tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67579921724257694502024-03-13T20:37:04.619-07:00MadmessMadmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-63063578048908455282013-08-20T14:33:00.000-07:002013-08-20T14:56:00.426-07:00scary times a comingHello again! I feel like I'm always apologising for being a bad blogger but sometimes life gets too hectic. Entirely my own fault, for some reason drama seems to follow me!
So, I'm still in Glasgow and on Friday morning I will leave the safety of my hotel room to go back packing (OK driving but camping) round Scotland. Little bit apprehensive about this but its only for around 16 days and I guessMadmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-29831903526272395672013-07-21T10:00:00.000-07:002013-07-21T10:00:44.447-07:00Single girl and dog.Now then, I would like to apologise for the one woman pity party I embarked on in my last post but if you can't have a minor breakdown in front of friends every now and then, well I don't know what the world is coming to. Anyway, I have gotten over myself, did the France thing for a bit which I will tell you about another time and have arrived in Glasgow on my mission to discover dog friendly Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-67473897170046214412013-05-28T03:13:00.001-07:002013-05-28T03:13:49.950-07:00The best laid plans and all thatHaving just read my last post I'm struck by how different things actually are now.
Now, I know you're not supposed to write these things when you're emotional and having just been informed that I've lost my grandad I'd say that my better judgement is telling me to put the phone down (as always, writing this on an iPhone) and go for a nice walk somewhere. The only thing is that after getting the Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-67292748655910658992013-02-17T02:54:00.001-08:002013-02-17T02:54:47.383-08:00Where in the world is ally?Good question!
Currently I am in the sunny paradise of Bognor Regis working in a practice where the majority of the staff are lovely, two vets have the ole god complex going on which is hilarious but other than that they are all supremely nice people. And how did we end up here you may ask.
Well, suffice to say that when you do someone a favour, cover your own ass. You wouldn't think that someoneMadmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-12466696384338158862012-09-17T23:17:00.001-07:002012-09-17T23:17:34.896-07:00For Wayne.2 years ago today a truly beautiful soul was taken from us by a selfish bitch with no regard for human life.
My friend Wayne was the most caring, honest and friendly person you could ever hope to meet and I miss him every single day.
He always was and he always will be a source of inspiration to me and each time I come across someone who treats me badly or hurts me or one of my friends I'm alwaysMadmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-24467809217888342822012-09-14T01:46:00.001-07:002012-09-14T01:46:43.998-07:00Gotta love the cheese!So those of you that know me know that I love my cheese. It's just a statement of fact like saying that all politicians are soulless thieves or that the bible was a series of bedtime stories written to keep the minds of impressionable children in line and in their place. So when my friend (let's call him roger) suggested we go to a real west country cheese festival you can imagine that I was as Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-72166088216089194342012-08-09T04:20:00.001-07:002012-08-09T04:20:21.471-07:00Anyone but meAnyone but me
PS: A song what I wrote.
(two posts in one day! I think I need a lie down)Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-9271179598195712312012-08-09T02:04:00.001-07:002012-08-09T02:04:35.424-07:00You're not going to like this one....Ok I realise that I'm a shit blogger who only pops up when I have something controversial to say or when something so hideous happens in my life that it would be rude not to turn it into a funny story even though I'm weeping on the inside but it's my blog so I'll do what I like.
I'm actually doing the controversial thing right now over the hoo ha on Facebook over the page called 'dead baby jokes'Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-84235400972138115782012-04-30T22:06:00.001-07:002012-04-30T22:06:50.825-07:00A poem what I wroteThis is a poem that I wrote at a workshop where we wrote thoughts down on pieces of paper and picked them out of a hat and then wrote what came to us from the pieces.
Cheating hearts.
A receipt from a present never received
A ghost of feelings once perceived
To fill the void of an empty heart
A walk by the sea,a good place to start.
To walk, to see, beside the sea
The savage landscape, a Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-82066574005124245492012-04-13T11:58:00.001-07:002012-04-13T12:00:07.299-07:00I really am such a bad blogger! Ages since I last wrote anything. You must be feeling very neglected. Sorry about that.
Well, in case you're interested I have made some fairly drastic life changes recently. I moved back to Southampton and am busy building my menagerie with new housemate (more on him later), I'm preparing for the regional final of the live and unsigned competition mainly by Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-32481272417004200072012-03-21T02:36:00.001-07:002012-03-21T02:36:54.277-07:00In case you were wondering...Ok, so I've realised that I've not updated you all about my raw food experience since my little paddy a few weeks back.
After meeting with MT and having a raw food prep session and really listening to what she had to say, I've got to admit it all just made sense. That's not to say that it's easy to stick to! You do have to be super organised which I am not! And you do have to have tremendous Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-77663420873911711012012-02-25T10:26:00.001-08:002012-02-25T10:26:02.463-08:00Live and unsigned!!!!Well fuck me sideways with a barge pole, I've only gone and got through to the regional finals of the live and unsigned completion!
To say I was surprised would have been the biggest understatement of the year!
I got to the competition and it was like a scene from fame, punked out by ashton kutcher. Kids and adults of all ages some rocking awesome tattoos, one with a sunflower tattoo and an Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-15463890472646255352012-02-03T04:24:00.000-08:002012-02-03T04:24:06.448-08:00A piece about on line datingThis is a piece I wrote about online dating and published by Gallery magazine. Very exciting.
