tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-172542702011-12-02T16:56:58.857-05:00Gabbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05156582091015236914noreply@blogger.comBlogger2131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17254270.post-1154660594957689972006-08-03T22:51:00.000-04:002006-08-03T23:04:38.956-04:00

Well my loyal readers, this is it. My final Blogger entry.I've decided to uproot my life from one country to another, and in doing so decided to also move my blog elsewhere. Here, to be precise. Yes, Livejournal it is! After a spate of nasty problems with Blogger, and idling over the idea for many months I have finally decided to make the move permanent.So who's coming with me?I'm not going

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Has anyone ever been featured in that "Blogs of Note" section you see when you login to Blogger? How do you get yourself on there? Not that I consider my blog to be "all that" but I just wondered. I never look at any of the blogs listed there anyway.Yesterday was probably the hottest day we've had since we moved here. I like it but then I have an air conditioned house to protect me from the

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No, do not adjust your sets! I really am doing another post tonight!It's late but I got kind of carried away with being on the computer tonight - I've been listening to music in iTunes and generally catching up on blogs - it's been fun.I have now listened to all of "Black Holes and Revelations" which is mostly fab! I reckon there's about half a dozen tracks I really like out of a total of 11,

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OK, it's catch up time!It's been a busy social week so no time for any sensible blogging but I hope to put down something of substance tonight.Last weekend we went to the local fair with Audrey and her cousins. We watched the parade in the blistering heat, and headed on to the fairground to find some suitable attractions for toddlers. It was actually a lot of fun, mainly because the kids were

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Inspired by Sammykate's South Park rendering of Green Day, I thought I'd have a go with my personal musical favourites. I wanted to add a keyboard in there somewhere but my Photoshop skills just aren't up to the job.

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I know it's been a while since I updated. Life just isn't allowing me the time to blog lately.This time it's visitors. My sister-in-law and her two daughters have been up this week and staying with us and we have put up makeshift beds in the living room which means no nighttime access to the computers...hence no blogging or job searching.Also this weekend we will be with them for a few days, so

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Well, not quite. We're not quite running on all thrusters yet, but we do finally have our own access to the internet, albeit a dial-up connection. At least it's at home and we're back on the Mac, so there's an air of familiarity to it all, and you never know, I might start browsing blogs again soon.I've decided not to bother looking back at old entries though - I'll simply be here all year

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Yes, I am still alive - again.It's been quite a busy week and with little or no internet access there simply hasn't been time to visit anyones blogs and no time to write anything for myself. It's a shame really because I have a lot to say too!Southern Sweetheart - hopefully that answers your question. I would have emailed you but I lost your email address and there's a ton of addresses I keep

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I'm still here.I haven't been blogging much simply because most of my time spent online has been looking for jobs and a car. In the evenings we're relaxing watching Firefly on DVD - Martha's parents are now hooked on it!In the daytime we've been fixing up the house we're living in for the time being - Martha's grandparents house. Should be moved in tomorrow, but as it's only temporary (we

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Here it is! My first Garageband composition which I've called "Funky Electric Guitar", so called because of the names of hooks I stole from Garageband to create it.It runs about 6 minutes in length and I know it wont be to everyones taste so be gentle with me. This really was my first ever attempt at making a tune in Garageband.Powered by Castpost

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The container arrived today!Yes, our "life in a 20ft box" rolled into the farmyard at about 10am this morning. It was a strange moment seeing it for the first time since we watched it driving off down the road back in Leicestershire.In total we were six people helping to unload, plus my FIL's rather handy "cage" on the back of his tractor, and we knocked it all out in an hour and a half! Much

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Our container is so close I can almost feel the comfort of my own bed! It's a drawn out process though and those people we know who are planning to ship their lives out of the UK to Canada should take note.We opted to do the shipping ourselves simply because I am "in the biz" anyway, but the segment we undertook this weekend there is no getting out of from what I understood from the

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Martha found a new toy on her Mac. It's called Comic Life.You'll need to click on the image to see it full size.Audrey's speech at the end really is Audrey's new catchphrase!

