Great dream...

I had the most amazing dream last night that I'd inerited a house in London, near my parents... It was an end of terraced property on the corner of a road and in the dream, it originally belonged to an elderly neighbour.

In the dream, I had actually inherited the 'doors' to the said property but that actually meant whatever was behind the doors was technically mine too. From the outside it didn't look much, bit run down and grubby, but on opening the front door to my delight it was like an episode of Grand Designs!

It had original wooden parquet flooring, skylights with loads of light flooding in and stairs up to a massive kitchen. In fact the house was upside down in that the living room and all bedrooms were downstairs and the entire top floor was the kitchen/dining room. Hard to explain but it was beautiful! I will try to describe:

Imagine a square shaped house with two floors, go through the front door and the hallway is directly in front of you with doors on the right and left leading to other rooms. The stairs are situated in the middle of the house and in the middle of said hallway.

On going up the stairs, they lead to the middle of the top floor and the entire top floor is one big open space that is the size of the entire floorplan of the house. On one side is the kitchen with all mod cons and on the other side of the room is a massive dining table/entertaining area.

There were two large floor to ceiling windows on either side (front and back view) and weirdly the view from one was of Portabello Road Market (don't ask me why??) and the view from the other was looking down the length of the Thames with the London Eye & Big Ben visible in the distance!*

* (the fact that my folks live in South London and that Portabello Road and the Thames are not exactly next to one another didn't seem to occur to my little subconcious brain!)

The realisation that in my dream I had inherited this house for nothing was just amazing!! I was really quite sad to wake up and when I did it was incredibly vivid and all felt very real... I wish!

My wish list of lots of nice things I want!

As I have a crap memory, I thought I would write down some of the things I want in life. Some are realistic, some are semi achievable and some are in my little fantasy world of 'Me' but mostly am just thinking out loud as I'm rubbish at remembering things :)

Achievable wish list
(i.e. presents or affordable):

• Little Big Planet for PS3 - Got
• Sun jar
• Madonna Sticky & Sweet Live on DVD/BluRay
• Internal HD for my PS3
  
• Coffee machine
• Toaster - Got
  
• IKEA vouchers
• NEXT vouchers

Semi achievable wish list
(for when I can save some money):

• iPhone (maybe) / Now have Android HTC phone
  
• iPhone/iPod speaker dock - Got
  
• Upgrade to V+ cable service
  
• 75-300mm Canon Zoom lens for my Digi SLR
  
• Or... upgrade my digi SLR to the latest Canon EOS 450D - Won Sony SLR in competion!
  
• Wii with Wii-fit (like gold dust apparently)
• Sex and the City Shoebox, All Seasons - Got bargain bin in Jan sales
  
• Blinds for the front room & dining room
• New PC for home (which might fall into next category below)

My 'I need to win money first' wish list:

• New furniture for the front room
• sofa & chair - Got (DFS special)
  
• shelving/tv unit
• Decking for my garden
• Wireless surround sound system
  
• New double glazing or maybe just new double glazed back doors
• New kitchen
  
• New bathroom (consisting of new tiles, new suite)
• Laminate flooring downstairs & new carpet on stairs and landing
• Trip to NYC - Achieved in Oct 2009! Want to go back though
  
• Trip to Hong Kong
  
• A VW Golf TDi

Oh... and World Peace!

Stray Mog

Stray Mog, originally uploaded by paulmcdee.

Photo of stray cat my brother took in the garden. Looks a bit like Maddy but great little picture. I love black cats eyes, they always stand out and look so big against their colouring.

Oxford Moonlight Stroll - July 2008

This year's Moonlight Stroll dawned yet another typical UK summer grey day and we feared another downpour as per last year. Driving over towards Oxford the omnious spits of rain hit the windscreen of the car and we all thought, "Oh no, not again". When we arrived at the school starting point, we purchased the obligatory wet weather ponchos and prepared ourselves for a drenching.

Then a miracle happened... the clouds parted, a nice breeze blew and it stayed dry... for the entire walk!

After our warm up on the playing fields we set off heading right this year towards the city centre of Oxford. They changed the route this year to make it more interesting and I have to say it was so much better. We kept a steady pace and there was so much more things of interest that the time seemed to pass really quickly. Before we knew it, we were at the halfway point on Magdalen Bridge. We ate our energy banana & flapjack, grabbed a bottle of water and set off for the return leg.

Last year, everything started to hurt in earnest (and I mean everything) around about now. Sore knees, sore feet, sore ankles, sore back... you name it, it took it in turns to say "Are we nearly there yet?!". But this time, I don't know if it was the good weather or the revised route, but my only ache was a slight cramp in my toe. The last mile took FOREVER when we did the 2007 walk, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the last marshall, especially when he said, "well done, only 20 minutes to go from here"... then suddenly we were at the finish line!

We glanced at our watches. Not only had we had a really nice walk but we'd beaten last year's time by just under an hour. We set off at 10.40pm and finished at 01.10am. We collected our medals and signed back in, tired but happy. Walking across the playing field to the car park, wishing I had some Wizard of Oz shoes to whisk me home, I felt the ominous spots of rain... but our stroll was over for this year and we were still dry!

