” Why is there a book about ‘the joys of bisexual love’ in with these bibles?” I asked my mum, whilst my sister chortled!
Looking through a box of long-forgotten books belonging to my 82-year-old mother, I found one that seemed a little out-of-place!
I would love to know how that got there!
This post is inspired by LindaGHill
Yay! Down to the very last two now in the Blogging From A-Z Challenge and this means that it is the letter ‘Y’s turn! This letter stands tall and proud but is open and yielding. It is not a popular letter for starting words. but I have found one that makes me laugh at the way it sounds, although it is not a very pleasant word. I give you…..
Yob. Yep, short but not sweet. It is a thuggish kind of a word, The group of teenage lads hanging around swigging beer and smashing stuff up for the sheer hell of it. The loutish behaviour at a football match, with groups of rival fans seeing how many people they can beat up.
It is the unruly mob kicking off in town on a Saturday night after a few pints, looking for trouble. It’s the little sod that has keyed your car in the car park. The lowlife that mugs old ladies, or the delinquent who steals anything that isn’t bolted down!
Yobbo can also be used to mean exactly the same, if you prefer the sound of that!
This post is inspired by A Momma’s View and But I Smile Anyway.
Both of these lovely ladies have been awarded the ‘Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award’ which is very well deserved, They both have fantastic blogs, which, if you have not checked out yet, please do as you are missing out! Anyway, one of the questions asked was ‘what is your favourite animated film?’ and I decided to write a post about this as suggested by Momma.
Animated films, especially Disney ones, have always been a part of my life. i remember as a child always being taken to see the latest release. I cried in ‘Pinocchio’ when he got swallowed by the whale apparently. I loved ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Snow White’ although I was a bit scared of the evil step-mother (I was a sensitive child)!
Films like ‘The Lady and The Tramp’ and ‘The Aristocats’ were great as well, as was ‘101 Dalmatians.’ There always seemed to be some kind of moral in these films, and of course, they always had a happy ending, which made me feel better.
More recently we have the CGI films as well such as ‘Tangled’,’Despicable Me’ and the ‘Shrek’ films.I loved all of those. These films seem to consider the adults that are watching them as well, and there is normally a lot of humour in them that goes straight over a child’s head, but give the parents a good laugh. Donkey in ‘Shrek’ just makes me laugh every time he says anything!
I love the cleverness of ‘Shrek’ as well. Mike Myers is a genius in my opinion! The way he depicts the fairy tale characters is so funny. Look at how he made Prince Charming such a mummy’s boy, and a baddie as well; and what about mad Merlin in his little dress?! I could go on, but actually, I haven’t even got to my favourite film yet!
This brings me to ‘Up’, the story about an old man, a boy and a house. It had so many messages in this film; friendship, love, determination, dreams, sorrow, and finally acceptance. I have to say that both me and Mr Grump cried in this film (he is a big softy under all that grouchiness)!
It was the fact that the old man was so sad to lose his wife. They had built a dream together and he was going to see it through right to the end, despite the many obstacles that were put in his way. However, it transpired after looking through his wife’s scrap-book that he had already fulfilled her dream before she died. I also thought it was so touching how the crabby old man and the overly cheerful little boy managed to find a connection with each other at the end.
I am pretty useless nowadays at watching films without falling asleep, but my inner child always keeps me awake during the animated ones!
With three days left to go on the Blogging From A-Z Challenge we are getting to the really tricky letters of the alphabet, and my poor brain is having to work extra hard.Today we have the letter ‘X’. Now this letter looks a little uncompromising, a bit grumpy and cross with its arms folded over its chest! I am not surprised seeing as it rarely gets a turn in the starring role at the beginning of a word, However today I am giving it top billing and would like to present to you…….
X-Rated! Yes of course, this had to be the obvious choice for me, It can be immoral and indecent, obscene and offensive. This word is the sexy and steamy DVD that comes out on ‘special occasions’ when the kids aren’t about! This is the gory and gruesome horror movie that gives you nightmares for weeks!
This is the seedy cinema, with the hardcore porno films; the pervy punter looking for some ‘adult entertainment;’ the young couple having a bit of rumpy-pumpy in the park!
X-Rated to me, is the kind of thing you do not want to associate with if the kids (or the parents) are around!
