IS THERE ANYBODY THERE??! WHY DO COMPETITIONS LIKE THIS BRING OUT THE TUMBLE-WEED?!
To celebrate the March 8th release of Motherhood on DVD, the film’s distributor Metrodome is launching a number of offers for bloggers and readers in time for Mothering Sunday: You can sign up at the Motherhood website CLICKIE for vouchers and money-off offers, including books from mumsnet, Two Courses plus a Bottle of Wine at Brown's, (incidentally one of my favourite restaurants, with branches across the country), 50% off at La Tasca (ditto), Kids Go Free to Sea Life centres and money off holiday and spa breaks.
To celebrate even further, Fhina is giving you the chance to win one of five copies of Motherhood on DVD.
For a chance to win one of five copies of the DVD, please leave a comment here and tell me briefly about what motherhood means to you...and all five winners will be announced March 12th.
Many thanks.
Oh, and if you've never heard Minnie (Uma's best friend in the movie) sing and play, (and me-likey very much), then do please CLICKIE HERE
I have been wearing the same ear-rings, (Pilgrim crystal studs, sort of orange in colour - gilt setting - Bargain basement trinkets that I bought for myself on my first outing after being out of commission for months with my back injury), for a month...
I wear them because I no longer own any gold ear-rings and the Pilgrim ear-rings are all that I own to go with a lovely gold necklace I commissioned last year after I had melted down some plain jewellery that was left to me by my mam and dad...
I could not wear their jewellery - Sizing and style issues - so I saw this as a way of keeping them both close to me, while enjoying a piece of jewellery that is very much more my 'thang'...
I took with me to the jeweller a brooch my mam had given me some years before for my birthday - Next month, by the way... 'Ere I was ever owned by cats, she had chosen an enamelled dark pink sparkly crescent moon with golden stars upon it and a black cat (a Witch's Familiar, perhaps?) standing to attention in the shadows. I asked the jeweller to make me a waning moon of the same size and fashion... That he managed to do so so well is testament to his great skill...
Of course, when I tootled off to collect it, I had no idea that it would look as if I'm wearing a golden scythe! A Sword of Damacles, perhaps... Peter Cushing and all that... Don't fear the Reaper!
Still, it's very me, non?! Very 'witchety-witch.' ...Believing in magic, spells and wonder, mystical and needful things... Sisters of the Moon. As if dreams might come true.
And I found myself crying the other night, while watching True Blood on TV, as the character, Tara, lay down next to her mom on the sofa and they comforted one another, in spite of their rather troubled relationship...
I touched the moon as if it were a talisman, a charm ***, and I wiped away my tears, as I acknowledged once more that I can never have that moment again with my mom who passed just over 13 years ago last month.
Christmas Day is her birthday, so I guess my nostalgia comes along with the season, non?!
Did you know that the 'Waning Moon is symbolic of letting go, surrender, release, quiet time, contemplation, and a time of incubation'.
So there you go...
*** I'm going to write about charms next - The Passion for collating and recording our stories... For making our mark in life.
Words of power are killing me While the sun displays its' teeth. All mockery is laughing All violence is cheap. She said... "These are my guns These are my furs This is my living room." "You can play with me there sometimes If you catch me in the mood." Savage Savage Savage You savage...
She said... "I have this unhappiness To wear around my neck." "Its a pretty piece of jewellery To show what I protect." She said...
"Everything is fiction All cynic to the bone." "So don't ask me to stay with you Don't ask to see me home." Savage Savage Savage
You savage...
I love this song, and the lyrics, I am not so enamoured of the vid... Watch what you will, or nowt at all today, mes bloggy viewpoints... Don't feel that you have to watch everything I post...
Our tastes will differ... We will have lots of things in common, I would guess, as that's what brings us together here, non?!
I don't know why some of my musical tastes are so stuck in the Eighties... Just thinking about it now, and trying to be objective, it was when I might have felt at my greatest potential... I was young... The world and life were ahead of me...
It was pre-Grizz... Pre-op... Pre-the disappointments of some of my opportunities at work...
And we probably felt as if we had the world at our feet...
David and Annie are a little older than me. David was brought up about thirty miles away from my home town...
Annie gets lots of attention, by dint of her huge talent, her beauty and her wonderful soul and inextricable sadness...
While Dave sort of beetles away at projects, production and soundtracks... Always interesting, always involved, always connected, still so-very talented and fabulous...
...Projects including, American Prayer (Barack's music video...), in fact, which I didn't know until just now when I keyed his name in to Youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVi4rUzf-0Q
He co-wrote that song with Bono. Dave said, "As an Englishman, I'm not an expert in all the intricate details of American politics. But as an artist, I understand how rare it is to inspire a connection to a bigger idea or purpose.
This video isn't so much an endorsement of Barack Obama as much as it is a celebration of all those who have picked up a sign, who have registered to vote and are working to make the world a better place. So as Senator Barack Obama ascends to the mountain top, let us not forget all of the others who for the past 40 years have sung anthems of change to make this moment possible!"
He's a really smart cookie, n'est-ce pas... And I am worried about the state of our country, mes chums...as we face potential considerable political upheaval and change...
La Fhina doesn't get political, does she? so, I won't...
I'll just say - Don't be apathetic, mes sweets... Register your vote and try in your life to make a difference...
Is he one of my eccentrics, you ask? Well, he wasn't, but I think he might qualify...
I love him dearly....
David Allan Stewart, often known as Dave Stewart (born September 9, 1952 in Sunderland) is an English musician and record producer best known for his work with Eurythmics. He is normally credited as David A. Stewart, to avoid confusion with another musician also named Dave Stewart.
