 

My luck seemed to compound when I discovered that Ash were one of the opening acts. I love them. And that shows my age. But I still love them. From the song that introduced me to them (16 or 17 - jamming to "Oh Yeah!", you know the song... trust me. Poor Shaunie had to listen to me trying to sing him into rememberance, but thank goodness I am too lazy to post sound bites so you can just googles it...) 

One of their more recent ones that I like is "Arcadia" (I googled this one for you: http://youtu.be/h77ZDOE8G-Q). Ooooh ooh, and the bassist has that really cool 90's "I don't care" look about him... HOT on stage! *sighs* 

But I am ashamed to admit - at some point, I did think "they're too old to be playing this pop-sounding stuff". I'm just mean that way...  which may be one of the contributing factors to my current ZUPER single/unwed status (that and the possibility that I am "sexually repellant" as was debated during Friday's concert festivities)


Who isn't sexually repellant, one may ask? Well, one example is Marina - from Marina and the Diamonds. Marvelous looking creature, who looked amazing in her 1950's-style-Alice-in-Wonderland-at-a-glance-until-you-see-the-huge-boobs dress!

 

And what will annoy one about a girl like her, is not only is she physically blessed, but she also has a lovely voice. A bit "sing-ey" but I quite liked some of her songs (okay. 2 of them... or one maybe this one? http://youtu.be/Gj5L9SYhoSE or this one? http://youtu.be/o3Rp_0hoNTY). Bear in mind by this stage, I was already two pints into proceedings (that's pints of beer, chaps. Definitely nothing vintage or grape fermented could be found at the Emirates stadium. Not even Methode Cap Classique...) 


And after Marina, it was beer queue time (once again, I am not proud, but a girl gets thirsty...) and then it was - COLDPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It was the best live act I have seen in a while. And not just because of the lovely multicoloured, multishaped confetti...
 

 

Or the pink wrist band I wore that lit up and flashed along with the music - that made me feel part of the show...

 

But rather, listening and singing along to a legacy of songs that have been a part of the soundtrack to the last 10 or so years of my life... From the groundbreaking "Yellow" and all the way to "Paradise" (which still brings a tear to my eye...), Coldplay have been there. I am one of the thousands of girls/boys who insists that "Green Eyes" was written for them, and who sings loudly to the chorus of "Violet Hill" when going through one of those relationships... 

Shaunie defo gets promoted to best-friend-forever status (poor chap, you give a girl a free ticket and that's how she repays you?? Where is the bottle of single malt, one asks? tttshuh!)

Lots of love and kisses, 

xx <--even though only two are shown here, they are in fact real text kisses. Not the kind that you get when someone you have just met sends you a text. Or a work related email. Those "x"s annoy me a great deal.

*EVER while at the Emirates Stadium listening to Coldplay