Life and Times of Carly

In cardiff for the weekend

2007-10-08T08:25:00.000-07:00

Sadly to watch the All Blacks loose.

I would like to make a statement, despite being extremelly depressed on sunday, I am officially over it now!

Go Argentina!

The day from Hell for Carly

2007-09-17T06:05:00.000-07:00

Involves:

Not getting any sleep/midly hungover in the first place
Girls peeing in shower
Having to catch the bus home

Im not complaining BUT....

2007-09-06T07:11:00.000-07:00

I find it funny, now that the 'no smoking' policy has now been adopted in pubs and bars in the UK that common smells to proliferate now include:

Urinal smells
Farts
Body odour

I find it amusing anyway....

I thought this was rather funny

2007-08-30T04:31:00.000-07:00

I got an email.... 'Symptoms of being over 25' and could just so identify with a whole load of em....

SYMPTOMS OF BEING OVER 25

You leave clubs before the end to "beat the rush".

You get more excited about having a roast on a Sunday than going clubbing the night before.

Before throwing the local paper away, you look through the property section.

All of a sudden, middle aged people are not 46, they are only 46.

Before going out anywhere, you ask whether there is anywhere to park.

Rather than throw a knackered pair of trainers out, you keep them because they'll be alright for the DIY or in the garden.

You buy T-shirts without anything written on them.

Instead of laughing at the innovations catalogue that falls out of the newspaper, you suddenly see both the benefit and money saving properties of most of the things that are in it.

You start to worry about your parents' health.

Pop music all starts to sound the same.

You opt for Pizza Express over Pizza Hut because they do a really nice half-bottle of house red.

You always have enough milk in.

To compensate for the fact that you have little desire to go clubbing, you instead frequent trendy bars and restaurants in the mistaken belief that you have not turned into your parents.

The benefits of a pension scheme become clear.

You actually find yourself saying "They don't make 'em like that anymore" and "I remember when there were only 4 TV channels" and "Not in my day...."

Instead of tutting at old people who take ages to get off the bus,You tut at rowdy school children.

When sitting outside a pub you admire their hanging baskets.

You find yourself saying "is it cold in here or is it just me?

THE THING!!!!!!!!!

2007-08-26T15:29:00.001-07:00

At first we thought it was a mouse.... we heard it moving over the floor. It was so big it couldn't fit under the lounge door.

It was THE single most biggest spider I have ever seen.... and those in the know how much I hate and am petrified of spiders.

Huge ups for Ian who dealt with it and 'liberated' outside into the street.... not so ups for terrifying me with it first!

We are awaiting a massive bang when the beast runs out into the road and gets hit by a car.....

yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk

The happiest moment of my life...

2007-08-11T00:45:00.000-07:00

Happened yesterday when I discovered Woolworths sold Natural Confectionery Company lollies..... mmmmmmmm jelly snakes..... mmmm forbidden fruits

Im an addict to facebook

2007-07-29T01:32:00.000-07:00

I succumbed

Anyway I will still do the blog too- in fact im off to a wedding in Derry this weekend which will be good- see a bit of Northern Ireland and will get to drive- yay!

The only thing I have to worry about is the growing pimple on my chin and my streak self-tan... dear oh dear....

School's out... for the Summer

2007-07-19T03:56:00.000-07:00

Two more days... yeah baby!!!!!!!!

Muddiness....

2007-07-13T06:57:00.000-07:00

Heres some more pics from Oxegen courtesy of Corla!

Heres's 'special needs Richie' at the airport ( I was trying to get a sneaky pic, but he caught me booo). And he's probably going to murder me for adding this picture!

Stuck in the mud!!!!

Eating dinner with Noreen

What I'm doing in the weekend....

2007-07-13T05:29:00.000-07:00

Im going to make the most of what little summer we are having at present and have lots of bbqs. Have a work leaving do on the Friday as well, and may even tackle the garden, finally! At least my tomatoes have flowers on them now too yay!

Oxegen baby!

2007-07-12T12:02:00.000-07:00

So anyway I had better tell ya’ll about oxegen….. very good weekend, although I did have a head cold throughout.

So Rich, Corla and I headed off to Dublin airport where we were picked up by Noreen and headed to Newbridge, close to the festival where their mate Peter lived and was putting us up for the weekend (when I say putting us up that included continental breakfasts, cooked breakfasts, welly cleaning, the lot which was sooooooo lovely of Peter and his wife!).

Saturday:
No rain fortunately, but there had been lots of rain leading up to the festival which meant the whole site was a complete mud bath. Thank god for those wellies! So to start with we saw the Goo Goo Dolls (surprisingly good), a smidgin of Avril Lavigne (also gave it loads, bless her) the Fratellis (jolly good too!) then I went off to try and get into the mosh for Kings of Leon, but couldn’t. At that point I was a bit disgruntled because I wouldn’t be meeting up with anyone until after Muse, which meant I had 5 hours to kill by myself (and all for a good spot for KOL.….. it seemed like good thinking at the time!) but I remembered Ocean Colour Scene were playing in a smaller tent, and figured I’d be seeing KOL in December at Wembley anyway. What a good choice that was because OCS were fantastic. They played all their goodies and the atmosphere in the tent was far better than the main stage. They finished off with Day We Caught the Train and everyone went mental singing the lala lalalal bit at the end. After that I went over and caught bits of Maximo Park, and Tori Amos (who was a big poser), but was really looking forward to Interpol, who sadly clashed with Snow Patrol (but I didn’t really mind anyway…). Interpol were rather good although you would have to be familiar with the music to appreciate it, me thinks. After that staggered through the mud back to the tent to catch Queens of the Stone Age- again surprisingly good, and I realised I was a lot more familiar with their songs than I thought I was. Finally caught up with the others after Muse and got home around 2am. So Saturday was really a day of pleasant surprises in terms of the music. It was all about the music man..

Sunday:
No hangover to report and ready to start the day! Was hoping to see The Thrills, but all the timing on Stage 2 was out of wack thanks to Amy Winehouse cancelling (was probably at the off-licence in Camden drunk as a skunk…) so missed them but ah well never mind because Bloc Party were next. Brilliant! Cool! And my pick of the weekend for sure. Yay. Then it was into the tent to see BRMC who were also excellent. Also saw Hollywood actor Josh Harnett and R.E.M frontman Michael Stipe at the side of the stage. I took a really bad photo of them hehehehe. After that it was Arcade Fire, the heavens opened for a bit, then some more good music from Razorlight, saw a bit of Rufus Wainright and then The Killers. The Killers were very good, but unfortunately we could hear bits of Daft Punk from the other stage and it
sounded way cooler. Maybe in hindsight it might have been the better gig of the night.
That’s all really!

Babyfest

2007-07-11T05:30:00.000-07:00

Will do a write up of oxegen soon, Graham!

For now I want to say congratulations to my lovely friends who have babies...

Heather- who had a baby boy, Brooklyn

Sonia- who had a yet-to-be-named baby girl.

I do feel like I'm getting old when my friends have babies!!!

yayayayayayayay

What I'm doing in the weekend...

2007-07-05T12:15:00.000-07:00

Going to Oxegen baby!!! What an outstanding lineup!

A rather funny observation this morning....

2007-07-04T05:23:00.000-07:00

The Metrosexual Builder-

Eats salad and reads 'The Times' at lunchtime.....

But ensures the trusty old 'Sun' newspaper sits on the dashboard of the standard white transit van just incase the other builders give him shit!

Back

2007-07-02T07:12:00.000-07:00

And shattered but loads of fun as always.... makes me wonder whether I should get into environmental education as I am so in my element... historical walks along the canal, pond dipping all that good outdoorsy stuff. It was brilliant, because I didn't realise all the crazy stuff that's been happening around Britain until I got a text off my mum saying 'be careful' just nice to be out of the city and in the country....

Anyway heres a pic from it anyway- all the gang by this massive old watermill by the canal

What I'm up to in the weekend

2007-06-28T10:19:00.001-07:00

Quote Jarvis Cocker from Sorted for E's and Wizz

cos I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere,somewhere in a field in Hampshire.......

Yip thats right I'm off to the Gordon Brown centre in Hampshire on the 6th form residential. For some reason the teacher, Andy thought it would be a good idea to have it over the weekend. Good news is that I'll get a couple of days in lieu for my troubles. As long as it doesn't flood or anything....

boooooooooooooo

2007-06-22T07:13:00.000-07:00

Last night was the longest day of the year so that means we are on a downward spiral towards winter again ...... booooooooooooooooo! Must make the most of the BBQ this weekend......

The Coral and the Manic Street Preachers

2007-06-19T13:00:00.000-07:00

Several thursdays ago I had the immense pleasure of seeing the Manic Street Preachers play at the Shepperds Bush Empire with support from The Enemy which I am pleased to say recognised two songs from too! It was a great gig, and it was awesome to note the James Dean Bradfield has got an amazing voice. Oh and Nicky Wire is a freak, judging from his lunges across the stage wearing a mini skirt. I repeat- FREAK. It was good to see some good old classics- especially Motorcycle Empitness, Design for Life and Everything must go. Yay for the good old days.....

