The sausage dog

Sometimes i write little poems, im weird like that!

Yesterday I wrote this limerick about poppet:


He’s quite a funny little dog,
His body’s shaped just like a log,
He’s cute, people think,
But his breath does stink,
One time he encountered a frog.

A hobby of his is to scratch on the door,
And licking my face if I lie on the floor,
And oh how he mocks,
By stealing my socks,
Still, I could not love him more.

The name of this terror is poppet,
He runs about like a rocket,
He swims like a seal,
It adds to his appeal,
When ground isn’t dry he gets mocket.

We live in a strange world....

So...aparently if you own a bank and want to install an air conditioning unit which will be situated on a flat roof you need to apply for planning permission, and as part of this process, you have to send 126 letters to tell the neighbours(some of which would have no view of it) just incase they might have a problem with it!

anyway...poppet was popular in falkirk today! I dont know if you have seen the bank of scotland/or halifax? advert with the sausage dog? anyway a girl came up to me and was gushing over the fact that she had seen the picture on the bill board but she had never seen a real one...seriously it was like she was actually star-struck. poppet looks identical to the one on the picture, ive seen them but i think that one has been digitally elongated!

Dad and i stopped for lunch in linlithgow on the way back, we sat outside (even though it was cold because poppet was with us) a lovely cafe and i discovered (by reading a sticker on a window) that linlithgow is a fair trade town! im very impressed by that! seemingly a town can be granted this status if enough shops and restaurants etc stock fairtrade products. Maybe one day Edinburgh will join that club and get stickers to say Edinburgh is a fairtrade capital city....that would look good!

Fairtrade fortnight is coming up actually, i found out tonight. We will be doing fair trade things in Granton with the kids. An we might get them to go and pester some shops to stock fair trade things.I Havn't pestered thorntons for a while..the diet has its downside. Maybe i will go in and ask them to stock chocolate which is fair trade/fat free/sugar free/and with no artificial colours or aspartame....hmmm, maybe not.

Ive replaced you already...

Ive got some new links which I have added because I may as well really.

post secret is quite a strange blog but its quite good. People send in homemade postcards with a secret on it to the people that run the blog and they put their secrets on the internet. Here is an example of one...


Elizabeth McGinnis is the local labour counciller for my area. So im spying on her.

Matt Little often has something interesting to share.

The nanolog is something i read quite often even although i dont know the guy that writes it (and I must be the only person in Scotland that doesn't - seriously)because he often has fun pictures to look at.

Chris Hinton has a new blog.

Welcome new links. May you update regularly and not end up being deleted!

I dont wanna....blog about it...

Today I decided that enough was enough!

I have given these people every oportunity to stop this from happening but it has got to the stage where it cant go on like this any longer.

Every time I click on a link of a blog which has been abandoned a little bit of me dies inside....well not really but it is annoying to see the same thing for over a year in some cases.

So I am officially saying goodbye to these bloggers:
Anneleen
Beth
Chris
Granton (yeah i guess Im probably partly to blame for this. If I decide to do an update I will re-add it)
Hannah
James (who was my origional blog pal : ( so sad!!)
Rosie
Ross

So long then.

If you do happen to update your blog and are saddened at this sudden deletion (a real word?) let me know and I will put you back on.

I may add some more links of other blogs I read if I get round to it...just becasue the place seems a bit deserted now.

Not a lot of people know that...

Im am actually a big fan of the beach boys! yes...(and if you should ever annoy me so much that i get very mad at you all you have to do is play "dont worry baby" and i cant not smile and/or sing along and probably forgive you)

I buy heat magazine every week but never really read it. Sometimes i do the crossword by looking up all the answers on the internet. I do find the tv guide useful though and the book/film reviews. And i like that there are not 12 pages of cosmetic surgery adverts at the back like some other magazines.

I now have an unlimited cinema card and have been to the cinema 10 times so far this month. i have seen one film twice becasue i went with different people. Antony and i saw three films in one day. And im very excited to do a monthly one word film review blog post on here. what a geek!Also i have stuck all of my cinema tickets in to my diary so that i can keep an eye on whether my cinema card is worth the monthly subscription.(loser!)

I dont eat after 7:30pm. This is part of a new healthy eating regime(well it is january), which includes not eating chocolate! The strange thing is that i am enjoying the whole experience which might sound strange, i write done everything i eat and i think the reason i like it is becasue i am a bit of a control freak.

I cried watching waterloo road this week! and i often cry watching rediculous soap operas...i dont know why! I cry at some films too. Im not as bad as my mum yet (thank goodness....she cries at extreme make over home edition!) but I think Stephanie actually thought i had a mental health problem when i cried soooo much at the end of "The Notebook". I was so emotional that the nexy day i creid again when i thought about it.

I have a weird crush on Allan Davies (from Johnathon Creek) and have done since i was about 13.

Im a bit sad really.

The Rant List...

This is a new technique I am using to vent my frustration!

It really has worked wonders for my mental health and has prevented me from doing something regretful, like going on a homicidal killing spree.

I would urge you to consider the rant list technique if you have ever felt that all the little niggles are getting too much and your brain is finding it a little bit too crowded to allow you to function as you would normally. Tell tale signs to look out for include; putting your shoes on the wrong feet and not noticing for two hours, brushing your teeth with hand cream or becoming so tired that you can’t even stay awake for a whole episode of torchwood.)

The technique of the rant list is simple. You take a pen and a piece of paper and you make a list of everything that is currently annoying you. By writing down the annoyance is expressed and doesn’t need to take up so much brain space. And this can be anything, big or small, if it is annoying you write it down. I guarantee you will feel the urge to kill shrinking as you let it all out.

So whether your communal stair smells of urine, you only lost 1 lb on your diet this week, or even if some idiot came to your Grandad’s funeral and stole your phone…just write it down and all the bitterness will go away.

Today, I feel only love for all mankind…