Thank you to all of you who donated so generously to The Whinging Wanderers & Sobell House. This is an event that is close to everyone's hearts and your donations were gratefully received. Roll on next year :)

S x

Wearing my Rolex

Wonder how long it will take for Ms Mills to take this down! I had to show it as its very funny. Thanks to a fellow blogger for the link! :)

Spittin 'Heathers'...

God this woman makes my blood boil!

So much so there's a poll on my internet providers website which I contributed to. 87% of people agree with me and I'm convinced the remaining 13% are only being sarcastic! How anybody can think this woman deserves to be pitied is beyond me.

(Click on the image for a full size screen grab and just look and see how many people have contributed to this debate AND the amount that have been refused...prob for bad language and rage that this woman inspires in people!!)


She lives in a fantasy world with unbelievable delusions of grandeur that she's important enough for people to give a shit. Like 'The Rock' aka Paul 'I've worked for Princess Diana don't you know' Burrell, another arsehole that thinks he is important, she has brought upon herself a dislike from the general public that in my mind is thoroughly deserved.

How anyone can spout on like she does that £24 f**king million is not enough, how she can state crap like "my daughter has to now travel B class while her father travels A class... but of course I will pay for that now"....Jesus Christ!!!!! How very noble of you Heather Mills, you poor hard done by money grabbing gold digger! What bloody cuckoo land are you living in?!

I don't even particularly like Paul McCartney but this woman just astounds me with the shite she comes out with! I liked the Beatles, Linda McCartney veggie food, wasn't so keen on Wings... but Macca was just another ageing rocker in my eyes until he hooked up with this drama queen. He earned his fortune through hard graft. She was a nobody. Maybe she does do charity work... maybe she does provide awareness for those who've lost limbs, but God, how many others out there do that. People who selflessly give every day without telling the whole bloody world. The fact that she tried her utmost to hide that document about the court case has just proved what we all knew anyway...

Her inconsistencies about so called earnings, her so called 80% of her money going to charity, her demands for lavish lifestyle choices... she's on another planet! What about those of us who actually WORK for a living, who do charity and voluntary work for NOTHING, who make ends meet with disabilities and those who have to survive on a few hundred quid every few weeks because of those disabilities. Try living on incapacity benefits for a few months and then whinge that you don't have enough money.

The vitriol & hatred for her that I've seen on countless websites the past few days in thoroughly deserved in my eyes as every time she opens her whiny gob, she makes a complete arse of herself with her delusional views of her wants and needs. One person made a very good point... if she EVER finds another partner and it all goes pear shaped, that person should demand half HER fortune. I doubt she would be so willing to part with it.

Of course her daughter is going to be well looked after and cared for, that would be common sense, something clearly lacking in Heather Mills behaviour. I feel sorry for Beatrice growing up with a mother who will be universally despised, not so much for hurting poor old Paul, but for her ridiculous diva attitude that the world 'owes' her a favour. People like her are a disgrace to the human race and I sincerely hope that with her paultry £24 million, she buys a remote island somewhere and stays well away from the public eye for a long long time!!

That effin Mills woman!

Is it just me or does anyone else get a case of Tourettes every time Heather Mills opens her gob on TV or radio?

(*)
Can this woman please for the love of all things holy....SHUT THE F**K UP AND STOP YOUR F**KING WHINGING IN YOUR HIGH PITCHED WHINE THAT TWENTY FIVE F**KING MILLION IS NOT ENOUGH TO FUND YOUR STUPID F**KING LIFESTYLE!!!

So you can't always travel First Class anymore. Boo f**king hoo!

Annoying bint! Find a hole and crawl down it...please!

*(Apologies for my bout of Tourettes. Couldn't help it!)

Why cat flaps were invented!

Some blast from the past pix

I have this on Facebook anyway, but this one is a better scan. I think I had one too of Mrs Narboroughs 5th year class but that might me at my parents house. Anyway, this is me and my classmates in 1984 looking all sweet and innocent... before big bad life corrupted us!

Click on the photo to view larger.

Facebook-itis

Now don't get me wrong, I use Facebook and I have found some good friends on there again (and the odd not so good fiend here and there). It's cheaper than Friends Reunited who charged you a fiver for the priveledge of emailing someone. I mostly use it for messaging and I am guilty of partaking in the occasional quiz (with the ever so annoying 'invite 20 friends' to get your results clause).

BUT... there are too many applications and adverts now for completely pointless drivel. How many different types of apps on there ask the same thing? Rate me! How hot am I? Who's your bestest pal? What "Insert TV show here" character are you? How many Vampires have you slain? Are you a Zombie Chump etc etc... For some people it's an ego massage, particularly the one so called 'friend' who is just too damn 'Flirtable' for his own good!! If you ever read this, I deleted your profile as I just didn't appreciate being pissed about. You played me and I don't suffer fools gladly.

Anyway, I heard this on the radio and it is quite apt..."Funwall, Superwall, drive me up the f**king wall"...indeed!

That said, Sharon's status is currently "glad it's Friday!"

Enjoy!