Here's a bad pic from that one anyway....

And finally last night, myself and the fabulous Helen went and saw The Coral with support from Kate Nash at Astoria. To be honest they were very flat, and didn't have much in the way of enthusiasm and stage presence which was a shame. Having said that I was such a big fan a couple of years back, and I was stoked that they played loads of cool old stuff- they opened with Spainish Main, and all the other goodies- very happy with Bill McCai which they played off the coolest album, Magic and Medicine.

Here are the lads anyways strumming away...

And the worlds biggest stresser is.......

2007-06-14T03:16:00.000-07:00

ME

After all this hospital kerfuffle with Rich and his ankle (almost two weeks in hospital all for a stupid broken ankle) I have come to the conclusion that if things don't go my way and I have absolutely no control over them- I turn into the worlds worst stresser. I think its in the Pannell genes sadly.....

Notice of Death Warrant

2007-06-08T00:25:00.000-07:00

Name: Mr A. Football

Offences: The greivious bodily harm of Mr R. J. Cudmore through dislocating of a left pinky finger (previous conviction 2 years ago) and fracturing the right ankle in two places on Thursday 08/06/07.

In light of these dispicable offences it is hereby declared that Mr. A Ball be exectuted my means of peforation by the kitchen knife.

Football tournaments- Special needs styles!

2007-06-07T06:17:00.000-07:00

I love my football tournaments at Regents Park and as manager of the Woodfield School football team I love to see teams enjoying themselves, and I understand its all a bit of fun; sure winning the whole thing would be nice, but quite frankly its a nice day out and a bit of laugh.... right?!

WRONG!!!!!!!!!

In the past I have seen teachers and/or assistants giving hard out 'team' talks explaining that they need to score lots of goals in the next game so they go through on GOAL DIFFERENCE (N.B. these kids forget which way they are playing, let alone being able to understand GD!)

Then there are the twats that just yell the whole time on the sideline. I found it particularly funny yesterday when this woman who was the worlds biggest chav yelling in her awful accents come on befany come on befany (instead of using the queens english and pronouncing 'Bethany'). Just hideous. I guess you have to be there!

In da weekend

2007-06-05T02:22:00.001-07:00

Must make more of a concerted effort to update this blog!

So in da weekend me and my g's went to the UK branch of Hells Pizza! Yay which was very exciting and meant a trip down to Fulham. After wrongly ordering a double brimstone not being able to eat half of it (thus not being able to sample a dessert pizza- doh!) we headed to Fulham Broadway for some drinkies and legged it home just after midnight on da bus at there was engineering works. Yay all good there except when I decided to sample my leftover pizza for lunch the next day I discovered a very long black hair woven throughout my pizza topping. Needless to say it was promptly discarded in the bin. Nice one!

Anyway I'm on a bit of a roll here and want to share some revelations I've had recently...

First up I have finally discovered what makes my leg twitch

Which sometimes happens when I'm trying to get to sleep- eating dessert too late! I don't actually have dessert that often, but the other night I had some icecream and strawberries half an hour before I went to bed and had major body jerks and leg twitches all around.

Secondly 24 is good............ real good!

After watching the first excellent season on DVD our household is currently half-way through season 2 and despite all the tourture that seems rife in this installment I'm completelly addicted- fortunately for us we have just borrowed season 3.... cha hoo

Newquay

2007-05-30T07:33:00.000-07:00

Here are some pics from Newquay which is where I spent the bank holiday with Rich and Ian and a few others. Jolly good, except it was a wee bit cold, and didn't fulfill my grand plans for swimming in the sea (suffice to say I didn't actually set foot on the beach.....) but anyway it was nice to get out of london see a beautiful part of the UK and I went to the Eden Project which I had always wanted to do so yay for that. Fortunately enough I suffered the worst hangover ever on the day is poured down with rain (Sunday), so I was more than happy to suffer in bed for the day.

Here's me being dwarfed by the lads!

Da stupid site won't let me load up anymore so I'll have to do it laterz...

The disappointment of the FA Cup

2007-05-23T06:36:00.000-07:00

Alright so first things first….. I WAS SOOO GRATEFUL AND PRIVELIDGED to be able to attend the FA Cup final FREE. Basically I scored a free ticket through school, as our school is in the Borough that encompasses Wembley and they need kids to do all that pre-match palava and one kid needed an escort therefore I got to go… absolutely brilliant!

And because it was the first final at the new stadium, a huge grudge match between Manchester United and Chelsea I was just so thrilled to be part of the action, which I am still today. It was very very cool indeed! Terry vs Rooney, Ferdinand vs Drogba, the lovely sexy Giggs and Lampard, and player of the year, Ronaldo.

I was just a bit naïve thinking it would at be a great day….. and I guess what I’m going to say will annoy the hard out fans who were very jealous that I was going…..

First problem: the violence
Standing waiting for a fellow colleague, Ben at Wembley Park tube station I witnessed two fights in the short space of ten minutes. So yeah I quickly came to realise that a lot of the crowd were going to be agro and football hooligans!

Second problem: the idiot behind me
Some idiotic moron looser felt compelled to swear hard out through the entire game, often spitting on the back of my neck as he had no concept of personal space either and might as well have been kissing the back of my neck. What a bit twat. OK I have been to games and appreciate how excited people get but that guy was just completely OTT

Third problem: the game itself
What a crappy game! Very disappointed in the quality of the game- and would expect way more of two fantastic teams. Chances missed, passes going astray, the game just lack any excitement, bar the last couple of minutes when United had a few chances. Even in extra time, when Mourinho substituted Robben for Cole it was evident he was just hoping to play out a draw and win on penalties (luckily for him they scored).

Fourth problem: the atmosphere
I think the game lacked a certain atmosphere, and I didn’t realise this until I attended the Heineken Cup Rugby final at Twickenham the following day. Maybe its just because it’s a new stadium with no new history attached. I dunno.

Anyway later on that night Rich was trying to explain to me how people have been brought up since birth to support their teams (not trying to condone the violence, of course) but I just came to the conclusion that I just don’t understand how passionate and serious people can take their football.

So in conclusion it was really cool, and was a fantastic occasion, but a few things to ponder………………..

Here's myself and Marcus who I escorted to the game (NB: in amongst dirty old chelsea supporters!!!!!)

The happy Chelsea players

Lots of famous players!

Back into it after a wee break

2007-05-21T04:11:00.001-07:00

Right I'm going to make another concerted effort to maintain my blog.... have just been rather busy at the moment!

So anyway all of last week I was on the Frontier Centre residential with the baby Year 7's and 8's which was really wicked! There was the mandatory poo on the floor of the boys toilets (lucky for me there were only 2 girls on the trip!!!), then again at least it was on the floor and not on the toilet roll dispenser which was the case for the same trip last year (gross I know but just think of the logistics of a perfectly formed poo on top of the toilet roll holder...????). But did really cool stuff like rock climbling (I chickened out) high ropes (I chickened out) and abseiling (which I did do- yay for conquering my fears!!!!) and canoeing and raft building. Standard stuff really.

So I was rather tired on friday after lots of late nights and early starts but at least I had a good weekend to look forward too.....

Im still here

2007-05-11T03:20:00.000-07:00

Still alive and kicking, just not too much happening and pretty low-key after the expensive trip to Iceland.

Ill be away on a residential so will update when I get back next weekend!

Hahahahahaha

2007-04-27T03:10:00.000-07:00

Guess where I'm going!
Da FA Cup final bro! Yay for work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stuff about the London Underground that you never knew.

2007-04-24T10:30:00.000-07:00

Im getting flack right now for adding this to my blog, but I don't care it think its interesting/funny....

1. There is only one tube station name which does not have any letters of the word 'mackerel' in it- St Johns Wood
2. There are only two tube stations which have all five vowels in them- Mansion House and South Ealing (which is my stop yayayayayay we are cool!!)
3. Northfield station (one down from us yayayayayayayay!) on the Piccadilly Line was the first to use kestrels and hawks to kill pigeons and stip them setting up homes in stations
4. Out of the 287 tube stations, only 29 are south of the river Thames
5. Angel has Western Europes longest escalator- 318 steps
6. The air in the underground 10 degrees hotter than the air on the surface
7. Green grapes cause more accidents on the London Underground than banana skins
8. Only one person was ever born in a tube carriage and her name was Thelma Ursula Beatrice Eleanor in 1924 at Elephant and Castle
9. Cadbury's Whole Nut chocolate bar is the biggest seller in the chocolate machines at the tube stations.

So there you go....

Something for the weekend...

2007-04-20T06:17:00.000-07:00

Its too nice and sunny hence why I can't be arsed posting- lovely and sunny and warm April is all good- Im just waiting for the weather to pack in to be honest!

Ah well this weekend I'm determined to have a go at making a vege patch so watch this space for some before and after pics! Cha hoo!

No other plans other than watching Man U vs Middlesbrough hehehehehe!

football lookalikes

2007-04-14T04:04:00.000-07:00

I reckon that Portugal and Chelsea defender Ricardo Carvahlo:

looks like Duece Bigalo (Rob Schneider):

Da rest of Iceland

2007-04-14T03:34:00.000-07:00

So da rest of Iceland....

