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  • Future Perfect

    I have come to various decisions about my future in the past week. I think they are good decisions. Of course, God laughs when we make plans.

    Decision 1: I am applying to do a PGCE. I may not be accepted. I do not want to teach but I want the £150 a day action 'cos that is what supply teachers earn. Almost had a row with Bonnie on Monday. Some complaint about how underpaid they are, in her teaching periodical. She said they are underpaid. All I can say is, they wanna try typing for a living. Of course, I do realize this teaching thing may not work out. I loathe and detest kids and I don't care if they learn anything or not or what becomes of the brats. All I want to do is act but I have noticed that nearly ever actor I know spends some time teaching. If you are going to have to do this, you might as well have the qualification.

    2. I am not selling Hackney House or at least not yet. Despite Bonnie thinking it's a good idea to sell it. I will let it out for a few more years. I can rent somewhere to live. Renting is cheaper in the North than it is in London. All my nesting instincts have gone now; I will be okay renting. I need a cat-friendly place.

    3. The renting starts in the summer. I want to live nearer the Uni. All this travelling backwards and forwards at weekends is too much. Also, I did not really sign up to live with Ian and Bonnie is constantly annoyed at my standards of housework. As far as I'm concerned, I do loads of housework but she says it looks no different after I've done it; she thinks it might be my eyesight. Personally, I think she does it very spasmodically and makes an awful lot of fuss about it when she does do it. Durham is coming this weekend and, pound to a penny, the hoover and mop will not get an airing.

    4. Exciting thing - Blue Eyes is taking me to see a psychic on Friday night. She's doing readings at a nearby pub and there is a buffet laid on and it sounds the perfect night out. We shall have to wait and see if the psychic's vision of my future fits in with the above.

  • Combine 'Arvesters

    Spent at least ten hours yesterday finishing my short story/memoire. Got it done and pleased with it but who knows what the Lecturer will think.
    Blue Eyes suggested a bike ride today and it seemed a good idea. We only went about eight miles but it was a bit of fresh air after all the writing.
    Busy night tonight as have bibliography and evaluation still to do.
    Countryside round here? Don't half pong.
    Fertilizer (said in yokel accent).

  • Two Songs

    After watching "The Wind that Shakes the Barley", I just loved this song so I looked it up on the Internet and found the following -
    (I can't remember how to download from YouTube. Advice welcome.)

    (Two Songs) The first one is the original Jacobite version of this song, in which The Young Pretender (Bonny Prince Charles) is the "A Shéarlais Óig, a mhic Rí Shéamais" which appears in the first line of the song, is the one who was welcomed home to claim his birthright in 1745.

    The lyrics of the newer version were written by Pádraig Pearse, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1916, as an invitation to all Irishmen away from Ireland to return home and join the fight for independence.

    SÉARLAS ÓG
    (Jacobite version)

    Curfá:

    Óró! 'Sé do bheatha 'bhaile
    Óró! 'Sé do bheatha 'bhaile
    Óró! 'Sé do bheatha 'bhaile
    Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh

    A Shéarlais Óig, a mhic Rí Shéamais
    'Sé mo mhór-chreach do thriall as Éirinn
    Gan tuinnte bróig' ort, stoca nó leinidh
    Ach do chascairt leis na Gallaibh

    Curfá

    'Sé mo léan géar nach bhfeicim
    Mur mbéinn beo 'na dhiaidh ach seachtain
    Séarlas Óg is míle gaiscidheach [gaiscioch]
    A' fógairt fáin ar Ghallaibh

    Curfá

    Tá Séarlas Óg a' traill ar sáile
    Béidh siad leisean, Franncaigh 's Spáinnigh
    Óglaigh armtha leis mar gharda
    'S bainfidh siad rinnce as éiricigh!

    Curfá

    YOU ARE WELCOME HOME

    Chorus:

    Óró! You are welcome home!
    Óró! You are welcome home!
    Óró! You are welcome home!
    Now that summer is coming

    O young Charles, King James' son
    Alas your distress of leaving Ireland
    You have left Ireland barefoot
    Routed by the foreigners

    Chorus

    Alas that I do not see
    Even if I were only to live a week thereafter
    Young Charles and a thousand heroes
    Routing the foreigners [the enemy]

    Chorus

    Charles is coming over the sea
    He will have a guard
    French and Spanish will be with him
    And they'll make the heretics dance!

