Literatea

Don’t you just love bubblewrap?

It’s the sort of simple pleasure in life that just lifts the day. Some of my favourite bubblewrap moments include Bono’s interesting choice of Encore Outfit for U2’s Popmart Tour (I watched the last concert of the tour in Johannesburg), Cybill Shepherd & her mate doing a tap number on bubblewrap in her super sitcom (Cybill), and some wall art I once saw in a Covent Garden shop involving bubblewrap (the large-bubble variety) and lovehearts.

The best thing about bubblewrap, however, is popping it.

Go on, you’ll be addicted!

No, really.

…Yawn…

Waaaaaaaaaay past Nelly’s bedtime… ne’er posted this late before!

Hah! I’m not below average after all! And I “have a way with words and vocabulary” (according to the BBC’s Test The Nation Train Your Brain mental workout), although I “am a bit lazy and with a bit of hard work could improve it immensly”.

D’you think that an IQ of 106 & a way with words will help my score at Quasar tonight?

Ever drunk an old git?

Nope, I didn’t think so. Well now you can, and although this review isn’t really a review at all since I haven’t tried the stuff out yet, I hear it’s gaining in popularity.

I am talking, of course, about Old Git (known across the pond as Old Fart…ewwwww), and I highly recommend this link as you can have a read of the label… highly amusing.

And it only costs £3.99 in Sainsbury’s.

I got into the office yesterday, and my pc wasn’t there. It wasn’t, in fact, anywhere.

That’s right folks, someone came into a church building and stole the youthworker’s pc. What happened to the good ol’ days of superstition and abject terror in the face of the church?

Oh, that’s right, Democracy.

Which is exactly why the scroundrels stole my machine… since they took the box and seem to have left sellotape lying around one can only presume it was boxed up and is currently down in the dodgy part of town being flogged.

Honestly.

And he is…all reason demands that you go here now.

Terminator 3 is out on July 2nd and if this trailer is anything to go by, it’s going to be wicked.

There’s a fantastic website which I like to look at now and again in order to furnish my Ideas Cabinet with crazy-but-true stories for youth talks.

As I surfed onto NewsoftheWierd.com, I found this excellent story:

“Tony Alleyne, 50, recently placed his small Leicestershire, England, apartment on the market for the equivalent of US$1.7 million, a price he said was realistic because he has spent nearly 10 years crafting the premises as a finely detailed model of the “Star Trek” starship Enterprise. Included, according to an April report in Australia’s Herald Sun, are a life-size transporter control, a gigantic warp core drive, voice-activated lighting and security, and an infinity mirror. “If you’re going to do something,” he said, “you have to go all the way.” Alleyne said he started the project as therapy when his wife walked out on him.”

So there you go.

Today I am sad. No, I’m not wearing an anorak whilst reading up on whether a WD Saddletank based on the Hunslet 18″ saddletank, but with steel castings reduced to a minimum train is more exciting than the No.1 area standard 311hp type Hunslet 6612 (diesel) of 1965.

So I’m going to cheer myself up with my All New Oscar Wilde Best Of Quote of the Day. One a day for the next… well I won’t pin myself down since who knows how long it’ll be before I get bored with that idea.

So I start my Latest Idea with a piece of advice:

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

I’m bored with the best of. And I’m about to go camping with the young people of our church so am not strictly in “thinking hard” mode. I’m far more interested in the new “eda” link on the test logs…

Have a lurvely weekend all. See you next week- hopefully not too sunburnt!

Today in “Nelly’s Best (Or Worst, Depending Entirely On Your Way of Viewing Things) Of” we discuss ILLNESS.

Oh yes, with just one more day to go ’til our Annual Young People’s Weekend Away at Carroty Wood Nelly and another of her key youth workers have both succumbed to nasty bouts of…well actually, I’m not even going to go into details. I’ve just one word (well, onomatopoeia)…

EEeeeeeuuuggghhh.

So the prestigious Best of Award today in the How To Do It Gracefully goes to……….

Being Sick On The Way Home From Westerham At 11:30 At Night. And I don’t even have the drink excuse…didn’t touch a drop!