Under the bed

Cheese manifesto update

2007-01-16T22:36:48+01:00

I have more to say on the subject of cheese:

The Ofcom restrictions on advertising of food and drink to children include cheese as a food that should not be advertised to children and as such have been lumped into the ‘junk food’ category.

Thre is a petition on the 10 Downing Street website, which is calling for a revision of the Ofcom restrictions to remove cheese from the ban.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/cheeseisnotjunk/

Now, my first instonct was to visit and vote, however, after further consideration I'm not so sure. The reason being that I have never seen an advert for a good type of cheese. I have seen cheese strings, babybel, kraft slices and laughing cow - exactly all the types of cheese that are rubbish AND aimed at children. So now I think that maybe Ofcom has got it right in a roundabout way....

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Coffee date - what to say!?

2007-01-15T22:14:22+01:00

Okay - I have registered! Written some uninteresting blurb about myself, said what the five things are that I couldn't live without (yes - cheese is in there) and uploaded a reasonable picture of me.

I them looked through the list of men aged 25 to 30 who were within a twenty mile radius of my postcode (south west London somewhere). There were a few nice looking guys there - some who turned me off with their description of who they're after. Like saying 'I only like slim brunettes who can speak three foreign languages fluently and play tennis three days a week and look perfect when they wake up first thing in the morning after a large night out'.

I also ruled out those ones with no photo - I work in PR - I know how you can justify spinning the word 'attractive'!

So I have added two nice looking young men to my favorites - but chickened out of sending them a message - I will take direction on what one should say - and endeavor to make contact tomorrow night!

Any suggestions welcomed!
Wx

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Coffee date

2007-01-15T21:20:14+01:00

I picked up a card in a soho cafe last week

"coffeedate.com - meet online and go for coffee"
"the relaxed way to meet someone new"

Promise I haven't looked at the site yet - also promise I will blog details with at least one coffee date!

Gosh, look at me being all proactive......

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Resolutions?

2007-01-02T21:30:58+01:00

New Year('s) resolution
noun [C]

a promise that you make to yourself to start doing something good or stop doing something bad on the first day of the year.

I would love to hear your new year's resolutions.......

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Boots

2006-11-06T21:27:51+01:00

Ankle high
Knee high
Thigh high
Flat
Walking
Snow
Welley
Leather
Ugg
Ski
Caterpillar
Motorbike
Furry

Any more....?

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Cheese manifesto

2006-10-12T21:25:32+02:00

Ask anyone who knows me what my favorite food is and they will exclaim, without hesitation, CHEESE!

I love cheese.

Is there any other food you know which can be produced so naturally and yet appear in so many diverse tasty forms?! Hard cheese, soft cheese, goats cheese, blue cheese, old cheese, new cheese, holumi, feta and mozzarella!

But beware - there are some peculiar substances on the high street that proclaim to be cheese! These disgusting frauds deserve to be pulled up under the trades description act and punished for bringing the cheesy name into disrepute!

Friends - I warn you - watch out for these evil fakes! Names like cheese slices, squeezy cheese and cheese strings should not be trusted. Please, I urge you to exercise caution at all times and make sure your cheese is 100% genuine!

Why, I ask you, would you choose to offer your child a plastic substance flavoured with chemicals when they could be munching on a nice chunk of Port Salut (kids love Port Salut) or tasty old school cheddar?

Say NO to rubber! Post YES to real cheese!

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Weathergirl

2006-10-11T21:56:54+02:00

Everyone got wet today. It was like a monsoon in London.

I tried to find a piture of a monsoon and came accross this interesting one:

It shows a monsoon over south Asia. It's pretty scary - look at all the rain really high in the sky - it seems to cover the whole of Russia, Europe and Africa too!

So why is it raining so much? Well according to Woodlands Primary School - October is by far the wettest month in England - the children have even produced a handy graph -

Here we can clearly see that rainfall in October is nearly double that of the preceding months. Don't worry though - hope is in sight, apparently we will see a much drier November!

Considering a change of career as a weathergirl........

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Ouch

2006-10-08T18:47:53+02:00

About eighteen months ago I passed out on a radiator pipe. This resulted in third degree burns to my back. The wounds required surgery and I am still having scar treatment.

I wonder if I looked this cute while my skin was toasting!!

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Stupid girl

2006-10-08T17:32:31+02:00

The sunday after the Saturday night, again.

This week I have gone back to my old ways - so much for being happy being single and on my own.

Got hammered on Wednesday night with H and was texting DJ to see what was going on - his text messages were non comittal but he implied he would like to see me on Saturday.

Met a random in a bar about midnight - his name was Rollo and he was about 35 and an investment banker (from what I can remember). We swapped cards but I'm not gonna follow it up.

So on Friday I had a few more texts with DJ and left it open about coming out with them all on Saturday. Think he was a little surprised when I turned up at their house yesterday with DG to watch the football. I could tell he was trying to get drunk.