    Chorus

    ÓRÓ! 'SÉ DO BHEATHA 'BHAILE
    (Pádraig Pearse's version)

    Curfá:

    Óró! 'Sé do bheatha 'bhaile
    Óró! 'Sé do bheatha 'bhaile
    Óró! 'Sé do bheatha 'bhaile
    Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh

    'Sé do bheatha a bhean ba léanmhar!
    B'é ár gcreach tú bheith i ngéibhinn
    Do dhúthaigh bhreá i seilbh meirleach
    Is tú díolta leis na Galla

    Curfá

    Tá Gráinne Mhaol ag teacht thar sáile
    Óglaigh armtha léi mar gharda
    Gaeil iad féin is ní Gaill ná Spáinnigh
    Is cuirfidh siad ruaig ar Ghalla

    Curfá

    A bhuí le Rí na bhFeart go bhfeiceam
    Muna mbeinn beo ina dhiaidh ach seachtain
    Gráinne Mhaol is míle gaiscíoch
    Ag fógairt fáin ar Ghalla

    YOU ARE WELCOME HOME

    Chorus:

    Óró! You are welcome home!
    Óró! You are welcome home!
    Óró! You are welcome home!
    Now that summer is coming

    Welcome Oh woman who was so afflicted,
    It was our ruin that you were in bondage,
    Our fine land in the possesion of theives,
    And sold to the foreigners

    Chorus

    Grainne Mhaol is coming over the sea,
    Armed warriors along with her as guard,
    They are Irishmen, not English or Spanish,
    And they will rout the foreigners

    Chorus

    May it please the God of Miracles that we may see,
    Although we only live a week after it,
    Grainne Mhaol and a thousand warriors,
    Dispersing the foreigners

    Chorus

  • Saturday Night, Suinday Morming

    Got back to the campus yesterday.
    Short story/memoire to write by Friday.
    Lovely drama class on Monday. Did my monologue and Minor Celebrity pleased with it and said I was "a very good actress." Granted, I do pay him £17 a week for these lessons. Went to pub and he was dishing the dirt on various soap stars which I just loved. Basically, who was nice and who wasn't.
    Earned £19 on Sunday which isn't too bad for a Sunday. I am supposed to start at 9.00 am but I am getting lazier and lazier and often don't start until 11.00! I am a bit fed-up with both Saturday nights and Sunday mornings. Sometimes my job's enjoyable. I have a few regulars. A lovely lady who is a reader herself; she is like you'd imagine, all "darling" and endearments. Says she gets fed-up of people thinking she's God, she is, after all, only a psychic counsellor. Another nice lady rang me Sunday. Getting used and abused by some man. I told her to dump him; plain common-sense, I didn't need the cards to say that. We ended up chatting and she stayed on the line for over an hour. Sometimes, it's money for old rope but other times..... it ain't so easy!
    Bonnie pleased to see me. I think she misses her friends when she's with Durham. I said be careful that she doesn't get too isolated when she marries him. She said she won't. He may even move in with her (the latest) so she can keep her job and her social life. While with him "Bridges of Madison County" was on TV but he wanted to watch a documentary instead.
    "We have to have separate tellys." she's decided.
    Made up for her temporary film deprivation by buying three CD's. She insisted I watched them with her so, like old times, me, her and the dog, spent all day lying in bed wathching films. "The Wind that Shakes the Barley", "Premonition" and, (more light entertainment) "Blood Wedding."
    I said the Director of "Blood Wedding obviously took advice on film making from Ken Loach.
    Bonnie agreed.
    "Yes, I'd say Ken Loach coached him on the humour."

  • Quirks

    7 quirky facts about me

    'Course, not as easy as it seems -

    1. Won a raffle to present a bouquest to the Mayoress when I was 10. I knew I'd win it and I didn't really want to.

    2. Won £5 when I was 11. Again, I knew someone was going to win some money. I wanted to see the Ballet Rambert doing Coppelia in the nearby city and, under normal circumstances, there wouldn't have been the money to go but I had a feeling someone would win some money so I could go.

