removed video

Such a shame they removed that video it was a right good laugh .
Waslike an advert for mercure hotels whatever they were called and had some fellah singing perfect day -but changed the words to perfect stay. Wasnt very good really -thats why it was funny .

Nearly all wrapped present wise . Enjoyed narnia on the telly . Wish there was another world in the back of mine rather than loads of clothes that I should never have bought in the first place xx

MERCURE UK HOTELS A PERFECT STAY PASSION FOR SERVICE

tea pots and advent calenders

As my friend Helga said to me yesterday when we was at Biscester Designer Outlet and I was saying I wanted a tea pot " We can put a man on the Moon Barbara but we cant invent a tea pot that doesn`t dribble " And you know what she is right . How come these simple everyday things can`t be sorted ? Weve still got no handle on the spare bedroom door . It`s a twisted up wire coat hanger job . (Its drawn blood on a couple of occassions ).

WE was also talking about advent calenders how they never used to have no chocolate in them -just a picture behind the door like a snow flake or a drum ( a robin always seemed the best one to get ) . And on the 24th a double door that opened to reveal the nativity scene . We was laughing to think how exciting it was just opening the doors . I was thinking maybe in those days before they had chocoalte in them we didnt open the doors before we should .The little kids next door have ripped open all the doors and ate the lot . But then I was remebering having opened doors and seen it was a robin and then tried to stick it back down again . There is nothing new under the sun xxxxx

Christmas coach trip

A lot of interest in my trip on the Christamas shopping trips to Biscester then Shrewsbury . should be good . i am hoping to have a garden centre drop off as part of Shrewsbury and half an hour in ikea if we can on the Biscster . Want to get all my shopping done and out of the way in two fell swoops -only thing is I think that Biscester might be a bit dear - As my hairdresser Carl said to me " Its Marks and spencer prices for selfridges brands" (whatever that means ! )x

"The Sun "is all to cock

Isnt it awful how the Sun on one hand has page three models with all their busts hanging out then on the other is having a go at lads like jason manford for flirting .
I may be wrong here but I dont think what he did was all that bad -it`s only like what used to happen with the underwear section of grattons catalogue but the pictures can talk back these days . And who are these girls? and how come the Sun found out ?


My nephew lives in Liverpool and he says no one buys the Sun there after the lies they printed about that terrible Hillsborough football disaster . I havn`t bought in years either . I am a Mirror girl myself x

christmas shopping

get it all done and have a laugh
First shopping trip on sale going to biscester village .

If its on the way and we have time I might ask the driver if we can have half an hour in Ikea .

... Fancy a coach trip with your favourite actress & comedian Barbara .wherecanwego.com/search/ViewEvent.aspx?e=392945 www Cached

If you go on where can we go there are tickest there xx

Work for graduates

Our valeries girl who has just graduated with a 2 one in drama a nd English ahs got a second interview to be a Chistmas elf at The arndale centre manchester . they told her when she got there that it wasnt really an elf they were looking for -more a Grotto P.A.

xx daft isnt it xx

fags

I have stopped smoking -you might not have known i did smoke -but i have stopped . It was to do with the teeth I think it was making them fall out the fags were .
I am putting the money in a jar like they tell you to . It will go towards paying for the false teeth !

I thought the fags were glamourous -i think thats why I started smoking - I felt like a film star with a fag on .


Any road up I have stopped .

Ive got a little rubber ball I squeeze when I want a fag and they say the wanting only lasts threee mins at a time . You dont want one all the time .
I have been round the house and though my bags throwing out lighters.
I have found about 30 so far . I wont be sorry not to have to buy any more lighters . I am also putting the money I would have spent on lighters in the jar .


all the best BArbara xxx

eeh my gum

Well that tooth had to be taken out in Edinburgh emergency hospital ! Only cost £11.00 -I paid £350 (yes you heard right ) THREEHUNDREDANDFIFTY !! pounds last year to have a root canal filling than blinking hurt .

11.00 ? 350.00 ? what would you do if you ve got no money ? thats right .!!!

We`ll have a two tier society soon -them with teeth and them without .

and now another one is wobbling !!

Swining Hell - I cant face dentures . got horrible memories of my nanas sitting in a glass grinning at you like the cheshire cat in alice in Wonderland .
THink I am going to Have to go to Hungary and get some of them dental implants they are cheaper there .
Will have to renew my passport first though !!!

(Lets see what the chinese make of this . )

Barbara xxx

been a while

I havnt been doing the blog - what with the twitter and that - I was writing about my life more than I was living it .

Any road up a nice girl said she`d been missing it .. and I suppose its true that you can write more on here -more like a proper letter used to be .

I went to Chatsworth ( Picture at top )when I was on holiday and I liked it . I think that Debo ( Devonshire nee Mitford ) has done a smashing job of it -the shops are really good and I got a nice glass ring for 2.00 .

Problem is - as i mentioned on face book- I have come home with a blinking gum boil . what a pain !! I think you do get used to pain though . when I first had a gumboil - years ago -I thought i was dying and now cos I have had them before I can stand it much more . we get used to things dont we . Which is a good thing and a bad thing . i think maybe we are all putting up with low level pain more than we should . Talking about low level pain the cat wants feding and is sat at my feet miaowing . I wixh he could go to Morrisons for himself xx Oh well I better get some kecks on and go -get a bit more ibuprofen while I `m there xx Bxx

Frank Sidebottom sings 'Three Shirts on my Line' his World Cup 2010 song

frank / Chris si dead -dont it always seem to go you dont know what youve got till its gone xx

big brother

I usually like to see them go in like noah loading up the ark (Talking of which if it doesnt stop raining soon ! ) But I missed it -was up stairs reading "Tilly Trotter wed "-part of the Tilly Trotter series - xx

a bit of peace

Hiya I have been running around like a blue arsed fly . Today for some reason I feel a sense of peace . i have had two boiled eggs for my breakfast which i have enjoyed . Isntit funny how some days you can wake up and feel you are winning and other days its a sigh and heavy hearted . I think it might be to do with the rain . i always feel better when it rains .

