I don't think I like it

I've never liked going to the hairdressers.  I've had too many bad experiences.  Once I went somewhere for a perm and the girl doing it was so slow someone stepped in to help her.  I ended up with one side different to the other.  The hairdressers was called Sweeny Todds - I should have guessed.

Anyway on Friday I finally went to have my hair 'trimmed', though I rather fancied the idea of it flicking up.  Not knowing much about this kind of thing, I expected it to be flicked over using a brush and a hair dryer.  I should be so lucky.  I didn't realise I had so much hair untill I saw how much she was chopping off.  She was making layers and layers.  I wasn't happy when I went home.  I didn't want to complain because I didn't want anymore cut off!

I sent a photo to Dom and J-M and they said they liked it

This morning I washed it and 'did' it my self.  I'm not someone who can spend hours in the bathroom fiddling. 

I prefer a straight bob like my ID pic.  What do you think?

All you wanted to know about French elections, but were afraid to ask

My super son-in-law to be sent me this.  Now I understand.....
(It is in English with french subtitles)

The day after Valentine's

Rob and I had been working together for over a year when he finally asked me out. He’d just been transferred to another branch of the bank that we had been working together in so it was okay for us to go out together. The bank had rules about couples working in the same branch for security reasons.

 He originally asked me out on Valentine’s night, but I put him off until the next day as Tuesday night was Lady’s night and I always went out with my girl friends. I remember that it was a foggy evening and he had to come from quite a long way to see me, so he must have been keen.

 The rest is history and that was 28 years ago today.

ExposeYourBlog !: Contests !

I’m going to be boring and post this on all of my blogs. As we approach the second birthday of ExposeYourblog!, we’ve re-launched both the surfing and referral contests. All you need to do to win credits surfing is to be amongst the top five surfers of the day. Credits awarded are based on the percentage of blogs surfed, so the more you surf the more you can win – daily and weekly! The referral contest means that you can win credits for referring more members than anyone else daily and weekly. New members must activate their account by surfing and adding their blog. To get links, go to your “Tools” page and click on “My Downline”, scroll down and you’ll find banners and links that you can use to promote ExposeYourBlog!. Or you could write a post about why you enjoy surfing on EYB! and include a link in your post – just like I have.

Don and I are really proud of the blogs on EYB! There are blogs to suit all tastes and you’ll find excellent writing, art and pictures as well as members who interact with each other. We’re building a very special blogging community and hopefully members feel as it EYB! Is being run by real people who care about their members – which is true.

As always Don and I can be contacted via a PM in the forums (don = “Admin”, to contact me “Anji”), via a support ticket or email; forumadmin@exposeyourblog.com . We’d love to hear from you, feedback and ideas are always useful.

Drinking water

Now you'll understand why we French ladies drink bottled water:

He might just be right.

Look below at the post “When did the change over happen?”.

Since the beginning of December I thought that I was suffering on and off with a mild case of cystitis. It turns out that my bladder is having spasms. While doing research, I discovered some websites that hinted that this problem could be due to keeping your phone in your pocket. My phone is definitely out of my pocket for the time being. I have tablets to take too, hopefully it will get better soon.

Note to self: Listen when son speaks…

Evacuation

I went shopping a week or so ago.  It was pretty busy in the supermarket when the alarm started.  A voice came over the loud speaker asking us to leave calmly and quietly.  The message was repeated in English too.  So we all walked to the exit calmly and quietly.  I found somewhere to leave my trolly/cart, that I would remember, but most people were still pushing their shopping towards the exit. 

After a few seconds everyone was coming back again.  Then there was an announcement to say that the alert was a computer error.  See how exciting life can be?

Eric for President?

I apologise for bringing up the coming elections again. This time it's good news; Eric Cantona the ex footballer, artist and actor is looking for the 500 letters of support from mayors to allow him to stand for election. He wants to draw attention to the homeless and near homeless that live in the most terrible conditions in our big cities.  I mentioned Emmaüs in a post on my Still Learning blog. Since Emmaüs' founder, Abbé Pierre, died in 2007, the homeless have lacked a high profile champion.  Well if Eric gets onto the lists, he's got my vote!

 This is Eric Cantona's ad about poor housing in France.  It is in French, but I think it's understandable, at the ends he asks 'will you take it?'

Joan of Arc; Saint, Sainte or political gadget?

 France has recently celebrated the 600th birthday of St Joan of Arc.  Unfortunately for poor Joan, her reputation is becoming more and more tarnished.

Recently a scolar has decided that Joan was in fact a man. The French soldiers would never have followed a mere peasant girl into battle.  The reason why the French wanted her to be known as a woman was that the English would have been terrified of a woman sent by God to fight for the French.  Was God not supposed to be on the English side? I don't think this theory holds water as the French handed Joan over to the English for execution.  I think that would have blown her cover, if there was one. 

We're having an election for a new President later in the year.  There is a lot of fighting, name calling and so on, as usuall.  St Joan has cropped up in the midst of this as she has been venerated by the far right  for many years for booting out the English and leaving France for the French.  Last week president Sarkozy laid flowers in rememberence of Joan and visited where she was born in  Domremy. This has caused feathers to fly as some seem to think that they have exclusive right over the Saint.  

To go with the post about telephones