lynn's wee blog

My new blog

2007-10-12T00:39:00.000-07:00

I'm moving!

...over to Wordpress cos it's better, so join me.

http://lynnmcg.wordpress.com/

Do you have a male or female brain?

2007-10-09T01:37:00.000-07:00

If you have a spare 10 minutes, this is an interesting wee test to see if you have a male or female brain, you will need a ruler (not for that!).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/theoneshow/article/2007/10/mm_brainsex.shtml

Apparently, maybe, if your ring finger is longer than your index finger then you have a male brain as this may mean that you were exposed to more testosterone in the womb. Lots of top sports people have very long ring fingers.

I have a 50% more female brain, by the way.

Barcelona

2007-10-05T02:44:00.000-07:00

Me and Brian went on holiday for a week to a small place called Cap Salou, just next to Salou. Cap Salou appears to be a favourite holiday resort for over 65's so we went to Barcelona for 4 days as it's only about an hours drive from Cap Salou. We stayed right in the heart of the city, just next to Las Ramblas so there was loads to do, and the beach was 5 minutes away. On our first day in Barcelona, we went down to the beach and seen this filth:

There are plenty of decent places to get a drink in Barca. This mojito definitely deserves a mention. I know it looks like it has spaghetti hoops in it (that's ice) but it looked the part on the night, and most defintely tasted the part. It was zingy.

On our last day, we visited the Sagrada Familia http://www.sagradafamilia.org/, I kind of felt obliged to more than anything else and it was rather boring really but the view from the top is spectacular. It's so high, I felt dizzy.

To recap, don't ever, ever go to Cap Salou and do go to Barcelona.

Bloody Typical

2007-09-25T09:22:00.000-07:00

So that's me about to go on holiday for a week to sunny Spain and I woke up this morning absolutely loaded with the cold. Well I say I woke up this morning, I actually woke up several times during the night with drips falling out my wet nose.

I can just tell it's one of those colds that ends up with a really annoying tickly cough that is very annoying to the person with the cough and anyone near them. I should get that just in time for boarding the flight. Yippee.

This is England

2007-09-24T08:31:00.000-07:00

Am I the only person in the country who wasn't very impressed with this film? I thought it was all a bit 'I've just graduated with a degree in film-making and here's my first film, it's really gritty'.

I thought 'Dead Man's Shoes' - http://www.godwillforgivethem.com/ was superb and 'A Room for Romeo Brass' - http://www.britfilms.tv/index.php?id=3244 was quite good too but 'This is England' was cliched and obvious and the bit where the wee guy snogs that older girl was just downright wrong.

Just Another Day at the Office

2007-09-21T07:19:00.000-07:00

Thank F*** it's Friday!

2007-09-21T01:48:00.000-07:00

Amen to that.

Limmy's Show!

2007-09-21T01:15:00.000-07:00

Brian performed his Fringe show in Blackfriars lastnight and it was a great night, brilliant atmosphere and lots of laughs. I've seen the show about 8 times now and I hear Brian rehearsing it all the time so I know it like the back of my hand, but it still makes me laugh. My favourite bits are Jacqueline MaCafferty's Big Brother Audition Tape and Xanders sketch. If you can get to the Fringe show on Tuesday in the Edinburgh Stand then go, it's your last chance to see it, probably. http://www.thestand.co.uk/listings/listings_edin.htm

My Winnings

2007-09-19T14:22:00.000-07:00

I went to a race night on Saturday in the Kingfisher in Cumbernauld. If you don't know how this works, you pay a fiver for a horse, which you name (my horse was called 'Wee Boomer') and your horse races in one race, but you can bet on all of the races - there were eight races in total. If your horse wins you get a prize. So, I bet on all of the races and won in four of them and my horse won it's race also, I would say that's quite lucky. Brian won in the last race (my race) when he bet on 'Wee Boomer'. He got £15 back which covered his losses so he was happy. I was delighted as I got a bottle of whisky for my Dad when Wee Boomer won and I also got to show off at how great I was a picking winners (horses, not bogies).

PS this is also my first post as you can probably tell but I thought it was worth mentioning that.