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Quite busy today.Sorted out our OHIP cards (Health cards) which will be effective September 17th. Until then we are not permitted to get sick or have a serious injury. It's the law!We also looked at cars a bit today. Hondas and Toyotas. Picked up some brochures but thats about all. Unfortunately Honda don't really do the same style of car they do in the UK. My Dad's Honda would have done us

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Nothing much new today.Martha and I went for a nice walk tonight, leaving Grandma to babysit. On our walk we saw three deer just mooching around on the road. They ran off into the fields when we got close bouncing over the corn with their big white tails behind them! Cute! I wished I brought the camera. We also saw some fireflies when we got toward the end of our walk. Aren't they brilliant

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Not much to report from the weekend.However, I've been kind of thoughtful today about one or two things. Today was my Mum and Dad's 40th (Ruby) wedding anniversay. I'm a bit sad I wasn't there to celebrate, but in the end they opted to spend a long weekend in Paris rather than have a big party, which I think is much more their style anyway and they probably had a much better time than they

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The last day or so have been pretty blah. In fact I don't think I can account for the time spent terribly well. I've been relaxing possibly a little too much for someone who is essentially jobless and homeless.Did some preliminary surfing for jobs last night which was disheartening, but Martha has had more success and managed to email her resume to a few people already.Meanwhile I have instead

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EDIT: Before I start I just want to say to all those with Haloscan commenting that I'm not ignoring you - this darn computer wont let me comment on your blogs! I forget who exactly, but I know for certain Southern Sweetheart and Scott & Julia are affected. Sorry guys!Last night we were on "Tornado Alert". I guess it was worse in the Detroit area, but soon enough we started seeing the alerts pop

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It's been a busy day today. Thanks again to everyone for the comments, especially Bellarosa and Erik - always nice to see new commenters. I know you're not exactly new Bellarosa because of HNT, but it's nice to see people not confining themselves to one comment a week! Also, I have no idea who random German commenter was, but "Danke" anyway.So today we ventured into the town of Chatham to see

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Firstly, thanks for all your messages on the last post. As I said, dial-up doesn't really allow me the time to comment back individually or visit your blogs too much, so just bear with me for now.As expected I've been eaten alive by mosquitoes the last couple of days. Fresh blood for the pesky little rascals.We're just in the process of sorting out a few essentials...namely my social insurance

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Well, we made it!We loaded our container on Wednesday and said goodbye to our lives as it drove down the road never to be seen again - well for a few weeks anyway hopefully.Then we flew to Canada on Saturday. A good flight, a smooth route through immigration and here we are enjoying the lovely sunny and hot weather.There was a lot of stuff in between, mostly frantic cleaning of our old house,

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Martha sold our TV today! Goodbye 36inch widescreen loveliness...how WILL I watch Doctor Who tomorrow - and it's the second of a bloody 2 parter as well!?Our cars and some other less important items are up for sale now too...may have some interest in my car already!Work was OK. Kind of blah and uneventful. I really do hope they can cope without me, but after three days away my desk looked like

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The packing continues...it's getting messy...I think most of the meaningful big stuff is packed, and we're down to stupid little odds and ends which have no specific home and I hate it because they don't pack easily.Last night I tried to logon to reply to everyones comments from my last post and once I typed them in the darn thing wonked out on me, so I decided not to even try again. Thanks

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Phew, what a day!First of all, good news! Last night Martha called her bank in Canada and the money has arrived safe and sound in the bank account! Yay! I guess we didn't get swindled after all! Sighs of relief all round!Today we dropped Audrey off at the childminders and spent the day at home tackling the packing. I was worried that maybe all that complaining I've done right here on this

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Today was my official last day of work before the move.Things started out a little unusually as Martha had some things she wanted to finish up at home before setting off to work so I offered to drop Audrey at our childminders. When I got there our childminder was calling the doctor for an appointment. I have to admit I didn't pay much attention to her symptoms, I was more interested in getting

