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About Me

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Myspace Layouts Myspace LayoutsI am now 50...and anyone who already knows me is well aware of this fact! I got married in 1979 and I'm still married now (and to the same man!) which I think is a feat in itself, and so does my husband probably. I have two sons, one in the army and one who's an actor. I work at one of the newer Lakeland shops much to my Dad's excitment (he LOVES Lakeland and the Customer Services people are his friends) and also Front of House at a theatre. I really enjoy it and try not to be too rude to people, which is sometimes difficult. I also invigilate for exams at a local school which is brilliant because I can pretend I'm menacing and give the students long hard looks! I graduated two years ago with a BA (Hons) in Creative Studies in English and now I write short stories and Blogs about radom things that happen to me or occur to me or are just random! I live in a small cottage with a huge garden and spend a lot of time fretting about the gardening, the local wildlife and anything else I can think of, but generally I'm quite content with my life.

My Interests

Reading - most things. Writing, short stories and poetry (but only if I'm suffering some kind of angst at the time), and I'm about a third of the way into a novel. Thinking about exercising (I don't actually EVER do any, I just think about it). Having hissy fits, which I'm very good at. Looking after my girlies - my two Jack Russells, Molly and Pip. And until recently, Bruce our Lurcher, but he reached the end of his very long life and is only with us in doggie-spirit now. And Buddy, my son's Alsatian/Staffordshire cross...and my cat Lydia, who is cross because all this time she has been left out of my profile...and Paddy, my sister's cat! (Really, I run an animal sanctuary!) I also collect snow globes and have in excess of 50! And I'm very good at drinking red wine but I'm very bad at having hangovers.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who has a story to tell...and anyone who hasn't.

Music:

I like music. I listen to all kinds from Indie to metal to classical. And I do like to find local bands...I love Ulysses (check them out on my top friends).

Movies:

Best film ever: Brief Encounter (well, most cried over film ever), and Casablanca. And now, of course, Sweeney Todd. Scariest film; Silence of the Lambs, most misunderstood film (by me); The Matrix. Best short film - Hide. Film most badly behaved in; Casino Royale (it's such a BOYS film!)

Television:

Daytime TV is my downfall. It's such rubbish but I can't help watching it when I'm home.

Books:

Favourite and most read book (at least four or five times a year) TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD. I prefer Ernest Hemingway to John Steinbeck although I've read and re-read Of Mice and Men. Graham Greene. Joyce Carol Oates. Anything by Marian Keyes and Carole Matthews. Anything by Carol Shields, Anne Tyler, Nick Hornby... and anything else I can get my hands on. I panic if I don't have at least three un-read books ahead of me! I like poetry, especially Raymond Carver and Robert Frost, and I like to read song lyrics!

Heroes:

People who do the 'right thing'. And my Dad

My Blog

Dirty feet

Actually my feet are clean now, despite the fact that my boiler broke down on THURSDAY and can't be mended until TUESDAY, so I have NO HOT WATER and have to wash by running up and down stairs wit...
Posted by Sparkle on Sun, 25 May 2008 03:08:00 PST

Hurtling towards the weekend

It's all or nothing in the Sparkle household. I'm working my Lakeland shifts, theatre shifts and some invigilating stuff, and Mr Sparkle is away up the mountains. We have a lovely new garde...
Posted by Sparkle on Fri, 16 May 2008 02:43:00 PST

What I did today...

Woke up early with a headache... Watched Def Leppard on breakast TV... Filed and polished my nails... Showered and shaved my legs... Cleaned my house from top to bottom... Changed my sheets and did ab...
Posted by Sparkle on Fri, 09 May 2008 02:08:00 PST

Emontional hormones

Well. Bums, I say. And that's about it really. I have hormones rearing their ugly heads again and richocheting(?) around my body, I have untidy family issues, and it's coming up to the annivers...
Posted by Sparkle on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:54:00 PST

Something weird has happened

Where are the photos on my last blog? When I’m working on MrSparkle’s laptop, all the photos are happily there in the midst of all my chaotic rambles, but now I’m in my Caravan of Lo...
Posted by Sparkle on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:50:00 PST

What I really wanted to call it was...

...The Dead Dog Blog and the Wake Cake, but that might have made it sound as though I didn’t care that we have just lost our Lurcher, Bruce, and I do. A lot. He was at least 15, looked as ...
Posted by Sparkle on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:46:00 PST

A Very Sparkly Ideal Home Exhibition

Because IkeaSister has been poorly, I decided that we should go on an outing together! So, intrepid travellers that we are, we took ourselves off to London and visited the Ideal Home Exhibition. ...
Posted by Sparkle on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:22:00 PST

IkeaSister wins the illness stakes

Well. Not to be outdone by my chest infection, IkeaSister only went and got rushed to hospital on Tuesday evening...with what they thought was a heart attack! I was so scared when her son phoned...
Posted by Sparkle on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:44:00 PST

I went to the Doctors

If anyone really knows me then they will realise that for me to go to the doctors I must actually be almost dead. And I was! Well, not literally, but I did feel as though I had one foot on...
Posted by Sparkle on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:23:00 PST

Vitamin D

Well it said in my Psychology magazine that in the Winter, sitting in the sunshine will significantly boost your energy and give your mood a lift. So as it was sunny today and I had ten minutes ...
Posted by Sparkle on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:33:00 PST