Keep thinking about rain + Glastonbury though . i am going - hosting mama Mia in the caberet tent Friday and Sunday . I hope its not all muddy -ive only got ankle wellies xx B

blog request

I havent done this for a while then someone said to me barbara i love reading you . You dont know whether you are getting on peoples nerves but this girl she had missed me blogging so here I am again ,
Its a jungle out there though -my face - twitter and all that some times I wonder how we keep from going under .

All I have to say is as soon as there is any talk of a bank holiday it pigging rains xx

Beautiful House

Just to let people know about the play Janice Connolly is in at The library theatre in Manchetser Beautiful House . Its on e of that last plays to be performed there as it is shutting down . I saw my first proper play there . i remember one of the actors jumping of the stage and talking to the audience -Just thought thats kind of what I do know . all about early influences isnt it xxx

Old photos

JAnice Connolly has just got some old photos of when she was in bands -the surprises and the everreadies in Birmingham in the early eighties . Her mate Conrad sent them to her . I have put some on here .

RIP Jason wood

I have just heard that JAson wood -a great entertainer has died . he was only 38 . Its very sad . Life is short we must make the most of it xx

ray gosling

I missed the brits last night -which I like to watch -was watching chinese figure skating at the winter olympics -(which I enjoyed ) - so didnt know it was on . I was talking to the women in the bread shop about it and she was telling me about Lady Gagag -who I love- when a man behind me started talikng about Ray Gosling and how he might be in trouble again .

If you dont know Ray Gosling used to be on the telly in the 1960`s . he used to be on programmes were people had a go at people in power . we dont have them any more . It was the days when union people were on the telly a lot . That doesnt happen any more either . any way he was always very entertaining - a bit like Adrian Chiles but not sat down talking to celebrities -out and about with ordinary people . (I like adrian dont get me wrong -but in those days you got out and about )

Any way this man told me that in the 70`s Ray ended up in trouble with the tax man -he owed 5,000 pounds and then it started adding up - fines etc and in the end he was bankrupt .

He recently started doing films again - stuff about pensioners and leicester and Nottingham (hes an east midlander - which i didnt know i thought he was from manchester ) and last week I think it was he was on Inside Out -which I like but I mssed this one because of Auntie Annes legs . Any way Ray said on telly , according to this man, that he had-a long time ago - put a pillow over his boy friends head when he was in hospital dying of aids and killed him .

Well I was really floored by this .

I never knew he was gay -not that it matters I suppose but I didnt .

And also I am now worried about him getting into trouble . I havn`t thought about him in years but when this man mentioned him I realised how much I liked him and his programmes and his point of view . I hope he`s going to be alright . I think he is a man of principle and that`s a good thing .

showzam Blackpool

Had a loveley time at The Grand theatre Blackpool . And the party after at the Tower ballroom was smashing . I didnt realise that it was like a fancydress thing and was in my ethel austen fleece and peacock black pants . still everyone was friendly -thats what its all about really . glamour counts for nowt if people are stuck up Ive always thought . these lot werent . but then again -thats blackpool for you ! Also bumped into my friend Romany the Magician who I met in Sheffield and I love so thats a real treat . also saw Mark Raffles who does a good trick with five silver hoops and the lad that runs the Speigeltent - Brett . Ian and keith came as well and our Valeries Daughter so all in all we had a good night xxx

alexander mc queen

alex or lee as his pals called him with his mum . she died last month . he really loved her i reckon.

RIP the pair of them xx

muddled up dates

Sorry if I have caused confusion but the Blackpool Showzam is this sat . should be good . Blackpool is where we went as kids . Boiled eggs on the sand- sand on the boiled eggs . A sixpence for whoever spotted the tower first when we were going there . It seemed to take for ever to get there now its only about 4o mins on the train . Everything has changed - in those days no one had as much as heard of a tuna mayonaise baggette - now you cant move for them . xxx

Victorias Bunions

She must spend her life in agony . I have them and I have to be very careful even when wearing foot gloves from Mand S to have the right style or its like hot razor blades sawing into blood and bone . No wonder she looks so miserable when you see pictures of her - her feet are killing her thats what the matter is !

Billy bragg

Billy Bragg has said he wont pay his tax till them bankers stop getting big bonuses. Hes a smashing lad . He`s right . xx

Tony and Claire

I think Claire Short was right about Tony and the war . When I heard him on the radio at that inquest thing he sounded like he was being very careful to keep his story straight .

Like the student who lives next door said to me why didn`t he just come clean and say "The Big Texan boy made me do it "

John travolta

He was loveley in Grease when we did the join ina longa in Bath . I know hes changed a lot since then but I still like him . He was great In that pulp Fiction he`s full of fun .

Taking stuff back

When I was little I hated having to take things back -mu mum used to make me and I would stand outside shops crying ,trying to summon up the courage to go in .

I can take things back now but I`m not a natural taker backer -still a bit of a struggle .

Off to town now to take back a coat I bought but have realised as soon as I got it home that the arms and Shoulders were too big for me .

I am taking it back .

Cadburys

We shouldnt have let them take it . I feel very sad about it . Bourneville was built for the local workers to have nice houses and gardens . I dont think the Cadbury family cares the way they used to . I bet some of them arnt even Quakers anymore . Its all a shame -all that seems to matter is business not workers rights and dignity .

Shame on them all !!