Sunday: Day Two:
Sleep in bum around for the morning (and my flaming luggage still hasn't arrived) and just after lunch we head to the famous blue lagoon therefore I have to hire out togs.... ew ew ew! But anyways the blue lagoon was so lovely, just so nice to swim (I haven't been for a swim in two years!) and we stayed in there for far far too long, because by the end of it all and we got back we were all shattered and went to bed pretty early (but then there wasn't anything open anyway because it was Easter Sunday!) My luggage had arrived by the time we got back anyway so I was rather happy by the end of the day- mmmmmm clean clothes!

Monday: Day Three:
Up at the crack of dawn to get picked up for our day long excursion to the Gullfoss waterfall, Geysir and Pinveillier National park. That was really cool and very NZ like with lots of mountains, lava fields and random geyers errupting. Get back and go for a few drinkies cha hoo! Just love those £5 pints.....

Tuesday: Day Four:
Had booked a Whale watching tour for the morning, therefore up at the crack of dawn again, but we head down to the harbour to find out that the morning session had been cancelled because of bad weather... so we go for a wander and go up this big massive church thingy and get some wicked views of Reykjavik and discover that most shops aren't open until 10am so there was nothing much to do except wander. There had been a bit of snow that had fallen last night, so Tim and I still being excited by snow try to make snowballs and have a bit of a slide on the ice on the concrete...

Anyway by the time Midday swings around we head back down and the afternoon session is going ahead so we check out the whale watching centre bit and board the boat, all kind of like 'yeah its not going to be cold' and 'nah im not going to feel sea sick'..... hmmmm bit wrong there because we ended up on the choppiest seas I've ever been on (good old north atlantic) and it ends up snowing, so Im the coldest I have ever ever been (even the hardy Canadian, Ian said it was cold just to prove it!!!). So we are on a boat in the north atlantic in a snow storm. Nice one! It was cool though and I managed to score a sea sick tablet and a massive pair of thermal overalls so it wasn't too bad.. my feet were just really numb afterwards. We ended up seeing two Minke whales and one white beaked (or was it nosed) dolphin so that was alright in the end....

Afterwards we headed down to watch the Champions league and spent our last night in Iceland drinking again... happy times all around.

Wednesday: Up at 7am and back on the bus to the airport... Bye bye cold Iceland... hello nice warm london cha hoo!

Other funny moments in Iceland include:

Hot dogs- Icelanders are obsessed with Hot dogs, but I can see why because they were damn good!
Pronto grande- funny term from Trip to Barcelona and was also the name of a pizza that we got one night.. bit of a personal joke there...
Bjork- plenty of taking the mick there.... a funny drunk tim likened Bjorks singing to a stretch rat which was very funny at the time.
Egg farts- which is how Ian described Geysir, which was funny because I hadn't heard anyone say that word in ages, plus he hasn't ever been to Rotorua too hehehehehe...
Rain- it never really rained when we wanted it to! Pissed down a fair bit, but we wanted it to rain whilst we were at the blue lagoon and it never did. But then did on the way home.. how typical!

I was also inept at opening the door of our room, but you really had to be there to appreciate how funny that was.

Bit rambly but that was Iceland in a nutshell..

Next trip: Newquay for Bank holiday in May cha hoo! So can't wait for some beach action!

Day one in iceland

2007-04-12T23:46:00.000-07:00

Man I just couldn't sleep last night and was up at a brisk 5am this morning oooooer! Hopefully I'll get back to sleep at some point...

Anyway my long awaited trip to Iceland was great and here's the lowdown of it all...

Saturday: Day One:
So on a dark and mild Saturday at 5am, myself, Tim and Ian pile into Richies car and he (very kindly so) drives us to Gatwick in time for our 7.30 flight to Keflavik, the main international airport to get us to Reykjavik. So far so good.
I stupidly go to get some cash out, press a wrong button and end up being 50p into overdraft... stress stress as the bloody banks here charge mega fees on overdraft but luckily Rich was on hand to save the day and put £5 into my account for me that morning.
We get on the plane where we find out theres a bit of a delay to our flight, due to some luggage going to the wrong plane (at this point Ian jokes that our luggage has gone to Cincannti which was another flight around the same time) and I do worry slightly, as I had to put mine through as oversized luggage as my pack has lots of straps.

We fly there, had a pleasant brekkie on the plane and arrive at Keflavik and discover that its possible one of the most bling airports we'd been too (I assume due to the low volume of travellers....) and we make our duty-free alcohol purchases and head over to baggage reclaim. The bags were out promptly enough... Tim and Ian grab theirs, meanwhile I wait...... I wait...... I head over to the oversized luggage area.... I wait ..... I wait....... and finally come to the conclusion that my luggage hasn't arrived and head to customer services where this is confirmed and I fill in the details and am told it will be delivered to the Guesthouse we were staying at by the next morning. Poos!

By the time all that palava was over we discover that we had missed the flybus into Reykjavik, the next one wasn't for another 3 hours, and that it was cold and pissing it down with rain. The only option at this point was to shell out for an expensive cab (8000ISK or £60), check into the Guesthouse go get some food in the rain and drink.... as I didn't have a raincoat or anything and it was too miserable to go and explore the city. Nevermind because we were able to have a good peruse of the tourist information flyers and decided we wanted to go Whale Watching, found a pub that would most likely be showing the Champions League games and Ian and I had a hilarious drunk argument over who the original chick in the Smashing Pumpkins was. That was about it really, we took advantage of a break in the weather and checked out the harbour and surrounding area, but it was all just too bleak, and I passed out around 11pm and the lads headed into town for a few hours......

Can't really be arsed writing anything else for the time being... more updates soon!

Post holiday blues

2007-04-12T03:03:00.000-07:00

My trip to Iceland was awesome, I'm just having some post holidays blues.... hopefully the nice warm weather back in london and the sunshine will cheer me up.... I'll write about it soon- I've updated my photos on flickr if ya'll wanna looksy!

Da weekend rugby action

2007-04-03T09:50:00.000-07:00

Sadly for my Richie, Munster got knocked out of the Heinken Cup by Llanelli (ha and the long, lost Christian Cullen played too!).

HOWEVER

The best thing I've seen in a long time is this classy team wearing none other than PINK RUGBY SHIRTS!!!

Just pure class...

Excitement city!!

2007-04-03T00:11:00.000-07:00

Yay its only four sleeps until my trip to Iceland.... I'm sooooooooooooo excited!!! yayayayayay!

Venting my spleen

2007-03-30T03:47:00.000-07:00

Top 10 things I hate about travelling on London buses…

10. People who eat yummy smelling food on the bus when you are pissed and are gagging for a bite yourself

9. Getting on a bus that clearly hasn’t been cleaned from the night/day before and therefore have to sit amidst a pile of orange peel/nuts and bolts/empty beer cans/plastic bags (all from personal experiences)

8. Getting on a bus where someone has thrown a can on the ground, which is now rolling around and making that annoying rolling can sound, but no one who is close to it will pick it up therefore you have to walk from the other end of the bus to do it yourself

7. Crazy people on the bus that start preaching about god/burping deliberately loud/singing/impersonating a police officer/screeching/singing loudly and very badly to themselves (all based on personal experiences)

6. Bus drivers that only know how to accelerate and break extra extra extra hard

5. Bus drivers that just go far too slow

4. You are standing up holding on for dear life as the bus is packed, when someone decides that they are going to get up out of their seat and begin to manoeuvre themselves towards the exit about thirteen million hours before their stop. (bit of an exaggeration, but why get up and unbalance the people standing who are struggling anyway just so you can stand by the door and wait ages to the next stop??). And note they are usually carrying backpacks/shopping bags.

3. People who just push in blatantly in the queue- especially into that little bit of space that you leave in front of you so your not squished into the person in front. (ie they have no concept of personal space)

2. People who just push in blatantly in the queue- especially into that little bit of space that you leave in front of you so your not squished into the person in front. (ie they have no concept of personal space) AND start fiddling around in their pockets for change therefore holding everyone else up

AND NUMBER 1....

1. Feckin’ school girls with their feckin’ mobile phones playing feckin’ Beyonce feckin’ loud so that the whole bloody bus can hear the whiney drivel emanating from the latest Nokia whatever. No one wants to hear your shit music blaring out of your phone. The stink thing is that they probably carry knives and will stab you if you should even dare ask them to turn it down/off.

I stole that beer glass

2007-03-29T09:54:00.000-07:00

I just think the name 'Kwak' is quite funny for a beer too..... this is from last weekend....

I must be emotionally depleted....

2007-03-27T13:13:00.000-07:00

Guess what you can spell my name 12 ways....

Carly
Karly
Carlee
Karlee
Carley
Karley
Carli
Karli
Carlea
Karlea
Carlie
Karlie

Lack of substance

2007-03-23T01:41:00.000-07:00

Im going to put my thinking cap on and come up with something deep and meaningful... watch this space people!

Da global freezing debate?!

2007-03-20T01:42:00.000-07:00

It official- GLOBAL WARMING IS ALL BOLLOCKS! Its a FARCE!

