“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
At the risk of sounding all hinkydinky and hippytrippy, I’ve always known that this was my last shot at this stuff. That the curtain would fall when I do. My only EVER truly desperate wish was to have children. And I have. I can go (when I go) happy and fulfilled. This is probably the […]
I’ve been hearing this song all day, trying to figure out who sang it. Oh. SOS. Swing Out Sister. It comes from my Thursday gallivant about the local garden centre with a friend who went to the same school as me. At the same time but a few years younger than me. We were comparing […]
As a child I did this many times and had my friends do it to me. Himself just mowed the lawn. Perfect swathes. But he annihilated all my buttercups :o( Do you like butter? Hold a buttercup under your chin and folklore says if there is a yellow reflection on your skin it means you do. But the real […]
What is the meaning behind ‘Karma Chameleon’? Boy George once explained about the song: “The song is about the terrible fear of alienation that people have, the fear of standing up for one thing. “It’s about trying to suck up to everybody. Basically, if you aren’t true, if you don’t act like you feel, then […]
So I’m back to the velvet undergroundBack to the floor that I loveTo a room with some lace and paper flowersBack to the gypsy that I wasTo the gypsy that I was And it all comes down to youWell, you know that it does andLightning strikes maybe once, maybe twiceOh and it lights up the […]