tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162531902024-03-13T22:35:24.429+00:00SlaminskyAnniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.comBlogger796125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-54773358796242910522009-06-21T18:43:00.000+01:002009-06-22T12:39:28.265+01:00Slaminsky, schlaminskyYou know what? I've been doing this since 2005, and I think it's about time to shoot it in the head and put it out of its misery. (Or send it out to pasture, if you prefer.)Thanks for reading my friends. Bon chance.Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-26795019697882782002009-06-15T07:39:00.000+01:002009-06-15T08:28:04.788+01:00Not down with the kidsMarking the SATS writing tests, some of the little boys have choosen to write about football in their short writing task. I've now come across several references about having to 'skill up' other people. Excuse my footballing ignorance, but what does this mean? Is it a technical term?One of my favourites in my group, answering the question 'Why do you like this game?' has written in regard to Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-14641292045044982992009-06-13T18:42:00.003+01:002010-03-02T21:17:08.596+00:00Which tattoo?Clearly, I am having a midlife crisis. Rather than getting involved with inappropriate men (bad) or getting a red Ferrari (can't drive anyway) I thought I'd get a tattoo on my next birthday. In the past I've gone along for moral support with no less than 5 friends, always thinking secretly "Hahaha! You'll never get me under the needle!" as they groaned their way through it.Anyway, what should it Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-50600869967766806612009-06-11T06:34:00.003+01:002009-06-11T06:46:31.979+01:00Meeting of StylesLast weekend was the world-wide Meeting of Styles, the London one was in Bacon Street, off Brick Lane. Most of it is not really my cup of tea, but it was amazing to watch all these artists out in force with their spraycans, and you have to marvel at their skill. I wish I could take the kids to see it, but clearly SATS SATS SATS and TESTS TESTS TESTS are more important than seeing live street Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-808392148798176562009-05-29T09:58:00.003+01:002009-05-29T10:03:07.436+01:00More witty and intelligent contentRight, I cannot put it off any longer. The agent's coming around tomorrow and I must do some hoovering. I think I last hoovered in November. I think the carpet might be cream. As Quentin Crisp said about housework, after the first 6 years the dust doesn't get any worse. (The great thing about living alone is that you can be a total lazy slut and no one can nag you about it.) It's also a good Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-66604798436145611472009-05-26T13:27:00.003+01:002009-05-26T13:28:15.688+01:00TwitterWhat I made when I should have been writing 34 end of year reports. God, I'm bored.Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-71547917425440886882009-05-23T10:08:00.005+01:002009-07-21T04:13:47.389+01:00Asian footballersThere, that surprised you, didn't it? She's all about the clothes and the shoes, you thought.Why are there no Asian footballers?I asked K, our PE co-ordinator, who is brilliant and gets the little inner-city kids fencing and learning judo and cricket and rugby (famous rugby player visited us, the male and female teachers were goggling in awe for widely different reasons) and competing in stuff Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-63743983334347579362009-05-16T20:11:00.005+01:002009-05-16T20:13:49.715+01:00CorsetThis is what I want for my birthday. I think being unable to breathe would be a small price to pay for it.Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-32568477160391593362009-05-10T18:10:00.005+01:002009-05-10T18:30:07.674+01:00Guilty liberalsI'm walking near Brick Lane when a man stops me. He has no front teeth and looks, well, rough.'Sorry to stop you love' he's not quite looking at me 'I need 70p, I'm trying to get money to get a cab to Homerton Hospital, I came off my bike...' he rolls up his sleeve and holy shit, there is a chunk, a complete chunk of flesh been taken out of his forearm, and blood is running down his hand. 'Oh GodAnniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-57619888922405081572009-05-10T12:10:00.002+01:002009-05-10T12:14:09.047+01:00One for the girlsOkay, which shoes with the dress?Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-61098897900638053742009-05-09T10:09:00.003+01:002009-05-09T10:14:31.415+01:00Does this mean they want to eat you?"Researchers set up four situations to see what men find hot; two variables made the guys feel financially insecure while the other two variables tested them when they were physically hungry. The men who felt financially insecure chose women who were about two pounds heavier than those chosen by men who felt financially stable. And hungry guys tended to go for women who were about three pounds Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-47718831148758157132009-05-06T07:15:00.003+01:002009-05-06T07:16:27.611+01:00Buy less live longer.