Monday, 29 October 2012

Sure Thing.

Definition: (n) To have a male/female friend/acquaintance willing to perform sexual intercourse whenever and where ever it is demanded. Synonym: 'Booty call'.

"Hey Hun, just wondering if you want to come over later? Watch a movie; I've got ice cream and..." Say no more. We've all made this phone call/sent this text at one lonely time or another in our lives, the only catch is that we're not actually asking. We know, whether we're male or female, that the person on the phone is going to agree. That's a Sure Thing, someone who matches your needs and is able and oh so willing to satisfy them. It's a contract. Not always a written or verbally discussed contract, your sure thing can just be that guy/girl who will never say no. Never turn you down.

A Sure Thing is the answer to a long term single lifestyle, consider them to be like a dildo with feelings... and hands. What more could you want? Don't get me wrong, don't stop going out to lay your Sure Thing, because then you may as well be in a relationship with them, but it's worth noting that when you do come back from a night out that maybe didn't go to plan as far as pulling goes, you can always call apon Mr/Miss Sure Thing.

As far as arranging such an arrangement goes, there's always someone you know who perhaps flirts that little too much, someone who you've drunkenly laid before or maybe just someone who's offered once before that you didn't consider at the time but who in times of need starts looking really appealing.

For example, apparently there's a rule for going to Bournemouth University that goes something like "One must sleep with Joe Bloggs" (name withheld, sorry girls) and I thought, that's a brilliant idea! I know him, he's clean, why not make an unofficial arrangement ready for university? A 'sure thing' in time of huge change- are you starting to follow? I'm not saying I jumped on the guy, I might want to change my mind, but at the end of the day, there's no way I'll be able to call apon an old Sure Thing in Cornwall when I'm living Bournemouth without waiting a week for my needs to be met- it's just not logical.

Just because we're single shouldn't mean that we have to become slags whenever we get a tad lonely, where's the fairness in that? I deserve happiness just as much as the grossly cute couple who practically dry hump in public, probably more so since I do not disturb people's eating habits on a daily basis.
Suck it happy couples, I want some lovin' as well!

So get off your high horses, put away your dildo's; you're single, sexy and there is always someone willing to shag you! Get out there, make a new single male friend, and there's your Sure Thing. Let's face it, male friends were never meant to be like your girl friends. There aint nothing wrong with a bit of bump and grind.

* Cue R. Kelly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXxkNaRkp8 *

Peace Out ♥

Thursday, 25 October 2012

'Free' is My New Fave Word

Everyone likes flicking through a magazine and finding discounts on shoes, clothes, long-life vacuum bags, whatever takes your fancy... But what about perfume, wine and other fancy crap for free? That's right people, I have discovered the freebie sites.

Don't get over excited, it's not like they're offering free sex to anyone who joins; but in one day I'd secured myself a delivery of wine, brandy, a McVities mug, four unknown perfume samples, instant coffee and a chocolate hamper! All for free! I realize that most of it sounds somewhat useless. For example, what happens if I end up with four male perfumes? I wrap them up and make it a Christmas present or if I was really stingy, I could make them four different Christmas presents- now that's practically free sex. As for the mug, who wouldn't want a mug with "DUNK TIME" painted on the front like it was made by a Neil Buchanan wannabe?! Even if someone doesn't, they should get it anyway, just because it's free.

A personal favorite of mine is www.all4freeuk.co.uk. List after list of free food, alcohol, perfume, film rental and music (legal of course)... Oh yeah, and mugs! These sites are my absolute fave- who cares if I have to occasionally fill out a Sudoku to win that bottle of expensive French Brandy which might or might not come in 28 days? It doesn't matter, because it's free, and I also got to take part in the ultimate procrastination. It's a win-win situation.

I'm going to take this chance to admit to my shopping addiction. It has devastated my bank account and ruined the hinges on my wardrobe, but nevertheless, it continues. However, shopping for free will at least save my bank account if not my wardrobe or the clutter problem in my house!

(FYI: Just found another website http://www.freebielist.com/free-samples/ - So much free perfume!)

Also, have you ever wanted to be on Come Dine With Me? (quoting the advert that also convinced me) Sign up to dinewiththedevil.com for a FREE recipe hamper and bottle of wine.

If you do not follow my advice and start hunting for free stuff, then you're either stupid or pretentious and far too rich. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a free bubble bath to enjoy, with free coffee in my free mug which has arrived with free biscuits.

