Wednesday 13 & Hanoi Rocks

Took Sam to the Astoria tonight to see Wednesday 13 and Hanoi Rocks. Decided to go last minute as it was announced this week that Hanoi are splitting up at the end of the year and so this will be their last tour and I couldn't pass up the chance to see them one last time.

Got home, straightened hair and then we hit the road.

Naughty boys on the train:


How rude:


Hanoi Rocks were totally awesome as usual, putting on a fine show of their classic songs. Mike Monroe was bouncing around like an excited meer cat as usual and it was lovely to see them going out with a bang. Sam loved Hanoi Rocks so job done!

Lighting wasn't great but here a few pics:











Once Hanoi Rocks had left the stage we were most delighted to see the Satanic Sluts Extreme (featuring the now (in)famous Georgina Bailiie) sitting at a table near us. Probably an invasion of her privacy but I had to grab a couple of pictures (just to prove to the guys at work that I had been in the same venue as her):



Wednesday 13 was quite entertaining, not brilliant as it all sounded quite samey (probably due to a bad mix), but worth seeing for the experience:

Happy Halloween VIII – Colorful Halloween Decorations

* The Design Colors used in Halloween Decoration
--- Orange is the Themed Color of Halloween

Echoes with "Jack’s Lantern", the color black and orange are traditional colors on the eve of Halloween, and the representatives of black there are black cats, spiders and witches, while the representative of orange is pumpkin lantern (Jack-O'-Lantern), all these decorations are familiar symbols of Halloween.

During the Halloween, you could deck the large dinning table in your home with orange, yellow and green thus to produce a thick ambience of village, accompanied with rural music emitted from stereo, oh! It’s so warm and cozy!

Today, a mass of purple, green and red have begun been used with Halloween decorations. If the home furnishings in your dining room are more suited with these colors, well then they could also bring you great inspirations for your holiday decoration.

* Symbols of Halloween
--- Pumpkin is The Most Popular Figure in Halloween




Among all symbols of Halloween, the pumpkin figure is most popular

Halloween also called "Ghost Holiday" in the West', so many symbols of the Halloween are themed with ghosts and demons, but among them there are also lovely symbols like pumpkin lanterns and scarecrows. Whether on a Jack’s Lantern in your hands or those furnishings on dining table or in dining room, pumpkins could be seen everywhere.

Try and take some minds for the festival, you can choose some storage tanks, small decorations that shaped in "pumpkin head", or use your hands to make some napkins, placemats that formed into big pumpkins, with these you could dress your table uniquely and full of moods, which is very important for holding a successful party.

* Unique Style Home Furnishings
--- Special Ideas for Halloween Decoration


An exquisite candle holder could bring more fun to Halloween decorations easily for us, and to choose candlestick as a Halloween decoration also is very economical. You only should to spend a small amount of money and buy a variety of novel candleholders to deck your dining table in holiday, whose wonderful patterns and aromas could show your high taste prominently. Even these candlesticks are only been displayed on the dining side-tables, they could also acted as kind of elegant embellishments for your happy life. The base of iron candlestick could bring a qualified sense of weight, matched with long candles in solid colors, it can reflect out dazzling sheens.

Simple structure is also a bright spot in the design of this type of candlesticks, using them to deck your dining table could produce unique flavors in Halloween. And small candlesticks are also a good choice, the color of light rose could foil joyful moods well and bring more warm to this festival, and leave you beautiful memories to this special holiday too.

When we choose home furnishings for decoration, flower is always an important factor that could bring us joy and beauty, so in Halloween our dining tables could not keep them away. You can select a bone china flower vase and several wild chrysanthemums matched with it, or to buy some dried flowers that stained with orange, all these are good ideas that keeping with the occasion and the time well.

No matter to choose what decoration or furnishings to decorate your home in this Halloween, I believe they could all bring surprises and enjoyments to our life. Even if you have never been abroad, and never enjoyed this holiday really, as long as you have mastered the furnishing skills of the home life, and as long as you could pay more intention to collect the knowledge of the life with home furnishings and home decoration, I believe you could become a true connoisseur of life and fashion finally.

Vampires Rock

Toni and I went to the Cliffs Pavilion in Southend tonight to see Vampires Rock. Totally cheesey halloween pantomime, a great laugh and a very enjoyable show.

Steve Steinman has a fantastic voice and the band were awesome. OK the tenuous storyline wrapped around some classic rock songs was very cliched and silly but that just added to its charm.

I had forgotten that Toyah was in it so that just made the night even better as I have wanted to see her live for years.





