Networking - You've Been Tagged!

Just for a bit of fun (thanks Dancin Fool!) .... give this a go - learn something new about a fellow blogger.! Read and answer the following and paste on your page and then let me know you have answered it.

For those new to tag lists/ memes this is how it works. Below I have posted a list of ten questions for you to answer with instructions for taking part. I will visit your blog and leave you a comment inviting you to take part and including a link back to this post. If you would like to take part all you have to do is create a post copying over the instructions and questions, including your answers, and then pass it on in the same way to 5 new Bloggers, whether Bloggers you know or new ones you find. Then come back here and tell me your list is up so I can visit and read it!


So, this is the bit to copy if you are going to take part, copy all text within the speech marks:


"Instructions: Copy these instructions and the questions into a new post, post it with your answers, visit 5 new or known Bloggers and leave them a comment with a link to your relevant post inviting them to take part, and then return to the Blogger who invited you to take part and leave them a comment letting them know your post is up.


1.  If you could have super powers what would they be and what would you do with them? (Please feel free to be selfish, you do not have to save the world!)

2.  Were you to find your self stranded on an island with a CD player...it could happen...what would your top 10 bloggers island discs be?

3.  If you were a smell what would it be?

4.  What bird would you most like to be?

5.  If you were a bird who's head would you poo on?

6.  Are there any foods that your body craves?

7.  What's your favourite time of year?

8.  What's your favourite time of day?

9.  If a rest is as good as a change which would you choose?

10.  If you could have a dinner party and invite any 10 people from the past or present who would they be? (Living or deceased.)

My answers:

1.  If you could have super powers what would they be and what would you do with them? (Please feel free to be selfish, you do not have to save the world!)
Understand people's minds/know whether someone was telling the truth or not for sure!

2. Were you to find your self stranded on an island with a CD player...it could happen...what would your top 10 bloggers island discs be?
 In no particular order - Nick Drake - Bryter Later;
                                        Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon;
                                        Eric Clapton - Reptile;
                                        Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now;
                                        Duke Special - Songs From The Deep Forest;
                                        The Divine Comedy - Regeneration; 
                                        Corinne Bailey-Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae;
                                        Charlie Hayden & Pat Metheny - Under A Misourri Sky
                                        Cinematic Orchestra - Live at The Barbican
                                        Beth Rowley - Little Dreamer
                                        Boz Scaggs - Greatest Hits Live
                                        Beatles - White Album
                                        Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
                                        Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
                                        Minal - On A Planet (well it goes without saying ........)

Ok that's 15!! Can't take anymore  away haha!!!! 

3.  If you were a smell what would it be?
Freshly cooked bread

4.  What bird would you most like to be?
Buzzard - flying high over Dartmoor

5.  If you were a bird who's head would you poo on?
Simon Cowell for popularising crap music

6.  Are there any foods that your body craves?
At the moment - ice cream for my sore throat.  On a more regular basis it would have to be marmite

7.  What's your favourite time of year?
Spring - especially after the clocks go forward and we have our first light evening, bliss!

8.  What's your favourite time of day?
Bedtime!!  Oh and just before the sun starts to go down and there are beautiful long shadows and the light is beautiful.  Just makes everything look so magical.

9.   If a rest is as good as a change which would you choose?
Rest

10.  If you could have a dinner party and invite any 10 people from the past or present who would they be? (Living or deceased.)
Eric Morecambe; Spike Milligan; Michael Palin, Jude Law - for eye candy :-); Rolf Harris; David Bellamy; Antonio Gaudi: Cezanne; Alexander Fleming (so I could thank him); and Delia Smith who could help out in the kitchen!  Don't want any boring politicians or people who would droan on and on - ok it seems to be mainly men, shame that, how did that happen lol!  If I am having a dinner party I want to be entertained and cheered up by some good comedians and a couple of interesting people thrown in too. I'm not too sure how well I would get on with Delia, she looks a bit fierce, but I am sure she would give the gravy a stir if I was busy!