I say this because its gone from a balmy 15 degrees down to 2 degrees in one bloody day : (#

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Vegetables and Football

2007-03-16T12:55:00.000-07:00

Its official folks, Celery is B.A.D!

The humble celery often gets a bad wrap...... boring, tasteless (although I'm a big fan of it in soups...), and now Chelsky Football club have decided to ban it from Stamford Bridge..

THIS is just pure gold......

Errata

2007-03-16T01:47:00.000-07:00

Ok so back in Sheffield this also happened.... quote from Celestes email yesterday...

'just read your blog low down of sheffield - you conveniently missed out the bit about drunken carly bashing on the window of the service station, demanding that the poor girl come out and serve you! hahah'

- this happened on the way home when cest and I had the drunken munchies.... and I apologies profusely to the poor 14 year old service attendant who was doing the night shift!

You know summer is on the way when.....

2007-03-12T06:30:00.000-07:00

You shave (or should I say hack???) your legs for the first time in 5 months. I can't wait to get those shorts on again....

You know you're tired when....

2007-03-12T06:27:00.000-07:00

You sleep for 14 hours, which is what I did today. Thank god I called in sick coz me thinks I needed it..... I hate being sick.... especially again.

And don't worry mum I have been looking after myself and eating lots of veg and fruit! I blame the changing of the seasons.....

More Chuck Norris Gold

2007-03-09T02:38:00.000-08:00

Is it wrong that I actually find these funny....

WAYS TO KEEP YOUR GIRL HAPPY- BY CHUCK NORRIS

1. Never hold her hand. This can be interpreted as a sign of weakness. If she grabs your hand, squeeze hers really hard until she cries (this will impress her by showing her what a strong man you are).

2. Once a month, sneak up on her from behind and knock her over. Girls are like dogs; they love to be roughed up.

3. Call her in the middle of the night to ask if she's sleeping. If sheis, say "you better be." Repeat this 4 or 5 times until morning. This will show her you care.

4. When she is upset about something, suggest to her that it might be her fault. This will pave the way for her own personal improvement, and every girl needs some improvement.

5. Recognize the small things, as they usually mean the most. Then when she's sleeping, steal all her small things and break them, because jewellery is for pussies.

6. If you're talking to another girl, make sure she's looking. When she is, stare into her eyes, mouth the words "F**K you" and grab the other girl's ass. Girls love competition.

7. Tell her you're taking her out to dinner. Drive for mile so she thinks it's going to be really special. Then take her to a burning tire yard. When she starts to get upset, tell her you were just kidding and now you're really going to take her to dinner. Then drive her home. When she starts crying and asks why you would do something like that, lean over and whisper very quietly into her ear "...because I can."

8. Introduce her to your friends as "some chick." Women love those special nicknames.

9. Play with her hair. Play with it HARD.

10. Warm her up when she's cold...and not by giving her our jacket, because then you might get cold. Rather, look her in the eye and say "if you don't stop complaining about the cold right now, you're going to be complaining about a black eye." The best way to get warm is with fear.

11. Take her to a party. When you get there, she'll have to go to the bathroom (they always do). Leave immediately. Come back right when the party is dying and yell at her the whole way home for ditching you all night.

12. Make her laugh. A good way to do this is if she has a small pet. Kick the pet. I always find stuff like that funny...why shouldn't girls?

13. Let her fall asleep in your arms. When she's fast asleep, wait 10 minutes, then jump up and scream in her ear. Repeat until she goes home and you can use your arms for more important things (like basketball).

14. If you care about her, never ever tell her. This will only give her self-confidence, then you can never turn her into the object she deep down desires to be.

15. Every time you're in her house, steal one of her shoes, earrings or anything else that comes in pairs. Only take one of the pair. This way, she'll go crazy.

16. Take her out to dinner. Right when she's about to order, interrupt and say "no, she's not hungry." Make her watch you eat. Girls love a guy that speaks for her.

17. Look her in the eyes and smile. Then punch her in the face. Girls love a spontaneous guy.

18. Give her one of your t-shirts, and make sure it has your smell on it (but not a sexy cologne smell...a bad smell. You know what I'm talking about).

19. When it's raining, keep asking her if she's crying. She'll say "no, it's just the rain." Ten minutes later, turn to her and just scream at her to stop crying. Girls like a tough man.

20. Titty twisters and plenty of them.

21. If you're listening to music, and she asks to hear it, tell her no. This way she'll think you're mysterious.

by the way

2007-03-07T06:30:00.000-08:00

I ended up eating chocolate deliberately so I've flagged the whole 'lent' thing

Im getting a bit too old for this.....

2007-03-06T11:14:00.000-08:00

Ash with support from Formation V

Sheffield University Student Union, Saturday March 3rd

Ok so my fabulous friends Celeste and Tim shouted me a ticket, train ticket and accomodation to see Ash play! Yay I thought because I last saw them like 5 years ago at the Powerstation when it was still going.

We got to Sheffield two minutes into the big Man U vs Liverpool game, so to Cests dismay, Tim and I spent the next half and hour looking for a pub that was showing the game, and eventually found one. I was actually surprised to find that Sheffield is actually a really nice little city- very studenty seeing as there are two Universities there.

We checked into our hotel room after the game and sprayed it copiously with air freshner (unfortunately landed a smoking room that absolutely STANK!!!), and missioned to the nearby restaraunt to nab a corkscrew for the bottle of wine, which we promptly consumed whilst chatting away and watching a bit of telly. We actually saw the most erotically charged, suggestive ad for sausages ever (even Tim commented that he felt wrong watching the ad) which was rather funny.

We headed back into town to find the venue where the next hilarious thing happened.... I made a comment to Cest that 'wouldn't it be funny if Tim Wheeler (lead singer) walk right past and apparently as I said it that actual drummer from Ash walked past us! How wierd! Anyway we went to a very lovely pasta restaraunt, where I got the Ragu dish and was sooooooooooo tasty! I think there was as much meat as I had eaten for the entire year in that sauce... yum yum yum!

Onto the gig:

So take a venue literally the size of Shadows for us Auckland University Graduates, take every cool song that Ash had ever played, add a few newby songs and you have an absolutely fantastic gig!

They opened with the first song off 1977 whose name escapes me coz I never owned the album (shock shock horror horror), lept into Burn Baby Burn, then Jesus Says.... pure class! The three of us each guessed a song that Ash would play, and whoevers song was last had to sleep on the fold out couch in our classy Travelodge room (sadly the honours went to Tim who wrongly guessed Orpheus!). Anyway if you notice the main title we quickly came to the conclusion that we were probably the oldest people there. This was confirmed after the gig when Cest and I (the hard core rockers at the front) came away battered and bruised from the being squished at the barrier..... come to think of it we weren't the only ones- all the security guards at the front had cuts and bruises and wierd bumps gashes on the eyebrows.... god knows what those crazy kids in Sheffield get up to. They finished off with the classic Kung Fu and just played every cool song imaginable. My personal fave was A Life Less Ordinary ... class class class!

So after the gig we are all a wee bit tispy and head off to find a pub (NB at this point its only 10pm because of a curfew on campus!!!!) and discover that Sheffieldiens like to a) dress up wear next to nothing (boob tubes, heels and short shorts mandatory!) b) like to go out with their mothers c) the aforementioned mothers like to also dress in the aforementioned way but with green highlights in their hair. Interesting anyway and we left after an hour or so..... during which time so awful covers band massacred Charmless Man by Blur. There are some songs that you just don't touch!

So the next day dawned and we had a bit greasy breakfast in the Little Chef next to the Travelodge checked out at Midday and headed back into town and checked out the Winter Gardens that had loads of NZ native plants (And I'm glad to say I can still recognise my Dicksonia squarrosas from my Dicksonia fibrosa) with a fantastic speciment of Kaka beak. Very good shit. Sat around for ages over a coffee contemplating what to do seeing as it was hosing down with rain and unanimously decided that the pub was the best option so found one by the station, and then it gets a bit blurry from then onwards. I personally blame GNER rail or whoever for selling whole bottles of wine on the train! Anyway was suitably drunk by the time I got home.

Yay for tree ferns! So that sums up yet another cool weekend!

Stupid servers....

2007-03-01T10:46:00.000-08:00

Normally I spend a huge hunk of time at work updating my blog but the dumb server has been down (along with potentially loosing 2 weeks work at the same time!!) but ah well! Michelle will concur....

I had a good night on Tuesday, having a few drinkies for my birthday and feeling suitably hungover on the wednesday.

Loads of nice presents anyway and lots of fun.

Lots of lovely things are happening anyways........

You know your tired when.....

2007-02-26T05:38:00.000-08:00

It takes you 3 goes to put your jumper on... (as in my case 2hours ago)

Oh and you accidentally eat some chocolate (NB: it was only 1 hersheys kiss and it was because I completely forgot) when you supposed to be giving it up for lent.

Oopsy! But apparently it doesn't count if you just forget

Carly's Might

2007-02-23T06:36:00.000-08:00

It is taking all of my willpower not to eat something sweet....theres a bar of chocolate sitting on our coffee table calling my name!

Argggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggh!

