This is not my... Week 34
25/09/06 - Boobs, pants and whipped cream
21/09/06 - Dramatic late night encounter
20/09/06 - On the cutting edge
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25/09/2006 - Boobs, pants and whipped cream
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It was a funny old day yesterday... |
Finally got round to doing some video viral's.
It was hilarious.
But I think it may haunt me for the rest of my days!
The viral's are comedy clips that highlight various environmental issues. A long way from being a comic genius. These hilariously revolve around - well - boobs, pants and whipped cream.
I had managed to rope some wonderful friends into helping. Rick and Karen on the directing and filming. Lenks and Tim on the acting and Nial - erm - Nial as the stooge who I may not TECHNICALLY have told that he would need to spend most of the afternoon with his trousers round his ankles!
The problem was that the viral's are based around the - ever winning - doctor and nurse format.
And my nurse dropped out.
In the absence of any time to rearrange... I got the push up bras out.
Man alive.
My plans to become prime minister might not make it through this latest escapade!
The outfit was small, very small. And the Swedish braids blond, very blond.
As a plus though - I found that socks really work when you put them in your bra. Never tried it before. It's genius. How did I miss that in the teenage years..?
Anyhow - all to watch out for once they have been edited up.
Tim's incredible eyebrows, Lenk's cherry eating and Nial's boxer shorts some of the many highlights!
More seriously, been reading some fascinating things which I will try to get down here when I get my mind back out of the gutter.
In the meantime though, hope you have an amazing start to the week.
Susie xxx
22/09/2006 - Think I've done it
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But too scared to look... |
Was meant to be at a lecture last night on China and what it is doing for a green future.
But it got cancelled and I didn't check my emails (d'oh) so my thoughts of detailing all of the excitements from it have now been somewhat dashed (just to make it sound dramatic!)
It also meant that I found myself free for the evening.
As I am still racing about trying to organise filming for Sunday, getting to Lincoln tmrw, tracking down 20 snails etc it would have been the ideal opportunity to get home and make a start on everything.
But that would have been too easy!
So I went out instead.
Well it was my mates birthday and I hadn't seen her or anyone else for ages.
After a couple of hours of indepth, incisive chat (ok - two hours of trying to spot if any of the good looking men on Old Compton street were straight) I headed home and decided to make a list of things to do before work today.
It was a worryingly long list...
but I think I have done it all.
Well - apart from the jelly making - which I will do right now! (Mentioned last week that I have to make some for an amusing prop and my mother called 15 times to remind me - she may no longer be here but my word she is still going to organise me whether I like it or not!)
Anyhow - again - this means I have no new insights but luckily friends have come to the rescue once more.
Did an interview a week or so ago with Greg King who set up the Clapham Carbon Rationing Action Group which is now ready for your perusal and also got sent a link about Richard Branson and his attempts to green his ride.
Not sure how easy that is when this your ride is in fact an entire air line but I guess you have to get a few points for trying.
Have a look at the BBC article in any case to check out Bill Clinton giving him a really weird look.
Right better be off - things to do and jelly to set.
Have an amazing weekend though and see you Monday.
Susie x
21/09/2006 - Dramatic late night encounter
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With a man on my roof top... |
There was a commotion.
Well - I am assuming there was.
Otherwise I am expertly attuned to the tiniest of noises like an eagle, or whale with sonar, or whatever creatures are fine tuned to the tiniest of noises.
I rushed (in under 5 minutes) to the window and opened the curtain.
There was a man trying to get onto my roof.
I bravely did.... absolutely nothing.
He climbed away....
Now alert and moving at a staggering "suppose I should find my dressing gown" pace I headed downstairs, certain that I had thwarted a detailed plot by someone trying to steel the finest elements of my 'eclectic' crockery and furniture collection.
I heard more commotion. (If - of course - there was some to begin with).
So sprang (stumbled) deftly to the living room window.
The police.
Chasing someone.
A someone they had just caught.
Yes - ladies and gentlemen - it was no petty burglar.
I - single handedly - assisted the boys in blue with the apprehension of a hardened criminal mastermind!!
Well that or some kid they were following.
If I am honest they didn't then actually arrest him. But that is perhaps because he is too MUCH of a criminal mastermind and they have to try to get him on tax evasion...
Anyhow - all of that is to say that as a result I slept in and have not managed to get up to investigate all the things that I said I would.
Luckily though a couple of friends sent me through some great links which I shall direct you too instead.
On a the first EcoFoot you can check out your personal ecological foot print.
Haven't had chance to see what mine is but he was quite shocked to find that we would need more than 3 times as many planets if we were all to live like him.
The second Breathing Earth shows maps of the world which highlight things such as population, number of people in poverty, amount of resources used instead of land mass. It is certainly an eye opener as to how things actually work.
Will have to leave it there as running a bit behind time but hoping to be more inciteful tmrw (it never happens!).
Right - best get back to bringing justice to the City... x
20/09/2006 - On the cutting edge
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of fashion.
As ever... |
I may still be wearing clothes I got 10 years ago (orange stripy cardigans just never go out of style...?) but I have been ably informed by those far better dressed that there are some pretty darned hot ethical threads out there.
Plus - I know from sifting through the clothes in the directory that this is indeed true.
But there is nowhere more cutting edge than the London Fashion Week.
And this year, ethical took centre stage.
Yes, this year there was...
cue frenetic music and manic lighting display.
A section that showed ethical and environmentally friendly clothing.
Brilliant idea.
Not 100% convinced on the name...
Anyhow - appropriately yet utterly coincidentally - our Community Channel entry this month focuses on shopping.
Have a wee look if you are bored.
Naturally Ol and I star once more (oh lord I wish one of us could act!), in a section where we run around like muppets in a rose garden.
It was exceptionally funny to film but looks a bit odd on the screen.