Peace out ♥

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Bucket List

I'm not going to pretend I have any idea as to why it's called a bucket list, or to have any interest in finding out.
[Urban Dictionary says it comes from the term 'to kick the bucket' - and there's a movie called The Bucket List with Morgan Freeman, aka, God].
Nevertheless, it's been the topic of conversation for a while so I thought it time I make one and naturally, publish it to my oh-so-many followers (ahem...) and perhaps encourage more people to make one and not just use it as a reason to call your life a failure, but to keep to it and hopefully complete it before we all, in turn, kick the proverbial bucket.

My Bucket List:
1. The obvious thrill seeking ambitions such as sky diving, bungee jumping, scaling a cliff face, parachuting, paragliding etc etc, they're all there.
2. To travel all over the world doing charity/volunteer work (I know, I'm a wonderful person).
3. To take part in a political protest (Occupy London/Wall Street).
4. Learn to play the guitar.
5. Take off, completely spontaneously, on a holiday to a random destination.
6. Do a karaoke version of Twist & Shout by The Beatles.
7. Spend at least a year of my life with dreadlocks.
8. Succeed in giving something up for lent.
9. Buy a duck. Call it George
10. Go fly fishing and wear the over sized waders.
11. Learn how you use a gun. Go to a shooting range
12. Swim a long distance in a sea somewhere.
13. Take self-defence classes
14. Teach English in a foreign country
15. Attend at least 100 different festivals around the world
16. Take Jazz or Salsa lessons... or both
17. Go snorkeling in a ship wreck
18. Learn to scuba dive
19. Swim with sharks
(you get the idea, lots of sea/underwater related things)
20. Learn to fly a plane.
21. Have a picnic in a hot air balloon
22. Climb one of the tallest trees in a rain forest. DO th Tarzan call from the top.
23. Race in a sports car against a professional racing driver
24. Be homeless for a night. Bum on the streets
25. Ride the top ten scariest (but safest) roller coasters in the world
26. Give blood
27. Cover myself in glitter and run around a forest with my friends. (like a fairy, not a vampire)
28. Join the paparazzi and try and get a picture of someone famous
29. (under the condition of sufficient funds) Go to the moon with Virgin
30. (under the condition of sufficient funds) Go on a zero-gravity flight
31. Swim with Dolphins
32. Meet an African tribe on Safari, learn their cultural dance.
33. Buy a parrot, teach it how to talk
34. Save a life (human or animal... and sorry, insects don't count)
35. Read all the books on that list of mine (see previous blog post)
36. Visit all the top "must-see" places, like the Grand Canyon, The Northern Lights etc etc
37. Visit all the top "must-see" building/monuments (including museums)
38. Attend Rio De Janiero's Carnival (and Venice's)
39. Ride the subway (simple, but I've never done it)
40. Learn how to play poker. Win.
41. Learn lots about astronomy and impress people.
42. Offer free hugs on the street in the middle of the day (at night could prove a little suspicious)
43. Solve a Rubik's cube (without cheating)
44. Successfully keep a diary for a year.
45. Find something interesting to collect (Star Wars or Harry Potter memorabilia doesn't count)
46. Spend a weekend just watching old classic movies on tape.
47. Start a bad habit... just to give it up.
48. Give all my clothes to charity, buy new ones.
49. Make it to university
50. Graduate from university with a first.
51. Get to 100 on my bucket list.
52. Visit the seven wonders of the world
53. Try drinking a glass of water upside-down to stop hiccups
54. Have enough money to be satisfied for at least a 6month period
55. Own several designer outfits, shoes and jewellery to match.
56. Own a Sex in the City style apartment to live in
57. Successfully keep a plant in my house/bedroom and look after it
58. Go on a "Eat Pray Love" holiday
59. Don't work until the day I die. Give it up and live simply.
60. Buy a poodle/small dog. Call it Foofie
61. Start (and finish!!!) writing a book.
62. Star in a commercial
63. Be part of the jury in a court case
64. Play the jelly bean game
65. Celebrate Thanksgiving in America
66. Be hypnotised
67. Do a Ouija board
68. Go to a masquerade ball
69. Get in a taxi and yell "FOLLOW THAT CAR"
70. Own dictionary toilet paper
71. Eat hospital food
72. Eat frogs legs/snails in France
73. Rent a real diamond, Elizabeth Taylor style necklace for a day (preferably, wedding day)
74. Go on a date with a woman.
75. Invent something cool using only appliances available in the house
76. Spend all day in a library
77. Fast for Yom Kippur (25 hours)
78. Jump from the top diving board at a swimming pool
79. Successfully use a fake ID (only a year left to do this!)
80. Celebrate happy hour in a bar/night club/pub
81. Write a song and sing it to a group of people
82. Go busking (after learning to play the guitar- see number 4)
83. Interview someone famous
84. Buy a ludicrous gadget which you'll never use (like a top of the range food dicer)
85. Have a glitter bath
86. Complete a game on my phone (such as bubble popper or doodle jump)
87. Sit on a cloud
88. Run a marathon (it had to come somewhere on the list)
89. Spend a week saying yes to everything everyone asks you (within reason, of course)
90. Play spin the bottle properly
91. Become a goth for a while
92. Bring all my friends back a gift from holiday (I know, I'm shocking for never doing this)
93. Have a fat suit made especially for me
94. Drink the death drink. Don't chunder.
95. (Getting excited) Stop saying chunder
96. (Just four more to go) Create a new word, use it all the time
97. (Three more to go) Smile more
98. (How did I think of 98 things?) Give up my phone for a year. People can contact me some other way
99. (WOW) Get an (or several) articles published in a magazine.
100. (Good God I made it) To have 100 followers on my blog by the day I die

