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I wrote a guest blog for Nottingham Support Group for Carers of Children with Ezcema

Please have a read of the blog Are our NHS GPs failing us?

Becomming a bit of the Twitter addict recently I found out from @JasonBradbury that there was going to be an secret event happening with the title #gadgetvader and all we were told is that its a street art, gadget related event and it was going to be filmed for Channel 5′s The Gadget Show. Feeling up for a bit of something random I decided I was going to go. I also decided to help out with the promotion with the usual dose of RTing a dicussion (in case you are not aware of what RT is it means Retweeting someone else’s message). Not only the RTing and discussion, I also offered to Jason Bradbury that I would build a Facebook event to build yet more awareness of the event

So with a time/date and fellow Facebook and Twitter folk set it was time for all of us to meet at 10pm at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park. I was armed with my Blackberry and Twitter helping people find their way there and some very bright shoes so people could see where i was. What struck me was the amount of people who knew who I was the another more amusing fact that people thought that I knew what was going on and that I was involved with The Gadget Show.

So what was the event you ask…..well watch for yourself….

ok just to explain before you all think I have gone mad (well whats new?) Funk Rock is a clothes shop located in Hatfield that i had a rather huge obsession with while at Uni near by and now to hear of the launch of their website www.funkrock.co.uk, this will mean that my purse is in danger of being emptied once more.

So how my heart sang when I was kindly asked but the happy little elves of Funk Rock to review some of their line (some of which has gone to those pesky Scarletz so will write about those later)

So having first dibs on the clothing i picked out the following two to model and review:

First up is the Bridget Vest Dress which for £18.99 is not a bad price and considering that I’m not really a floral girl, this had a girly style but you could easily grunge it up as i have below. A very slimming dress too which is good news for all the girlies out there (my Mum actually rang me up today and asked if I had lost a lot of weight as she saw me in this)

Second dress I picked up was Funk Rock’s Freya Dress which for £19.99 is definitely good price. The dress is very light, and floaty (which I found out on a rather windy day at Whitstable beach, cling on the dear life I did) but is most certainly a dress for the summer.

Any comments would be great as I know the folks at Funk Rock are looking to see what you friendly internet types think of the clothing. So go! Discuss, run round and frolic in the prettiness of clothing xx

Currently reading: Trying to read “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels but still waiting to time to present its jolly self to me

What I am listening to: “Foxey Lady” by Jimi Hendrix, one of my favourite songs and damn sexy too (still can’t get the Wayne’s World scene out my head though)

While I welcome modern interpretations of Shakespeare’s work I do wonder whether Twitter is a good form of medium to do this on.

For me when i think of Twitter as a social media tool I think of it as in a sense a insight into other peoples lives you read what other people are doing, you converse in what seems like a tiny community but in reality is on a rather large scale. We use it to also have a stream of news whether it be general, music, technology etc

So for Twitter streams fronm individual charaters that you already know is clearly fictional will it really have the same effect? I think once there is awareness that what you are reading is not real, the sense of immersion that you get when something is (or at least appears to be real)

While studying at University I did a case study on Online Caroline (URL is www.onlinecaroline.com but it doesnt seem to be active anymore) if you are not familiar with it, the idea is that you log on to a site daily to view webcam feed by caroline, which pans out as an intereactive story where you choose clothing, gifts and other such items which have an impact on the story, you also recieve personal emails from Caroline. When this was first launched it was made to believe that this person was real and you were conversing with her, with that you felt immersed in the story that was playing out this article by Jill Walker really does highlight this point.

So for a story to pan out that is fragmented (as twitter posts are) in its making and you are already aware its a story…I feel there is some distance created to the story already, even with a book at least you can feel like you are are there as a third person and the story flows as slowly or as quickly as you like….i am currently following 354 people on Twitter i lose track of most of their stories let alone trying to follow fictional characters stories as well

will certainly keep an eye on the project though to see how it pans out…

I spose its all stemmed from Primary School where i was set to be a writer or Poet hehe. So anyway I was asked by Nottingham Support Group for Carers of Children with Eczema via Twitter to write a blog for brides with eczema planning their weddings.