Ah well - not really something to worry about - shame my 'blue steel' moment got cut though (love Derek Zoolander - even if he does have a penchant for Orange Mocha Frappucino!)
Anyhow - have some more exciting clothing news but have to potter along so will save it till tmrw.
Have a fabulous day though and see you later x
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So back in play... |
Wow!
What a difference 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep can make.
Can not believe how good I feel.
Especially as I have just had a shower!
Not that I don't wash normally but it is just that there was no shower in the house until a couple of weeks ago. Amazingly I have forgotten to go on about the joy of now having one.
I LOVE THE SHOWER.
Baths use more water.
But like a few things it is not just the environmental factor that sways me against them.
Basically I am just way too lazy to wait for them to fill!
In much the same way I am also too lazy to wait for the kettle to boil. Brilliantly this saves energy (it uses a lot to get past boiling - as you can see the wasted energy in the form of steam) and so often I turn it off just as it starts to bubble.
(Though if laziness has really taken a stranglehold. I reheat old half cups in the microwave - it is behind me when I work at home and the kettle is a good - oooh - two metres away...)
Boiling kettles - and heating water generally in washing machines etc - uses vast amounts of energy.
Mind you - some English people do get a bit funny about their tea.
Anyone who has read this section before will be surprised to note that one such person is... my mother!
Cue rant:
So there we were on Sunday morning. She is up early and has already made a chili sauce, painted the bathroom, scrubbed the floors, swept the patio, saved 14 Albanian orphans and written a sonnet.
I stumble from the living room where I have been lying for some time. Ostensibly I have been sleeping but mostly I have spent the last 6 hours thinking... 'Am I awake. Please don't be awake. I feel awake. Bollo*ks I'm awake' - damn that insomnia.
We meet in the kitchen.
"Cup of tea Mum?"
"Oooh that would be lovely dear"
The kettle is filled (not too full mind - just enough for the two of us).
I put tea bags in each mug (we have had the teapot chat and - in a rare moment - I won - though mostly this is because we don't actually have a tea pot) and then some milk in mine ("milk goes in after....")
I chat to her as it boils. Or, more likely, she chats to me as I blink at her bleary eyed pretending that some of what she is saying is hitting my brain.
The kettle clicks off (I wouldn't be so crazy to turn it off pre-boil in this situation) and I pour the water into the mugs.
"Are you going to boil that again?"
"What?"
"Are you going to boil that again?"|
"Erm - no, why?"
"Nothing, nothing..."
"Why would I boil it again?"
"Well... no, no it doesn't matter."
"I don't get it. It just boiled?"
"Don't worry that will be fine."
"But I don't get why it isn't fine.."
"No it will be fine."
"But why wouldn't it be fine?"
"Are you going to have a little moment dear.....?"
ARGH!
Apparently if you pause for more than 5 seconds after it boils before you pour then it doesn't taste the same (?!)
I claimed that to reboil would be a terrible waste of energy and sacrilegious in my house.
Sometimes I love the environmental argument for all the wrong reasons!
Anyhow - enough of my trials and tribulations. My apologies that these have been a little prevalent over the last couple of days.
Will be back on the case of investigating things with a vengeance tmrw.
Have a lovely one till then x
This section will be a daily, well - Monday to Friday daily, editorial. (Have to keep some time aside to keep up the ritual wine drinking / dancing as if being chased by bees.)
I promise to make it my mission to investigate something each day on exciting forays to find new stuff, fun stuff, ethical stuff and anything involving break dancing men with extremely toned physiques.
Let me know if you think of something I should go and visit or if you have any great ideas or information. (Any dodgy suggestions will be politely declined... or not so politely, depending entirely on what they are!)
For today, though, please just have a look below to find out how this whole thing came about. I hope that you are having a lovely morning.
See you tomorrow,
Susie x
Background to This is not my...
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What is this site all about?
Well, as all good ventures do, it started in the pub with the ominous words "I know, why don't we...?" |
What was different, though, was that it still seemed like a good plan in the morning (and somewhat less injurious than trying out extreme ironing, the other suggestion...)
Anyway - once again we had been supping beers and putting the world to rights when someone mentioned the unmentionable, despite our disaffection with the state of the world, none of us was actually doing anything positive to change it.
Whether this was complacency or apathy, who knows - but we were definitely leaving it to others to make decisions and take action for us on issues about which we felt strongly.
We live in a free society, but often things seem to happen as a fait accompli. The war in Iraq, ID cards, the fact that we will eventually succumb to watching some of Big Brother no matter how hard we try...
And we just go along with it. But that is ok, right? I mean, we aren't exactly encouraging the abuse of others - are we?
Ok - so maybe my new top might have been made under less-than-perfect conditions and I suppose that means I am supporting those conditions, but - I have to buy something to wear, so what other choice do I have?
And that was the problem. What - and where - are the choices?
So we decided to investigate. Surely in this free society we have other options; we just need to know how to find them.
So we went online. There are some great directories already for ethical and/or environmentally friendly products, but for us these didn't go far enough. We were on a bit of a roll and decided that these products deserved more active promotion.
We wanted to make as many people as possible aware of the practical things they can do to live life in a better way.
So on this site we will provide information about easy, positive and ethical consumer choices. These are choices that won’t necessarily cost you more, either.
In our directories you will find environmentally friendly and ethical companies and products across the following categories:
Clothes
Energy
Food and Drink
Health and Beauty
Home and Garden
Office
Recycling
Restaurants
You will also find debates, downloads, fun stuff and plenty more to lure you back to the site on a regular basis.
We’d love you to get involved with some curious antics to keep important issues in the public eye – and provide us with much entertainment and amusement at the same time.
So - take a look. Explore… investigate… probe away.
We hope you like it; we hope you use it.
