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Today I am mostly listening to: Gwen Stefani - Rich Girl (Anthem on the Amsterdam trip - ask the IT girl)

Two posts in two days! Can’t believe this, something must be wrong! No, seriously, I would have posted this yesterday, but I forgot when I got completely carried away with all the announcements of the new blog additions.

Basically on Monday, I had a better than usual day at work, and actually got to do something a bit more interesting than being chained to my desk. To cut a long & boring story short, we had a visitor from our parent company (who happened to be German), who wanted to see the wonderful sights of Cambridge. Me being the helpful sort, volunteered to show them around our little corner of England. After a spot of lunch over-looking the murky river Cam, we took a guided punt tour along the backs. Having lived in this part of the world for most of my life (a few wasted years were spent elsewhere, but that’s a different story for a different time), Cambridge is a place that, rightly or wrongly, I take for granted, and I don’t see the city as a tourist might. But this guided tour along the Cam gave me the chance to see it in a different light (and it had absolutely nothing to do with the rather dashing student who guided us...). So, yes, I had a good afternoon seeing a few of the sights of Cambridge as a tourist would.

Anyway, enough of the tourist information service. Enjoy some of the results below (taken with my phone because I didn’t think to take a camera – don't forget, too many photo’s are never enough!), and if they entice you to travel down to the fen, I’m sure you will enjoy it as much as I did!

Remember, you can take the girl out of the fen, but you can't take the fen out of the girl...


All together now, sigh (The Bridge of Sighs - Get it?!)
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What a conundrum! (The Mathematical Bridge - Get it?!)
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*Sigh* What's the matter? (It's The Bridge of Sighs - Again)
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Kings College (errm, running out of witty comments now...)
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Oh yeh, I'm still lusting after those damn Nike Rifts...

Hello one and all! Yes, it’s been a short while since my last blog, possibly because I haven’t really had much to report & my score on Stick Cricket hasn’t improved greatly! Life has been neither overly exciting nor coma-inducing boring. It’s been pretty much fair-to-middling as some might say! (And I don’t think anyone I don’t want to see this blog has been reading it... If that makes sense to anyone)


The time is ripe for a new beginning
No, I’m not becoming a born-again tree-hugging hippy (although that is a career I haven’t yet considered...), I’ve decided to try out a couple of new things with this blog – After all, the world of blog is ever growing & expanding, and if all else fails, at least it will give me something to write about!

New addition – Part 1
The first new addition I’ve seen done a few times under various different disguises. I like the idea of it, so I’ve pinched it and have decided to incorporate it here. In a bid to give it a name I haven’t seen else where, I hereby name the new feature "Today I am mostly listening to..." (*The fanfare & applause fade away*). My aim is to try and include it some where within each worthy entry, it won't necessarily be something I'm listening to all the time, it might just be the last song I heard as I got out of my car before going to work, but it will probably be something that has stuck in my mind for some reason.

New addition – Part 2
I’ve decided to add another new section that won’t necessarily appear on an entry-by-entry basis (it might not even appear on a weekly or monthly basis), but it will certainly be here from time to time. I hereby name the second new feature "Object of my desire" (seriously, not joking about this one, no sireee).

And I am happy to report the Object of last week’s desire as:


Mmmm, Asics
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Yes, I now own them and I am happy to report that last weeks desire is fully satisfied!

Hope you don’t think I’m overdoing it, but here is the object of this week’s desire:


Mmmm, Nike rifts
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I don't own them... yet. The thing is, I just can't decide on what colour. Any suggestions? (And no, I don't have a shoe fetish. Well, I don't think I do...)

Oops, almost forgot!
Today I am mostly listening to: Hazel O'Connor - Will you

Just gotta post this up for everyone to see, I can’t recommend it highly enough! Stick Cricket is the highly addictive phenomenon that is setting the world alight! (Well, it is in our office).

I may be no expert, but my highest score to date is Vaughan with 61, and there has to be no finer sight than seeing Brett Lee bowled out by Mr Beefy himself (Altogether now, Brett Lee is a chucker, nuh naah naah nah). And OK, you don’t get the chance to bowl, but I deliberately play bad when playing in green & gold! Check it out now!


It's wicket to wicket cricket (@ Stick Cricket)
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Another link in case you missed the first one – Stick Cricket

And here’s another one – More Stick Cricket

Need any more? Oh, go on then... Stick Cricket

Blogs are funny old things. A good number of us write down our innermost thoughts, and think nothing of sharing them with the secret world that is blog. Yet when it comes to sharing any of these thoughts & ramblings with a member of your family, if you’re anything like me, you’d probably run a mile & deny all knowledge of knowing what a blog is. "No it’s not mine, it’s just one I like to read from time to time", I mumbled in my defence (despite the fact there’s a picture taken from my bedroom window...).

This weekend, I think a member of my family discovered my blog. "It’s not that bad" you’re probably thinking, but when I think back to my drunken night of debauchery (OK, there was no debauchery, but we were very drunk, and we all fancied a bit, given half a chance), and I remember my desperate-woman rant and... Oh, I don’t even want to think about it, let alone write about it!

For some reason it makes me feel guilty, almost like I’m trying to hide the fact I blog (Yeh, been trying to kick the habit for a while now. Currently doing 5 posts a week, just gotta cut back some how). So in a bid for freedom, Atomic Rosie, if you’re reading this, I trust that you will understand that it is just a harmless bit of fun and quite possibly the demented ramblings of some one who should know better! Oh, and I hope you forget the web address just in case I want to write about how evil you are! (Love ya really sis!)


Damn, it's back to Disguises-R-Us for me...
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Well, Friday night came & went as it does every week of the year (yes, even in a leap year). Fun & frivolity was had by all, the curry was great, and we managed a round of turbo shandy’s, despite lots of "but I don’t drink pints". The award for Star of the Night had to go to The Lovely Miss Loud & Lively, not only for the game of "Where’s Wally?" but also for her conversation at the bar. When ordering a round of drinks in the club (please note that I struggle to call it a club, but it’s more than a bar, but it has got a dance floor...So what is it?!):

To set the scene, this took place after the first round of turbo shandy’s:

The Lovely Miss Loud & Lively: "Do you sell snake bite & black?"
Friendly bar keep: "No, I’m afraid we don’t sell cider"
TLML&L: "Oh, OK. Do you have anything similar?"
FBK: "No, I’m afraid we don’t sell cider"

OK, maybe it was one of those where you had to be there to appreciate it, but when I asked The Lovely Miss Loud & Lively what she was expecting when she asked for something similar, she replied with "Well, maybe just snake bite but with no black". Surprisingly, that answer made sense to me...

No surprises for guessing that I didn’t find myself an fcuk buddy. Perhaps horoscopes are a load of rubbish after all. Or maybe it’s just the one I subscribe to. Oh well, it probably wouldn’t have worked anyway. He would have wanted to tell me all about how he scored the winning try (yes, in my imaginary world he would have played rugby), when all I wanted to do was get down & dirty in our own private scrum (or should that be ruck?!).

The younger men of the world can rest peacefully for the moment!



Does my bum look big in this?
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