I am writing a book partially set in Cambridge UK...
...Cambridge, UK is the inspiration for the name of Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...Cambridge, MA is the birthplace of Matt Damon...
...Matt Damon was born on October 8th...
...8th October is the day that Che Guevara was captured...
...Guevara died in 1967, the year of birth of......ME!!!!!
All the fun you can have with Wikipedia...
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Hmmmmm - a different set of 6 degrees me thinks. Where did we get such info from before the web existed?
Popping in and out again. be back later.
EG
Ok - I'm back again for a little while. I know you did hoarding and paperwork mountains and the likes earlier this month, but I am so disorganised at the moment that I'm only now catching-up with that.
Have just been making my way through carrier bags to find the bills that I know I need to pay. Found some but not all. The thought of going through more bags fills me with dread. Did find some concert tickets - had been wondering when they would arrive - looks like they've been here at least a month. Can't find new debit card which replaces one which expires today. Anybody sub me for lunch tomorrow!
I'm in such a mucking fuddle!!!!!!!
EG
Oh, Oh, Oh...am I first? NOT - well done EG!
Well, I was looking at Raclette grills on ebay/JL etc and the time completely ran away with me. No life on Mars today then.
6 degrees of separation fascinates me, I've not seen the film - but am informed ( by the bride to be actually) it is a great film.
On Stuart Maconie's show he does a segment of the same name
Stuart had his Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2001, collaborating with fellow BBC 6 Music presenter Andrew Collins, and with writer and pundit David Quantick, in Lloyd Cole Knew my Father, which has also been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
David Quantick made a fantastic radio documentary on Bristol music scene, and included Massive Attack as a major influence of the trip hop movement
Rob DelNaja (lead singer of Massive Attack) once drank all my mum's light ale, and after a night at the famous Dug Out club I drove him (and others from the wild bunch) to the Severn Bridge service station where we had breakfast including sausages
I developed salmon sausages for Tesco 3 years ago..a major innovation (sadly no longer with us) and NOT full of eyes, ears and ars*holes....but pure flesh!
Which bring it back to me!
Is this what you mean moose? Wikipedia R O C K S!
You what, I'm going to do this tomorrow night, cos it sure stops me from snacking!
Sleep tight, or Good morning everyone!
Love Caroline x
of course i should say..you KNOW what...I know that is bad English, but I am writing as I speak...
Really going to bed now..that's 3 nights on the trot with no snacks..yeah me!
Lots of love
Caroline x
P.S Mr C says Hello
Interesting! I'll be back later - got to try and persuade a certain little monkey that she should be asleep!
Did anyone else see this? Our blogmaister from next door is such a honey! But who is Natasha Shishmanian? Is she the girl on the sofa?!
http://fametastic.co.uk/archive/20070222/4863/billie-piper-calls-in-ex-husband-chris-evans-for-comforting/
Poor Billie.
I had worked out 6 degrees for the Queen, but it was less, so don't know if I grasped the concept right!?
Alex is a friend of ours, a retired minister.
He was minister to The Queen Mother when he was in Caithness.
The late Queen Mother was the Queen's Mother.
So that's 4 degrees, is it not? Or did I lose the plot?
Natasha Shishmanian is a golf pro. No wonder CLP was saying golf was more popular than angling!
EG - I can sub you for lunch!
Caroline - we love our raclette, but the cheese is sooooooooo expensive!
This could work for anyone couldnt it..... am loving this.
I met and looked after Brian BLessed when he did an 'evening with' during HotHouse05 an arts festival i worked on. He was the loveliest, most generous man with his time who regaled me with stories of his family, his animals and his pal Ken Brannagh. .
As well as being friends, Brian has appeared in several films with/directed by British Film Director Ken(neth) Brannagh.
Ken was married to Emma Thompson who in the film Love Actually was married to Alan RIckman (swoon)
Alan Rickman was in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with Timothy Spall (a fine actor) who was in the film the last samurai with the most fabulous comedian in the world ever. Billy Connolly.
So that means that me and billy connolly.....we're like that. (she says, holding up crossed fingers!). And i love billy connolly.
morning !
Moose - i actually think that the 6 degrees thing you did in your book would make a great TV show. You should pitch it to some tv producers.... it would be amazing to watch!
Am trying desperately to find six degrees of separation between myself and George Clooney, but it's not working.
