Sunday Summary Bank Holiday Monday Missive | Who knows what tomorrow brings ...

The winner of the last Lyrics Competition is ... drum roll, please ...

Ma QB!

The answer was Underground by David Bowie (from Labyrinth).

Mom: IOU chocs.

{"We never give them chocolate ..."}

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Dear FOQ

This fortnight, I have mostly been ...

Reading 📕

{The Secret of Crickley Hall | James Herbert}

... The serial was better.

I know, right?

Watching 📺💿

How I Met Your Mother

Which (if you put aside the sexist elements) is still pretty legen–...

... –dary!

And I'm not going to lie, the episodes around Marshall losing his father ... gah.

Too many feels.


I finally got around to watch, through partly averted eyes, the last episode of:

The Handmaid's Tale.

That Serena Joy. Doesn't really suit her name, does she.

Taggart (kickin' it old-skool) | Nest of Vipers

and spotting some jammy 'star' cameos:

{Michelle Gomez aka Sue White from Green Wing}

{Left, Dougray Scott aka ... er, actor dude known for things.}

and outright mocking the acting.

(Sorry about the potty mouth. Blame Nineties scriptwriters. Filthy. Filthy.)

And for old times' sake

Grease

{Sigh ... Jeff Conaway ... sigh ...}

Man. How did I not notice how old they all were... says the woman who is probably now even older than they were then ... ? Probably blinded by the crippling crushes I had on half the cast ...

(Sorry, school friends, it really was laborious, wasn't it.)

Still love it, though.

Always will. Especially when it's taken me several hundred viewings to notice for the first time Jan curling a fork in Patty's hair during the 'Summer Nights' sequence.

Listening 👂🎶

Friends, I am pleased to say that the inaugural quirky brunette Spotify playlist has now Gone Live:



The 30 Days of Music playlist will follow in September but for now, enjoy a peculiar selection of songs that have arbitrarily struck my fancy over the last couple of weeks.

Miley Cyrus does indeed feature.

Suspend your judgement, people. She's just bein' Miley.


Doing Other Lovely Things 😃

... though with limited substantial photographic evidence.

1) Visiting my second-cousin Jane and her mum for a lovely sunny lunch on Saturday;

2) Sitting out in the park for lunch on Sunday (until the sound of the screeching women presiding over the loud family picnic/rounders game got too much).

OK, there is a photograph of that ...

... of sorts.

3) Meeting my former English teacher and his family for coffee on Monday (hi Garry, Jane and Esme, lovely to see you, hope the attire-shopping was successful!);

4) Sorting my flat (again);

There are photographs of that too. Riveting viewing, truly. I shan't bore you with those (besides, if you're Natalie, you've seen too many already and with Snapchat filters to boot).

Imagine, if you will, me, looking sweaty, sitting on a loft ledge with a heap o' plastic boxes full o' crap. Or, failing that, this guy:

{Mr Trebus | via here}

(With special thanks to my virtual lookie-outie friends: Natalie, Jos, Jenny and Chris!)

Pinterest Pins of the Fortnight 📌

Fortnightly Web Finds 🕸🔎

Serious(ish) 😐 (and a smidge self-indulgent but hey, my blog, my indulgences, peeps)

• Why introverts hate talking on the phone | (except to their mummies) | on Introvert, Dear

• There's nothing wrong with spending time alone at weekends | Preach! | on Introvert, Dear

Side note: once you set aside that "everyone's judging/pitying me for being alone" attitude; you get to a certain point in life when you realise your coupled/parent friends almost definitely envy your nothing-filled weekends ... 😃

• "I am not a mother, but I am a grown woman" | Marie Phillips on The Pool

Silly(ish) 🤡

Not sure my slight obsession with Despacito is ready to be shelved yet:

• Despacito on sax | Jazz. Nice. | via Charlie | here

• This little girl breaks into dance whenever she hears ... yep, Despacito again | and she has MOVES | via ol' school chum Kirsty | here

Sweet (new category for all the cute) 🍬

• Flamingo in booties! Flamingo in booties! This is not a drill! | with thanks to Ellen, Jo (and Jim) and Ma QB | here

{photo via here}

• This little guy, persevering:

| on YouTube | With thanks to Evie for this and I'm not ashamed to say I had a little tear in my eye by the end!

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Well, as the sparsity of this 'ere posterola will testify, it's been a quiet fortnight.

I shall mostly be making up for that in the next fortnight.

You have been warned.

But in the meantime, stay cool.

Like this dude.

qb xx