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I've just done one the scariest things I think I will ever do.I just transferred the vast majority of our life savings to someone in order to be converted into Canadian dollars. The money has evaporated from my account and now I'm just hoping it will reappear at our Canadian account in a few days time. If it doesn't, I've just been swindled out of a substantial sum of money!I'm also a bit ticked

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This cold of mine will not let go. It's really just a sore throat now but it's right in my ears and making my head fuzzy. It makes eating and drinking a chore rather than a pleasure and I find myself waking up in the night with a dry mouth into which someone has thrown a handful of stinging nettles. The only thing I've found to alleviate the pain is to gargle with TCP which makes the bathroom,

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Serai's blog has been the source of memage and inspiration today.Firstly, and something some of you may have seen already, was this item, which is thoroughly frightening but in a roundabout way reminded me of something which has been amusing us about Audrey lately. She's been asking for her own bra! I guess she's seen Mummy put on and remove hers enough times to know that it's part of her daily

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It's just non stop birthdays in May - so many in fact that I haven't mentioned some of them here on my blog. Not because I'm a meanie or anything, but I have my reasons...Anyway, this one goes out to my sister-in-law! What is it this year? 21 again?! ;-pHappy Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful dayand we'll see you REALLY REALLY soon!!!! Eeeeek!

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The long weekend kind of passed me by. I'd had a cold from about the middle of last week and it seemed to be not too bad and I thought it would go without causing too much trouble. Then on Saturday it hit me like a ton of bricks. On Saturday afternoon I napped, which I hate doing because I feel awful afterwards. Then I did it again on Sunday and Monday afternoons as well. On Monday we went to

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I realise Friday's post wasn't for everyone.That's why I used to love MyBlogSite. It had lots of *sections* within my blog so I could review films, books, music or whatever I wanted without having to force people to see them...I could casually mention there was a new post about such and such over on one of those sections, and if anyone wanted to, they could go look. I know I could create new

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Thanks again to everyone who posted well wishes yesterday. We had a lovely evening out, ate way too much and to be honest when we got home we vegetated for a bit before going to bed......to sleep. My body could definitely cope better with rich food and alcohol 9 years ago, or maybe I'm just out of practice.Martha spent the remainder of the evening playing Everybody's Golf on her PSP, so after a

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Today is a double celebration.Firstly it's my mother's birthday. Unfortunately I wont see her today because she's "up north" with Dad having a long weekend break with my sister. She's a wonderful Mum, and yes, I admit I am a mummys boy deep down. We've talked about all kinds of stuff and she's always been really supportive, even if she hasn't always been 100% understanding. That's fine - I don't

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If you're looking for the post about me running over a pedestrian it's underneath this.Saw this online today and nearly sprayed hot chocolate over the monitor! I haven't even seen the movie, but this is hilarious!Brokeback Bunnies

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Last nights meme prompted a few people to ask WTF I was doing running someone over, and I promised I would tell the story. It really isn't as bad as it sounds when you hear the whole thing and could have been a LOT worse.It was about 10 or 11 years ago, before I was married, and at that time I drove a red Mini Sprite like the one pictured here. I still lived at home with my parents and usually I

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I realise not all of you are interested in my review of the latest Pet Shop Boys CD, so I give you a meme stolen from My Utopia...1) Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.How-? Yes.'2) Stretch your left arm out as far as you can and see what you touch.The computer printer3) What is the last thing you watched on TV?House of Tiny Tearaways4) Without looking, guess what

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OK, I admit it, I'm a bit of a music wuss. Rarely will I go out on a limb and say I like a song unless I know that the people I'm talking about it with will agree with me to some extent. I don't like confrontation, so I guess that's my way of avoiding it when it comes to music - I simply don't talk about it unless I am sure the other person is going to agree with me. I think this feeling of