For someone who suffers with eczema and also planning my wedding for later this year, I was honoured to do it so here is the blog:

http://www.nottinghameczema.org.uk/blogs/archives/posts-from-louise/index.html

Why the delay, its actually had nothing to do with lacking the inspiration to write anything its more about not having the energy…Its been a bit of a crazy year with highs and lows and lots of drink in between, but in recent months I came accross and opportunity which i couldn’t help but not go for…with a lot of studying and laste nights i have now moved from life of a librarian to working in the digital publishing idustry as a ….wait for it….Media Producer…get me

As you may have guessed I am still going to the the lovelly Scarletz girlies performing and it looks like they are building up a fan base im really pleased for them. Also met a couple of guys who make up The Fancy Toys. I actually missed the lads perform due to my over whelming need for chinese food. But listening to their Myspace i like the quirky French sound thats going on

Anyway back to another important topic…FOOD!!! So two of my favourite Chinese places are the Wong Kei and Yumi.com mmmmmm *drools*

Also in my strange little existence I have currently been reading “Tori Amos: Piece by Piece” its really is an interesting book, instead of the whole crass “celeb” lit thats going on at the moment which i tend to have no interest in mainly as its only the 5 minute famous that are writing this crap when most of the time I am surprised they managed to spell their name….ok breath…rant over….anyway. Tori Amos tends to talk about how she researches her songs and the influences in her life that has influence the way she wants to portray herself which is facinating…i seriously wouldnt be able to do this book justice so here’s a link

Ok randomly today I have been singing “I’m a teeny terrapin, on a magical island” i swear that was something that came out of a kinder egg i remember being when Kinder Eggs were the most exciting things ever and I would collect the toys…ok how did i get to writing about this haha in fact…..

Here is one being faced by a Transformer…..argh!! the cruelty!

I’lll leave you in peace now but i promise i will update a bit often and also show you pictures such as these….

Note: I quickly knocked this up last year in Paint for my own amusement…my skills are usually a tonne better…but yes the strange elf like creature was me at a work xmas party a few years back haha

Currently reading: “Piece by Piece” by Tori Amos and Ann Powers -ok i know I said in my last post i was reading this but i didn’t because of the job thing but am over half way through since starting it last week

What I am listening to: “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga – its catchy and its a bit wierd, i love it

Now since this is on mymind and ive been talking to people on Twitter about this, this morning. One reason why the whole dream interpretation came up was because in the “Creative Utopia” book i have been reading it discusses the theories of Karl Jung of how you gain meaning from things appearing in your dream by working out how the objects, animals, people etc realate to you.

So the first dream i had on Sunday night was about me fighting with a spider…not you jackie chan style moves, I was actually trying to trap it under a glass (im not scared of spiders but i hate the idea of them being on me so i always use ths method to get rid of them in real life). But when i did trap the pesky critter under the glass it would be strong enough to push me and the glass away.

I eventually came to some form of peace with the spider and was then helping to add wings to it, so it started to look like a butterfly except the wings looked more like leaves and it put them on wonkey lol!!

the dream i had last night was about me being on a school trip of some kind, i had just done some kind of sports activity and was trying to get changed back into my regular clothes as i hate wearing trackies out and about. so being almost topless by this point, a counseller i used to work with, popped her head round the curtain and told me she needs to use the space for an appointment (well actually the woman was a blur of both the counsellor, i used to work with and the one i do now, and i mean counsellor at the college not my own personal one before ideas start going) so still trying to sort myself out in a bit of a rush and a child opens the curtain to give me a pink cupcake, which at the same time i can see across the room that a friend of mine was also recieving a gift (much better than mine i might add lol). I just remember gazing at the cupcake thinking how kind it was i got this but i cant eat it (allergic to Wheat you see). There was also a man in it who i kept seeing who is a friend of mine, dont know why he was always there but he was just watching me

so work that out Mr Jung!!! better get to work, but before i go i thought i would add these lyrics from a song ive been listening to which i think sum me up a great deal

“The Way I Am” by Staind

I’m not very good at just paying attention
I’m not very good at remembering things that you say
I’m not very good at persuing redemption
I’m not very good at concealing the hand that I play

[chorus]
It’s the way I am, you’ll never change
The way I am, or re arrange
The way I am, just let me be
The way I am, it’s the way I am

What I am Reading: “Creative Utopia: 12 ways to realize total creativity” by Theo Stephan Williams

What I am Listening to: “The way I am”, “Tangled up in you” and “Believe” by Staind