MOTHER HUBBARD'S GOT A HOUSEFULL OF FAMILY (crawling alive with grandkids!) so I am avoiding her today... I don't know whether this is a good picture of lots of children. The others I dredged up appeared to be mostly children's choirs and I'm sure that is not what Hubbs's grandkids are doing today...I could have scored today but I had only £5 and I'm past spending my last £5 on drugs. I used to do stupid things like that ALL THE TIME... now I really cannot see the point of going through all that hassle... finding someone to split a measly little £10 bag in half with... having to keep up with "shoplifter's walk" (which I'm no good at bc I'm not a shoplifter. And I'm too old to walk that fast.)
I did meet THEE arch-shoplifter of the area just now. To me he appears borderline-old but I've been told he is only 50somthing. He wears a business suit all the time so he can raid supermarkets for Mach 3 razors, condoms (the whorehouse will buy these!), smoked salmon, steak and scotch/...etc. When I (VERY briefly) took up shoplifting some years ago I went straight for the scotch and champagne. Which are apparently the two most difficult things to get out. So I was lucky to get out of there without being pounced upon (all three times or so that I did it). I just enjoyed going into a caff full of smoking gambling foreigners shouting "champagne! champagne!" Anyway: last time I scored with him it involved practically running for about 2 miles. And getting 2 bags of crappy tiny heroin and half a rock of whizzingly strong crack (I'd have much preferred the situation to come the other way round... strong heroin...) I do know this person... About ten years ago I scored off him when junkies were still dealing (instead of "professional" dealers (which means more often than not a deadbeat school leaver with no exams and an attitude problem with a drugs connexion...) but for some reason when we were running and I was practically having an asthma/heart attack all in one I had the thought in my head that he would run off on me. Him being 20 years older and yet 20 times more fit, seemingly. Even though he DOES look 80. OK not 80 but 65 maybe...
What was I going on about... nothing, I see.
Right. Yesterday I took my robbies out for a ping in the (empty) bath. Laundretta had left spikes and peaks of white bubblebath all over the place, so I had to swill it out first with water. Then they went mental. Whizzing round and round like furry Scalectrix. If they're minded to they can easily get from shallow end to plug end in one second that's how fast they run. Faster than wild mice. And if you've ever seen wild mice tamed and how dopey they are you'll realize that a wild robo must be like lightning.... Anyway so I did this and had to swish out their droppings which are sesame-seed sized. Imagine what Laundretta would think of that!... aargh we've had mice throwing a squat party in our bath!!!
They were thoroughly wet through afterwards. Especially Itchy (who is fastest)... probably their feet plashed water all over their backs...
Well I had to get some more chicken legs today. As I posted before I ran out of Worcester sauce last week. I had used an entire (150mls) bottle in 7 days... that's obsessional cooking for you.
Many thanks for all your comments everyone. I can only answer individually when I have more "fortitude"...
What can I say about yesterday? I'm not going to delete it.
On someone's blog (when I hopped sideways through someone I know's comments into people I don't know...) there was a really funny post about WHAT NOT TO POST... it said WE DON'T WANNA HEAR HOW DEPRESSED YOU ARE? (Point taken.) But sometimes I have to strike a balance between posting something totally irrelevant and not true and telling the truth... what am I supposed to do..? Know what I mean..?
Vid: Madonna: Hung Up
2. ~Cat Pedalling
fun stuff :) you're always so much fun to read.
ReplyDeleteif there were a thumbs up sign here I would send it to you...
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ReplyDeleteJust been catching up on your posts, Gleds. Loved the spinning robo...really funny. Cats pedal when they're especially content...it relates back to their kittenhood and they would do that when the suckled. It had the added benefit of keeping the milk coming, too.
ReplyDeleteYour post on how you feel about heroin was eye-opening. I just cannot imagine it, but thank you for showing me how it is with you.
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you post what you want to, thats what i reckon...
ReplyDeletejust came to say "hey Gled" actually
(hey gled)
be ok, gled.
i hope you will be.
I am all in favour of posting the truth. If people don't want to hear about depression or hard times then they can go here:
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It's your blog and you should post about yourself, your life, your experiences and what you're going through. Not everyone may wish to read it, but that's their problem.
I do know what you mean...I always go over that fine line and put too much of my mood into my post. And then I try and counter it with a meaningless post full of nothing afterward.
