My Two Pence

Wow! did you see Usain Bolt set a new world record in the 100 metres in Belin this week? It was amazing. I was left speechless at how easily he made it look!

The 22 year old Jamaican managed to run the distance in 9.58 seconds, shattering his previous record by 0.11.

I really admire him for continuing to strecth the boundaries and push himself and achieve what might be thought of as impossible.

I hope he continues to impress us with his amazing skills and break more world records in the future.

I cant wait to see him run again! :–)

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Is it only me or is anyone else soooo over the Jordan / Peter sager!!! I am so fed up of he said she said …..get over yourself we don’t care anymore
Yes it’s sad yes it hard as when any couple separate particularly when there are kids involved but please there is no dignity in washing your dirty laundry in public. You are not that big a deal to warrant so much air time or reading matter.
I am even frustrated that I have even decided to write the this blog but it really does get up my nose
From what I can see neither of them are doing themselves any favors and coming out in a good light! All they seem to be bothered about is how much money and publicity they can get out of it. Sad desperate and pathetic springs to mind when real people who go through this hell every day are literately in bits needing therapy to recover. It does seem to be of glorifying what normal people find an excruciating painful experience.

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There’s rarely anything but doom and gloom in the news today; bad interest rates, falling house prices, job cuts, recession recession recession! And the weather hasn’t been brilliant wither.

However, I’ve had 2 days of sun in a row (I know, so happy!), and I’m now thinking about my summer hols. I won’t be going abroad though. I know, British summer holidays on British beaches are not the “coolest” of trips ever, but have you been to Newquay lately?!
It’s amazing!

Great surf, cool bars, and a great party atmosphere - all the important things that a holiday needs to have! But with the added bonus of having no “holiday hassle” – bad flights, delays, foreign food, foreign currency, getting lost and not speaking the language…. It’s the perfect holiday!
So now I’ve decided when and where I’m off to, I get to go shopping - woohoo!!

And I’ll be doing a lot of my shopping online – great bargains and delivered straight to your door. I’ve decided to stock up on Quicksilver Clothes because they are great for the beach and look amazing - and the dresses can be glammed up for a night in the bar.

What more does a girl need?

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Reality TV- has it come to an end!

What with Big Brother and I am a celebrity, I am sick and tired of Wacthing people I dont even recogince as being famous. They are not even interesting as far as I am concerned.

When it frist began all those years ago, I did find it interesting as it was a novelty……now though I am just bored!

Is it too much to ask for a good drama of comedy!

I think it might be!

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Just think about it, if you get a bit peckish at work, at the train station or even after a workout at the gym, and there’s a vending machine around filled to the brim with delicious chocolates and crisps, you’re hard pushed not to grab a quick snack. They are so convenient that we don’t really think about the implications that vending machines have on our health if they are not stocked carefully and with consideration.  I have recently started to see vending machines that are filled with a mixture of the traditional vending machine snacks (such as crisps, fizzy drinks and sweets) but also with snack bars, small bags of dried fruit and nuts and healthy living treats. This is definitely the way forward as people who are trying to turn their life around with healthy living are falling prey to the lure of the traditional vending machine. With over 150 calories on average in every fizzy drink, packet of crisps, and even more in your average chocolate bar there’s no chance for your average person who is trying to live a healthier life, unless they have the willpower of a cheetah who’s not eaten in 4 days chasing a herd of wildebeests! All vending machines from now on should stock a range of snacks so when we get tempted we can make the right choice!

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If I was a super star I’d appear in the middle of the stage on platform lifts.  I’d rise up out of the ground in a super cool fashion and all my fans would scream, then suddenly I’d fly in the air (no one noticing the wires attached to my back) and I’d fly gracefully across the arena…

She then awakes from the dream, was that a concert or the circus?!  The country’s going through a recession/depression whatever you want to call it. Apparently we are all 35 percent more likely to become depressed than we were a year ago.  I wouldn’t say I was depressed, but I can certainly feel something bringing me down.

I’ve always been really motivated and driven at work but at the moment it seems like I’m trying to swim upstream.  I’m putting in more and more hours, trying harder and harder and still ending up two paces further back than I started.

