Sunday 28 October 2012

   Hello People of mars, I mean the the world, but mars would be cool. Although people don't live on mars (yet) but what would you call things that live on mars?? Beings, creatures, ALIENS... No I think I would try and befriend them so the don't kill me, so I'll call them Friends (with a capital F!) Thinking about it I'm sure one of my friends is from mars... Oh no, wait maybe shes just from England. Hahahaha!! Joking, I have nothing against England, I'm half English half Scottish, not sure which half is better though... But that depends if you say what nationality you are by where you were born that would make me Scottish but my parents are from opposite ends of Britain, so I would say I'm British (but sometimes Scottish as that's where I live.)
    Yesterday I was at a meeting about the new Sick Kids that's being built at a place called Little France, its where the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary is at the moment. Iv been on this group for young people to be involved with the build and decisions since I was nine, it was meant to be built by now but lots of things have changed and now its due to be built by 2017. I will be long gone from the sick kids by then and into my second decade, AHHHH cue scary thought!!! OK actually more of an excited thought. Any way I met my good friend Miss H there yesterday. She has also been involved since the beginning, and we went for hot chocolate after, it wasn't as good as Spoon hot chocolate but that's a lot to live up to. It was still really good though!! It was really nice to have a good catch up. Miss H was telling me about her friend who has just finished doing a costume design course which is what I really really want to do once I have left school, well I would do it now if I could, but I will wait a year  and a bit and then go to collage or uni and hopefully some amazing company will realise they are missing me in their team... Well I can dream until then can't I?? 
     Any way her friend has been picked up by the people who make the TV series A Game of Thrones, their head costume designer is a lady called Michele Clapton, and the costumes on the show are pretty cool! I can't imagine my response if I got offered such a phenomenal oppertunity. Actually I do, first I would run round with a fit of excitment, then I will flop unbelievingly into a chair (or a dead body shape on the floor) and finally I would phone every one I know and tell them my life is complete!!
    Oh and before I go I have to mention last nights Merlin!! I love Merlin, no matter how good the actual episode is or not. This weeks ending was hard for me, especially after seeing the trailer for next weeks episode and knowing I have to wait a whole week to watch it. This is one programe I would love to work on, King Arthur has been one of my favourite tales forever and I really do love the cast in this version!! Im watch the end of My Week With Marilyn. It is an amazing film I deffinetly suggest you watch it.
                           See you next time.

Thursday 25 October 2012

   Welcome to post Two of Two!! Question: Do you ever ask a question that if you waited just two minutes and thought about what you were going to say, you would know the answer and wish you had never had asked the question in the first place?? Well thats how my morning started.
Then my mums friend came, we'll call her Mrs J, as her name begins a B... Joking it's a J... Or is it??? Yeah it is, but thats not the point she came when I was in my jammies/PJs/jimjams!! Not that I'm bothered but I could have been warned at least so I could have look semi-presentable...ish but  NO! Hours later once I resembled a human again Friend Two came round with her mummy Mrs A. She is called Betty. She has four legs and a really really soft sandy coloured coat (yes my new friend is a dog) shes a cockapoo and so beautiful dont you think??
    Then I went up to Edinburgh with LittleBadIdea, what a name to call your child, but other people call her Grace! We got off the bus at Armstrongs a supposedly a vintage clothes shop but some of the stuff is just peoples donations thats previously been hanging around the house in attics or at the att the back of wardrobes unwarn for years, some of the stuff is vintage-ish though (you can tell the real ones by the smell..) Heres what LittleBadIdea found amusing:
   There is some very funny things in there! Good for fancy dress!! And there were thouasands (maybe not that many but there were alot!) of gloves hanging from the ceiling in an upside down cone shape.
   Ok not so cone shaped more caged shaped but you get my drift. Then we decided we had had enough of the old cat lady/great granny smell and left. The next shop smelt much nicer, it should do as it was a cake decorating kind of shop. I bought cookie cutters for making... clay tags with, obviously thats what there for. No? Why not?? Oh well thats what I bought them for, the cake/cookie making shop keeper was probably quite shocked, but at least I made her a small profit. She should be glad!!
   Our next stop was a haberdashery shop. I cant help but think of Arthur Darvill (wow two blogs and two mentions of him, this is going well!) In The Paradise the other day saying it in Ruby Bentalls (Minnie from lark rise to candleford) ear ''Haberdashery.''  The phrase ''kid in a candy store'' comes to mind whith me in a haberdashery/fabric shop. I wanted to buy the whole shop, but I stayed calm and decided it was much more realistic to bring my mum back and make her part with her cash than me part with mine (especially on the run p to christmas.) So I left Heaven, I mean the shop, with out buying a thing.
    We wondered into a few more shops looking for some more things, for what I am going to call Project G. I'll let you know more on that later. At the end of our meandering, LittleBadIdea and i went to a wonderful cafe callled Spoon. If you like Chocolat by Joanne Harris, you will like spoon. YOU WILL I TELL YOU, WILL!! Ok. Well I like it, they make real hot chocolate, with real dark chocolate and ot smells soooo good!! The  restaurant has lovely mismatch furniture and candles in teacups. I think its fair to say I am in love with this place nearly as much as the fabric shop, and thats saying something!!
   Then our non romantic date ended and we got the death bus home. I calll it that due to the horrible blue lights they insist on putting on in the evenings and they make every one on the bus look dead or ghost like. There was a ghost like couple sat across from us who might as well have been sat on one seat instead of two, we thought they should of got a room not a bus. That made LittleBadIdea laugh out loud, and the man sat next to her probably thought she was insane, but so do I, but thats ok because so am I. I think every one should have a bit of insanity or craziness in them. All my best friends and family do. On that ponder I shall leave you, until next time good buy xx