And here are a few pics of the show (thanks to www.vampiresrock.com):
Stringfellow (this was SO funny):


The band, The Lost Boys:


Toyah and Steve Steinman:


Vampire girls and Toyah:

Happy Halloween VII: How to Make a Halloween Pumpkin Lantern?

How to Make a Halloween Pumpkin Lantern?

Steps 1. Cut

Cut a hole around the top or botton of the pumpkin (the size of the cutted hole should not be too large, but also not be too small to make your hand stretched inside and draw the pumpkin fleshes out

Tips: You should pay more attention on during your cutting and try your best to make the cut surface smoth and tidy.

Steps 2. Draw Out & Shaving Thin

Using a special spoon (a spoon for daily use also is fine) stretch into the pumpkin and draw out the seeds and fleshes of it. Then select a place on the pumpkin skin, on which you are ready for carving, and shave the pumpkin peel thin to about 1 inch thick.

Step 3: Paste Paper Face

Selected a place on the pumpkin and paste or tack the paper face you prepared before.

Tips: Please pay attention to put the tacks in accordance with the dotted lines of the paper face when tacking, thus to avoid producing small holes on the pumpkin skin.

Step 4: Carve and Draw along with Broken Lines

Follow the dotted lines of the paper face and using a small cone or a thumb pin draw out the face figure on the pumpkin skin, and torn down the paper face when finished.

Step 5: Seeing The Results

Finally, to see your results, and using a small cone to amend it point-to-point furthered. So a wonderful work has taken birth and just Picasso is hard to follow!

Sophie has a place to move to!

Sophie went to visit a property today that she had bid on via the council housing scheme and had been selected for. She and Shane said it is really nice and will give them a good place to start life together prior to Scarlett being born. Tomorrow she has to go into Chelmsford to sign all the paperwork and she should get the first set of keys then.

It's all quite exciting (and also sad at the same time) that my baby girl is moving out and getting her own place.

In other news Shane has a trial tomorrow for a job so fingers crossed that all goes well and he is employed!

Holiday Shopping Guide: Unique Christmas Gift Wrap, Gift Boxes and Gift Bags

The holiday shopping season is coming, gift stores are all bursting with colorful Christmas wrapping paper. Online gift stores also offer unique Xmas gift wrap, gift boxes, and gift bags.

Browse the internet to buy holiday gift wrapping options not stocked in your local drug or discount store. Personalized wrapping paper, recycled wrapping paper, reusable Christmas gift bags and boxes line the virtual shelves of numerous online retailers.

To see distinctive Christmas gift wrap choices, view the following ideas:

* Christmas Gift Wrap Collections

Current sells themed holiday gift wrapping collections, including the Christmas Kids Gift Wrap Trio with matching labels on the Web are cute and colorful, these papers featuring Santa, gingerbread men, and candy canes comes in three rolls totaling 45 square feet . The matching sticker set includes 32 to/from labels and 40 seals.

* Recycled Christmas Wrapping Paper

San Diego-based Greenfield Paper Company purchases wind-generated energy credits, and creates paper products from hemp, junk mail, and the chaff of roasted coffee beans. In its holiday wrapping paper line, the company offers designs such as “Oh Deer” (pictured below), which is made from 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper with soy-based inks. A roll contains two sheets measuring 22 inches by 33.75 inches featuring a smooth satin finish.

* Personalized Christmas Gift Wrap

I think personalize holiday wrapping papers with a monogram or message will be welcomed by most of you. The paper is sold by the 24-inch-by-36-inch sheet.

* Fabric Reusable Christmas Gift Bags

Re-gift or reuse these colorful fabric bags with a holiday-themed green-and-red design, these bags are sturdy enough to last for years and come in sizes ranging from extra small (6.25 inches by 6.25 inches) to large (17 inches by 18.5 inches by 2 inches). A grosgrain ribbon is sewn into the side seam.

* Reusable Christmas Gift Boxes

Buy reusable boxes wholesale and save big on bulk containers. Some online gift stores offers a Holiday Red Giftware box in a variety of sizes. Since these are sold in packages of 50 for large boxes and 100 for smaller sizes, you can festively package all of your Christmas gifts with only one box order. Just add a bow and tag and you have a monochromatic, Martha-Stewart-pretty collection of presents for under the tree.


Plan to reuse holiday wrapping paper, bags, and gift boxes every year – if you can keep the kids from tearing through each carefully wrapped present on Christmas morning.

Romantic Valentine Ideas

Romantic Valentine's Day Ideas

Valentine's Day 14 Feb, 2009,

Do you have any idea to feel you beloved special on this Love day, so we bring some Romantic Valentine Ideas for every couple to impress you dream love happy and sensational. Whether you're staying home together on this Valentine's Day 14 Feb, 2009, or going out for a Valentine's Day romance Ideas, or splurging on a romantic getaway, this free week of e-cards offers Valentine's Day event Ideas and inspiration. Re-create celebrity style with quick and easy beauty, hair and body-language tips with Valentine's Day Ideas for girlfriend. Learn what you need to know to get or give a diamond engagement ring with Valentine's Day wedding Ideas this year.

