Banana Phone

Banana Phone Blog 27^th June

Scarlett is talking to her Grandma on a banana, oh and a pepper and anything else that fits nicely in the palm of her hand. She is chattering away which is the cutest thing ever! But I am also quite jealous that she is eating as I am not fasting from 8pm until 12pm tomorrow.

This fasting malarkey is hard, last night I had to resist the urge to eat a whole box of cereal, I also had to turn off Hell’s kitchen as I couldn’t watch them cooking delicious food and I am constantly having to stop my mind from telling me to get a Mc Donald’s breakfast in the morning. I am trying to concentrate on busying myself with other projects, the other day I mentioned I was going to a Samaritans volunteer meeting. I went and it was incredibly interesting but I have decided that I don’t have the time to commit to be a listening volunteer, but I don’t want to render myself useless to them so have signed up to help with some admin work.

I have also just realised that I am sitting here in the dark and first thing on my list tomorrow is to buy a light bulb! It blew about 2 months ago but I still haven’t got round to getting one, I have a standing lamp, that doesn’t do much standing because the bottom is broken and it keeps falling down and hitting the table making me jump, I have made a note to not watch any scary movies until after I have thrown out the lamp and got a bulb for the main light.

Now I am totally freaked out, while researching books form the 90’s for an article I have scared to report that Goosebumps Night of the Living dummy has 2 sequels! I do not like that at all, but I am intrigued so will see if I can find them at the library and flick through them to see if they are as freaky as the first. Even the picture on the front gives me Goosebumps, which Is the point but, ok need to think about something else, otherwise I will have nightmares tonight!

55 squats ka boom! Yes I say that proudly it’s the most exercise I have done in a week and I have kept it up for two day now, even thought I am ashamed to say that I have just read on Facebook one of my old school friends has done 8 exercise classes in 4 days. Ka plunk.

I don’t know who I was kidding when I thought I could sketch, so here is a picture of a male model hunk who I picture Caspian from my novel Blackmail and Betrayal to look like, which has now had over 60 hits. I feel like a rock star! So proud, I am even looking into sending it to publishers to see their response and if they don’t like it then I will self publish it for a price. I need to look into how to do it, but I found out today that Beatrix Potter self published ‘The Tail of Peter Rabbit’ in 1901 after 6 different publishers rejected it. She paid to have 250 little books made with the pictures she had drawn in black and white, then a publishing company saw them and said they would publish it if she did the pictures in colour. In 1902 Frederick Warne & Company published ‘The tale of Peter Rabbit’ with colour pictures. How inspiring.  

Right I’m off to bug some publishers with my work oh and Ville Valo from the band him, I want to send him a short story I have written which has had over 50 hits, so I think he should read it seeing as it’s about him and I entered it into a competition.

Ta Ta!

Mmmm Yummy!!