ReplyDeleteHAHA, what is the point of blogging if not posting what YOU want to post? Your robbies are REALLY cute looking and I enjoyed reading about them "Whizzing round and round like furry Scalectrix." Also enjoyed visualising what Laundretta would think of a squat party in the bath! Heehee. They are like Aliens to me; have no idea what they are like, but know more now :) One question, why does a doorbell ring when I visit and I didn't press any doorbell button?
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ReplyDeletenice to find a blog, different from others...
u have ur own lessons...
PussInBoots: re the cats ~ only answer I'd heard was that in kittens it stimulates the mother cat's milk glands... re heroin yeah that's how it is I'm shamed to say
ReplyDeleteLettuce: hey Lettuce be nice today...
wah-waah! sorry best pun I could come up with there hahar!
Nicole: yeah you're quite right. i think part of the "what do people want to read" comes from the point that I always wanted to be a commercial writer... i think if you write a novel telling a story and only write "to yourself" it can turn into pretentious literary wank but writing to another person keeps you "telling a story" which of course is what novels are all about... I spose I carry the same thing over here... and unlike a diary in a blog I KNOW people are reading it so I spose maybe I do worry too much. sometimes...
Debs: I know exactly where you're coming from ... as I posted... but none of your posts e.g. about your Dad in hospital that wasn't ranty or boring I don't think for any of us... honestly. I spose what I get a bit wary of here is putting up childishly detailed "drug porn" that maybe some people like but nearly ALL my friends, who I talk to are either ex-users and clean or never have been. so I'm bringing stuff into their life that ordinarily you wouldn't want to and would hope that 1st hand in active situations you NEVER have to deal with. I sometimes think people will get fed up of me not being able to get my act together. Then again I never promised to. And that ~ in most ways actually ~ is what heroin addicts ARE: people who cannot get their lives together!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: Roborovskis? I will post something about them in a mo...
DSinner: there are some other heroin/crack/methaddict blogs at junkylife.com but I've not found most of them that inspiring ... many of the writers are clean and could never have kept it together enough to KEEP a blog while using... many are semi-clean ie on methadone but still using few times a week... but nearly all seem to suffer from that EMOTIONAL CONSTIPATION thing that most men and (even worse) addicts have this "couldn't describe my way out of an emotional paper bag" thing going on...
Gledwood, if your posts were boring you wouldn't have this many readers...duh. 1+1=3.
ReplyDeleteIt is your medium, therefore, to heck with anyone who presumes to dicate what you should be writing about. Keep writing the way that you always have...
Your blog, your life.
ReplyDeleteSome days I'm in the mood to stay and read and comment, other days not, and same with people who stop by my page.
Some only like to read the salacious details of others lives, others like family themes, some prefer politics, or humor, etc.
Yours is a mix of many things and it seems you have alot of people who feel you are unique enough to continue coming by to visit.
I agree - you're blog, you post, piss, moan, whine, congratulate, pat yourself on the back do whatever YOU want!
ReplyDeleteKeep on saying what you want to say, Smiles *!*
ReplyDeleteEileen: yeah you're right I know I get para sometimes I push people's limits with grossness or things they don't really wanna hear about
ReplyDeleteCrystal: thanks for that did you ever hear about the 3 month thing... some call it the 6 month thing... that after about that time(whichever) you suddenly start straining for something to post... I feel a bit of that but what the heck I just post anyhow
Patti: I don't wish to urinate on my blog though
Bimbimbie: the only thing I banned myself from doing was swearing (in the main text not the comments)... that had to do with "upholding a certain standard"~!!
to tangled up in l'heure bleu
ReplyDeleteJo Malone: London... know her stuff? ... surely she's opened Stateside by now... what do you think of her parfumery?
"headspace technology" for creating some ultimate scents... what do you think of this...
and as for the great American/French fragrance debate... have you any opinions/hints/clues/entertainments to say about this?
I've found French fragrance is most usually FAR more commonly perfectly rounded... a gorgeous concoction of top, middle, bottom notes ... all most carefully and wilfully blended to produce the absolute most sublime product possible in our times... compare e.g. Channel No 5 to Calvin Klein's Eternity (pour femme)... the Calvin Klein just does not measure up... it has sharp bits, olfactory blind alleys... it's nothing LIKE in the same league as No 5 which has an integral, all in one most beautiful aroma... call me unoriginal but Channel No 5 to this day is one of if not THEE alltime classic...