Nature's Might

2007-02-22T01:18:00.000-08:00

Boy nature is a powerful thing..... If I choose to live in New Zealand I'm going to be shaken up by Earthquakes, as my poor folks did last night, or if I choose to live in the UK I'm going to be stung by a plague of Hornets.

Sometimes you just can't win!

You know you are tired when......

2007-02-21T06:41:00.000-08:00

The little girl sitting opposite you on the bus comments to her sister 'that lady looks tired'.

Aw shucks!

ANYWAY for lent this year (starts today) I'm giving up sugar (ie as in sweets, chocolate, biscuits and fizzy drinks). I guess diet drinks are ok as they have artificial sweetners....

And what fitting way to say goodbye to my sweet sweet sugar by having pancakes with chocolate spread and bananas for Pancake Day last night...... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

By sugar, my dearest, I'm going to miss you!

As a result I have purchased copious amounts of fruit and veges- ok maybe I went overboard, coz I need to use them all up today really... thank god for freezers!

Thats all for now- Im sure those Carlypoos stalwarts will remember my lame attempt last year.

We came, we saw and we conquered

2007-02-20T05:27:00.000-08:00

Howdy!

So yeah I just spent 4 days in Barcelona and I'm officially knackered! Touristy stuff, eating lots of yummy paella and drinking into the wee hours has left me pretty wrecked, yet content, and oddly enough cured of my pimples for the time being (although for the love of god I can't figure out how.....). So there was 17 of us in a cool appartment right in the middle of town and so so closed to the main hub, La Rumbla where you can buy all sorts from all the stores and street sellers- including chickens and blue roses! And I have never seen so many shoe shops in one place!

So here are a few pics and stuff from one mad cool holiday:

Friday 16th Feb:
So I crashed at Cests place (and she cooked a very yummy dinner) with her mate Megan and we were up at a rather early 4.30am to catch a cab to Luton, got on a plane and headed for a balmy Barcelona (15 degrees or so) were we met Rich and his mates Dave and Noreen who were flying in from Dublin and Kelly who had flown in from Heathrow. Best line went to the Easyjet chick who asked me when I checked in if I 'know of anything that might have been put in my luggage without my knowledge?' To which I replied well I wouldn't know anyway, which she didn't find funny. I didn't think it was a bad joke for 5.30am.......

We caught a cab from Barcelona City Airport to our appartment, during which I thought I was going to die. The mad mulletous cab driver at one stage was driving at 140kmph steering with his knees whilst reading a map. Arghhhh! Then he didn't even drop us off near the appartment and we had to walk to get there. Oh and of course there was some seriously dodgy weaving in and out of traffic, and dodgy dance music. But we made it in one piece and checked out the appartment and headed down la rumbla and had a bit of a rekkie and bought a two day tourist bus pass and had a nosy around, checking out the famous architect Gaudi's very odd buildings, and hopped off at the Olympic village and some museum for a looksy.
We got back the appartment, and by that time a few other people, including good old Timmy and his mate Matt, so the beers were cracked out and we were quite merry by the time we headed out for a meal and more drinkies. At that point the night gets a bit mad, courtesy of the owner of the Restaurant who cracked out this lemon liquer stuff free of charge and got everyone drunk. But I did get to try my first Paella, and its gorgeous. Huge hunks of meat and seafood and just the best shit I've tasted and a highlight of the holiday.
Quite a few people (namely the Irish) were hammered and therefore it took a wee while to get home, with the help of a few, but after putting to bed the drunkard, I headed out for another drink with Liam and Linzi -Cest's mates who I went to Oktoberfest with and we eventually stumbled in around 2am which wasn't a bad effort. Incidentally the pub we were at was showing English rugby league of all things!

Carly and Noreen and yummy Paella!

Saturday 17th:
Hungover, and head out with Rich and Noreen for a nice greasy breakfast of tea, juice, crossiant, eggs and bacon (and charged a ridiculous amount too grrrrrr!). The three of us go on a mission to catch the tourist bus, but seeing as it was Saturday the queues were hideous so we walked up in the drizzle and headed up to check out Gaudis fantastic creations- (refer to my photos on Flickr from the link on the sidebar). After a coffee and a muffin we finally managed to hop on the bus and headed a wee bit out to say 'hi' to Ronaldinho, Messi and Eto'o to visit the highly recommended Camp Nou, Barcelonas home ground, and the third largest stadium in the world (100,000 capacity!), and clearly not designed for tall people as Rich found out! That took up a good part of the day and by the time we got back to the apartment for a siesta I was tired, but then couldn’t sleep. So it only seemed logical to head to the pub with Dave and Rich to watch the Man U vs Reading game at the pub…… so there it began again… another drunkard night ending up at a pub in the square not too far from the apartment, with the guys serving there wearing a bumble bee outfit, a shark hat (and was extremely rude and grumpy) and an old-skool aviator outfit. Not sure if that was a tacky tourist gimmick but we were taking the piss out of the grumpy shark hat guy. Hehehe. Encountered a dodgy scouser who bought a street sellers whole stock of roses and gave them all to our party! By that stage Cest and her gang had caught up with us, so naturally the night ended with rose petals being thrown in people’s faces and put in beer….

On the massage bench at Camp Nou

Sunday 18th:
Hungover. Figure that Paella would be a good cure so head out to find a place for something to eat with Dave, and Noreen and Rich. Order Paella, eat three quarters of Paella and discover cockroach in Paella. Stay in a state of shock and figure maybe my stomach won’t settle for a wee while yet… they didn’t charge us for the Paella and the guy reckoned that I must have been in the rice (I think we should have clicked when he cracked out the dirty table cloths…). Anyway went for a big wander for ages and went to the Picasso museum, after a long queue with entertainment from a terrible street guitarist. It didn’t have any of Picasso’s famous paintings, but covered more of the history and the different periods of his work, which was interesting enough. Came out with the conclusion that the guy was obsessed with clowns, horses and boobies, which can’t be very healthy! Walked for ages and ended up to the beach where I felt loads better after eating a baguette with cheese and anchovies. Head back to the apartment for a siesta, and once again can’t sleep, which is so surprising considering how little I’ve had but ah well. End up at a restaurant at by the waterfront and order a small tapas (peppers and prawns- yum yum) and try my first Sangria- yum yum yum!
Well that perked me up, and back to the funny bar with Cest and her housemates, later joined by the Irish and Tim and Matt (this time the staff were wearing normal clothes) and discovered that their measures of rum are VERY generous. A few of those plus some good Belgium beer under the instruction of Tim and I was feeling on top of the world. Stumbled home again, and tired the very dodgy kebab place opposite our apartment (falafels only please!). It’s so funny because the guy that works there always shouts out ‘Good morning’ which is hilarious when its in the evening!

Cest and I with Sangria!

Monday 19th:
Hungover, not very coherent. Said goodbye to the contingent who were leaving in the morning, and ended up going on a mammoth 4 hour walk up to the Olympic Village (note LOTS of hills!!) but it was worth doing for sure. Ended up walking through this massive cemetery where all the casks are in these ‘cells’- was so amazing I’d never seen so many in my life. Walked some more headed down, and it was a quick tidy up of the apartment, a bite to eat and back in a cab to the airport (this time the driver was much better). Unfortunately my flight went to Gatwick so by the time I made my way home I was shattered, and slept most of the way home.
It was such and awesome holiday anway. Can’t be arsed writing anymore , except its time for a big DETOX!!!

Me outside the Olypmic Village

You know when your tired when........

2007-02-15T03:19:00.000-08:00

You accidentally use your face moisturiser as hand cream (last night)

You accidentally use your shampoo as body wash (this morning)

Ive got loads more sleepless nightt to look forward to with Barcelona tomorrow! Yeeeeha!

Happy Valentines day

2007-02-14T02:21:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentines day to all my lovely peeps.

Im a bit down actually this morning, but only because I'm too scared to check my mobile incase I have/haven't got this job, plus I'm currently listening to 'The Drugs Don't Work' by The Verve..... thanks a million Richard Ashcroft for producing a great but highly depressing song!

How to stump Carly in an interview

2007-02-13T05:20:00.000-08:00

Ask me what the implications of climate change will be for the London Borough of Hounslow.

My god I was stumped! My mind went blank and I started rambling and basically answered the next question instead. Nice one Carly! Apart from that I felt I answered the questions alright and came across as being confident and friendly.... we shall see anyway. I was rather stoked to find out there were over 120 applicants so obviously I did something right in the application!

Anyway I rambling now but ah well I've got the rest of the day off work therefore I CAN! Good old self indulgent Carly ramblings are all good.

So I'm rather excited that the world premier of Hot Fuzz is on tonight in Leicester Square. Shaun of the Dead was such a cool movie, and Simon Pegg a comic genius. I tried to win tickets but haven't been called so assume I didn't win. Unless they call me an hour before the show (that happened a while ago when I won tickets to Avenue Q and I couldn't go coz they didn't give me enough notice grrrrrrrrrrrr)

Heres a pic off the movie anyway! Might even go into Leicester Square tonight to check out some red carpet action......

In other news I'm going to Barcelona this weekend! Im typical Carly fashion I'm rather looking forward to checking out the Barcelona Football ground Camp Nou. And a game of football on the beach would be good too! Just for old times sake....

