It's 1.00am. I have to be in Castlewellan in 11 hours. And you've guessed it - I haven't packed yet.
There's no real reason for it. Mostly just down to me thinking I had loads of time only to discover that I, in fact, did not have loads of time. I had great plans of blogging this week - where I went on my bike and exam answers amongst other general stuff. But you'll excuse me if I first of all make sure that I have enough clothes for this week instead.
August. August is going to be my blogging month. Yup, August.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
30th International Tina Day
It really is the prettiest day, isn't it? Let me just write it so you can admire how pretty it is - 22nd July. And any way you choose to write it, it's still pretty - 22.07, July 22, 07/22. I can't quite put my finger on it, something about the prettiness of July (or the 7) and the loveliness of 22.
Yes, I do heart my birthday! And even if this one is the break into a new decade of the life of Tina, I still love it. I was at home for this one, first one since 2004! And it was the first birthday I got to spend with my nephew! That boy makes just regular, normal days more fun so you can imagine what he does to birthdays!!
As is customary on my birthday (no matter where I am) it rained today. All morning in fact! Which was disappointing as I wanted to go out and ride my new bike!! Yes, I got a bike for my birthday!
Here I am on it! This was just me road testing it. Don't worry I have a helmet and wear proper shoes!
As is the camp tradition it's got a name (using the colour of it and a meteorological term) and so this is Silver Blizzard!
Tomorrow, the birthday celebrations shall continue some more! I'm going to go out for a proper ride and then out in the evening! Yeeeoooo!
Although the birthday pavlova is already finished. Boo.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
London calling
It has taken me longer than I thought to upload the photos. [Just incase the people at Blogger stumble across this, your new system sucks. Like seriously sucks. I like that I can add more than one, but you have to, have to, have to let me add text below the photo. And I would like to be able to do that without scratching my eyes out in frustration.]
Anyway, as you might have guessed from the list before we went to London for Wimbledon, but we're going to build up to that. So here's the non-Wimbledon photos.
We met Chris Moyles!! He was so nice to us, seeing as we just walked up to him on the street outside Radio 1 as he was having a cigarette. He talked to us for a good couple of minutes, asking us what we were going, where we were from etc etc. I am sure he didn't care at all, but he did a good job of pretending. He's got his arm round Ruth while he hides his cigarette with me. Oddly I respect that, no one needs a cigarette draped round them.
We passed through Leicester Square and saw the build up to the Eclipse premiere. This was the scene at approximately 11.30am. A good six hours before anything, like anything happened. And none of the main stars were even showing up. Oh you'd have to be keen, wouldn't you?
You don't often see an English knight take a cigarette break. This was rapidly becoming a theme for the day. The cigarettes, not the knights.
Who remembers Due South? I used to love that show. This guy reminded me of him. Think it was his cheekbones. Oh and the hat. And the red jacket. And the boots.
All it takes is a free balloon Canada. It was Canada Day, can you tell?
At the Cuuuube recording. I've never seen it before, but I get the jist from Greg James' The Square. Basically they have to do reasonably simple things but when you're inside the Cube, it's much harder. We were there for the celebrity special. Oh no, don't get excited, we had some woman from Coronation Street that wasn't Deirdre or Rita, the only two I know. Philip Schofield was very nice and professional in between takes and at the end posed for photos. I put one on Twitter, which you can see here where Philip himself retweeted it!
We also saw the filming of one more show, Perfection. It's hosted by Nick Knowles and will be going out on afternoons on BBC2. It's no 'Millionaire', but was cool to see it filmed.
So that's the non tennis stuff. Wimbledon is coming next. If Blogger allows it.
Anyway, as you might have guessed from the list before we went to London for Wimbledon, but we're going to build up to that. So here's the non-Wimbledon photos.
We met Chris Moyles!! He was so nice to us, seeing as we just walked up to him on the street outside Radio 1 as he was having a cigarette. He talked to us for a good couple of minutes, asking us what we were going, where we were from etc etc. I am sure he didn't care at all, but he did a good job of pretending. He's got his arm round Ruth while he hides his cigarette with me. Oddly I respect that, no one needs a cigarette draped round them.
We passed through Leicester Square and saw the build up to the Eclipse premiere. This was the scene at approximately 11.30am. A good six hours before anything, like anything happened. And none of the main stars were even showing up. Oh you'd have to be keen, wouldn't you?
You don't often see an English knight take a cigarette break. This was rapidly becoming a theme for the day. The cigarettes, not the knights.
Who remembers Due South? I used to love that show. This guy reminded me of him. Think it was his cheekbones. Oh and the hat. And the red jacket. And the boots.
All it takes is a free balloon Canada. It was Canada Day, can you tell?
Me and two people I've never seen before at Buckingham Palace.
There were loads of people outside in their fancy outfits. Garden Party! Turned out it was for Princess Anne's 60th birthday. Happy birthday Ma'am.
At the Cuuuube recording. I've never seen it before, but I get the jist from Greg James' The Square. Basically they have to do reasonably simple things but when you're inside the Cube, it's much harder. We were there for the celebrity special. Oh no, don't get excited, we had some woman from Coronation Street that wasn't Deirdre or Rita, the only two I know. Philip Schofield was very nice and professional in between takes and at the end posed for photos. I put one on Twitter, which you can see here where Philip himself retweeted it!
We also saw the filming of one more show, Perfection. It's hosted by Nick Knowles and will be going out on afternoons on BBC2. It's no 'Millionaire', but was cool to see it filmed.
So that's the non tennis stuff. Wimbledon is coming next. If Blogger allows it.
Monday, July 05, 2010
Not a bad list
Last week, inside 48 hours these are the people I met/spoke to/took pictures of/was within 50 metres of:
Chris Moyles
Philip Schofield
Sue Barker
Boris Becker
Tim Henman
John McEnroe
Greg Rusedski
David Lloyd
David Beckham (and Brooklyn)
David Frost
Michael Parkinson
Katherine Jenkins
Prince Andrew
Prince Michael of Kent
Jonathan Edwards
Tomas Berdych
Novak Djokovic
Rafael Nadal
Andy Murray
Judy Murray
Uncle Toni
Martina Navratilova
Jana Novotna
Garry Richardson
Clare Balding
Mansour Bahrami
John Inverdale
Todd Woodbridge
Richard Krajicek
Jonas Bjorkman
Henri Lenconte
Peter Fleming
Jeremy Bates
Nick Knowles
Pretty impressive. Needless to say report to follow.
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