The Cheerful Insanity of Me

This has to be the most amazing thing ever...

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This is one of those memes that seems to have gone around a lot for years now and I've so far avoid it. Well until I somehow managed to ask ladyofastolat to pick 5 things from my interests for me to talk about.

Oh well, here goes:

Blue string pudding (English seems inappropriate for this one) whistle whistle-whistle whiiiiistle whistle-whistle-whistle whistle. Whistle whistle whistle whistle-whistle whiiistle whiiiiistle whistle-whistle whistle. Whistle-whistle whistle whistle-whistle-whistle-whistle whistle whistle. Whistle whistle whistle. Whistle-whistle whiiiiistle whistle whiiistle whistle-whistle-whistle whiiiistle. (hope you got that, because that's all the explanation your going to get)

Coathangers This is about the only explanation I can give for this one (it's not my coathanger or my wall, but it is my, rather poorly taken, photograph)


Neil Gaiman I discovered Neil Gaiman when Neverwhere came on TV when I was at school. I bought the book of it shortly after when it came out and have worked my way through most of his other books since. I like the way he manages to ground the fantastic into real life situations, particularly in Neverwhere and American Gods. Rather than creating a whole new reality to talk about, he generally seems to just twist the one we've got to his own ends. Not really looked at the comics much though, as I never really was a big one for comics in general.

Real Ale You can't go around with morris dancers and other real ale drinkers without developing a taste for the stuff, especially when a lot of the other stuff pubs serve drink-wise is fairly tasteless and uninteresting. I therefore fell down that slippery slope. I wouldn't say I've got any particular favourites though, I'll generally go for the ones I know less well, because they might be more of a surprise.

The Goons Here I was, freshly run over with my bagpipes irreparably flattened, and without a remedy. The weight of the steamroller had made a lasting impression on me. I was now two inches thick and twenty-four feet wide. This- this was very awkward. People kept opening and shutting me. Then I discovered the goons had had a very similar storyline and radio 7 was repeating them on a Monday morning. Started listening to them on listen again as I didn't have digital when I first discovered this until I moved back to London and was able to listen to them before going to work (falling in the water is a very good way to wake up on a Monday morning). The rotten swines have deaded them now though :-(

So, when I got home from work, I came on LJ and saw this:


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My mind immediately thought of this:

Theme from Mop and Smiff

and I've not been able to shift it ever since.

I'm guessing no one else had that problem as I've never found anyone who could remember it, but it did exist the internet says so. Sometimes I wonder if I had my own special TV channel when I was growing up, which only I watched. It would explain why no one ever seems to have heard of any of the programmes I've seen...

Forget wealth, food, etc. What the world really needs is equality in terms of lego.

That's 62 blocks each according to the Guardian (via vittorio at legos).

And, no, your not allowed to just horde the red ones.

There really should be some sort of "62 block challenge" to see what the most interesting thing you could make with exactly 62 blocks is...

And there was me thinking I'd be organised, pack most stuff over the weekend and be able to go out most evenings this week *laughs at own foolish thoughts*

Parts of the house are now feeling distinctly empty, but not as bad as when I moved out of the flat in Croydon six months ago (thethirdvoice's stuff is still here unpacked).

Have been very tired all week and packing doesn't seem to be helping. Must investigate the possibility of going to sleep for several months after all this is over...

*looks at boxes contemplatively*

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You'll have to imagine there's a Blue Peter tortoise hibernating video clip here.

YouTube doesn't seem to have one *is shocked* or at least I can't find one
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*curls up in box and goes to sleep*

As thethirdvoice seems to have been getting several blank looks when mentioning this to people, a quick poll:

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