Rad my article! You know you want to
Very short blog post I know but the article is there. What more could you want?Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-22519064292213544382012-01-27T16:45:00.001-08:002012-01-27T16:45:31.150-08:00Raw food experienceRight toys have been picked up and put back in the pram and we're back on track to start trying to go raw again. I think the problem last time is my mental attitude was calling it a challenge which it is but that doesn't mean I have to accomplish it all in one go. After having a very informative couple of hours making actually quite tasty food with MT even if the combinations were a bit strange Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-2740368799406785812012-01-26T23:38:00.001-08:002012-01-26T23:38:41.196-08:00Raw food vegan challenge day 4FUCK THE RAW FOOD!!
That's right I quit! When you start feeling headachey and nauseous that's one thing, but to start throwing up green shit that's quite another all together. I can still write the article from the perspective that I tried it and Mazza has stuck it out for a whole week (probably because she's even more stubborn than I am!) and I will still interview the vegan and learn some Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-48055716338128109682012-01-26T02:12:00.001-08:002012-01-26T02:12:33.407-08:00Raw food vegan challenge day 3Today was the worst of all days. I overslept and had to grab a banana for breakfast then had to meet someone in a pub where they were serving food and all I could have was a cup of tea with no milk. Then the raw oatmeal recipe I followed was disgusting and had to be binned as it was inedible swill, I had a lunch of greens, curly kale, rocket, spinach, carrot batons and the red lentil hummous I Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-35653292284385490492012-01-24T22:33:00.001-08:002012-01-24T22:37:08.140-08:00Raw food vegan challenge day 1 and 2Day 1
I start the day with a banana, mango and blueberry smoothie which is actually no different to how I start most days so this is no biggie, it's only after I've been researching raw recipes online all morning and start to get hungry that I realise that I'm going to need a lot more preparation as I've not got anything for lunch or dinner unless I wish to snack on bananas all day. By the time Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-92011393573003758482012-01-21T07:45:00.001-08:002012-01-21T07:50:35.036-08:00The happiest day of my life so far.Sitting here feeling hungover, desperate for food but the cupboard is bare so I go on to a little site called just eat and discover to my eternal happiness that there is a place in southamptonshire that delivers roast dinners! I shit you not!
Well we had to try it didn't we and this is what turned up...
THE MOST AMAZING ROAST DINNER!!!!
You might guess that I am a little excited by this. I'veMadmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-87277993130666218052012-01-16T23:13:00.001-08:002012-01-16T23:13:58.781-08:00Bend over Britain!I just read in the paper today that Michael Gove wants to give the royals a yacht for their whatever jubilee anniversary. Most people get silverware or a ticket to see Michael Bolton in concert but no, that snivelling brown nosing elitist twat wants to give a yaht. At a time when the British public have been screwed over by bankers, had their money leeched from them by the people elected to look Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-2326723597668017332012-01-15T02:10:00.001-08:002012-01-15T03:01:17.820-08:00Raw food. Madness or a well kept secretToday I'm sat in a fairly nice b and b having just had a reasonably nice cooked breakfast and I'm contemplating my next challenge. The last challenge worked out to be fairly simple; to find people who had found lasting love online which I started out thinking it was going to be quite difficult but thanks to the wonders of Facebook I managed to find a fair few people that found their special Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-24611336386699015582011-12-29T03:41:00.001-08:002011-12-29T03:41:42.314-08:00Sea sicknessAt the time of writing this I am on the ferry back to blighty. Usually the journey is pretty uneventful, we get on, I park the car, get a ham and cheese toastie and sit in my seat reading for the next four hours. Pretty nice. However, this time I feel like I am trapped in the seventh circle of hell. The sea feels like it seven feet tall, we are being buffeted by waves that make the inside of the Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-79526545246160383892011-12-20T05:44:00.000-08:002011-12-20T05:44:21.836-08:00Madmess: Pirate party brigadeMadmess: Pirate party brigade: Just interviewed these guys for Aprils edition of Gallery magazine and they have a song out for Christmas number one. So, how about giving i...Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-3690843044934634282011-12-20T05:41:00.000-08:002011-12-20T05:43:19.989-08:00Pirate party brigadeJust interviewed these guys for Aprils edition of Gallery magazine and they have a song out for Christmas number one. So, how about giving it a listen, downloading it from i tunes or Amazon and getting someone worthwhile at the top for Christmas number one instead of X-factor (ew), some generic picked at random re-hashed Nirvana song (OK Nirvana are great but give someone else a turn now eh?) or Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-71389509403983101922011-12-14T17:38:00.001-08:002011-12-14T17:42:39.460-08:00Hooray for Alan pollockIf you haven't seen the news he's the guy who threw a fare dodger off the train. And fair play to him. The train was stuck in the station making everyone cranky while the conductor tried to get the guy to pay or piss off and the twatty freeloader starts giving him abuse. People are sat there with their kids while this guy paints the air blue with his offensive language, one guy was even going to Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6757992172425769450.post-85920057552058061922011-12-05T15:02:00.001-08:002011-12-05T15:02:57.111-08:00TechnologyThis blog post is bought to you via my iPhone! That's right, I have succumbed to peer pressure and purchased the phone that can do everything except make me a cup of tea or cure age induced hangovers. Although I'm sure the clever bods in technology towers are already busily beavering away to make those particular changes to subsequent models. Imagine, one day we may be able to pick up the iPhone Madmesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02199877820284624849noreply@blogger.com0