Pride before a fall, they say. How true. It was just last week that my Facebook status read;

“Naomi is laughing at JT who shouted ‘Moooonnntttyyyyyy!’ out the front door in a kitty cat voice without realising that the postman was standing there”

Guess what happened today? I was washing up and I heard a “Miaow!” Thinking Monty was at the front door, I opened the door and looked at the floor (think cat height….). I said in a ridiculous cutesy kitty voice “Hello BOY!!! Come on in then!!!” I then realised that Monty was nowhere to be seen, so I looked up to see if I could spot him and locked eyes upon a very large man. The very large man looked utterly perplexed and bewildered. I got the fright of my life, jumped several inches in the air and tried to look calm. “Hello?” I ventured.

Big man tilted his head sideways and frowned at me, almost as if he was trying to read a big word plastered across my forehead. I was in such a state of confusion that I just couldn’t explain myself! If that wasn’t bad enough, I had been filling a bowl of water and the tap was still running, so I had to excuse myself and turn it off. The look of relief on his face when I told him that we rented our house and did not need Scottish Power thank you very much was immense, he walked away backwards and nearly tripped over the wheelie bin! Disaster.

Sometimes there are little questions in life that bother me… One is; why is it, that when you need to sneeze but can’t, you can look at the sun or a bright light and it makes you sneeze??

As I said before, these are definitely not in order.  I have my big brother to thank for this next song…  He is a bit of a retro kid really, he lives in a world of 70’s style and 80’s music.  On the morning that I started secondary school (Balcarras - the local comp - innit!  Or ‘Balcatraz’ as it became known), he was playing Go Wild in the Country by BOW WOW WOW…  I always associate it with putting on my new uniform, feeling a bit nervous and my first few days there. The woman is a nutter!

This morning I awoke to this:

You can’t really see Twinkle - she kind of merges into the curtains, but check out the grin on Monty’s face!!

I did actually hear back from the council about the bad attitude of our bin men and they promised to try to sort it out.  However, three weeks on, the bins are once again strewn all over the road and blocking the driveway of four houses.  GRRR!!  This pic isn’t the worst of it, the rest of the bins were all over the road!!!!

The next chapter…  I was seven years old and went to see a production of the Wizard of Oz at the Everyman Theatre.  There are a few things that make this trip memorable for me.  I think it was one of the first musical play productions that I had seen and so it seemed quite magical.  I loved the costumes (especially the lion and the tin man) and the music had a profound impact on me (well, at least, Over the Rainbow did….)  The other reason that the production was memorable, was because I was sitting at the end of the row happily eating some toffee Poppets, when all of a sudden, the wicked witch of the west jumped off the stage, ran up the middle aisle (where I was sitting and shouted “MUHUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” in my face!!!  She looked really scary and I got such a fright that I dropped all of my Poppets on the floor!!  I was very upset.  Anyhow, when I got home I wanted to learn to sing “Over the Rainbow”.  I have always loved the song and am currently learning this piano version/adaptation by George Shearing.  This bloke adds a few twiddles here and there….

We bought Guess Who the other day - one of my favourite childhood games.  I opened the box only to find, to my horror, that the people have changed!!!!  Max is now Theo, Richard now has spiky hair and has become Max and most of the others have changed too.

Who on earth is Frank??  The poor kid is cross-eyed too…  MB you have stuffed up this time.  You will be hearing more from me.  Just don’t go changing Mouse Trap or I really will get upset!!

Last night was another great XPOSED club, with ROSHI FEAT PARS RADIO.  My favourite track from the EP is Night Swimming.  Roshi demonstrated a great mix of electronica and Iranian folk music, with two synths, vocals and a cello.

Who knows.  This man didn’t.  We bought our fuel at 1.02/litre but as we were paying, he changed it.  Three times!

Today I snapped this pic of a dragonfly at Rococco Gardens (yes we managed a trip out somewhere proper!)  He has cool eyes!