Tw-update

I am just as bad as everyone else - just found myself replying to Ewan MacGregor on Twitter, a realitve newcomer - OK he was asking for people to follow. I can see how it happens now!!

And sadly, just came on the net to see if the lost Skier, Rob Williams had been found, he has been, but sadly too late. My thoughts are with his family and friends.

Twit-ter Whoo!

Everyone, it seems has gone bonkers for Twitter now. First it was MySpace, then Facebook and now Twitter. Thankfully I can hold my head up high and know I signed up ages ago. I came across Twitter at the same time as Facebook and liked the idea of it only being like Status Updates. A quick and easy way of just keeping in touch with anyone who cared to listen.

But lately, everyone has been jumping on the bandwagon and having their Twit-turn. That's great, because the more the merrier. I too have now joined the followers of @stephenfry, @rustyrockets, @wossy, @iainlee, @schofe - all prolific celeb twitters and all making me laugh with their one line wonders.

But it seems to me that one trend seems to be emerging with certain followers. You see a one line tweet and click to see what the thread was, only to find that the follower is obsessed with replying to celebs and trying to entice them into replying back.

Of course, yes, following someone as hilarious as @wossy or @stephenfry, you want to join in the fun, want to say your piece and it WOULD make your day if they commented back.

But reading through some people's Twitter pages, this seems to be their only reason for living. Constant, endless replies to people ... and it becomes obvious that they are the celebrity Twitcher; watching celebritities and trying to say something clever or inane enough to illicit a response.

Sad, really.

And yet, for the people who scoff at Twitter and can't see its point (and yet are still obsessed with updating their Facebook status daily) - the story of the skiers in Verbier who got lost and separated from each other whilst out on the slopes, where one of them has been saved by a combination of i-phone, Twitter and Google maps, well, somehow it makes the addiction all worth while. I just hope the other lost skier is found.

And so, I am now off to tweet this blog, as all good Twitterers should do!!

Life is too short

Life is too short and so is this blog. A website update is imminent, I just need to take time out to plan plan plan. I like the 50ft Woman website as it is, I just want to tweak it. Make more of the gigs, photos and so on. I bought a fantastic little widget to display all my sets on flickr and annoyingly THEN discovered I needed PHP on my webspace, which I don't have. I was offered some space on one that does, but then I need to get into permissions and all that marlarky and I just couldn't get it working.

See, people think I am a geek, a nerd, but I am bamboozled and some things just make me confussled. And then I end up tucking it to the back of my mind.

Anyway, either way, the point of a blog is to update it. I have other sites, other blogs and other ideas ... if anyone has any spare time, chuck it my way ... ta x

Full moon fever

It's not full moon. It is in fact a 57% waning moon. And yet I feel like it IS a full moon. Do you get that? That utter twitchy need to DO STUFF, but mixed with total apathy. It's horrible.

I feel on edge, needing to do this and then get up and do that and then do some more. And yet all my body wants to do is lie on the sofa and veg out watching rubbish (yes, I admit, Big Brother has got me AGAIN this year, even though I vowed I wasn't going to go there).

Mind you, am catching up on my blogs, so I'm not doing THAT bad! Yippeeee ;)

AND am so excited about shoes at the moment it's not funny. Everyone knows about my obsession and is even vaguely amused by it, but they have NO idea. And I have a secret. Shhhh. My most expensive pair of shoes are F ... L ... A .... T and Mens!!

BUT - they are fabulous and so the ShoeShoe Club is due another offering .. I have been neglecting my shoe blog. Tut tut. Don't worry it's next on the list, and I am about to start recruiting people to join me.

Slowly, slowly, catchy monkey

Also translated as, good things come to those who wait :D

Should be banned

Plastic garden furniture - you know the sort I mean, comes in green or white. Cheap, yes but also nasty.

 

Snow fun at all

Amazing - it's April and we have had snow, more snow than I remember in a long time in London. I woke up to that eerie white blue light and realised that it had snowed and was still snowing. Usually London has its own microclimate and it never really sticks. Bizarrely on Friday it was so hot and felt really late spring like. Just goes to show how topsy turvy the weather can be, global warming or no global warming (don't get me started!). And do you know what, it is our delight in the changing unpredictable weather that makes us so English!

 

I heard on the radio the other day, when they were talking about Sarkozy's visit to the UK, that the French don't really make small talk. Well, you can harangue the English for being generally lazy when it comes to language, but that's obviously one language we are excellent at. And I believe that is mainly thanks to the weather!!

 

They are called April showers .. we just didn't expect them to be of snow! :)

 

(Shame there wasn't enough snow to make a 50ft snowman for me!)