Queen Mother dies R.I.P.
Kinda takes the edge off a very drunken BBQ. But in a good way, sort of, if you know what I mean.
Month: March 2002
bookmark_borderAwful world
Safiya Husaini has been freed. However another woman now faces the same sentence of death by stoning. Unless her appeal is successful she will be stoned in eight months time once she has finished breastfeeding her baby.
What kind of world do we live in? And is this the true face of Islamic law? Too tired to argue anything at the moment. But more on this later.
bookmark_borderSeven
Seven days, seven questions – how much attention did YOU pay this week?
bookmark_borderViva!
Poets May Lead the Publishing Revolution – not sure if I agree with this fully. I don’t see the lack of support for poetry by the ‘big guns’ being that a huge an issue, and whilst it will aid smaller specialist publishing companies I don’t think it could constitute a revolution. Still I’ve been wrong in the past.
Once.
I think.
bookmark_borderWhat type are you?
My Enneagram Personality (via Julie via Zannah)
Type 1: The Reformer. The rational, idealistic type. [ 1 ]
Type 2: The Helper. The caring, nurturing type. [ -6 ]
Type 3: The Motivator. The adaptable, success-oriented type. [ 0 ]
Type 4: The Artist. The intuitive, reserved type. [ 11 ]
Type 5: The Thinker. The perceptive, cerebral type. [ -2 ]
Type 6: The Skeptic. The committed, security-oriented type. [ -3 ]
Type 7: The Generalist. The enthusiastic, productive type. [ 6 ]
Type 8: The Leader. The powerful, aggressive type. [ -4 ]
Type 9: The Peacemaker. The easygoing, accomodating type. [ -3 ]
So I’m an Artistic, Generalist Reformer. More details.
Ohh and if memory serves me correctly Keirsey says: INTJ.
Hmmm not sure if these match… oh well…
bookmark_borderFriday Five
1. If you could eat dinner with and “get to know” one famous person (living or dead), who would you choose?
Wow, just one? That’s a toughie – Martin Luther King Jnr.? Hitler? Margaret Thatcher? Robert F. Scott? Einstein? John Lennon? Ayn Rand? Arthur C Clarke?
John Lennon probably. I think he would be the most fun and interesting of them all, and I have the feeling some of the others would end up talking AT me rather than with me.
2. Has the death of a famous person ever had an effect on you? Who was it and how did you feel?
Freddie Mercury and for entirely (horribly) personal reasons. I am a huge Queen fan and was 16 when Freddie passed away. I remember hearing it on the news. I was shocked. What still shocks me about it was the first thought that passed through my head “I’ll never get to see Queen live”. What a horrible person I am.
3. If you could BE a famous person for 24 hours, who would you choose?
Brad Pitt. Easy. Why? Just to see what it’s like to have women MOAN at you.
4. Do people ever tell you that you look like someone famous? Who?
Ehhh no I’ve never heard anyone compare me (several years ago when I had more hair) to Jason Donovan… oh dear…
5. Have you ever met anyone famous?
Ehhh lemme think. Nope not that I recall. Tiff Needell? I’ve SEEN quite a few, in fact it seems I can’t visit London without seeing someone ‘off the telly’. Lynda Bellingham, Colin Jackson