bye bye

Russ, sorry. I removed you as a team member for sprout appreciation.
Things haven't been going well between us and you never talk here anymore, I feel like I'm alone. And now I've found out. You've been seeing another blog *sniff* (I promised myself I wouldn't cry) I hope your happy with that slut of a blog you've taken up with.
I've left your stuff online. I suggest you come get it before my snail eats it.

A Nasty case of BPE

Yesterday I woke up with an eyeball that resembled a big pink blancmange. (I seriously hope thats the correct spelling. Never have I encountered a word like it)
So I went in to the optician fearing eye loss AT THE VERY LEAST. A gaping maw etc.
She diagnosed, however, bacterial Conjunctivitis. Or BPE*
So, I'm not allowed to wear my contact lenses until saturday. Disaster.
I've not worn glasses for 6 years now. I'm stumbling like a fool and falling down stairs**. Worst of all people are looking sidelong at me as I peer at them like Aunty Jan at christmas asking why you STILL don't have a girlfriend (are you one if them? Elsie at the club's son is and he wears pink shirts!)
I feel like a twock***
I miss my contact lenses.

*Big Pink Eye
** and over things, small children and pets
*** Look footnotes!

Get OFF THE PAVEMENT

Rant alert!
When are cyclists going to realise that the pavement is not where you belong??
(Except if you have stabilisers and some cartoon character on both your bike, helmet and masses of padding and no cognitive action)(Russel the exception)
Now, I've just got mildly annoyed up till now and made do with shouting at their rapidly retreating backsides. But today the ultimate insult. i heard the "ahem" of an embarrassed cyclist behind me. They're usually unwilling to make eye contact BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY'RE WRONG but today I turned round to do my "see the little green path at the side of the road? thats a cycle lane. See that thing between your legs? Not that, yep, that. ITS A BICYCLE.
It was a bloodly mountain bike police man. Biker police uniform, helmet and black bike with police written on it. And he was wobbling like a toddler. I couldn't believe it. He had the decency to look apologetic at least. But what an example.

Ok tell me why I'm wrong...

(But only on this- not generally, right Russel?)
Ok, I hoved on over to Ian Rankin's website
Now, I'm not the best at written english but I always thought if a name or something ended in 's' then you didn't need to add another one when it's an ownership thing.
On Rankin's website it says Rebus's Scotland. I thought it should be Rebus' Scotland.
I'm not picking holes- just trying to keep myself right. Please leap in and tell me why I'm wrong.

Valentines

Well the day is over, did you all have fun?
I got a bear. Just a toy one not a grizzly but it did manage to fufil an ambition for me. Bear Factory, where it came from were supplying free Underwear with your bear and mine came with two attractive pairs of pants. One pair for the bear and one pair *claps excitedly* FOR THE SHEEP.
Yep I have a small toy sheep in white pants.
That made valentines for me.
Oh and someone bought me the bear, I wasn't just trying to buy a friend.
Right?

everyone else has one!

Here's my word cloud. Brilliantly there are a couple of swear words AND (and this is the best and!) two manic laughter bits. TWO!!
fantastic.

Valentines day Approacheth!

So I thought I would post a few Ideas for a green valentines day.
Every year over 100 million crappy cards go into our waste dumps, not being recycled or unable to be recycled because they are laminated or some such nonsense.
When did we start saying "I love you" with expensive, mass produced cards that, lets face it, suck anyway??? Is this kind crap going to get us Laid? NO!
Consider:
"Here darling, I chose a shit card with false sentiment because, lets face it, I don't have the britches to sort out something original"
I can almost hear the pants hitting the floor.
Roses (the flowers), are out too, sorry; They are mass produced overseas with gallons of pesticides and use what amounts to slave labour.They are then flown across the globe adding to the Co2 problems. (And speaking as a girl, are as banal as they come)
So lets try to be a little more original on the day.
However, I realise most folk are unsure about straying from the beaten path,
So for the unoriginal and uninspired amoungst us (me included) I have provided some links:
Ideas for cards and what to do with them after the day.
Craftser: I quote from the site "If you've been known to run with scissors, cavort with your fellow rebel DIY'ers here" excellent site.
I'll add more as I find them.
Enjoy!

thats just not cricket

I woke up yesterday morning with a spot on my nose. A huge spot. Etna-esque.
I have several issues with this spot:
I'm 25. My days of teenage plooks are finished. It's one of those spots. The juicy painful kind. Has no-one informed my skin that I'm no longer at school?
It's been ages since I had the urge to wear my fringe over one side of my face to hide a beezer of a spot.
bloody spots.

I'm not a hippy.

I've been gone a long time. I can only apologise. Profusely.
So I thought I would write occasionally about things that concern me. And ultimately you too, as I'm not just gonna write about how I have to shave my belly button or how I got curry paste on the kitchen surfaces and they won't scrub clean.
Nope- I'm gonna go slightly political on you all.
Now, I can hear footsteps running for the door so just wait right there. You came here and you can just wait.
Now: Some background. I'm a student (If you're gonna throw stuff, throw food) and I study aspects of environmental things. Planning law, sustainable development and the like. I also have some opinions on things too. Though you would think looking at me I would have difficulties getting both feet in separate pant legs in the morning. (pants as in knickers btw. Not trousers. Trousers are trousers. Pants are silly)
So I get angry about some stuff and I leave it off the blog. But I've changed my mind.
This morning I listened to a debate on radio scotland about sustainable energy.
I have to say, a lot of milk sloshed out of my fruit n fibre in fury so you can guess that I wasn't too impressed. I don't think enough people are taking this seriously. We are headed for a major, major fuck up. NIMBY's (Not In My Back Yard's) are having a very detrimental effect on our future ability to live.
"Build wind farms" is one proposal. Just not there. Or there. Or here. Or over there say the NIMBY's. and the RSBP reckon that windfarms are gonna nicely chop passing rare species. Plus wind power isn't reliable.
Any other options?
Nuclear power.(Just to be clear here I'm highlighting sustainable power sources- not coal, oil or the other fossil fuels. They've had their day)
So then Friends of the Earth (I'm obviously just an aquaintance of the earth)say "No more Nuclear stations" and they highlight nuclear waste and all the associated fears that go with nuclear power.
All have their detractors. All have supporters. But I think we need to all do some reading and learning because we HAVE to come up with some form of solution. So go do some learning, find out. Because I promise you: this is an issue you will have to come to terms with. All of us. Regardless of where you live.We all have a responsibility to this planet.

I thought I'd also include some fun links for little environmental things to do too. I might do them first and let you know how I got on. How does that sound?