This week’s Weekly Haiku Challenge by Ronovan is a nice romantic one, inspired by his wife of 26 years. We have the words ‘love’ and ‘last’ to use. I have actually written two and couldn’t decide which one to use, so have sent them both!
True Love:
A love that will last
despite the trials of life
my love remains true,
or
Waiting For Love:
I was last in line
To find the love I yearned for
My patience paid off
We are in the last week now of the wonderful Blogging From A-Z Challenge which brings us to the letter ‘W.’ This is a bit of a misnomer really as it resembles two ‘v’s rather than two ‘u’s! It is quite a broad and welcoming letter. The wise elder statesman of letters. However, the word I have chosen is perhaps more in the wacky and wild category……. I give you
Whirligig! I love even the sound of this word. It is whizzing around wildly, washing twirling and whirling around in the breeze. Frenzied spinning around and around spiralling out of control almost.
It pirouettes, daintily, then gathering speed until it is gyrating like a whirling dervish, with robes forming huge circles as they gather pace!
I feel giddy just thinking about this word!
Celebrities sometimes have a lot to answer for. Many of them are role models to our young and impressionable who want to ‘fit in.’ They think that by emulating some of their idols behaviour they too will be popular and successful, even if it makes them look ridiculous!
The latest craze, apparently attributed to Kylie Jenner, is to make your lips look like you have been punched in the mouth! Now why anyone would find this attractive is beyond me, but what do I know? I am old and past it!
To achieve said look, also described as bee-stung lips (if you ask me it is more like anaphylaxis after being stung), you are supposed to put a glass (preferably a shot glass) over the lips, suck all the air out, prise it off, and admire your massive mouth!
This is just wrong on so many levels! Not only is it dangerous, (the glass could break cutting into the mouth), but for some, the ‘trout pout’ look takes a few days to go back down again. A few youngsters have suffered bruising as well as split lips, and even for those where it has supposedly ‘worked,’ they resemble a duck with an abscess!
Unfortunately, Miss Hap has had a go at this without saying anything beforehand. I am annoyed as I had vaguely heard about it before but didn’t think she would want to try it! I am hoping that it will go down quickly as it looks painful apart from anything else.
Next time she wants a drink she can have a plastic beaker and not a glass!
I have already done one post for ‘V’ for the Blogging From A-Z challenge which can be read here.
However, in that post I mentioned that I considered using the word vajazzle but wasn’t sure if I could make enough out of it. I didn’t realise that some of you are not familiar with the word, so I will attempt to enlighten you as to its (very limited) use!
Now us ladies are quite known for our fondness for a bit of sparkle. Some glitz and glitter can add a certain razamatazz to an outfit, and we all love to look our best. Good grooming is an essential part of the modern woman’s routine, from head to toe and everything in between!
Some ladies like to have a little bit of bling as an added extra, that, although may not be on public view (unless they are either very brave or very tacky), is still expertly applied, usually in a salon. This brings me to the …
Vajazzle. It is a form of decoration, specifically for the pubic mound area on women (it helps if this is completely bald)! An assortment of little crystal gems are painstakingly applied in a design of your choice to the area, and kind of stuck on to keep them in place. It is supposed to, ahem, enhance the appearance!
I would imagine that in order to go to all that trouble to impress, there must be some chance of a bit of action at the end of the evening! I cannot imagine this would be the most comfy of accessories to wear though; being rather scratchy to say the least. Not to mention how it must chafe whatever it comes into close contact with!
I’m surprised it caught on!
We are romping onwards with the Blogging From A-Z Challenge and have now found ourselves at the letter ‘V.’ This letter is very open, arms or even legs akimbo, either way, very friendly! It can also be very virtuous or perhaps even vile, or violent. There are several choices I could have gone with here, vajazzle being one of them, but i could not make enough of it, so perhaps another time, So instead I am going to for the rufty-tufty and oh so manly…………………
Virile. Now this is definitely my kind of word, as you might have guessed! It is red-blooded and randy, hot and horny, strong and sexy. Oh yes, this word is very masculine and macho, a kind of ‘sling you over the shoulder and carry you off for a bit of rumpy-pumpy’ kind of thing. It is fertile and flirty, ready for some love at any given moment, It energetic and exhausting.
Phew! I have got myself all of a tizzy now!
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