The World of Siân

Last night saw my delightful friend Erika and me heading off to participate in being in the audience for the filming of Ruth Jones’ Christmas cracker. Having never really been involved in an audience like this before I wasn’t sure what to expect, well it was great fun, my arms ached and hands stung a little from all the clapping. Ruth Jones was fabulous and looked lovely in a glitzy black number. Her guests were brilliant and really got into the spirit of things, even with some delays and retakes. The house band was great and got named the Gastric Band. She had a delightful Barbershop Quartet who had lovely candy cane looking ties and sang wonderfully. Even the guy there to warm up the audience was good and kept us amused. I don’t want to give too much away about the program as you will have to see it for yourselves when it is broadcasted on BBC2, hopefully you will be able to see me and my friend in the audience. We were sat in the second row from the front, by the stage with th...

Well….. What can I say…? I imagined 2010 being a great year for me and all my friends. When really it’s been a good year for me and an average or bad year for some of my friends. However, I have been able to offer tea and sympathy to them and hopefully some grains of advice that might help them, if not just someone to listen to them. I am very thankful that (touch wood) I haven’t had any trauma in my life this year and it’s all gone smoothly for a change, this is also good as I have been able to give my friends my full attention when things have been going wrong for them. Obviously I can’t divulge too much as it’s their business and up to them to broadcast. I am now hoping that 2011 will be a fab year for all. There is a lot to look forward to already, well for me anyway, there is Rome, 30th Birthday’s, possibly Holland and a wedding. I think nothing cures all ills and calms people down as well as a nice cup of tea. I can be quite a tea snob and like my Assam, Oolong, cha etc. I a...

Don’t you just hate websites that claim to have unusual gifts on them and then you have a look and there is nothing out of the ordinary at all. Maybe I am being unfair and I have just seen the same thing on all of them too often, or I am not looking in the right places. Another thing that bugs me is the gift finding services, they think that all men like golf or football and all nan’s like lavender and rose!!! Well I have had enough!!! Below you can see the cream of the crop for different gifts, not so much unusual but something a bit different that people might not think of buying for themselves: www.truffleshuffle.com http://www.love-eco.co.uk/ http://www.martinsjerkedmeat.com/osCommerce/index.php?osCsid=61d0b6b5cc8b66820d192490ff1d6442 http://www.kategarey.com/index.htm http://www.aplaceforeverything.co.uk/shop/index.php?page=588 http://www.suck.uk.com/index.php http://sallypointer.com/shop/ http://folksy.com/buying http://www.ethicalsuperstore.com/ http://www.campusgifts.co.uk/...

The time is fast approaching where we start to think about fun and frolics of the festive season and as the month of December continues people become more and more manic and more and more insane with their shopping antics. If people in general aren’t already zombie like as they trudge around the shops, especially men who have been dragged along and then find themselves in the lingerie department of a store. One of my pet hates are men lingering around the aisles of female clothes shops as their girlfriend/wife bustle about, they are just getting in the way. Free the poor souls and let them go to a more manly shop whilst you’re in there or don’t bring them at all. This time of year I spare myself all of this turmoil and tend to do all my Christmas shopping online. This sees me floating down the virtual aisles of numerous shops with freedom, and without pushchairs trying to run me over as well and shop assistants who are both too friendly and cheerful or are completely opposite and r...

On the 10th October a group of remarkable people (the First Allied Airborne Association and the Screaming Eagles Living History Group) and I participated in what turned out to be a nearly 13 mile march in aid of Help for Heroes. The money raised by those doing the march will be going towards helping those who have put themselves in the front line abroad and at home. Those who have volunteered for this did the 13 miles in full kit. We were dressed in WWII U.S. Airborne and other uniforms and marching the 13 mile route that the 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne would have taken. The march started at Littlecote House and finished back at Littlecote House via the town of Aldbourne. This was a mean feat and by the end of it I was fit for nothing. Unlike our troops of today and the past when they would have been expected to then fight or tend to the wounded. I have the utmost respect for them. So I have a sense of achievement that I completed this march and didn’t die, ...

I have had inspiration from a couple of different blogs and have decided next year I shall start a 365 days of t-shirts. I am an avid T-shirt wearer and this constitutes most of my wardrobe, so much so I must have 365 days worth and could wear one for each different day of the year. This could also be my new year’s resolution. It’s going to be hard to do a blog a day but simple in the fact it could just be a photo. Also I am almost certain to buy new t-shirts next year and within the coming months. Anybody happy to donate an individual different t-shirt to the cause too is more than welcome. It is mad to think of next year already but my diary is already filling up with different events and celebrations. Also next year see’s the year of the 30th birthdays, where most of my friends including myself will be turning 30, eeep!!!!

OMG, I can’t believe it’s the September already, time flies when you’re having fun. I have only two weeks left in work and then I am off for just over two weeks as well, no where particularly exciting, just West Wales, which is quite beautiful as well. Himself and I are planning a lot of walking, mainly along the Heritage Coastal path, which is really lovely. I am also planning on doing a lot of book reading (I have so many to get through and have been reading the same one for far too long as I don’t get much time to read) and also a lot of going on the wii fit. Of course to balance this out will be a lot of nice meals and good wine. I was pondering this morning when I couldn’t get back to sleep the meaning of the phrase (or words) “The Human Race”. I decided that it is called this because a lot of people seem to be in such a rush to do things, and look at it as a kind of race. The first to get married, the first to have children etc. etc. I don’t see what all the rush is, especi...