Amendment

Silly news got it wrong. It wasn't a spider monkey at all that escaped, it was a colobus monkey

I was sure that a spider monkey looked like a normal monkey and not the black and white thing they showed on the telly. But then I thought I must be wrong because if the BBC say it's a spider monkey then they must be right and surely the BBC are cleverer than me!!!

Well, no in fact the BBC are very stupid to get their monkeys confused.

Know your monkey!!!

Stay Tuned

I shall be posting a nice blog entry with pictures about my Isle of Man visit. I shall probably do this tomorrow, feel too tired and things tonight. I had a very nice time and the weather was very sunny, but I shall write a proper account soon, so I won't say anymore now.

In other news:

A Spider monkey escaped from the zoo. As the zoo is quite near me, I keep expecting to find the monkey in my garden. I'm not very keen on monkeys so that's not a pleasant prospect!!

LIVERPOOL CHAMPIONS!!! HURRAH!!!

I seem to have had a relapse of my Liverpool fanage. For most of my teenage years, my bedroom wall was adorned with pictures of Liverpool FC, not in a girly fancying the players sense, but more in a tomboyish loving the team way. I don't think I ever fancied any of the players really, although I liked Steve McManaman alot.

Anyway tonight was brilliant. What a brilliant comeback to win the UEFA Champions League
Have had too many beers to do the clever linking with the name thing right now.

I think it was all down to my mother.

She went out of the room to get something and as she came back in, Liverpool scored their first goal. So dad and I told her to go out and come back in again, which she did and less than a minute later, Liverpool scored again. After that, they had the power to succeed and no longer required my mother to exit and re-enter the room.

Mother got quite into the match and nabbed my Liverpool scarf and waved it about and started criticising the players and calling AC Milan the "white shits" deliberately and insisting she meant to say "white shirts". I just referred to them as "Daz whites" and the "Daz doorstep challenge"

In the local paper today there was a picture of the many many Liverpool fans from Northern Ireland who were at the international airport to fly over to Turkey for the match, so they shall all be returning drunkenly tomorrow and I shall have to tell them how to get out of the airport and where the toilets are etc. I shall also be sure to tell them that Liverpool did a bloody good job!!

Love Actually

Just watched it.

Bloody depressing film. Now I'm depressed that:

A) it's not Christmas

B) I don't have a boyfriend

and

C) I don't look like Keira Knightley.


I also really want some chocolate!!

BELFAST PART 2

Here we go. Some more scenes from my city. I nicked them all from the web apart from the two Cavehill ones. If you wish to have further information on Belfast, please go to http://www.gotobelfast.com. That's the sort of thing I say at work.


BELFAST'S LEANING ALBERT CLOCK ( IT LEANS BECAUSE IT WAS BUILT ON THE RIVER FARSET, BELFAST'S ORIGINAL RIVER NOW HIDDEN UNDERGROUND)




BELFAST CASTLE WHICH SITS ON THE SLOPES OF THE CAVEHILL




THE CAVEHILL AS SEEN FROM MY HOUSE WHEN IT WAS SNOWING




SOME OF BELFAST AS SEEN FROM THE CAVEHILL. I CAN SEE MY HOUSE ON THIS WHEN I ZOOM IN.




QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY




LAGANSIDE - THE RIVER LAGAN WITH POSH FLATS AT THE LEFT AND THE WATERFRONT HALL (WHERE I'M GOING TO SEE G4!!!) AND THE BELFAST HILTON ON THE RIGHT

Belfast

Today the theme is Belfast, where I live. Hurrah!!

Here are some pictures of the Cavehill, also known as Cavehill Country Park. It's about ten minutes walk from my house and it's a very nice place indeed.

And there's also a photo of Belfast City Hall.

I took all the pictures myself except the City Hall one.

I'll post more Photos of Belfast tomorrow.




Cavehill




Cavehill again




Cliffs of the Cavehill




Belfast City Hall

Images of Northern Ireland

As I work in Tourist Information, I thought I might as well use my blog to promote Northern Ireland

I'm starting with County Antrim, which happens to be where I live and I happen to have lots of photos of places in County Antrim. So over the next few days, I'll post some pics of things from my county. Today, we have Carrickfergus
and the Causeway Coast and Glens

CARRICKFERGUS CASTLE





CARRICKFERGUS CASTLE AGAIN




VIEW FROM CARRICK-A-REDE ON THE CAUSEWAY COAST





GIANT'S CAUSEWAY





CLOSE-UP OF THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY

MY WEE HENRY!!!!