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Another work blog. Martha's starting to think I do nothing all day but muck about on the internet. I'll ignore that slur on my reputation as a hard working individual and move on...The chap who came to see my mates Sinclair C5 was suitably impressed. He reckoned it was in great condition in spite of the deflated tyres and flat batteries. We've certainly never had so many people watching an

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Taking the opportunity to write a blog while I can. Martha's gone to bed early and I had a short nap this afternoon which has left me feeling more awake than I should be.Today's been much like any other Saturday. We did groceries, went swimming - which went really well this week. We had a new instructor and she was really good, kept the session well structured with some new exercises which the

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Blimey guv'ner! Is it the weekend already?! There was me thinking that being the first full week I've worked for a while it would drag our something awful and it's just zoomed by. That's great in many respects, but bad in so far as I've acheieved very little this week as well.I keep meaning to check when it was I started my blog because I think I just missed it's 1 year anniversary. I

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Ooh, so many things going on in my head today! I've actually got a humdinger of a headache, but I think that might be a cold coming on.I've been mincing around all morning at work trying to get to grips with this darn list of things to create a "Guide to Gabby's Job". Every time I start on something I look blankly at the screen and realise it's just not that simple. I can't write a list of

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Nicked from My UtopiaAccent: A mix of Brummie (Birmingham - where people say "YOW" for "You") and SE England posh (where my parents come from).Book that I like: Great Expectations - Charles DickensChore I don't care for: General housecleaning.Dog or Cat: If pressed probably dogs, but personally I'd have to say neither.Essential Electronics: Definitely the computer.Fragrance (Cologne): Don't wear

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I never thought I'd say this, but blogging is becoming a bit of a pain in the backside lately.It's got more to do with how much stuff we've got to sort out than anything else. There's no time in the evenings to blog, and there's precious little time in the day either (when, yes, I should be working!). I also feel like I'm starting to sound like a stuck record. There's only so many times I can

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Firstly, to get it out of the way, for all you Doubting Thomas's out there, the new Pet Shop Boys single "I'm With Stupid" was the highest new entry into the UK singles chart this week at No.8 and is their 21st Top 10 single. There's also quite a nice interview with them from The Sunday Times which you can read here. They may not be a worldwide musical force like Madonna or U2, but nobody can

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I should have done a TGI Thursday post yesterday since I had the day off today but it never really crossed my mind that it would be a long weekend for me. Looking after Audrey today was more to do with having to, than wanting to, because our childminder was taking some time off.Don't get me wrong, I would love to spend more time with Audrey, and today was awesome, but it didn't really feel like

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I'm just taking a break from pinning price tags to old baby clothes to do a blog, and finding that I actually have very little to say.It's been pretty busy lately, although motivation is still low. Work has been more hectic than usual too which makes me even more prone to wanting to just veg out at the end of the day.I have managed to get my butt in gear on some things though, including making

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So today I said farewell to my dentist.I've been going to the same dental clinic all my life - my mother worked there as a dental nurse, and I've been having regular 6 month check-ups ever since. Whilst I don't have a perfect smile - my teeth are a tad wonky - I'm proud of the fact that I've made it into my 35th year without requiring anything more serious than having my incisors filed. Before

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* PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT*I've changed the email settings on my blog.I've set up a temporary Yahoo email account which I'll use during the course of the move, so if you comment on my blog or want to get in touch with me I should be able to see it assuming I can access a computer - however it's set up to forward emails to our regular home address at the moment anyway.Anyone who knows our

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The weekend is here again! I guess a three day week does kind of give a false sense of time speeding along, and will no doubt make next week drag horribly.For a change we've nothing particularly planned for the weekend. We will probably pop over to my parents for Sunday lunch since they've not seen us for a couple of weeks, but I guess for the rest of the time we'll just have to see how things

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Well, it's back to earth with a thud after the long weekend.Someone needs to kick me into touch though - I'm still lacking any motivation to pack our gear for the move... it's not that I don't want to - I really, really do, but I just have no energy in the evenings to do it.We are making small amounts of progress though. I've made some enquiries about packing some of our more fragile items, and