Caroline - re Raclette sets - DON'T DO IT! I was on holiday in France some years ago and the hotel menu was heavily biased towards Raclette. The smell for those not eating cheese was overpowering. So bad in fact a fellow diner keeled over face down in his dinner. The story was he had a heart attack (poor man) but I think it was just a cover up for the first recorded case of cheese poisoning.
Hello :o)
Where is everyone today?? It's hump day so are we all on the slippery slope down to the weekend and is it one of those slides they don't let pregnant people on??
Annalog - cvertainly not the first case of cheese poisoning, i suffer from that each time I go to France, I just can't help myself...Am V. disappointed to be pregnant when I will be going this summer (supposedly camping but not sure about that at 6 months gone?) so will be bringing loads back in cool box for freezing ready for after the birth!
Re 6 degree of separation - Jo to Cliff Richard is my challenge, will be back later!
Hiya Jo, im around - it is quiet isnt it. maybe we are all trying to find our 6 degrees! I want to do another one, but fear being caught by one of the office I am in today.
hope bump is doing well, and the ginger biscuits are satisfying the nausea. I found marmite worked brilliantly!
Good morning all! Did everyone get on a bus, go for a trip and leave us behind? I don't remember being sent to the naughty corner, do you anna, Jo and Annalog?!
It's pelting it down here today .... and we have to go visiting friends and relatives. Just can't get motivated!
Hope you're all having a fabulous day!
Huggles, Susan <><
OK - so to cliff richards I go
Cliff Richards to Sue (I'm not very good at picking my wardrobe)Barker who was romantically involved with Sir Cliff.
Sue Barker to Ally McCoist - easy really, contestant on Question of Sport.
Ally McCoist to Gazza - Great mates famous for boozy sessions.
Gazza to Alan Shearer - Both in Euro 96 squad
Alan Shearer to me dad - who used him for a football campaign for the FA
Me Dad to me - obvious link.
Well, i though that would be more difficult than it was!
:o) Jo
I reckon this could be more fun if we suggest a 6 degree ending point for each other.
Jo - i challenge you to 6 degree yourself to Jeremy Clarkson.
I was going to ask to come in, only the door was locked (I thought) but it must have been jammed! I am now scared that someone might ask me to do the 6 degrees which is very interesting but I don't know anyone famous or, to my knowledge anyone who knows anyone famous! It is great if you can make links like that though!
So I thought we could have a bit of a giggle instead!:
One little Boy said, "We need to be baptised because no one will come out and play with us.
Will you baptise us?"
"Sure," said the Janitor.
He took them into the bathroom and dunked their little heads in the toilet bowl, one at a time.
Then he said, "You are now baptised!".
When they got outside, one of them asked,
"What religion do you think we are now?"
The oldest one said,
"We're not Kathlick, ......because they pour the water on you."
"We're not Babtis, .because they dunk all of you in the water."
"We're not Methdiss, .....because they just sprinkle water on You."
The littlest one said, "Didn't you smell that water!"
They all joined in asking, "Yeah! What do you think that means?"
"I think it means we're Pisspatarians
Happy hump day afternoon to one and all.........looking forward to reading more of the 6 degrees!
x
Anna,
great idea...you do Ben Affleck but it has to go via Kim Jong Il
moose - i love a challenge.
Happy Hump day all!
Just having a bit of a small pizza type lunch break thinking about 6 degrees. Anyone want to suggest someone for me? I'm also putting together a load of photos and information for Ronnie the charicature painter so I can send it all off for him to make me 50th birthday and 50th wedding anniversary paintings for my best mate and my mum & dad.
Hmmm ... Lyndyloo ... Ewan MacGregor
It's awfully quiet today, isn't it? And oh so serious next door! What's in the clouds today?
Amanda - I'm also panicing incase someone asks me to do a 6 degrees! I keep getting less than 6 for some folk!
Liam Neesan ('scuse spelling, too lazy to google!):
My sister was a ballet dancer. Her bunch of twinkle toes choreographed and danced in Rob Roy. So she met Liam Neesan.
That's only 3, isn't it?
ok Ewan McGregor was with Nick Nairn at Somerfield’s store in Davidson Mains branch, Crammond in Edinburgh on Saturday 16th December.. Nick Nairn knows tv chef James Martin who had Chris Evans on his show who has played Steve Walsh (ex Leicester City God) and I have Steve's mobile number in my phone!! How about that?
hello everyone
6 degrees is fun isn't it
Moose, you know who to get a girl going!