What would a Valentine 's Day gift Ideas for girlfriend be without a bouquet of flowers, a sensual perfume fragrance and a box of chocolates? Sources for ordering the best traditional Valentine's Day gifts online are here. Search step-by-step demonstrations of fun-to-make Valentine's Day cool ideas & food recipes. Here are the quick, time-saving Homemade Valentine's Day Ideas and tips you need to look great in 10 minutes or less. Ideas for homemade Valentine's candy or sweets to share with Your love, friends and family.

Funny Valentine Ideas

Funny Valentine Ideas

Funny Valentine Ideas

The Valentine's day is fully dedicated to love, peace and friendship. St. valentine's day is devote to those people who make fun and enjoyment in life. As we know that the Laughter is an essence for human behavior which is regulated by the brain, Doctors use to say laughter good medicine to keep your blood pressure in control. Like feeling of love and romance the laughter therapy and laughter yoga classes are very popular on all over the globe and peoples are enjoying the benefit of laughter. The laughter helps humans clarify their intentions in personal as well as social life interaction and provides an emotional context to conversations.

So make fun and use some homurous and funny valentine ideas to Laugh wildly with you faimly and friends on this valentine's day party and some hilarious jokes and tickles. The best Christmas Jokes & riddle can be generate from day to day life and they are health to hear these Funny Christmas things add humar in life. so make enjoy ment in this valentines day on 14 Feb, 2009.

Happy Halloween VI – Do You Believe in Ghosts?

Do you believe in ghosts?

The Associated Press and Ipsos Survey carried out a poll before Halloween, and the public opinion showed that 34% of the respondents said their believed in ghosts.

On the other hand, there are peoples in a same proportion as the above who believe that unidentified flying objects are existed. In addition, the survey shows that 19% of the respondents believed that the “magic power” was existed in the world.

48% of target people believe that the "super-aware" (referring to the perception of ultra-sensory) exists.

23% of the respondents said they had seen ghosts, in which the number of bachelors, Catholics and those persons who have never attended liturgy said “had seen ghosts” is biggest.

30% of the respondents said they believed there are something strange in the room when they waked up.

14% of the respondents (most of them are men and low-income peoples) said they had seen unidentified flying objects.

One-fifth of the respondents said themselves were somewhat superstitious, in which young men, minorities and especially less educated people inclined more. 26% of urban residents said they believed in superstition, and single men are even more superstitious than single women, the ratio of which was 31% and 17% respectively.

The survey revealed that the number of people who believed that "the Four Leaf Clover could help you meet luck" is biggest, which accounting for 17% of the respondents. 13% of people thought walking under the ladder will be down on one’s luck, or if the bride and groom had meet before the wedding was inauspicious. And there are a small portion of the respondents considered that the black cats, broken mirrors, to open a umbrella in the room, "Black Friday", the number 13 are all symbols unlucky.

* Four Leaf Clover

In a word, women are more superstitious than men with four leaf clover, broken mirror and the saying of the bride and groom’s meeting before the wedding is hapless and so on; more Democrats are more superstitious with "it’s inauspicious open a umbrella in the room" than Republicans; Liberalisms are more superstitious than conservative persons who believed that four leaf clover could bring you good luck, the bride and groom meet before the wedding is inauspicious and it’s unlucky to open a umbrella in the room.

The telephone survey was carried out during in Oct. 16-18, 2008, and a total of 1013 adults had participated in.

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Now this just totally rocks my world, if only it was real:

Last.FM listening post!

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Chieftains 11 Spitfires 0

Toni, Aaron, Sophie, Shane and I went to the Riverside this evening to watch the Chelmsford Chieftains playing ice hockey for the first time this season. Wanted to go as the Capitals didn't have a game and it was against Romford Spitfires so was hopeful of some "local derby" rivalry.

The game didn't disappoint. I was hoarse at the end of the game from having to do 11 goalie/sieve chants but it was good to do it again.

At the end of the first period one of the Romford players took exception to being booed as he came off the ice and was making threatening gestures to Big Pete. I told the guy to settle down and he then turned towards me before being escorted away by two of his team mates. Game didn't let up with the Chieftains scoring for fun and there were a couple of fights at the end too. Game was slightly marred by some idiots trying to crash the Spitfires bench and cause trouble but thankfully it didn't get too out of control.

Really glad we went and can't wait to do it again.

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