    3. As yet, have never had similar premonitions about the lottery.

    4. Got kerataconus, an eye condition. Optician tells me its common but I've yet to meet anyone else with it. There is a group, I could join. I haven't as yet.

    5. Got high insteps. My feet are my best feature.

    6. A cycling accident, three years ago, split my lip open. Not a huge scar but it still feels awful.

    7. I am unlucky in love. Now is that an affirmation..... I am soon to be lucky in love.....

  • Black Cat

    Honestly, I am fed-up with this blog site since it changed. I can't manoeuvre round it like before.
    Am still busy. One memoire to write. I'm old enough, you think it would be easy.
    Got 67 for my last short story. He said I'm improving.
    Housework, as usual. Bonnie is a teacher not a coalminer but I've never heard anyone make such a fuss about having a hard time at work. She also talks the talk re housework but as far as I can see, I'm the only one who ever does any. Holidays she either takes to her bed or goes chasing some man or other (same difference).
    Ella-kins pussycat is on my shoulder. Reading this post, I suppose.
    I am such a witch.
    She's jumped down now. Obviously, didn't find it very interesting. Didn't even leave a comment.

  • St Valentine's Camel

    'Course, it's Valentine's Day, innit?
    Yeah, well.
    But....
    Well, am supposed to be meeting a Water Sign man in April.
    Friday went out with Clare and her man, to a folk club. She's now moved up north full-time, she says, but you never know with Clare, she's so itinerant. The folk club was lovely with some of the regulars from the old place I used to go to. ('Nough said). Clare's man's an old friend of Bonnie's late husband. Bonnie introduced them, really, and they've been together years, on and off. Clare always moaning about him.
    "If I win the Lottery, I'll tippex him out." she said on Friday. But she's been talking like this for at least fifteen years and they're still together.
    Saturday, I just cried. No reason and I don't cry much these days. I think it was Bonnie being with her fiance and Clare and Man being such an item. All my bloomin' life I've been on my own. Relationships were only ever interludes. I know, I'm past it but I'd like a relationship. I mean, I wouldn't have to decided where to live, would I 'cos I could live wherever he lives.
    He'll have to like cats. And probably dogs. And not boss me about. And iron his own shirts. And - camel joke - why do the Legionnaires all rush out after dinner?
    "'Er - it's to have sex with a camel.
    "I see. But - what's the rush?"
    "Well, you don't want an ugly one, do you?"
    Then, to top it all, no, no post and, somehow, by mistake, I'd picked up some of Bonnie's post (opened) and I was looking at a list from a posh Geordie hotel about wedding things.
    I'd love a wedding. Favours and all that. Nice frock. Or, maybe, off-white suit with gold thread, I saw just the thing once. Maybe, I'll go to a beach in the Caribbean....
    Divorcees and widows tend to remarry. Why is it spinsters don't even get one go?
    Suspect spinsters are more fussy.

  • Gentleman Friend

    Blue Eyes bought a new car from ebay so today he drove me into town to get some stuff to fix my bike with. He's very good and bike is now almost servicable again, just a bit more to be done to brakes when he finds pliers.
    Lady in Refectory "Was that your husband I saw you with earlier?"
    I said no, he wasn't and I was as well off without a husband.
    It's a shame he's not my husband really. I mean, we have lots in common. We're planning bike-rides together maybe even taking bikes on the train to Wales and Devon and places.
    It's all this fancying people that messes things up. I don't think I've ever fancied anyone I've actually got on with.

  • Mooching

    I'm sort of mooching around at the moment.
    No urgent assignments in for a bit.
    Saturday - nice. Went to psychic workshop and learned to see auras. It was great. Bonnie very scathing about it all.
    "Who was it run by - that 'psychic' who - surprise, surprise - used to work in sales?"
    But I had a lovely time. Everyone very nice.
    Working on an audition speech for my Monday class. We're doing a Showcase over Easter.
    And that's it really.

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