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Is my long weekend really over? Dammit!We had a brilliant time up in Newcastle staying with my sister, Lou and her boyfriend, Shaun and their assorted animals. We drove up Friday night so Audrey slept most of the way and we pretty much dumped our gear on arrival and hit the sack right away.We were up fairly sharply Saturday morning because we had to take the puppies to the vet for their shots. My

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I'll blog about my weekend in another post to follow shortly (should be above this if you're reading later) but I wanted to cover all the comments that people left for me over the weekend.I decided instead of posting replies to each of them where the original comments appeared you'd be more likely to find them here in a new entry, so if you left comments in the last 3 days or so, you're probably

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A quick update before the weekend as I wont be back to blog until Tuesday at the earliest. A long weekend beckons - we're going to see my sister and on Monday is the Battleship Potemkin/Pet Shop Boys concert! Yay!I don't really have much else to say, so I'll do this meme which I roped myself into over on Deb's Livejournal yesterday!This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a

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Somewhat untypically of me I didn't blog about last weekend...it's usually the first thing I do on a Sunday or Monday night, but I was rather eager to get my news about the Canada move out there which I'd been postponing for several days for one reason or another.However, that's not to say that the weekend was any less important, and it was a bit of first for me and Martha.On Sunday we roused

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This will sadly be my last HNT submission for a while - why?Read this to find out.Basically Martha and I simply don't have the time right now to do them and really need to be focussing on other things. However, this does not mean I wont be back - I have every intention to return to HNT just as soon as I possibly can, particularly since there have been lots of people who have made requests and I

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I’ve seen this doing the rounds in blogland before, but never done it, so when I saw it over on Sammykate’s Livejournal I decided it was time to give it a go now that all my CD’s are in iTunes.Set your iPod (or whatever) to "shuffle," then write down the next 20 songs that come up, adding the phrase "in my pants" to each. It's ridiculously childish but I dare you not to chuckle at at least some

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I'm taking half a day off today to take Audrey up to the local playgroup. Parents are encouraged to go for their first time to see if they are happy to be there, and then in a few weeks Audrey will be able to go once or twice a week on her own.Fortunately, though, Audrey has actually already been up there because our childminder takes her daughter there too, so she already knows the turf a

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I'm very annoyed about something. Unfortunately I think there was an inevitability about it that maybe I should have come to terms with sooner.The new Pet Shop Boys single "I'm With Stupid" is out on May 8th, and as usual it's being released on several different formats (CD, DVD and vinyl). However, they're holding back the remixes of the song for online download ONLY! Aaaaaaaaaargh!On their

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The more perceptive readers among you may have noticed recently that I've been dropping some hints about stuff going on in my life which has actually been making it incredibly hard to find time to do any blogging at all.Yes, it's VERY busy chez Kagan right now because we're packing up all our belongings in preparation for our imminent departure from this house that we've been renting for almost a

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I mean that most sincerely.As expected the four day week felt much longer and I for one am glad it's over.I had hoped to do a newsy blog tonight, but to be honest I'm tired and could really do with an early night. It'll have to wait until Monday...plus who reads blogs at the weekend anyway - I'd hate for anyone to miss my news! ;-)We all appear to be coming down with colds AGAIN! Audrey's got a

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Over on Ann's blog is a link to this.OK, that kind of defeats the object of going over to her blog, but check it out. She's doing the 5km Race for Life for Cancer Research and she needs sponsors! I've already put my ten quid in and you should too. I think they take overseas donations too, so no excuses from you non-UK readers!Generally I'm not one to put my loose change into charity tins, but

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Just before last weeks HNT I blogged about the Union Jack and Britishness. Maybe in some subconscious way thats why I homed in on this movie poster for today's HNT.I love this film. It's quirky, funny, thrilling and quintessentially British. How could it not be when it stars Michael Caine, Noel Coward and Benny Hill - oh and MINI's! As a former Mini owner there is a real feeling of pride when

