Ok, as per request, here are some excerps from my olde worlde paper journal. I'm not going to explain anything, just give you it as it is ( or was ).

2.12.04

Elation to deflation in 3 easy steps.

1. Become elated

2. ?!?!?!?

3. Deflation ensues.

6.12.04

...The thing that occured to me was that given my awful memory, by the time I have grandkids I won't remember I was going to tell them! So, I think I should jot down what I can remember now, while my grey matter is still in some sort of working order. Note: this will not be a complete list. Young as I am, I have already started losing my mind - including some memory. Here goes:

*Going the wrong way up a one way street in Cardiff before a Bryan Adams concert in March 2002. Executing a three point turn and then nearly getting bashed by a car on a right turn back to the hotel. Georgia ( names have been changed ) was on the phone - the person she was talking to thought she was pissed. She wasn't!

*Dropping my accent like a lead balloon - Betty's Tearooms, York 2002/03, or so says Georgia. I deny everything, although 'we travel the country' may have been an exaggeration.

*Various auditions in hotels in Leeds for numerous positions in the lesuire, entertainment and retail industries. Juggling? Singing in front of a panel of 3?? YES!!! It's all true, although most of what we said we could do was of course bullshit.

*Accosting a policeman in NYC who then had to tell a patrol car that ' I'm ok, there's no problem here'!!

*All nighter (almost) in a Manchester pub in NYC singing all the way.

*Shouting "Rash? what rash? Oh, that rash. Well, thanks for the cream you kent me. It worked a treat!!" In Waterstones and numerous other establishments in Leeds. To our credit, we weren't thrown out of any of them.

*Santa hat, pointy, tinsel, Harvey Nics, Leeds. When I was meandering through college days.

* Covering the 5th Form toilets in silly string. Last day of school. Plus various food/rubber/books etc fights.

* Polishing various skills of the detective kind through school and uni. NOT stalking. Honest.

* Getting lost on the way back from Wales - took the scenic route on purpose of course.

* Wrong turn from Bristol on the way back to Swindon. Ended up near the bridge in Wales!!Oops!

* London Maida Vale 4 star Hotel, having a meal then walking out without paying. A hand on Gerogia's shoulder as we were about to go through the doors. August 2003.

* Saw Busted at WHS

* Meet Richard Branson, he signed my book

* Being on BBC Radio Wiltshire

*Cardiff cinema. Nachos. Fight. Mess

* Shipwrecked/Big Bro audtion tape of Georgia. Directed and filmed by me!!

* "Where's the Empire State Building?" "That would be the one you just walked past!"

There's lots more. Will add them as I remember them. I miss the good times, I miss the great memories. Exactly how did it all go pear shaped?......

13.12.04

Here is a list of what I want to be when I grow up:
( in no particular order )

*Pilot
*Radio presenter - late night books and films reviewer
*Oranges and lemons orchid owner/grower
*Restaurant owner
*Interior designer
*Architect
*Teacher - then headmaster
*Writer
*Property Developer
*Lecturer
*Chocolate shop/factory owner - a la Willy Wonker
*Ice cream maker

I think that's it. About 7/8 of them are serious ones.


OK, that's the more normal stuff. What comes next, I blame someone else for!!