OK
Lyndyloo you to Donny Osmond Or David Cassidy - you choose!!
annalog -by the way, the raclette is not for me, it is a special request wedding present from the bride to be - to me alone!
Susan, Billie and Chris are also on 3 pages of the celebrity magazine Heat ( other trash but i like it magazines) are available
hey, Jo - to cliff richard...Well done! hope bump is ok
Anna, even though it's a fab idea ..moose'd be beaten - there's already a US TV show called 6 degrees
hello everyone - gotta go and have a shower (couldn't straight after gym, cos tradesman was insulting my eaves! but he's gone now, so no embarressing meeting on the landing!
Love Caroline x
b*gger and Blast
I didn't save my lengthy comment, and then when I struck "publish your comment" I got error message,
and so have lost all my words of hilarity
Sorry chaps
all i can remember is I suggested
Lyndyloo - you to Simon Le Bon or John Taylor - you choose!
Gotta rush now, cos the tradesman who was insulating my eaves has departed, so now i can have a shower (after gym) I left off showering whilst he was in the house for fear of chance meeting whilst in my grubby bathrobe!
Love caroline x
What a cr*p memory i have! and i stil can't work out computer things...dreadful, i am.
susan, a challenge awaits - you to Ricky Gervais! Mind you with your connections, he probably has his holiday cottage next door!
love caroline
Well, I've tried and tried and can't do it - 6 degrees, that is! Also, I'm a little afraid who I might end up with! Atilla the Hun, no doubt!
Still, it's great fun and very interesting!
Jo, you will be back to eating your beloved cheese in what will seem next to no time at all. You were saying yesterday that it's ages until you go on maternity leave, but honestly it will be here before you know it! Enjoy the peace while you may - everyone used to say that to me when I was pregnant and of course I thought they were talking nonsense!
Will check back later.
C xx
Hi all
I am poorly today...three nights of no sleep, being hot, bit of a dodgy tummy today and general feeling of bleurgh...
I can do to Prince Charles and Princess Diana, which is nice, and although I have written a tome re tipping, next door, I am starting to feel a bit stange again, so I'll leave it for now if you don't mind.
The Beavers took it out of me a bit yesterday...so I shall contine my declining whilst reclining on the sofa.
See you all later babies
love
hazel
x
...ooooh no, mind out the way!!!
Simon Le Bon
Brother David used to race motorbikes at Mallory Park (5 miles from me) I knew his crew. That's less than 6
Donny Osmond co-wrote with
Gary Barlow (Take That) who sang with Lulu on "relight my fire"
who appeared with
Jools Holland last year on tour, who's kids went to school with my friends kids
Jonny & Kieran
This is easier than I thought.
I really should do some work though!
Luv
Lyndyloo
& the Bears
Roobear is 14 today!!!!!
-x-x-x-
Just to say, the message to Jo about her maternity leave coming up sooner than she thinks, was from me! Don't know why I didn't identify myself!
Hazel, pet lamb, rest easy, lots of fluids and, if possible, sleep. I did think all that "beavering away" yesterday would end up too demanding!
C xx
EG- thanks for your insight
Caroline- Salmon sausages sound nice
Susan S- After finding my 6 degrees to Ewan I now desperately want to meet him... there has to be a way...
Amanda- still chortling! :)
Moose- I'd like to do Ben Aflick....ooops! NC1 here I come...
Hazel L- poor you, take it easy honey, lots of tea and sympathy vibes coming your way xx
Have followed a Wikipedia exercise - and I am very excited to find I am linked to our Queen Elizabeth II:
1 - Queen Elizabeth II,
played by
2 -Helen Mirren in a film, whose
3 - grandfather was butcher to
4 -Queen Victoria,
whose son
5 - Edward VII was a descendent of the house of Saxe Coburg, from Bavaria
6 - that I visited in 1986!!
x
PS Get well soon HL {Hazel} x
afternoon all,
Just popped head round door to say hello.
Sorry I haven't appeared before - have had a busy one - got a
medium- sized one off sick today.
Haven't had a chance to read the above - not for lack of desire : )
Catch you later, I hope
Gaby
ps We had a rather unpleasant red mist descend at 8.05pm last night. It completely engulfed the blue mist and we all disappeared under a purple haze.....
pps Moose - thanks for your intimation re intention of commiseration....it's the thought that counts : )
pps Mmmmmmmmm....can't seem to get my post to go through - have just left it 'egg-timing' for 15 mins and it has only filled half it's required green bar thingamajig. Strange thing is all other windows are operating fine. I think THAT mist is still lurking!!!