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Buy less live longer, originally uploaded by Slaminsky.How are you coping with the recession? Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-53201979773920320762009-05-05T11:01:00.001+01:002009-05-05T13:00:37.819+01:00Not now, BernardI've been thinking about children's books, specifically about making a children's book (nothing fancy, just a rhyming counting book) and you know, it's really not as easy as it looks. In fact good children's books are much harder than writing an adult novel, where you have the luxury of banging on at your leisure for a few hundred pages.For example, some children's books have to be read and Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-77642079764451058722009-04-30T20:14:00.002+01:002009-04-30T20:15:28.417+01:00LV.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Louis Vuitton birthday cake, originally uploaded by Slaminsky. just a heads up. My birthday's in July, btw.(see in Dalston.)Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-26780112169777381272009-04-28T07:16:00.002+01:002009-04-28T07:20:11.857+01:00Swines"The companies [like GlaxoSmithKlein] will do 'well' out of this" says a cheery pharmaceutical analyst on Radio 4 "so in a way, we need something like this to happen, to keep them doing research into diseases like swine flu..."There's something diabolical, uniquely 21st century wrong about this, it's just too early for me to think about what it is.Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-24674477643123846732009-04-26T15:57:00.001+01:002009-04-26T15:59:17.372+01:00Pastures newDalston or Leytonstone?Can't quite believe I'm on the move again.Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-8109230969329202842009-04-24T07:17:00.003+01:002009-04-24T07:20:19.116+01:00New York street art.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Stencil, originally uploaded by Slaminsky. I had a street art fest in New York, the range and variety was pretty mind-blowing. Dragged poor Jan all around SoHo in the pouring rain, with her kindly holding my umbrella while IAnniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-88904822052957721402009-04-19T20:20:00.002+01:002009-07-21T04:17:43.286+01:00Stood upOh well, I didn't like you anyway - d'you hear?Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-38803242502531604262009-04-19T02:57:00.011+01:002010-12-06T18:53:42.321+00:00DogtiredSomeone asked me recently why I did this, and gave me cause to doubt (again) the wisdom of putting all your personal shit out there on the internet. It's just attention seeking egotistical bollocks. Believe me, I ask myself the same thing.Then I find myself in a situation like now, & remember why it's a good thing sometimes. Here it is, 3.00 am. lying awake, tired tired tired, but can't Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-48836169124918387612009-04-18T18:01:00.001+01:002009-04-18T18:14:17.074+01:00the Clement Freud Memorial blogmeetIt's a rainy night in Soho. A man accosts 5 bloggers outside the French House, asking for change. He is, maybe, Scottish, and well refreshed.'I'll be honest' he says. 'I want a drink.'Such a good sales pitch, we all give him change.He insists on kissing the ladies, and leaves.OyeBilly: 'He's such a liar, I bet he'll buy a cup of tea with that.'For alternative accounts, click here and here.Ooh, Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-91736514543848057382009-04-13T03:47:00.003+01:002009-04-13T04:37:39.265+01:00Postcard.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bailout, originally uploaded by Slaminsky. Having a lovely time. Wish you were here.xAnniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-46848942769196915432009-04-08T10:15:00.001+01:002009-04-08T10:17:38.291+01:00Fear of flyingI don't like it I don't like it I don't like it. Why am I going on a plane again?Oh yes, to see Other Places.See you all in a week. Be good.Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-48170261634083698502009-04-07T09:00:00.004+01:002009-04-07T09:35:08.718+01:00Free associatingJacqui Smith on the Today programme, on signing off her husband's porn rental on parliamentary expenses:'I wish someone had brought it to my attention earlier...'Usually John Humphries gets on my nerves, but he's right on it like a lion on a wildebeest. 'YOU signed it off!' he points out, and suggests that it's enough for her to resign. But Jacqui, the very model of a modern politician, would Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-82679975896632504732009-04-05T17:12:00.003+01:002009-04-05T17:13:32.300+01:00DinosaursI want to go and take photos of the anatomically incorrect dinosaurs in Crystal Palace before they fall to pieces altogether. Have never been to Crystal Palace before. Who's with me?Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16253190.post-71705490248065860072009-04-03T18:06:00.000+01:002009-04-05T16:57:13.207+01:00Dumb and happy, or clever and miserableWhich is better?Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.com12