Thats all here really!

Dirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrty

2007-02-13T05:09:00.000-08:00

This was photographed at Hampstead Heath by my lovely mates, Jaz and Nato....

A lovely gig!

2007-02-11T05:40:00.000-08:00

The Magic Numbers with support from The Little Ones and Liam Frost

The Forum on Saturday 10th February

A lovely little gig from a lovely little band. Was just conversing with Rich and we both agree that the leader singer of the Magic Numbes, Romeo just looked so happy playing the guitar! It was very much a sing-a-long gig and the fantastic Forum always provides a lovely intimate venue. Only downside was going for a pint after the gig, missing the last tube and having to find a night bus home.....

Good night though! They look so hippy like (the drummer looks a bit Jesus-like too which I thought was funny....)

YOUR OPINIONS PLEASE!!

2007-02-09T03:21:00.001-08:00

This is an on-going debate between myself and Sonia from work.....

Who is better looking off Lost (Now we all know Jack wins hands down so who is second in other words....)

Is it Sayid (Naveen Andrews as pictured):

Or Sawyer (Josh Holloway as pictured):

Coz I reckon Sayid is better looking and people keep taking the Mick out of me!

'uh' moods

2007-02-09T01:43:00.000-08:00

Today I'm in one of those 'uh' moods.... I've got loads of pimples for some odd reason (too much junk yesterday?!) and I'm tired and I can't be arsed with anything.

I've also realised that the picture I posted of Ben Foster isn't actually that flattering either (just take my word for it....)

Anyway this did make me smile anyway- cheers Yvette!

Football madness

2007-02-08T05:43:00.000-08:00

Ha! It was rather funny to hear the England fans booing Stevie McLaren last night after England lost to Spain in a friendly! I was more excited that Ben Foster started in goal for England... HE IS SO HOT!

Anyway me and some guys from work travelled to Loftus Road to watch a rather crap Australia team get thrashed 3-1 by Denmark. I was hoping some of the Aussies boro contingent- Mark 'fat bastard' Viduka and Mark Schwartzer would play but no..... I was hoping that Tim Cahill was going to show off some class, as he has done this season at Everton, but I guess he's recovering coz he was rubbish. The third Danish goal consisted of about 5 one touch passes in the Australian penalty box, before Jon Dahl Tomasson side footed it in the net- quality defending from Australia- NOT!

Heres the match report anyway...

Anyways heres a pic- not too much else to report from that except drunk Aussie guys are disgusting. I heard one twat go really obonxiously loud 'Hey someone touched my dick!' when standing in the crowd getting beers at half time, and then another yelling drunkardly 'Rub it harder, rub it harder' on a packed bus on the way home. THAT IS JUST CRASS PEOPLES! Its always bloomin Aussie blokes too! uh!

Heres the teams lining up for the national anthem

Let it snow part 2!

2007-02-08T05:27:00.000-08:00

Yayayayayay major snow all across England! And of course yours truly has the day off work because it was 'too unsafe' for our poor wee kids to get off the buses in these conditions.... apparently so.

Not only has school been cancelled, so has my job interview today- postponed till Tuesday due to the weather conditions so for the first time ever snow has been the reason why stuff has been cancelled, as opposed to rain or whatever....

Here are some pics from my place:

From our front porch........

Looking down Little Ealing Lane

Very pretty anyways! At least I've managed to do some washing and some housework!!!!!

Yayayayayayayayay

2007-02-07T06:26:00.000-08:00

snow is forecast for tomorrow

Yayayayayayayayay Im so excited

And in other news.....

2007-02-05T03:10:00.000-08:00

Ive gotta job interview- scary scary stuff! Its for the position of an Environmental Information Officer at Honslow Council. Yay I'm pretty stoked I got an interview as apparently there were loads of applicants!

And in other news the Woodfield staff team went down to St Michaels 5-2 not bad considering they had some ex-semi professionals in their team!

Its good shit all around today!

The aftermath

2007-02-04T04:51:00.000-08:00

Well I'm feeling a wee bit sorry for myself this morning..... largely due to a rather heavy session yesterday at the Waitangi Day Pub crawl.

All the usual mayhem ensured anyways..... it's just so funny to see so many kiwis going mad and all the general public going 'what the f***! There were some great costumes this year anyway..... guys dressed up in NZ speed skating suits (the funniest thing ever) loads of gumboots with rugby socks, blow up sheep, even a guy with a poster of various sheep breeds on his back... classic!

Highlights included:

General madness on the tube ha! Its so funny a whole load of kiwis on a platform booing whenever a distric line tube went by...

Ending up under a table at one of the pubs because in my drunk wisdom I thought I would be able to hear my conversation with celeste on the mobile

This conversation:

Jerry to Rich (a mate of Tim): So do you guys have any similar celebration (in reference to Waitangi Day)

Rich: er, St Patricks Day?

You had to be there for that one.... it was hilarious!

Trying to find a pub to watch the merseyside derby and all they had on was the bloody 6 nations rugby. Come on people!!!

This picture at the subway underpass thingy at South Kensington..... (pictured here with myself and Jerry...)

And heres me and Timmy!

Anyways I think Im going to go back to bed so yeah.... goodbye!

Da big weekend preview

2007-02-02T06:03:00.000-08:00

FRIDAY:
The Woodfield staff team will be donning the old black and yellow once again and will be travelling away to somewhere-past-Watford to play the unknown St Michaels school. With a few injuries to some key players it will be interesting to see how the team goes with many players out of position Carly (aka Emma Erdwin) will be taking up her regular position at right back, although after a few hard weekends it will be interesting to see how long her performance will last.....

cha hooo

Saturday it will be Carly in Beige for the annual London Waitangi Day Pub Crawl (circle line) starting in Paddington at 10.30 and ending somewhere around Westminister for the haka outside Westminister Abbey (although there are so many people you can barely see anything anyway.....) should be good and Ill definitely be posting some pics! At some point Ill have to fit in a pub for the Merseyside derby and the start of the 6 nations rugby.... phewey!

Sunday will be spent recovering, no doubt.... at least I don't have to work this time!

So what have I been up to??

2007-02-01T02:24:00.000-08:00

I hate leaving it a week before posts but I've either been to too tired/too busy/too hungover/too I-can't-be-arsed....

Heres a run-down anyway, of my goings on this week.....

Friday night: Very drunk went to a pub in Algate East where my friend used to work at which has a 24 hour license and stayed there till about 5 am, from which Dave, Ian and I caught the first tube home..... great seeing as it was Daves last weekend and he'd never done that before...

Saturday: 7am went to bed, 10 am got up still mildly drunk and starting to get hungover.... had a cuppa, watched Saturday Cooks live (just love that show....) and went back to bed not before watching a wee bit of the Blackburn FA cup game, and was delighted to see Ryan Nelsen back from injury and donning the Captains armband- NZ FOOTBALL REPRESENT!
5pm- Got up had some dinner and went to West Hampstead for Nato's birthday drinks
10pm- Went down to Richmond for Daves good-bye drinks
12am- Ended up at some random club in Twickenham
4am Got home

Sunday: Had to work at the Mad Hatters Tea Party with school. Uh not feeling too good but perked up nonetheless, especially as none other than FRANK BRUNO, CARLY off EASTENDERS and the fabulous CHEEKY GIRLS (a tabloid fave at the mo coz some old crusty MP with a dodgy eastern european name dumped his ITV weather girlfriend for one of the cheeky girls)

So yeah it was a bit of a mad weekend. TOP GEAR was also back for another brand new series too, with the fabulous Richard Hammond back- what more can I say he came in the show down a big set of stairs with all these scantily clad dancers..... soooo funny! He guys a legend....

Monday came and went, I was in a grumpy mood all day, but managed to play football...

Tuesday: Sad coz it was Daves last day : (...... ended up at the pub AGAIN for one last farewell drink and managed to stay there til closing..... and long enough to get really tipsy and play really bad pool (lessons to be learned there....)

Wednesday: Sad, tired and grumpy played football last night and kept falling over and now have 2 grazes on each knee and 2 big bruises on my elbows!

Its now Thursday, anyway and Ive had a good nights sleep, and plan to do 'ditto' tonight.

That's all really for now- lots planned for the weekend... bring it on!

Here's my lovely snowman and a pic of the carpark at school with the snow last week.... its so funny how the weather isn't actually THAT cold at the moment.... cheers global warming!

Let it snow let it snow let it snow!

2007-01-24T03:16:00.000-08:00

Lovely white powdery snow this morning!!!!

So i got to school early this morning and made a snow man with the help of the caretaker, Paul and his trusty broom.

Ill post a pic of it soon!!!

As a bloody jaffa I just love the snow- everything it touches seems to be beautiful- from bare twigs through to car yards full of cars. So cool and beautiful and magical somehow.

Even though the clouds are black the day just seems bright!

Im a mental

2007-01-23T03:38:00.000-08:00

In honour of being stuck in traffic on the bus and it being a lovely day, Ive decided to set myself some goals for the day!

