:: thursday 21 march 2002

Grrrrrr. Couldn't connect to upload AGAIN so you'll read it a day late.
Great excitement today as I organized the web space for a new site: 24-7groovy.com [domain name decision helped along by the girls at Pixelitas - thanks!] which will contain funkier stuff i want to keep separate from my business site. Over the next few weeks [months?] i hope to add a forum and other several interactive features to make it a fun place to hang out. Groovy Blog will move there too, as well as George's site which is looking pretty cool!

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:: wednesday 20 march 2002 Just done a spot of online retail therapy. Ordered some gorgeous Spring/Summer stuff in big, bold, blowsy rose prints, reminiscent of Kaffe Fassett/Georgia O'Keefe's glorious paintings and artwork. Now i just have to figure out how to pay for it all....

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:: tuesday 19 march 2002

Couldn't connect to my regular server for most of today so don't even know if i can upload this. I 'lost' a couple of e-mails too - they were picked up but never displayed in my inbox, so if they belong to anyone reading this, please send them again!
No point writing much i suppose as it probably won't get posted until at least tomorrow. Going to cut my losses and go to bed now.

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:: monday 18 march 2002

Monday's Child is fair of face,
Tuesday Child is full of grace,
Wednesday's Child is full of woe,
Thursday's Child has far to go.
Friday's Child is loving and giving,
Saturday's Child works hard for a living,
But the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blythe and good and gay.

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:: sunday 17 march 2002 Happy St Patrick's Day!

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:: saturday 16 march 2002

Pretty quiet, uneventful day, and just nice being at home with the kids and Minnie. Until tonight when we sat down to watch some TV.

Casualty left us exhausted. Would Patrick survive the motorway crash or not? We knew he was leaving the series so there was every chance that he'd 'go out with a bang' but no - right at the last moment, just before the vehicle exploded, he emerged safely and rushed straight into the arms of Lara. Phew. Panic over.
Later that evening at a romantic dinner, [still wearing their 'crash' outfits ??] he proposed and she accepted. Immediately, [and for some unknown reason] she had to dash off to the 'ladies room' where she talked to herself in the mirror for a while. On her return, she found Patrick slumped over the table, the result of head injuries sustained earlier. Our blood pressure rose again. Would he survive this drama? The programme ended with him in the emergency room at Holby General, and Lara wandering around the corridor looking lost.
Great. What's the betting I'm out next week and don't see the 'end' of the story. [Yes, we do have video recorders even in 'the wilds' of Yorkshire,] but they have one basic flaw: human error. You have to remember to set them to tape stuff. I forget.

Just when we thought things couldn't get more stressful, we put on a video we hired this afternoon: the highly acclaimed 'Moulin Rouge.' Super. More high drama, illness and death. Although admiring many of the performances and adoring the spectacular costumes and scenery, I found the whole thing a little irritating and felt it tried too hard to be arty and different. [I thought it bore more than a passing resemblance to 'Cabaret' which I never liked much either.]

I have to say that I much prefer John Houston's 1952 film of the same name, starring José Ferrer as Toulouse Lautrec. I'm surely in a minority here, but sorry - my blog, my views! So much for a quiet, relaxing night in front of the telly!

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:: friday 15 march 2002 Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue, I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too.

Colour plays an enormous part in my life. Apart from my work, much of which originates from colourful thoughts and ideas, like many of us I am drawn to certain things because of their colour and often reject others out of hand because their hue doesn't appeal. George asked me last week if I dreamed in colour and I couldn't answer. Think about it. MY dreams make sense to me. I understand what's happening in them and they seem very real, but trying to pinpoint individual aspects such as colour when I wake up is hard. Dreams just 'are' in an intangible sort of way. Specifics don't matter. The business world knows about our colour predilections and there is a large industry out there honing in on our choices and advising other business how to market products & services using this info. There are also many web sites offering information and other colour related sources and the following ones I find particularly interesting: Get a free online colour profile at Colorgenics profile which enables you to 'See Yourself As You Really Are'. My was frighteningly accurate. Life Colors Online offers a similar online color profile Find out the meaning of colors in your dreams here [no good for me!] Color Matters has masses of colour related info, including a page about the meanings attached to colours in different parts of the word. [For example, the Chinese mourning color is white, and red is the most usual colour for wedding dresses.] Help research global colour knowledge by taking part in this survey

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