Christmas is a magical time of year. As a child you get the endless excitement that there is a rather large bearded man criss-crossing the Globe delivering millions of presents to millions of eager children. I don't know about you, but I was always amazed he could fit not only his large self, but also some equally large presents down our rather compact chimney, then eat the mince pie, drink the whiskey, and disappear again without causing a stir. It was quite unbelievable, but I believed it. Every year without fail, me and my brother would be in bed at the earliest possible opportunity, willing the next morning on in anticipation of what we would find bright and early (when I say early, I mean EARLY. Sometimes as early as 7am, ouch). One year we even woke up to find Santa had managed to knock over our Christmas tree, destroying our perfect decoration in the process. We quickly forgave him though when we discovered the Kilimanjaro-like mountain of presents.
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I ain't got nothing to say
posted 15.11.11 at 1:53am 216 comments
The English language, It's a beautiful thing. But so ridiculously complicated. At one end we have the Queen, almost over pronouncing each and every word, and at the other we have an almost endless number of colloquialisms that make, in some cases, the language almost impossible to understand. I'm quite happily sat somewhere in the middle, and this, in my mind, is qualification enough to become part of the Grammer Police.
Some of these dialects date back hundreds of years, sme arnt tht old. It's all very well and good being able to condense a page of writing down by turning it to text type, but if you if you can't speak and read correct English then what hope do you have?
There is, of course, the whole your/ you're/ their/ they're/ there problem. How can it be so hard to use the correct word in a sentence? I know what you're thinking right now, that this is a common problem amongst the less educated. All I will say to that is, if I had £1 for every time I saw "your silly" or "their coming now" or similar over the last 2 and a half years, I'd be swimming in it.
Friday Afternoon Blog-a-thon
posted 04.11.11 at 2:57am 30 comments
Well here we are, the night before the morning after and I can safely say the show is well and truly ready. Of course I'm not going to reel off my whole plan, that would give you no reason to listen in to the 3 hours of 'wahooo it's Friday' filled fun.
However, I will say this. If you fancy getting involved with the show and having your 10 seconds of fame on the Radio, make sure you're hanging around the Portland Building between 10:00 and 11:00 tomorrow...
And we're off! The show is up and running, typing this out to the background music of the new track from High Contrast.
As I mentioned, the competition is conming up within an hour, stay tuned to find out how you can be getting your hands on those 2 Savoy Cinema Tickets!
This weeks Furtive Film Star has tested my Photoshopping skills to the max, all will be revealed at 15:10!
This takes decorating your house to a whole new level, goodness knows how much this costs, and I'm not sure greenpeace would be happy with it, but fair play to the guy!
And it get's even better...