The first one is to see how hyper I'd get if I drink 6 cups of tea (Its 11.45 and I've had 3 thus far)
(Edited at 17.14pm)- 6 cups of tea have made me cranky..... Not doing that one again....

The second is to see how many kids I can get to do 'The Todd 5'. As in 'The Todd' off scrubs.....
(Edited at 17.14pm)- just managed the one, and he kept perstering me to keep giving him Todd 5's grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

The Terrific Tabloids

2007-01-22T08:38:00.000-08:00

Fresh from the King of Taboids The Sun:

Today is THE most miserable day of the year:

Appartenly a combination of christmas debt (don't I know it!!), failed New Years resolutions, fading holidays etc. etc. means that today is the most miserable day of the year. Personally I'm rather happy today. I have my sights set on being the top goal scorer for our 5 a side league (Watch this space tomorrow!!!) and am generally happy with the state of things at the moment, unlike some people.........

Fart gas holding undies:
This stole the show (forget Jade Goody and the whole Celebrity Big Brother fiasco....). I could not stop laughing at this one in the staffroom, largely to my hugely immature nature (I can't help it, I just find farts hilarious!). Pants that actually trap and treat the gas...... maybe an investment for me hehehehe.
Could you imagine pulling some hot guy and bringing home to your place, only to discover that he was wearing those! Hahahahahahahahahahha

Tornado, tornado!

2007-01-18T01:54:00.000-08:00

Guess what?! We drove through the small area of London, Kensal Rise that was hit by that random tornado on the way to the Science Museum with school. Heres some pics of the munted houses with loads of scaffolding...

I was excited about it anyway....

Laughing at small town NZ

2007-01-15T06:49:00.000-08:00

Sorry I forgot to mention that these lovely things are the contestants from 'Miss Timaru'!!!!

............ Im such a jaffa beitch!

I was supposed to email it to people but managed to stuff it up. I think its quite funny anyways!

I find that blokey-looking person the most hilarious!

Vids

2007-01-13T09:55:00.000-08:00

Also I have finally signed up to youtube so you can see all my videos and stuff I take from my trusty camera!

So heres on from NYE with the cool fireworks!

........it seems to have munted up my homepage so I've deleted it!-

A Carly sport rant....

2007-01-13T09:15:00.000-08:00

Sorry to bore y'all but Im a bit bored on a Saturday afternoon and feel like being indulgent and put my Carly spin on some of the top sporting stories of the week.....

Luis Garcia

I love Liverpool, and in particular the lovely sexy Luis Garcia....

but the night he got injured I was having a big rant about him in the staffroom about how he was one of my top hot footballers and that I hoped he was playing in the Carling Cup quarters against Arsenal. He then managed to rupture his anterior cruciate ligament and is out for the rest of the season. Poor wee man : (. I think I may have jixed him!

Kevin Pietersens Ribs

photo from NZ herald incase they sue me or something!

Slightly talented might be the word for old KP? I dunno I hate the English cricket team- Freddie Flintoff is annoying KP is actually a Saffa (and has his own website..... I mean REALLY?!). But I must say that Glenn McGraths ball-in-the-ribs incident didn't look that bad. I guess I can't really comment as Im just an 'armchair fan' of cricket. But I just think in general the English cricket team are soft.

Goodbye Becks

Hes gone *sniff*. But I say 'nice one mate'. Im thinking he will be making movies and stuff. The mans a legend. His wife's annoying and his kids have terrible names. Well suited for America, I say!

So how are my resolutions going????

2007-01-13T09:00:00.001-08:00

To eat more fruit and vegetables
I actually bought grapes today instead of chocolate, and last week I managed to go through 3 carrots, 20 clementines, 6 kiwi fruit, a block of celery, 1 courgette 1 head of lettuce, 2 tomatoes 2 onions- 1 pack of mushrooms 2 potatoes and 2 tins of tomatoes- thats not a bad effort. I had salad for lunch twice this week so am going to keep that one up!

To be more ladylike and curb the old belching
The kids at school were amazed when I wore a skirt the other day.... I just don't think I can be arsed wearing makeup to work. As for the belching, that's a habit I just don't think I can curb. I especially did a really loud one the other day actually- possibly the loudest I have ever heard!

To drink bottles of beer instead of pints- then I won't get as drunk, as giving up alcohol is just not feasible, sadly....
Do bottles of wine count in this one Carly???? Hmmmm I think I need to work on this one personally, judging from afterwork drinks last night!

Also the usual bollocks- to loose some weight blah blah that just never happens
Will be working on that one too- not very happy that I hurt my back playing football on Wednesday which means I might not be able to play on Monday and Tuesday- poos!

Bad bad Carly

2007-01-12T06:06:00.000-08:00

My names Carly and I'm a badtvaholic.

Im afraid Im steadily being led astray by the God awful reality TV bollocks that has infiltrated the TV.

So I get home from work, and like most people I watch the telly- unless Im playing soccer or at the pub. First thing that I watch is usually an old episode of Scrubs- no quarms there... followed by a healthy dose of Ready Steady Cook (love that Ainsley) and then onto Home and Away....

........... and then onto reruns of Dawsons Creek........

............... Soapstar Superstar

............... Celebrity Big Brother

Dear oh dear oh dear......

Celebrity big brother has none other than
Jermain Jackson 5
Leo Sayer (you make me feel like dancing......) and on the side my great aunty used to babysit him
Jo of S Club 5
H off steps
Disgraced Miss Great Britain and Teddy Sheringhams missus Danielle someone-whoever
and a load of other random celebs. Shite shite shite but sadly addictive.

Soapstar superstar consists of various Coronotion St, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Casualty stars (and even Rick off Home and Away!!!) singing to bad songs and the viewers have to vote. Bad bad bad bad bad. But oh so good!

I just want Champions League football to start again so I have some substinance to my weekly TV viewing. Either that or I could knit something else......

A sign of the times???

2007-01-08T06:12:00.000-08:00

Over the last month or so I know:

2 couples newly engaged
2 couples expecting babies
2 couples getting married
2 couples having babies

These people- you know who you are, and congratulations are all people people I know reasonably well, and are all my ages, more or less.

This is absolutely fantastic news and is great, but I can't help but feel like I'm lagging behind the rest. I'm still single, almost 26, and barely have enough money to get by on from month to month. I'm happy most of the time, but I guess my biggest fear is being a mad old spinster and being referred to as 'Mad Auntie Carly' by all my mates kids.

Just thought I'd get that off my chest!

Spew Rash City

2007-01-03T03:23:00.000-08:00

I had some awful tummy bug yesterday- potentially the fault of dodgy chicken burgers or dodgy half price indian nibbles but as a result I'm sporting what seems to be THE worst spew rash ever. Im too scared to leave the house today...... : (

Happy happy New years!

2007-01-01T15:06:00.000-08:00

Yay had a rather lovely New Years, which was spent in central London with my friends Dave and Ian, watching the awesome fireworks from the London eye! Very good stuff! Chaaaa hoooooo!

Heres a pic. Hope 2007 will be good for everyone!

Im a wee bit mental today...

2006-12-31T04:02:00.000-08:00

Thus far I haven't done much about my New Years resolutions- however it isn't really New Years yet anyway is it?! Tomorrow it shall start!

However I'm rather worried about my habits as of late......

For example I was up till Middnight knitting (I've started a tradition of knitting one scarf a year- this year is a lovely deep red....)

But then was awake early this morning and was cleaning the oven by 8.30am!

And now I'm baking biscuits- although thats not necessarily abnormal as most people will tell you.....

Very odd indeed!

Oh and resolutions

2006-12-29T04:49:00.000-08:00

Further to my post: Here are my New Years resolutions:

To eat more fruit and vegetables
To be more ladylike and curb the old belching
To drink bottles of beer instead of pints- then I won't get as drunk, as giving up alcohol is just not feasible, sadly....
Also the usual bollocks- to loose some weight blah blah that just never happens.

I wonder how long this is all going to last?!

Carly's year in Review

2006-12-29T04:08:00.000-08:00

Its that time of the year where you get all those TV programmes detailing the top 5 or 100 etc. things of the year- so heres my own take on things: Carly's Year in Review.

Top 5 things I've discovered:

That maybe I can't match boys pint for pints afterall.....
Uni Qlo (cool affordable Carly-style clothes)
Pommegranates
Hair straightners (old news for most, new news for me!)
That I need glasses

Top 5 TV Programmes of the Year

Scrubs
Lost
ER
Everybody Hates Chris
Top Gear
Planet Earth (Ok I know its 6 but anyway.....)

Top 5 Most annoying people of the Year

George Bush
Peaches Geldof
Pete Doherty and Kate Moss
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
That annoying guy off the BT ad (just looks like a moron)

Top 5 gigs of the Year

Guillemots at Astoria
Franz Ferdinand at The Forum
Whole of the Reading Festival
The Zutons at Hammersmith
The Vines, and Jools Holland (not at one concert, mind you, so thats technically 6 too....)

Top 5 Football games of the Year:

FA Cup final- Liverpool vs West Ham- go Stevie Gerrard you good thing you!
EDAW Terriers Vs Business Girls in October- I scored 4 goals ha ha
Boros 4-0 drubbing vs Serville in the UEFA Cup ha! Not really top but Im struggling to think of 5.......
The England game where Peter Crouch did 'the robot'- I was almost physically sick!
The game where Paul Robinson missed that kick. Also when I realised that I do need glasses....

