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Frenetic Marmalade

Mornington Crescent!

Created on 2005-10-06 19:55:17 (#8476884), last updated 2009-07-05

2,906 comments received, 6,929 comments posted

805 Journal Entries, 7 Tags, 43 Memories, 20+ ScrapBook Files, 0 Virtual Gifts, 14 Userpics

Basic Info
Name:_onlysmarties__
Location:London, United Kingdom
Website:Ripple
Bio
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Stylesheet by [info]refuted Header image (c) me 2008
The Basics
Girl, training to be a children's nurse in London, from a small town somewhere in the middle of some fields in Hertfordshire. This is me, in miniture graphics form:
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Interests
Everything in my interests section and more. But mainly, I am a huge comedy geek. I play the flute and sax which is groovy. I like taking photos, my header and icons are my own pictures, and when I can be bothered I post my pictures. I am emotionally dependent on tea. I think I must be the youngest person to be subscribed to The Archers podcast.

I am a reckless optimist: I always try to change things I don't like, and if I can't I try and make the best of it. This doesn't always work, but it's worth a try.


My Blog
My blog is friends only - ask if you want to be added, and I won't add people unless they comment and say why. Then, so long as we share some interests, welcome!

I post about all sorts of things, including about my nurse training, and about my interests, and just about life in general. Sometimes I rant, but usually only when I have PMT - if I feel especially venomous, I tend to make a private post. I'm young, naive, learning about the world, and reflecting on what I see in here, mainly out of habit. This blog is simply my story, as it happens, because it makes me happy to write it; it's nothing special, but it's both as boring and as interesting as anybody else's life. Blogging is cathartic, and gives me something to look back on, so I like it.

Be prepared for strong opinions, I am very liberal and care about people, politics, fair trade and the environment. If you're right wing, we're unlikely to get on. I'm pretty non-judgmental, I don't have any horrible prejudices or any of that rubbish. I'm not religious at all, but respect all religions, but I hate extremism - be it religious or secular.

Also, I'm dyslexic, and whilst I try and spell like a human and use proper grammar, sometimes I miss a typo or just generally lose the plot of written English. Therefore, grammar bullies need not apply.


Favourite Quotes
The first 3 are how life should be lived. The rest are just amusing:

"As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from dessication." - Humphrey Lyttleton

"Take the stupidest thing you've ever done, at least is done. It's over, it's gone. We can learn from our mistake and heal, and move on. But it's harder to learn, or heal, or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best things in out lives, if only we'd take the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd say 'Yes'. If only" Danny Wallace - Yes Man

"Don't stress, relax, let life roll off your backs!... Everything in life is only for now" - Avenue Q, For Now.

"I realised I was dyslexic when I went to a toga party dressed as a goat." - Marcus Brigstocke

"But just as I thought the world had gone topsy turvy I saw tiny Jon Holmes and his majestic trouser flies. They are the stuff that legend is made of. I gazed upon them and knew that all was right with the world. Thank God for that man's bulging crotch." - Emma Kennedy, Dec 2004

"I am a flute player, not a flautist. I don't have a flaut, and I've never flauted." - James Galway

"If God wanted us to believe in him, he'd exist." - Linda Smith

"I self-harmed... I don't any more. My wife does it for me." Marcus Brigstocke, the Now Show, 2006.
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Interests (150):

