UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS has just just finished on reapeat. The original was only on a few hours ago. This was a classic TV serial about servants and posh people in a London townhouse from my childhood. Now the BBC have brought it back with the same actress playing Rose. If you're across the Pond and get BBC America, watch this, it's A1 costume drama. I like a good costume drama but it does have to be good. Upstairs Downstairs is even better than Downton Abbey. Next week that dreadful Larkrise to Nowhere is back on I cannot stand that.I've been watching night time television. Prince Charles showed us his bird-chirping garden. The feathery little entertainers were singing their tiny hearts out for the heir to the throne. I'd like a garden like that, but I'd go for 10,000 acres, not just 15.
Now enough about television I have just had pasta in Lloyd Grossman tomato sauce. My Mum bought me the pasta sauce. Normally I'd buy Ragu. A Ragu means you can have five times as many tomatoes as weight as they're evaporated down in an oven dish. Welshcakes Limoncello probably knows how to do this. Her Xmas dinner pictures at her friend's house are amazing.
Now I'm in a buzzy mood. Having woken up feeling vile and dire. Like death warmed up. I said I was cleaning and I did have a stab at it but I basically felt ill so I went back to bed in the afternoon and slept till 9pm. Now I'm up and racing nicely. No I have NOT been taking amphetamines or any other drugs. It's just a natural mood swing. I'm only drinking for medicinal reasons. Keeps the jangly edge off. Now I must go I have to scrub this ******* floor. ******* houses. ******* landlord. ******* life. **** **** **** ****! See I'm being awfully prim by depriving you of my obscenity tirade.
I have to go. Keeping moving keeps me UP. And UP gets the cleaning done. I am crystal clear and shining. Gotta move gotta move gotta MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE!!
Do you like my blue smiling face? Isn't it amazing. Blue is the best colour. There's nothing unhappy about blue. Blue is a high by itself. Cool blue ....
4:14am: a catalogue of freak accidents in the US. 8 homeless people burned to death in New Orleans, 5 teenagers asphyxiated in Florida motel, 8 injured in ski lift disaster in Maine ...
Oh yeah and a riot at a Moscow airport due to no de-icing spray (no: staff probably drank it!)
HOW TO WRAP A CAT FOR XMAS
This film, with 4,000,000 views so far, provoked "outrage" among humourless animal charities who seem to spend most of their existence flailing about for something to be upset and offended about. I hope they really got their money's worth from this because it's hilarious:
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ReplyDeleteHow about a cleaning party? You supply the alcohol & your friends do the cleaning with you.
Just a suggestion. You know the best time to do something is when you feel like it even if it is 2 something in the morning.
I love your blue smiley and agree blue is a happy, bright color, the best.
By the way, I did the tranny post you suggested.
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I remembered my Ma used to watch Upstairs Downstairs & Cell block H.
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Prisoner Cell Block H was my favourite programme for a while and one of the 3 best Aussie TV progs of all time. The other 2 are Funky Squad and Return to Eden.
ReplyDeleteA cleaning party... I need to find someone who isn't a heroin addict or a recovering heroin addict. Too many needles turning up in unexpected places. Most have been chucked out. I was pretty good at keeping them in one place. No I gotta do it on my own. Unfortunately. It's more chucking out than cleaning. The cleaning comes last when we have clear floors without piles of rubble in the corners. I have clear floors developing nicely but still piles of crap. Out out out with it all. I wish there was a good bookshop that paid for books. They all want them free which is taking the piss in my opinion (charity shops). I will go there as a last resort but really I want dosh for my books. I'm only keeping the Chinese Japanese and German ones.
Good start !! Congratulations ! Continue cleaning than you will sleep well because you are physically tired. I tell you I hate cleaning and I am not at all the top of a housewife, but I don't like to live in dirt, so I have (in bold) to do it too ! Of course I hire Mr. G ! he lives here too (and makes a mess !)
ReplyDeleteThe cat video is so cute I had seen it already. Wouldn't dare to do this with one of my cats !
PS just saw that you wantg to get rid of books. Try it with second hand bookshops, that's what I am doing, there you get some money.
ReplyDeleteI cleaned my horrible sink that was blocked with swamp water in it. It actually went back to near-normal within 10 minutes, then I scraped the cooker which had burnt on food and did the surfaces next to it. They still need going over about 2 or 3 more times but they look WAY better than they did.
ReplyDeleteI used to know bookshops that paid money for books. I could get rid of 20 or 30 easily, maybe 40 or more (I really haven't counted)... I might have to take a bus into town where I probably can get rid... akh there's so many of them!
Oh Gled, I've never heard anyone talk so much like me. Books kitchen sink (if you have an oven and have placed a plethora of dirty dishes in it (in a previous attempt to tidy up) or have boxes and bags with stuff in it (to go through at a later date) as you're organizing...
ReplyDeleteBaileys was one of my drinks of choice, I tried to come off addiction with anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds. To make myself feel better (and stop those terrible people from finding out how I really live and kicking me out) cause the neighbors were shitters really, I tried to organize and clean. Found one of those websites from a lady whose a professional cleaner, flylady.com or some such thing, I thought BRILLIANT! But I wasn't able to do it, I had manic phases where I was going through the motions but it was too too overwhelming and I'd crumble into a pile in front of late night tv (really loved those organization shows and reality tv)
Oh, it's really weird that I ran across your blog today, I just wrote one about cleaning my house yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI am really glad that you are cleaning. Keep it up and use your energy to get through. The cat video is great. Only one of my cats would behave like that!
ReplyDeleteI did that interview with a friend of mine that provides underground ibogaine treatment in the U.S if your interested...
ReplyDeleteHahaha I can't believe you liked Prisoner. Ugh. Glad you're feeling up to the task Gleds. Loved the wrap-a-cat.
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ReplyDeleteJess Mischief: Baileys I drink in the winter and on special occasions. It's quite nice on vanilla ice cream. I like fizzy wine, punch, cold beer on summer afternoons, white cyder, white cyder mixed with tropical juice (a kind of homemade alcopop) and o yeah liquers and spirits. Ie just about everything. Ahem. I'm going to your cleaning up blog in a sec
ReplyDeleteSyd: I suspect that cat is at least 60 in cat years, it must be. Young cats are too pingy ever to let someone do that
Sid: yeah I came over. It was fascinating. I saw a tv prog about ibogaine where the methadone addict detoxed under supervision some years ago but have never heard from a real life therapist.
Baino: Prisoner was my favourite TV prog for a while. And we got Funky Squad in the 90s, I loved that. And Return to Eden, which was far more gripping than Dallas