Jobs

Yet again after trawling through the paper, there are no jobs. Well there are but they require me to be qualified in things, have many years experience in things or to be willing to drop a few thousand pounds from my current salary. I suppose it's not that bad really since I do actually have a job and alot of people don't. Mostly unemployed people.

Although, from June I won't have a full time wage anymore and I'll be back to working when they need me at something like £5.30 an hour which isn't good, having been on about £7 an hour while full time. I still haven't heard anything from the three jobs I applied for 2 weeks ago.

Well I am still on this diet thing. Getting sick of drinking milkshakes though. They have soup things and pasta apparently so I'm going to get some of those. I went for a walk today up the Cavehill which I shall post a photo of at some point. There's lots of wild garlic growing up there now (which isn't actually Garlic at all, it's called Ramsons and is known as Wild Garlic because the while flowers smell of garlic, especially when crushed - incidently the green leaves of the plant itself smell of onion when crushed) and carpets of Bluebells ( which, like Ramsons, are also from the Lily family) which together make the whole place very fragrant. I took a couple of photos of bluebells with the digital camera. I was too lazy to bring my SLR.

There are lots of interesting wild flowers up there. I keep meaning to catalogue them all, but I never get round to it. I've identified a few like Cow Parsley and Meadowsweet, but there are plenty more up there. Also, lots of interesting trees as well which would be interesting to catalogue and plenty of birds too. I must work out how to use my SLR properly and then I can take photographs of things which would mean I could come home and look things up and I'd have a visual guide to my catalogue as well. This all requires motiviation and lots of free time. I wish I could be more motivated. How can I become motivated I wonder.........perhaps there are motivation pills I can take.

HERE'S ANOTHER ONE OF MY ARTISTIC PICTURES

Diet

Just to update on the Slim Fast diet I started yesterday: It's going well.

Yes.

Right now I'm eating toffee. So.........that's a success. Good.

Here's the picture Jackie drew to go with my pink mushroom story.

ARDAL AND ME

ARDAL AND US

Revenge of the Giant Pink Mushroom

Beneath the orange clouds you'll see his shadow form. As you try to run along the green sand, it engulfs you.

"Help!! Get out of the way giant purple seagull! Stupid bloody seagulls, they're everywhere. Even in my hair and up my nose."

As you trip over the carcass of the giant purple seagull whose name was Geoffrey, but who was known to close friends as Bob, you hear a voice like thunder except a bit louder and without the lightning.

"Give me back my precious buttons, you foolish fiend!!"

Thump! The Giant Pink Mushroom lands behind you with a noise like a thousand angry farts but without the................. Anyway, screaming won't help you now. You should have left his beloved buttons where you found them in the little yellow phonebox. Silly little girl!!

"Honest guv, it wasn't me. I haven't been near your special buttons. It was Geoffrey a.k.a. Bob who stole them really. He gave them to his wife as a birthday present."

"Grrr!! You little liar! You're wearing my buttons! Give them back this instant or I'll bite your fookin' head off and your ears too and even your nose!!

"Be gone, ye foolish seedling. I am telling the tooth, the whole tooth!"

It's too late you fool. He doesn't believe you and he's coming to get you.

CRUNCH! GULP!

LAST NIGHT

Doom and Gloom

Oh no, Bambi's back! A bleak red future awaits us.

Voting

It was strange going to vote this evening. Our polling station was my old primary school which looks nothing like I remember. They basically knocked it down and rebuilt it. It looks very English now, it looks like English schools that you see on the news. The architecture is all the same and the layout and things. Well it looks much better now because it used to be pre-fabricated temporary huts that were built after the war and which were so temporary, they only just got rid of them about 2 years ago. It was sad to see that the large grassy area behind the school which has a big hill we used to roll down in the summer and trees we used to sit under for shade, well it has now been sealed off and kiddies can't have the fun I used to have anymore. Health and safety gone mad. Children can't play properly anymore because it's too "dangerous" or there is a "safety risk". I feel sorry for children nowadays. So what if they cut their knees or trip over a twig? It never done the health and safety people any harm when they were children. There is too much control over people these days.

Anyway, voting...... Well as we were going to vote, I felt like I was on TV on one of those news clips they show of people going to vote. This amused me and I couldn't stop grinning, I probably looked odd.