15 minute musical, 6music, absolute power, adam hills, alan bennett, alex horne, andrew collins, andrew maxwell, andy hamilton, andy parsons, ankh-morpork, armstrong & miller, aubergine, avenue q, babylonianism, bbc 7, bermondsey, bill bryson, bill dare, books, borough, borough market, bremner bird and fortune, broadcasting house, camden, canary warf, carrie quinlan, cazoo, charity shops, charlotte green, cheese, coffee, colourful pensets, cooking, cowards, crap at the environment, cups of tea, cycling, dan schreiber, david mitchell, diskworld, doodling, earrings, ed byrne, ed morrish, emily watson-howes, emma kennedy, emulating marcus, fair trade, fangirling radio 4, flute, flying circus, food, fry and laurie, garlic, giggling, giles wemmbley hogg, good views, hampstead heath, harry potter, hitchin, hugh laurie, inappropriate macarena, john peel, jon holmes, jon holmes' crotch, jon richardson, kate jahans-price, katherine hazell, katie marsden, kcl, kingdom, laughing, laura shavin, lederhosen, lewis, lie-ins, london, london a-z, lush, marcus brigstocke, marieb, mark watson, milton jones, mitchell and webb, monopoly, monty python, mooncup, morse, musem of everything, my basil plant, nursing, old harry's game, olives, oyster cards, parsnip crisps, photography, pirates, porridge, private eye, punting, purple carrots, qi, radio recordings, recycling, richard dawkins, richard herring, richmond park, ross noble, sandi toksvig, sax, schadenfreude, shappi khorsandi, slow giles, slow marcus, slow plotlines, snuggles, stand-up comedy, stephen fry, sue perkins, sue townsend, tea, terry pratchett, the 39 steps, the 99p challenge, the archers, the cardiganned one, the gaudi lizard, the history boys, the hungry caterpillar, the magic tractor, the magnificent crotch, the pond, the tube, the umbrella birds, tim key, tim minchin, tom basden, tower bridge, twister, utter lunacy, wandsworth, we need answers, will self, wind turbines, wind-up radio, wine, wolfson house, yes minister, you need me
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Friends (55):

_fermezlab0uche, _lady_vanilla_, alawston, apiphile, babydonutx, blazin_fiddler, bumsnutsack, causethesounds, chrischopping, contrapuntalant, cryforthemoon, ellesbelles1909, emily200289, en_afrique, fox_in_snow, handsturnedup, hennell, hobnobofjoy, ickkoofnix, idontlikegarlic, ihavecake, instantdream365, jaggedapple, jess_on, k__at__e, kath101, kattikit, kedgey, lalalaaaura, lemons_of_life, littleme1988, lizjonesbooks, m1n1ondreams, martylog, missliss392, monpetitpoi, my_name_is_emma, natzini, nepy365, pernickety, photo_amore, roarness, spiritof1976, stereocrisis, strangefrontier, subordinance, t1me_lapse, tabimendou, teenagelogic, thewallishigh, thymeth, tr1st3ss3du3r4, unseenchoices, wholegrainrice, yourjoyismylow

Mutual Friends (49):

_fermezlab0uche, _lady_vanilla_, alawston, apiphile, babydonutx, blazin_fiddler, bumsnutsack, causethesounds, chrischopping, contrapuntalant, cryforthemoon, ellesbelles1909, emily200289, fox_in_snow, handsturnedup, hennell, hobnobofjoy, ickkoofnix, ihavecake, instantdream365, jaggedapple, jess_on, k__at__e, kath101, kattikit, kedgey, lalalaaaura, lemons_of_life, littleme1988, lizjonesbooks, m1n1ondreams, missliss392, monpetitpoi, my_name_is_emma, natzini, nepy365, pernickety, photo_amore, roarness, spiritof1976, stereocrisis, strangefrontier, tabimendou, teenagelogic, thewallishigh, thymeth, tr1st3ss3du3r4, unseenchoices, yourjoyismylow
Communities [View Entries]

Watching (12):

comedy_exchange, cynical_nurse, discworld, discworldart, menstrual_cups, now_show, radio4comedy, radio4listeners, share_comedy, tuesdaywalk, uk_audio, ukstudentnurses
Feeds [View Entries]

Watching (13):

bbccomedy, cate_ms_feed, chortlenews, cif_brigstocke, dailykitten, ekennedynet, fryblog, mitchbenn_cast, mitchbenn_site, qi_blog, richardherring, unstoppable_eu, wp_unstoppable

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