He's very cute and very witty but I don;t think I can imagine going out with him - can't imagine him as a part of my lifestyle. Its taken him years to have proper conversations with me so I really can't see him coming out with the PR crowd or the allnight clubbing crowd. (I don't call my friends this btw - just expressing the type of people they are in minimum words).

Also I now discover from DG that MP may not take too well to any kind of chinanigans (?). MP and I had a thing in the past but he's not my type and I didn't like some of the things he said to me. So if anything happens with me and DJ I'll piss MP off - very messy.

I had come to the conclusion its just not worth it...

I saw N on Saturday which was nice for an hour antil he wouldn't stop touching me. I could have gone home with him fr the afternoon but I know its not fair on either of us.

So when I said good bye to DJ last night I said 'call me' and I know he's interested. We're all going to the comedy store tomorrow night so I'll see him then buy just try to play it cool.

So why 'stupid girl'?

I got a text from CO at midnight last night when we were driving back from the gig. We were both obviously lonely and had been drinking. I knew he wanted to come round and I really needed a cuddle - so he got a cab over.

A lot of intimate naked cuddling later and we woke up this morning and had some more lovely cuddles and lazing and joking. Then we went for a walk on the common and for lunch together. There was no intimacy once we had got up. Now he's gone to meet a friend. I feel really lonely and wonder why I do this to myself. I really care about him but know we're not right together. I'm not helping myself by doing things like this.

What makes it worse is that MP slept on our sofa, will undoubtedly mention something to PB today, PB will tell DJ and, well, what would you do if you heard that the girl you had been flirting with last night had gone home and slept with her ex boyfrind?

Tired and exasperated with myself. huff

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Grumble

2006-10-01T17:40:38+02:00

Emily here - I had to sleep under the bed - what Whitty didn't tell you was that 13 people stayed in our house last night (we have three double bedrooms). THIRTEEN! Couldn't one of them sleep under the stupid bed? She'll want me back tonight when there are no boys around. I did play with some of my friends though.

Oh oh oh - guess what just happened - I found a fiver - check me out!

Emily x

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The morning after

2006-10-01T17:11:02+02:00

Okay - so technically its the afternoon however I'm still in my PJs with a hangover so it can be morning!

Good night. Poorer turn out than expected but a good laugh. Memorable moments were bumping into Sian and Jim, N's flowery shirt, playing Pictionary and E's 'dump', buying wine from the Indian restaurant, playing table football (it was ALL about games), finishing off the coke and ending up in bed with DJ.. again...

Eek, what to do? I'M SUPPOSED TO BE BEING SINGLE!! D asked me this morning what was going on. I said a drunken thing, quite like him but not really interested etc etc. Then he reminded me that we were cuddling this morning in the living room (six of us on the sofas with our duvets - slobs!). Good point, I said I just wanted some cuddles, which is probably closer to the truth. Hmmmm, dating friends not a good idea..... maybe I'll text him.....

D is a legend - he cooked us breakfast and is coming back to make a roast - he's too good to me - helping me move between various houses and giving me counsel when I need it. E was right too - he was looking good last night - we must find him a decent woman...

And - he's gonna sublet J's room before P moves in end of Oct. Should be fun. J and I said we always have to have a man in the house - to make us feel protected I guess!

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Repetition

2006-09-30T15:25:45+02:00

Hello again. I've had quite few texts in the last hour - lots of people are coming to the party! Now I have to decide what to wear, skinny jeans?!...

I still have a headache from over indulgence last night. For once our whole team went out after work for drinks. Prior to this we drank wine in the office for an hour while we finished up. By the time we'd finished three of us were in the lotus position walking across the office floor on our knees! I love my team but I can't decide if I like working so f***ing hard all the time. Means I'm more likely to end up getting totally wasted at the weekend to let go. That's what's happened to our society now. You can't just tell people to stop binge drinking and taking drugs because its bad for them - we know its bad for us! but so is working a 45 hour week and there are no public health warnings on job adverts.....

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Party

2006-09-30T15:03:06+02:00

Tonight we are having a party. I guess its going to be one of those typical 'Clapham' parties where all the girls will turn up in skinny jeans and beads, everyone will get very drunk and undoubedtly there will be some random kissing because people are feeling lonely.

Take Whitty, for example, she's not very good at being on her own. When she gets lonely and drunk she will kiss random people. I think we are all a bit guilty of this. She's trying so hard at the moment to be single after over two and a half years and its difficult when she's not feeling good.

So I wonder if I will get relegated to under the bed tonight. I think she's a bit emabrrased about me when boys come over so I have to sleep in the dust.....

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There you are!

2006-09-30T14:44:38+02:00

Hello. I'm Emily and I'm the only unicorn with my very own blog! I'm going to tell you things about myself and my goings on here. You might be wondering what a little unicorn has to share with the big wide world? Well, with a bit of magic you can find out a whole lot of things from under the bed.....

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