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Found this over on Tish's blog and it looked interesting!The challenge is to recommend three movies that most people may not know about and say why you like them. Cool! I'm up for some of that action!1. Last NightCanadian actor Don McKellar's directing debut is a funny, thought provoking and sad take on the final hours before the world comes to an end. The lives of several people become

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It seems I have increasingly less time to blog at home, and increasingly more time to blog at work. I know I'm lucky to be working for my parents and that I can get away with this sort of thing. I know a time will come when I wont be so fortunate and I'll have to blog around a completely different schedule. However, before anyone has a go, I am doing this during my lunch hour, so it's not as if

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Oh my God! A post!No I hadn't disappeared off the face of the earth (OK, who groaned with disappointment at the back?) but because we're in the middle of a long weekend I kind of took a break from blogging and very nice it's been too, although I have once or twice thought I should do an update.Good Friday was a gorgeous day for weather, but unfortunately we stayed inside for much of it because

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It seems to be the way of things that I do nothing about HNT all week and then on Wednesday night panic sets in and I have to come up with an idea.Given more set up time I think we'd have plenty to choose from, but I really put Martha under pressure on a Wednesday evening to deliver the goods so we try to opt for movie posters that hopefully turn out to be easy to recreate.This one doesn't really

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Here's an interesting little fact.So, the Union Jack flag is 400 years old, and what does it mean to me?I'm not sure really. I'm proud of my Britishness but not to the point of fanaticism.When I first went to the USA and Canada it was quite surprising to see how many people had their national flags planted proudly in their front gardens or on top of their houses. It shows your pride for your

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This is a cute little thing I saw over on Serai's blog. It's a "word cloud" formed from words taken out my blog so it's sort of concentrated "essence de Gabby"!The idea is that it goes on a T-Shirt but I don't think I'm quite that vain yet.I've reproduced it here in black and red fonts side by side because I think it looks groovy!If you want to do it too, click here!

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It's been a while since I've done this, and inspired by Deb's music mixes from hell, I thought I'd share with you some of the songs I'm enjoying on the radio at the moment. These are all currently in the Top 40 UK singles chart. I've added a few comments to explain myself too...Gnarls Barkley - CrazyYes, it's overplayed, yes, it's overhyped, but it is a pretty good song...but I'm almost sick of

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So what happened this weekend?Well not a lot, and quite a lot I guess.On Saturday I took it upon myself to have a sort through my Coca-Cola collection. Newer readers will have missed my blog about my fascination for all things Coca-Cola when I was a teenager which steadily grew into boxfuls of cans, bottles, tins, toys, soft furnishings and goodness knows what else. At one stage I even had a

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Here are some still shots from the new Pet Shop Boys video for "I'm With Stupid" menacingly ripped by me from Popjustice (link over on the left thank you very much). Am I excited? Is the Pope Catholic?It stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams who are somewhat the darlings of British comedy at the moment although some might argue they've almost outstayed their welcome...it remains to be seen whether

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Today Audrey drew a picture of her old man on her etch-a-sketch. Can you see the resemblance?

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We're very fortunate where we live. The house is plenty big enough for us and the surrounding gardens and driveway are also of a pretty good size. In fact the driveway is extremely big, with room enough for probably half a dozen or more cars, a large front area with plenty of turning space and a long-ish (by UK standards) driveway through a walled gate down to the road.Another feature of the

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I guess I'm on a bit of a meme kick lately...I promise I'll do something with some substance soon!Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday, two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.Events1939 - Canada declares war on Nazi Germany.1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency

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If you're looking for HNT, it's underneath this post...The email scammers are just getting lazy now. I got this in my email today - normally there'd be a big long heartbreaking spiel before getting to the crux of the matter of transferring X-million dollars into my personal bank account. This one was distinctly short and sweet! Perhaps mercifully so!With respect,I am Thomas Michael and My sister