I think I need to re-boot: brace yourselves my lovelies
Jereemy Clarkson went to Repton as did Graeme Garden of I'm Sorry I haven't a clue fame. He knew Wille Rushton who went to Shrewsbury School as did Nick owen who presents our local news. Nick Owen is often on Radio Shropshire interviewed by Sam Hatton with Jim Hawkins who interviewed me once for work
Jo to Jeeremy Clarkson in Six easy steps :o)
That was a tricky one!
You are all so clever, I am a real dunce at this sort of stuff!
Still at least I gave it a shot!
x
Gaby - thought of you last night, nearly, very nearly, commented to my hubby - but of course, he doesn't know who you are! So kept it in - I hate northern scum nearly as much as southern scum, so I was disappointed for your guys! x
I’ve failed on George Clooney, but can do Liam Neeson in 6 steps - ooer missus, I’m on my way to NC1 to join Lyndyloo.
Liam Neeson was in K-19 The Widowmaker with
Harrison Ford who was in Mosquito Coast with
Helen Mirren who has (in case you hadn’t heard) recently won an award of some sort for her portrayal of
Queen Elizabeth II whose son
Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer on 29 July
- my birthday!
That was hard work and has completely finished me for any sort of intellectual activity for the rest of the day. Ho Hum. Better do the filing then.
Me to Ben aflleck via Kim Jong II
I used to work as an actor presenting murder mystery nights up and down the country. One of my colleagues was a guy called tam who is cousin of the lovely zoe ball. She is married to DJ extraordinaire Fat boy slim. Christopher walken was in fat boy’s famous video for weapons of destruction which is now available as an ipod download.
Given that it is available for an ipod download it is almost a given that Kim Jong II has downloaded it on to his ipod as he is reputed to be one of the biggest fans of this apple technology. He is also a massive film buff who alledgedly held the american government to ransom over an unreleased ben affleck film in 2005.
I thank you.
Ok, so a bit dubious with the kim jong bit, I am sure I could have done Ben Affleck much easier without the via – but you have to give me credit for creativity..... No?
Amanda,
You are quite right - you gave the 6 degrees thingy a really good try! As for myself, I bottled it completely (as always) and find myself clearing up and washing the dishes after the party!
Well done everyone so far - really terrific!
C xx
Prime Minister Tony Blair was visiting a primary school and he visited one of the classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked the Prime Minister if he would like to lead the discussion on the word "tragedy". So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a "tragedy".
One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field & a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be a 'tragedy'"
"No," said Blair, "that would be an accident."
A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying fifty children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy." "I'm afraid not," explained the Prime Minister "That's what we would call a great loss."
The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Tony searched the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of tragedy?" Finally, at the back of the room, a small boy raised his hand...In a quiet voice he said: "If the aeroplane carrying you and Mrs Blair was struck by a "friendly fire" missile & blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy. "Fantastic!" exclaimed Tony Blair. "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"
"Well," says the boy "It has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be a fu**ing accident either.
Guys - if you can avoid filling up with petrol today and tomorrow, I would. There are some reports out there that some motorists are having some problems...could be a dodgy batch from the refinery out there somewhere. Seems to be mainly in the South East.
THIS IS NOT A JOKE
Right I'm off to celebrate birthdays with my No1 Bear Roo so I'll catch up with y'all laters!
Off to the smoke to take my Mum to see "The Sound of Music" tomorrow, it was her 70th birthday prezzie and she's dead excited.... so am I!
Hump Day.... gone and off to Thirsty here I come!!
Luv
Lyndyloo
-x-x-x-
Susan S - thanks for the sub. Lunch is on me next time.
I kept trying to do the 6 degrees thing last night - but kept getting distracted. Once I declutter my plastic bags, I'm going to have a go at decluttering my mind. Surprisingly though, I can make a couple of (deemed to be) fairly important people in 2 or 3 degrees - but I'm far too modest to say who. Ok - I'll give you one: I can do Bill Gates in 2 degrees. Me, this other person who I know through work (but can't name), who knows Bill. I can also do it another way: Me, this senior Microsoft person from the States that I met a few years ago, then Bill. Will leave it at that.
Might pop back later if I get a chance. Won't be around tomorrow night though as I'm away with work.
EG
jo to jeremy. genius!
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