So there it is. It took a while, and I had a little bit of help from friends and good ol' Google!
I also want to mention some things that would be on my bucket list, had I not already done it (aka, I want to brag).
Zorbing
Coasteering
Skinny dipping at midnight
Abseiling
Visiting Sydney Oprah house and bridge
Visiting South Korea (I joke, of course... but it happened)
Sex on the beach (I mean the drink.... ahem)
Create a blog
Become a super hero for the day
Stop smoking
Make an autobiography (which I suppose I can do later on, again... or add to the original)

And I think that's about it. Hope you enjoy reading about my wacky aspirations and I hope it helps anyone else making their bucket list.

Peace Out <3

Oh!...
...Here are some cool pictures I found on Google (don't sue me, I'm cute!)





Shopping In Camden - Photo's by Poppy Mills

The moment you reach the main entrance to Camden market, you're hit by a cacophony of voices from the individual stall holders calling out new competitive prices. All attempting to out-shout their competitor, whether it be the stall selling similar clothing across the street, or a group of jewelry stalls flogging silver which remarkably resemble's tin or copper.
The dark alley's, with over head covering, resembles that of a medieval time (of course, if every other stall weren't selling iphone covers) and as I and my close friends make our way through the bustling comings and goings of the famous market place, taking Polaroid pictures as we stroll down the dark avenues, we laugh about how radically different this is from humble, old Cornwall.


Situated just north of Regents Park, Camden Lock has been known for it's markets since 1972, when old buildings in decline were sub-let to craftsman and once a week, there was a market selling mostly tradition crafts until the demand picked up and the weekly market was soon selling antiques, clothes and food.
More recently (over the past few years) the market has been opened for seven days a week, to accommodate for the demand from tourism and locals. It is also the recent home of London MTV.

On this day in particular, our concern was, as it is of most of Camden's visitors, to shop. To find the best bargain; to enjoy the best food; to enjoy the sunshine that had blessed our day out.


The recent promotion of "stay-cations" as opposed to vacations abroad in sunny locations originally seemed a little bit silly or overly patronizing to us "common folk" in an economic crisis! Or a desperate attempt to get locals putting money back into the economy; either way, it's proved a bloody good idea! I mean, who doesn't love a spa weekend or a week by the sea and away from the busy cities?! Okay, the latter doesn't apply to me as I live by the beach- but you get the idea. My friends an I were on a week's stay-cation in Reading, commuting into London for Shopping and to Redhill for Redfest festival (but more on that in another blog post).

I still stand buy that the best thing I have ever bought is a blue and gold pashmina scarf for £3 at the first shop/stall we visited in the old stables and you're sure to find me in it every other day of the week! (#bestbuy)

Lessons learned about shopping in Camden?

  • Don't dither when making a decision about what to eat. You will only get bombarded with Chinese/Indian/Italian tasters, which isn't so bad until the whole row of food establishments start yelling at you to "CHOOSE OUR FOOD!"
  • Haggle like your life depends on it. There's nothing worse than comparing prices at the end of the day only to find out that plain tee could have been A LOT cheaper.
  • Spend at least half an hour sitting by the canal drinking coffee made by a true Italian barista (or at least that's the impression the tall, dark handsome man behind the bar gave off).
Over all, it was an amazing day in the city. I bought lots; I ate lots, and laughed more than I had done in a long time. I'd recommend visiting Camden Market to anyone and only hope that next year I'm living there and attending UCL. Who's with me?!
(cue cry of applause from self-confessed shop-aholics)
Peace out ♥