Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Living high in the trees
You think what with all the gallivanting I've been doing lately I'd have lots to blog. But you know, blogging about what one does isn't really that interesting to you dear reader. Unless of course it involves you. *points randomly at screen*
We have our work Christmas party tonight. I'm not going. I did waver for a second but now have something far more fun and unique to do. Something which caters both to my drinking sensibilities and my (lack of) musical ones. Rick, if I'm the only bum note on the single, I apologise in advance. I'm hoping red wine will help. It will hopefully dull the pain of everyone around in the meantime. Mystified? You should be. See RickyB.com for details.
The Christmas party used to be great - don't all us old soaks say that - but it's true, it did used to be great. It has the potential to be great, they just need to move the sodding venue. Currently rumoured guests are Liberty X (though I believe this is now fact and not rumour) and Dannii Minogue. Oh you should see the speculation on the work noticeboard. Or not. And it's a Grease theme; there was me watching Olivia Newton-John on GMTV this morning. Bless, boy is she airbrushed in her new video. She's 56 you know. Older than my mum and Prince Charles. So now you know.
In other news I was on the bus the other day, quelle surprise, and there was a genuine madwoman on board. No I wasn't looking in the mirror. As I was standing on the lower deck of the bus, it dawned on me there was an elderly woman holding court - in the only way you can when people are averting their eyes - giving a little monologue along the lines of:
"Sex is good, but with one woman and one man. Urine gives you infection. Why is there bullying in schools? There never used to be bullying. People must only have sex with one person. One man, one woman, it is normal. Sex is good"
And further stuff along those lines, complete with fairly heavy Polish accent. I say Polish with no degree of expertise, it's just she sounded like my favourite school teacher, Mrs Sendzimir who was, yes can you believe, Polish.
The nicest thing was, as we all slowly made our way down the bus (it was getting fuller) each person had their moment to be her sounding board. Then just as I was getting off she had the full attention of a woman and she said "Birds don't fight, why do we?" Then she stopped for a second and said "They live too high up in the trees" and collapsed into laughter.
I sincerely hope she got home okay, I liked her, she was swathed in fur.
We have our work Christmas party tonight. I'm not going. I did waver for a second but now have something far more fun and unique to do. Something which caters both to my drinking sensibilities and my (lack of) musical ones. Rick, if I'm the only bum note on the single, I apologise in advance. I'm hoping red wine will help. It will hopefully dull the pain of everyone around in the meantime. Mystified? You should be. See RickyB.com for details.
The Christmas party used to be great - don't all us old soaks say that - but it's true, it did used to be great. It has the potential to be great, they just need to move the sodding venue. Currently rumoured guests are Liberty X (though I believe this is now fact and not rumour) and Dannii Minogue. Oh you should see the speculation on the work noticeboard. Or not. And it's a Grease theme; there was me watching Olivia Newton-John on GMTV this morning. Bless, boy is she airbrushed in her new video. She's 56 you know. Older than my mum and Prince Charles. So now you know.
In other news I was on the bus the other day, quelle surprise, and there was a genuine madwoman on board. No I wasn't looking in the mirror. As I was standing on the lower deck of the bus, it dawned on me there was an elderly woman holding court - in the only way you can when people are averting their eyes - giving a little monologue along the lines of:
"Sex is good, but with one woman and one man. Urine gives you infection. Why is there bullying in schools? There never used to be bullying. People must only have sex with one person. One man, one woman, it is normal. Sex is good"
And further stuff along those lines, complete with fairly heavy Polish accent. I say Polish with no degree of expertise, it's just she sounded like my favourite school teacher, Mrs Sendzimir who was, yes can you believe, Polish.
The nicest thing was, as we all slowly made our way down the bus (it was getting fuller) each person had their moment to be her sounding board. Then just as I was getting off she had the full attention of a woman and she said "Birds don't fight, why do we?" Then she stopped for a second and said "They live too high up in the trees" and collapsed into laughter.
I sincerely hope she got home okay, I liked her, she was swathed in fur.
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