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I'm posting very early (on Wednesday evening) simply because I am quite busy these days, so apologies in advance for cheating!It's been a while since I've seen this film, but it's not one you quickly forget. The director, Danny Boyle, has done some fantastic films, but also some total duffers as well, but I'd heartily recommend this, "Shallow Grave", "28 Days Later" and two short films "Strumpet

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OK, I know there are a few readers here who will say "I told you so!" and a few here who will go "Well just change and get it over with!" but I have to tell you, I have just about had it with Blogger!They still haven't resolved the issues I have with uploading photos using the Mac version of Firefox even though they themselves recommend using Firefox for Mac if you use Blogger. So, if thats the

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Am I the only one who thinks that this news story is garbage?OK, so a record went to No.1 in the UK singles chart based on downloads alone because it hasn't actually been released yet (it was released on CD yesterday). Big deal.Any single that went straight into the No.1 spot in the past 6 months probably would have had that priviledge had it been released as a download prior to being released on

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Yes, SPAM can be a menace, but sometimes it makes me chuckle, especially if you read the text at the start of the emails. This one I found particularly funny today for some warped reason. It rather depends on where you put the emphasis on the words...I'd like to think this is said in a Robin talking to Batman styleee!"Holy Communion, pate, as tugboat at brand-new flamenco director, poppy an mumbo

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It's been a pretty dull weekend - we hardly left the house except to go swimming and get groceries.Oh yes, we also started to have a clear out of stuff in our 3rd bedroom, also known as "the dumping ground". We packed 3 plastic binbags with clothes for charity and took them up to the recycling place where there is a bin for Oxfam. We've also got a bag full of stuff we're going to eBay, so I'll

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I apologise in advance but I'm having a Pet Shop Boys moment! You'll just have to humour me!I just heard their new single "I'm With Stupid" and basically it's fabulous! It's nice to see them back writing interesting and political songs rather than out and out gay anthems which really weren't pushing my buttons, if you know what I mean.It's essentially about George Bush and Tony Blair and a

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On todays HNT Deb commented that I should do a closeup of the ring on my finger. I'm not usually into things like fate, but it's weird she mentioned it because when Martha was doing her Photoshop magic on the picture she commented on how I had forgotten to remove the ring for the photo. If I had realised before we took the photo I would almost certainly have taken it off to get the photo of me

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Yet again it was another rush to get my HNT post together. I'd been thinking about doing this and it had also been suggested by some blogchums previously, but I couldn't quite decide whether it was something I wanted to do.Anyway, I've plucked up some courage and with the ever helpful Martha created something which at the very least should make some of you laugh...or hurl! Therefore if you're

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I hope nobody came by my blog last night expecting to find the update I promised on my previous entry.Unfortunately the internet was down, so I couldn't update, but this morning it was all back up and running, so normal service should now be resumed.However, it's unlikely that I would have managed to do a new blog anyway, since Martha spent the evening on the computer doing some personal things

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I'll fill you in on the weekend shennanigans tomorrow, but the big news is I completed the mighty CD upload into iTunes on Friday night!It comprises 5705 tracks (which by Deb's standards isn't many) which are all LEGALLY bought and paid for by Martha and me. There are a few duplicates which were unavoidable, but also we omitted a few CD's which contained extremely embarrassing material which

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This is a transcript, although by no means complete, of a sales call I received today. Fortunately I was bored and in the mood to have some fun. Normally they wouldn't get this much airtime.*ring ring*Gabby: Andersen Harvey, good afternoon.Sales Guy: Can I speak to Gavin Kagan please.Gabby: That would be me.Sales Guy: I'm from *inane incomprehensible waffle*Gabby: Pardon, can you repeat

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Before you read on, please check your calendars and make a note of the date.March 24th 2006 right? (unless of course you're someone who doesn't read my blog daily, in which case it's probably not, but I would imagine you're still in March or possibly early April 2006).So would someone please tell me WTF this is about?I had a flyer come in the office mail today for this party event and seriously