I’m sure I’m not the only one feeling the squeeze.  My finances aren’t any worse than they’ve been before; in fact they’re probably better.  I’m not as cavalier as I was in my youth.  But still you can feel it all the time.

I think that the media industry is making it much worse.  I don’t think it would be too much to ask for them to lift the mood a little.  They could all have a happiness full on assault for a couple of weeks to see if it had a positive impact.  Obviously it would!  It was Boris Johnson who sought out the pursuit of happiness.  I think that we should be looking to this more and more as we’re here for a good time, not a long time.  We should all remember that and do something every day to make us happy.

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Fair enough I’m not a mother yet and maybe one day I will turn into one of those women who insistently talk about their child but for now I certainly am not.  Driving along the road, one of my biggest bug bears was those people with window stickers in their cars.  You know the ones, ‘little devil on board’ or ‘little miss present’.  Is there any need?  Do these window stickers have any impact on how people drive along a road?

Then there are those girls with ‘princess on board’ or ‘hot stuff on board’.  Get a grip on yourself, no need what so ever!

One of my friends has recently had a baby and only now have I realised the utter despise caused when you park in the mother and child spots at the supermarket when you don’t have a child.  I thought my friend was going to spit on someone when they did it and she had to struggle in the normal parking.

Maybe they should have window stickers saying ‘knobber on board’, ‘watch out selfish monkey navigating’?!  I for one will never have window stickers don my car windows.  I will let people make their own mind up about me and my driving skills on the road…?!

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It seems like a lot of people are at least trying to go green these days.  Whole companies make their living through pushing the green scene, selling services such as energy performance certificates, auditing homes and reducing people’s carbon foot print.

I try not to think about it too much; I recycle glass and cans, plus I always give my old clothes to charity.  I do think that our generation need to sort out poverty as well as the whole green issue.  The country seems to be in such a mess at the moment though.  Recently it seems like a case of, where do we start?!

I’m 26 years old and I can state for my generation that we are completely detached from our countries economic and political agenda.  We have not got the UK into the situation it is in now and yet don’t seem to have much of a say about sorting it out.  I personally think that in a couple of decades we’ll be left to pick up the pieces of a broken Britain.

I think that there should be a complete cull of politicians; the expense row gives the perfect excuse.  The majority of them have taken the complete piss and should go.  The government needs a wider variation of people in terms of age and wealth, not just race.  It may then be possible to say that the government is making decisions for the whole of the UK, rather than just a small percentage of the public who like in a) London and b) are old.

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Oh my god, this morning I had a mare getting into work.  The access control security systems seemed to completely give up.  I stood in the pouring rain, desperately swiping and swiping my ID card to no avail.

My day has pretty much gone from bad to worse after that.  Now however, it’s Friday afternoon and all is not that bad in the world.  There’s just over two hours left of work and a 3 day weekend ahead of us.  No clients, work or access control security systems to contend with.  Though, my door key has gotten very stiff in its old age, so I’ll probably have to wrestle that to get into the house.

Never mind that though, the weather outlook is good and for three days the world is my oyster.  I’m going to do some shopping, drinking and sleeping, and then try to stay out of trouble.

Then when Tuesday morning hits us like a tonne of bricks, it’s going to be business as usual.  Slipping back into the lifeless lull of the rate face shouldn’t be too much trouble.  I think it’s fair to say that the rate race is getting me down.  Down, down to China Town!

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Gaah, how does my number get on business telemarketing lists?! I can’t sit in the sanctuary of my own home without some random company calling up to see if I want to buy something. Obviously I don’t want to buy anything as I’m sat in the comfort of my own home, watching television and making the most of the little time I get on my own. I do not want my program to be interrupted by a complete stranger blagging my head!!!

The amount of adverts is getting worse too, I remember when watching a film didn’t take up five hours. Now there are so many adverts breaks; advert, after advert, them telling us that we want things that we don’t need. It’s ridiculous!

Ha, I have found a way round all this advert business. It costs me more but I now subscribe to Sky Plus, record everything and fast forward through the commercials. I no longer loose cumulatively, days of my life to media companies and adverts.

I need to get myself on an exempt business telemarketing list to get them to sod off. I will find away to get round this business! Let’s face it; it’s just another invasion of our privacy which we need to deal with.

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