What is it with advertisers making up ridiculously over-complicated, unneccesary and nonsensical words at the moment? Haven't we already got enough perfectly good words in the English language, for goodness sake?
The two that REALLY irritate me every time I see them on the TV are:
"Scrappage" - in (I think) a Ford car commercial... what the heck is that supposed to mean? And:
"Terrorisation" - in a commercial for some god-awful film, which according to the blurb "contains sustained terrorisation"... aaaarggghhhh!!!!!
It sounds suspiciously to me as if that ill-educated buffoon George Dubya is being employed on the side as an advertising copy-writer... God help us all!
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
Thursday, 26 July 2007
Rihanna - Umbrella
Dear Rihanna
I'm sure you're really a very nice person... but that Umbrella song REALLY gets on my nerves.
It's a very uncharitable thing to say... but may I suggest you stick your Umbrella-ella-ella up your bottom-ottom-ottom.
Thank you!
I'm sure you're really a very nice person... but that Umbrella song REALLY gets on my nerves.
It's a very uncharitable thing to say... but may I suggest you stick your Umbrella-ella-ella up your bottom-ottom-ottom.
Thank you!
Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Fave flicks confirm sad sense of humour...
I spent a happy couple of hours last night watching two of my all-time favourite films that happened to be on the TV, one after the other...
"Spinal Tap" rapidly followed by "Porky's".
Oh dear... what an unfortunate insight into my mind!
"Spinal Tap" rapidly followed by "Porky's".
Oh dear... what an unfortunate insight into my mind!
Friday, 6 July 2007
HUGE thanks to all at Stoke Mandeville!
Hurrah! After almost 4 weeks in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, The Elderly Mother is now back at home, complete with fully-functioning new titanium hip joint. (As a result of which I think she may now have to be referred to as Robocop... I wonder if she'll understand if I start calling her "Murphy"? Probably not!)
So, a massive thank you to all the staff at Stoke Mandeville for looking after her so well - we really couldn't have asked for more.
(She even had a visit from Princess Anne while she was in there - now that's what I call service - although to be fair PA was there to officially open the new wing of the hospital, not just to visit Robocop... heh heh heh...)
So, a massive thank you to all the staff at Stoke Mandeville for looking after her so well - we really couldn't have asked for more.
(She even had a visit from Princess Anne while she was in there - now that's what I call service - although to be fair PA was there to officially open the new wing of the hospital, not just to visit Robocop... heh heh heh...)
Friday, 22 June 2007
Elderly Mother etc...
Well, here we are, it's the day after the Summer Solstice (and no, I'm not at Glastonbury this year) and its almost a month since my last post! Sorry, there's been rather a lot happening...
Most of the hassle we've had has been with "The Elderly Mother", who's been having health problems for a little while now - and she's managed to fall over (and not be able to get up again) several times in the last few months.
Well, that last time she did it she broke her hip... so she's been in Stoke Mandeville Hospital for almost a fortnight now, where they had to operate to replace her hip-joint. However, the good news is that she's getting along very well - in fact she should be having her stitches removed today - and she might be going home next week sometime.
(As you can probably imagine, we've been visiting her almost every day, so we haven't had a lot of time to do anything else!)
Our worry now is that she won't be able to cope any longer, living on her own as she does... so we're trying to persuade her to move into sheltered accommodation, where there's always someone on call in the event of any further mishaps... easier said than done!
Anyway, I'm probably going to be taking Granddaughter-Number-One (Bethany) over to visit here a little later this afternoon... which should be fun!
Most of the hassle we've had has been with "The Elderly Mother", who's been having health problems for a little while now - and she's managed to fall over (and not be able to get up again) several times in the last few months.
Well, that last time she did it she broke her hip... so she's been in Stoke Mandeville Hospital for almost a fortnight now, where they had to operate to replace her hip-joint. However, the good news is that she's getting along very well - in fact she should be having her stitches removed today - and she might be going home next week sometime.
(As you can probably imagine, we've been visiting her almost every day, so we haven't had a lot of time to do anything else!)
Our worry now is that she won't be able to cope any longer, living on her own as she does... so we're trying to persuade her to move into sheltered accommodation, where there's always someone on call in the event of any further mishaps... easier said than done!
Anyway, I'm probably going to be taking Granddaughter-Number-One (Bethany) over to visit here a little later this afternoon... which should be fun!
Friday, 25 May 2007
Another Bank Holiday weekend...
I can tell it's a Bank Holiday weekend - the weather's looking decidedly dodgy! Ah well...
Now I really should be taking advantage of the break from work by starting on a bit of DIY around the house - there are loads of little (and not so little) jobs that need to be done, as we're planning on putting the house on the market sometime fairly soon, with a view to moving down to the West Country - somewhere along the North Devon / Somerset coast would be nice, but we'll just have to see what we can afford when the time comes!
However, it doesn't look as if I'll have time for any of that this weekend... we've arranged to visit Chris's Mum in Wiltshire on Sunday, and my Mum in Bucks (as it's her birthday this weekend) on Monday... so that only leaves Saturday, and by the time we've done our shopping and any gardening that needs urgent attention, there just aren't enough hours left in the day!
Still, I suppose there's always NEXT weekend... ;o)
Now I really should be taking advantage of the break from work by starting on a bit of DIY around the house - there are loads of little (and not so little) jobs that need to be done, as we're planning on putting the house on the market sometime fairly soon, with a view to moving down to the West Country - somewhere along the North Devon / Somerset coast would be nice, but we'll just have to see what we can afford when the time comes!
However, it doesn't look as if I'll have time for any of that this weekend... we've arranged to visit Chris's Mum in Wiltshire on Sunday, and my Mum in Bucks (as it's her birthday this weekend) on Monday... so that only leaves Saturday, and by the time we've done our shopping and any gardening that needs urgent attention, there just aren't enough hours left in the day!
Still, I suppose there's always NEXT weekend... ;o)
Sunday, 13 May 2007
Number-Three-Son's Wedding
Well, it's been a little while since I've had time for any new postings... mainly because we've been busy with the final preparations for our youngest son's wedding - which has now finally happened!! So congratulations to Jamie and Jessica... and let's see how you get along as Mr & Mrs Smith (it can be a real pain booking a hotel, take it from me!).
Anyway, the wedding was on Friday... you can see a few of the photos here... so we got home from the reception at about 10.30 that evening, slowly resurfaced on Saturday morning, then had a leisurely pub lunch with some friends who'd also been at the wedding.
Back to normality today - the weekly grocery shop at Asda this morning... then tie-dyeing a batch of T-shirts this afternoon!!
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