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Ever have one of those days where no matter how fast you work, you never seem to get on top of it all?Today was one of those days. Having said that, I didn't mind too much - what really peeves me the most is that I've spent most of the week twiddling my thumbs at work, and then in one fell swoop I've got a million things to do...it would have been nicer if all that work had been gently spread

Gabbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05156582091015236914noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17254270.post-1143065272666376872006-03-22T19:01:00.000-05:002006-03-22T17:07:52.706-05:00

For those of us situated in the UK, this Sunday is Mothering Sunday, or Mothers Day. If you live in the USA or Canada, I'm sorry guys but you've been using the wrong date all this time! For the rest of the world, I'm sorry, I have no idea if you celebrate Mothers Day at all, but maybe you can educate me.Anyway, I decided todays HNT should therefore be appropriately themed for all those wonderful

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I'm OK!I'm alive and well, although last nights chest pains were somewhat worrying. I've had them before but usually can put it down to heartburn after a rather big/spicy/rich* (* delete as applicable) meal. This time however, all I've eating in the last couple of days is soup and bread for the most part. I probably wouldn't have even mentioned it had I not been just about to start writing my

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If they find me dead tomorrow, tell the doctors to check my chest...I've got some serious chest pain happening and I have no idea why...I guess it could be related to the workout, but it's never happened before.I did my weigh in and I'm somewhere between 157 and 158 pounds now which is an ever so slight improvement on last week.Once again I'm trawling through CD's...I have one more pile to go, so

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Audrey's got an ear infection...We've suspected it for a few days now, but it was only in the last two that we really knew it was bothering her. Right now she's dosed up to the eyeballs on painkillers and sleeping. When she's awake she just howls, but if you can convince her to suck water from her sippy cup that seems to alleviate the pain somewhat.Martha took her to the doctors today, but they

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Choose a band or artist then answer ONLY in titles of their songs . . .Choose a band / artist: Pet Shop Boys (OK, who groaned?!)Are you male or female?: The Boy Who Couldn't Keep His Clothes OnDescribe yourself: I Get AlongHow do some people feel about you: Boy StrangeDescribe your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend: Bet She's Not Your GirlfriendDescribe your current crush: Always On My MindDescribe how you

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Wow! What a weekend!On Friday night we had our pizza night as planned. I got home ahead of Martha and started preparing them, as well as Audrey's supper. She doesn't like pizza very much, I think because of the crust, so I was going to cut her up some red pepper, some cucumber and give her some of the pizza pepperoni and a slice of bread and butter. As I buttered the bread I just thought to

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On Tuesday, when I did my weigh in, I was a bit peeved to find I'd put on weight. I've been pretty strict with the workouts this week, so it didn't seem to make sense. Anyway, I did another weigh in yesterday and my weight has dropped back down again, so I'm assuming it was a blip.Unfortunately, I suspect by next Tuesday my weight will be back up again, because this weekend is going to be one of

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The HNT-meister, Osbasso, decreed a St.Patrick's Day themed HNT this week.To be honest, I'm not a big fan of Ireland or the Irish. I spent three (well two if you want to get picky) years at university in Ireland, and whilst there were good times, fun times and ridiculously drunken times, on the whole it wasn't the best time of my life. I do sometimes get the impression that people look at

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Weight this week - 159lbs - gained 1lb.Moving swiftly on...My car is due for retaxing at the beginning of April.For readers unfamiliar with this, in the UK one is required to pay a fee annually to keep their car on the road - in return you get a tax disc, a circular piece of paper which you display proudly in the windscreen of your car. The money made from this goes to the Government to pay for

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This evening I came home to this...And it's not the first time either. I thought it was guys who were supposed to be the ones too lazy to take 5 seconds out of their busy schedules to change the toilet roll?I've told Martha many many times that I shall start a log of how many toilet rolls I find in this state. I've tried the "leave it alone" tactic...it doesn't work, so hopefully publicly

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