I have tagged: http://twoknightsandmaidens.blogspot.com/, http://tbonetravis.blogspot.com/ and http://olliebitsandbobsblog.blogspot.com/


 However if you come across this post and want to take part please do! The more the merrier. Remember it is a bit of fun, you don't have to do it but its a great way to meet some new Bloggers! Enjoy!                                       
                                        
                                      

Farewell, adieu

I will be deleting my little blog; it's been fun and I have enjoyed the experience.

It's allowed me to express my creative side and be the person I am.

I think, perhaps, in retrospect, self expression isn't my forte or has done me any favours, so have decided to call it a day on Blogger
Claire

Sounding off!

I am very disappointed and quite angry right now, so am sounding off on my own little page, because no one else reads it .......

I am struggling big time today with the two little people that live here .. yes my two darling children.  How could I have produced such thoughtless and rude people I don't know, but I have had a gut full of rudeless, eye rolling and answering back today! I now feel very frustrated and wonder where I have gone wrong.  I have basic rules and responsibilities for them both, and if those are broken then I will say something, and if I have to keep repeating myself, then I start to get niggled.  I am quite patient, but there reaches a point when I feel like I am talking to myself .  Then it feels that everything is going to pot, I feel frustrated and annoyed, and Mum goes off on one! I guess I need to be more patient, but I am tired, fed up of repeating myself and feel that I am  not being listened to.  My children are usually very respectful and say sorry, but just recently I can see a shift to more teenage rebellion behaviour, and I don't like it!  It feels as though they are constantly pushing the boundaries and seeing what they can get away with, which is why I seem to be constantly on their backs.  I spoke to both of them individually this afternoon and just got rudeness back.  I am sure, knowing them, they will think about it and hopefully apologise later on this evening.  I hate having to be upset before they realise that they have behaved wrongly. We usually have a good relationship, but I feel this is being eroded by their rudeness and lack of respect.  I want to re-address the balance and get it right.  It's such a difficult job and it's also something I always have to do alone as I get very little back up.  It's exhausting, soul destroying and upsetting.   I think I need a large glass of wine and some tlc!

My boss put me in a very difficult situation today at work (although I didn't rise to it) which is making me feel very uneasy and it is unsettling the team.

And I seem to have wiped all the music off my computer .......

Not a happy bunny today.

Roll on the weekend I say.

Now where's that bottle of wine ........................

Bring Me Sunshine

Brings back memories of watching tv with my dad as a youngster .. can't beat Morecambe and Wise!

NoCo Rhythmic Rhapsody

In a previous job at Hampshire Dance, part of my role was looking after our two youth dance companies - NoCo (above) and Hampshire Youth Dance Company. This video shows NoCo performing Rhythmic Rhapsody at Youth Dance England in London. NoCo are a bunch of young people from 13-21 who auditioned each year for a much sought after place in one of these companies... I absolutely loved going to the auditions, looking after them and sometimes accompanying them to performances. Happy times

Aeroplane - Nick Harper (Love is Music) - for Dancin Fool :-) xxx

I can see you!!!! For you Dancin Fool and Mr Dancin Fool of course - see you soon xxx

Back to work feeling

Well it's back to work for me this week and I can't say it is filling me with excitement!  So far it has not been too bad as yesterday our new team leader started and wanted to talk to us (about everything under the sun apart from work really), and in the afternoon wanted a  team outing to Hilliers Arboretum in Hampshire. All very nice, but I was over two hours late home.  Today we had a whole service training day, again out of the office in another part of Hampshire - a good 60 or 70 mile round trip.   Which meant making special arrangements for my children to get to school and back.  Normal day tomorrow and Thursday then another team day on Friday all day.

Not sure if it is just going back to work but all my enthusiasm for so many things has just waned. It is difficult to get back into the swing of things, worrying about my daughter, not wanting to be separated from her and work is the last thing on my mind!  Just want to hibernate and shut the world out at the moment and wake up in the spring.