Top 5 worst drunk moments of the Year:

Puking at Turham Green Station
Loosing my hat, scarf and jacket, getting lost at Kings Cross Station and missing the Snow Patrol concert all in one night
Usually I can't remember stuff so thankfully I haven't been up to too much mischief!

Good bands in 2006

Theres too many to add here! Yay for music.

Top 5 Trips

Oktoberfest
Stockholm
Cork
Bath and stonehenge
Edinburgh

Thats about all I can be arsed writing- considering its 12.46pm and Im still in my pjs!

Da rumour mill

2006-12-28T07:07:00.000-08:00

Yeeha firstly MERRY CHRISTMAS to ya'll!

Secondly Celebrity Brother is back! And rumour has it that none other than the fantastic DAVID HASSLEHOFF will be in it!

Heres an obligatory David Hasslehoff photo just for the hell of it! Oooooh yeah!

Dreams part 2

2006-12-23T07:22:00.000-08:00

Having awoken from my afternoon nap I also had a wierd dream that I had moved into this really old crusty bedroom and whilst moving my wardrobe rack it broke, and I discovered that there was a colony of ants living in the poles. I woke up feeling like I had ants crawling over my hands. Thanks to Ian for his call on my mobile, which consequently woke me up from my impending nightmare!

Dream dream dreams

2006-12-23T03:14:00.000-08:00

I don't know what on earth they put in my Tasty Turkish last night but boy did I have some odd dreams. Actually its the second night I've had odd dreams.

Last night I dreamt that myself, Celeste and Megan were travelling around the states for a reality TV show. That might have something to do with recent discussion.

However Im sure my meal last night somehow spurned these doozeys:

1. I was going out with the fabulous Zac Braff from the fabulous programme scrubs

2. I was back working at my old lizard job in Essex and came across a dog that had been mutated by some chemicals used on the site and this mutated dog looked like a hairy worm of sorts. Very wierd!

Disappeared

2006-12-22T06:02:00.000-08:00

Missing, presumed dead

a Mr. Sun

Was last seen 5 days ago at 4.25pm heading west. Police want to talk to a Mr. Fog regarding this disappearance.

Lots of Christmas cheer!

2006-12-22T02:18:00.000-08:00

I'm uploading lots of photos onto Flickr so you can catch all the Christmas action!

Heres a lovely photo from my Christmas dinner last night with Jaz, Nato and Jerry

Divuka is a fat bastard

2006-12-19T03:46:00.000-08:00

I went to my third Premiership game last night- Middlesbrough vs Fulham.

Im sorry to say that Boro sucked. Useless defending etc. However it was a good game, and the highlight was the announcer calling Mark Divuka scored. Hehehehe. And then the whole throng of Fulham supporters calling him a fat bastard! So funny!

Heres a typical football pic- cest being like 'Carly lets have a photo!' and Me going 'nah I'm watching the football baby'!

Christmas business....

2006-12-19T03:44:00.000-08:00

Busy busy busy!

Firstly, on a sad note, I missed out on my work Xmas do because I was still sick..... very annoyed.

Did the 12 pubs of Christmas (only 6 of which I actually remember). Ill post some pics soon.

This is really just a fillerinner post until I can be arsed writing something meaningful!

Life swap

2006-12-13T01:53:00.000-08:00

Looks like my deadly germs have been transferred via the internet! mwahahahahahahaha!

Sorry Jo for some reason I couldn't post on your blog!

Its so funny that Jo and I lead opposite lives (not sure if thats the best way of putting it??) I want to have a nice warm lovely Christmas in NZ and think Jo is mad wanting to come back to England for a cold dark winter and she thinks vice versa!

If any Tv executives out there in internet-land want an idea for a reality TV show how about doing an overseas life swap with myself and Jo starring. I don't think I'm at all equipped to deal with a husband and 3 kids in my singledomness, but it would be quite hilarious! Come on it would be way better than the Simple Life or whatever that rubbish was called with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie?

From my sick bed part 2

2006-12-13T00:29:00.000-08:00

Still off bloody work (mind you at the insistence of my housemates, quite rightly so) even though I was planning to go today. So bored, but thankfully Michelle has stocked me up on magazines and dvds. Ah bless. I missed the fecking rugby yesterday too : (

Anyway I have a couple of questions to pose to ya'll

1. Why are Mens pyjamas always cheaper than womens ones?

2. Would you buy condoms from the £1 shop (or the $1 shop) coz you certainly can at the Ealing Broadway store!

Just more random shite from my sick bed..................

Just one other thing!

2006-12-11T07:51:00.000-08:00

NZ football supporters- Does Chris Killen get much of a mention?? I notice he's the second highest goal scorer in the Scottish Premier League for Hibernian!

From my sick bed.....

2006-12-11T07:38:00.000-08:00

This is the first sick day I've had off work in a whole year! Apart from when I had to take a day off to move.... everything seems to be taking me twice as long coz all my muscles are achy. And British day time telly is shite. Wheres Bold and the Beautiful and Days of Our Lives when you need em?! At least Xfm is playing some rather good music today.

I think I'm just a bit bored I HATE BEING SICK!! Nevermind I have to go to work tomorrow coz I'm going to Twickenham with school tomorrow for the Varsity game. Apparently former Wallaby Joe Roff is studying in Cambridge and will be playing.

Tis the party season

2006-12-10T04:03:00.000-08:00

How typical- I've woken up early this morning, not only with a hangover but also a cold : (

Not happy about that, especially as its my work Xmas do on Thursday (and if last year is anything to go by I need a install a bucket in my room and hide my slippers and camera charger.... hmmmmmm) and then my Xmas dinner with my housemates on Saturday. I hate Xmas and Im sooooooooo broke!

Never mind heres some pics from Helens birthday do last night at the Roadhouse in Covent Garden...

Carly and birthday girl Helen

Helen, Richie me and Helens mate Jo

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeha!

2006-12-08T02:18:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to my fabulous mates, Sarah and Daniel who had a baby girl, Charlotte yesterday! Good stuff : )

oopsy

2006-12-04T00:40:00.000-08:00

i changed the comments settings, hence why your comments haven't been published! Feel free to comment away again folks!

Party party party

2006-12-03T04:00:00.000-08:00

Heres some pics from Cests fabulous party!

Dave and me

me and ian and elodie and cest

Ian dave me cest and cests mate elodie

Ian asleep on da night bus

Its been a bad day

2006-11-28T06:23:00.000-08:00

According to AA Insurance, the 27th of November is supposed to be the unluckiest day of the year, in terms of claims etc...

Heres the list of stuff that happened to me yesterday to prove it

I woke up at 3am in the morning and didn't get back to sleep
The lightbulb went when I was in the shower, thus having a shower in the dark
Got to the end of the road, just to see my bus pull away
I fell over in football and grazed both elbows and knee which was all bloody
I over-cooked my porridge and it was all stodgy and gross
I then subsequently got deliberately elbowed in the boob by some bitch in the opposition
I had to wait over 20 minutes for a Heathrow tube on the way home from football at Green Park

My friend Sorchas, boyfriends car also got broken into yesterday- they had a whole heap of stuff in it as they were moving that morning.

Good gomez

2006-11-24T06:41:00.000-08:00

Gomez with support from Josh Ritter, Hammersmith Apollo, Thursday 23rd November.

Firstly Josh Ritter is a very happy chappy- by far the happiest support act I've ever seen. A very nice change!

Secondly- Im going to have a moan about how some boring stupid dumb people are right at the front and get shitty and/or get in with the elbow if you so much as touch them. My god, some people are here to enjoy the concert and like to have a bit of a boogie/dance/mosh. So boooooo to the stupid dumb bitch that was standing next to Celeste that put a dampener on her Gomez experience #7. Go and get yourself a seated ticket next time you boring twat.

Anyway...........

Gomez are good! Maybe had never lived up to their hype (the curse of the Mercury Prize??) but all the albums I have of them are really good. Good good good. I was a shame that the Hammersmith Apollo hadn't sold out, but Muse were headlining Wembley for three nights as well. Never mind.

So the set- good mix of old and new, and a good 2 hour set at that. I counted 7 songs I didn't recognize off their new album, the rest were goodies. Blue moon rising was fantastic, and done in a completely different style, and it was good to hear 'We haven't turned around' with full-on guitars, not actoustic, which they did the last two times I saw them.

The grand finale, as with previous gigs I've been to was the one and only Whippin Picadilly. Singing at the top of your lungs was definitely the order of the day, and there was no holding Cest and I back for that.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeha! Theres just not enough hours in a day.

BTW: apparently according to the wealth of knowledge that is Richie, Whippin Picadilly is all about Gomez going to see Beck in Manchester (the big about a man dressed in a suit and looking like a lunatic....)

Im a moaning minny

2006-11-22T07:38:00.000-08:00

The weather is absolute shite

shite shite shite shite and cold.

And I have to play football in it tonight

Its all sucks.