Thursday, 1 November 2012

Disney has taken over the Starwars franchise


: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Poem for November. - hotclaws's Blog - Blogster

Poem for November. - hotclaws's Blog - Blogster

Friday, 21 September 2012

hanzismatter.blogspot.com: Steve Caires of Engrish.com sent me this today:...

hanzismatter.blogspot.com: Steve Caires of Engrish.com sent me this today:

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: Steve Caires of Engrish.com sent me this today:


http://www.kirainet.com/english/hemorrhoids-%E7%97%94/

From Hector Garcia's A Geek...

Friday, 14 September 2012


My new doctor is very nice.She was very sympathetic about my problems and had some ideas other doctors had not pursued.I got drops for my itchy ear and I have to go and see her fairly regularly for her to get a full medical picture.

Sunday, 26 August 2012

Fatigue


Current Mood: lethargic I've been really tired the past fortnight for no reason at all.I have stuff to do,damn it.

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

archiving a blog

A few people ,those moving from Multiply and others wanting to quit an LJ blog and start afresh have been curious about saving blogs.I found this tool in my wanderings.

archiving a blog

A few people ,those moving from Multiply and others wanting to quit an LJ blog and start afresh have been curious about saving blogs.I found this tool in my wanderings.

Saturday, 11 August 2012

blogger

http://hotclaws.blogspot.co.uk/
This is where I am on blogger.
Dear to goodness,I've typed Multiply and blog so many times they've stopped making sense.

Friday, 10 August 2012

I chose a fine week to start a group on LJ


So much stuff has gone on,some small and niggly like having to keep walking to the doctor's to sort out prescriptions.some nice like lunch with Lance's mum and shopping,.that I'm worn out.It doesn't take much but I don't think I can walk again for days.
I had meant to post more useful stuff for the Multiply Orphans group but I just can't.
There are already a few of us over there having jolly little chat's and I'm doing what I can to show people round.I've checked out Blogger again,I have one over there but find it very awkward to use and to add friends,reply to posts etc compared to Livejournal.
I'll be over there trying to track some of you down,but honestly,I'm tired.
On top of this,one of our local characters died.Franco was in his 70's had been a revolutionary fighter in Spain an Italy in his youth but in the last few years,alcohol had taken it's toll physically and mentally.He died very quietly and unafraid with friends around him,but we will all miss him.

Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Went shopping

for a pair of earrings and a coin purse,ended up with a little moonstone angel statue and a silver cat bead for my Pandora bracelet.

Went shopping

for a pair of earrings and a coin purse,ended up with a little moonstone angel statue and a silver cat bead for my Pandora bracelet.

Monday, 6 August 2012

My welcome group on Livejournal

http://multiply-exs.livejournal.com/
It will be very open at first but I will moderate posts just to filter spam,there will be no censoring,I'll let it through even if I disagree.
I hope it will be a way for us all to stay in contact.
It is not just for us but for ANY Multiply user looking for a new home.
From there we can friend each other again,reform our own communities,find new groups to follow and have an island haven to rescue us when this place sinks beneath the waves.
I'm going to post this alll over to cast as wide a net as possible,so sorry to my friends,you will get to see it a lot but I think it's important.I don't want to lose my best buddies.

new to Livejournal

If enough people are interested,I can sent up a group on Livejournal for new users who have migrated from Multiply.It will allow us to inter react and find our way around like we did when we first came here from 360.
Of course if you are friends I've met since then,you have no idea what I'm going on about.
names I cou,ld use are
Escape from Multiply
Multiply orphans
Multiply,where are you?
Friends of Multiply.
Anyway,if you are interested,I'll set it up and broadcast it to Twitter and Facebook too.
I then would be happy for you to pass it on to your contacts,it would not be for just my friends,but friends of friends etc.

Follow me here

http://www.livejournal.com/
I know a lot of people followed me here from Yahoo 360.I'm very sad at this site closing down.I have kept up a blog on Livejournal even longer than on here.It's a similar format.You can post longer blogs,unlike the quick Facebook updates,post videos,pictures,links etc.
It also has very lively groups,so if you are a huge fan of cats wearing things,popular TV shows or want to bitch about bad service,you can find one.
You can also decorate the site with a theme like here.Honestly,I have blogs on Blogger and Wordpress and Livejournal is the nearest to Multiply.
You can also create log ins with a Facebook or Twitter account.
This is my blog there.
I hope some of you will follow me there ,I would hate to lose touch.It took me months and months to find all the 360-ers,hope it's not so difficult this time.
I don't know if LJ has a mass import tool,I'll find out .

August Poetry


August

She dreams of August in the singing morning..
When all the little things come out to play,
When every spider's web is sticky, lacy,
And every kid will have the pinkest day.
She fell in love in August as a girl...
His smile was melting smooth like green ice cream,
She wanted him in August and she got him,
He was her love, her every glowing dream.
August takes you back to yellow meadows,
To days when Grandmas made you lemonade,
To nights when how you begged to stay out later,
And afternoons with novels in the shade.
To kittens that you loved
and have forgotten...
To mom and dad who loved you for all time..
To him who waited somewhere in the hot night..
To kisses made of moonbeams..green as lime..
August, sultry August, month of magic....
Dragonflies become you...you are rare,
Fireflys anoint you with their glowing...
August burning month...your love I wear.

Donna Earle

Awesomeness

Saturday, 4 August 2012

After the bath


Of course the point of the last blog was the weird things that happened to my nail polish.My nails are alternately gold and pale green at the moment.The red dye turned the gold an orangey-peach colour that was rather nice.The green was weird,it stayed green in places then in others went sort of purple.I rather like it.

Friday, 3 August 2012

Bath Adventures


I usually dye my hair in the bath.Now,despite my encroaching tears,my hair remains stubbornly not grey apart from a patch of sprinkles oner my left temple.I'd love it to go grey so I could dye it whacky colours easily but no.
So,I got in the bath,set out the stuff on the edge including plastic gloves in a little box.I got in to the bubble bathed luxury,looked for the gloves and they had gone.Got out of the bath briefly to look but couldn't see them so decided sod it and applied the dye with bare hands.
Left it on for the right length of time,added water and worked it up and rinsed then used the shampoo provided.Of course as you know shampoo kills bath bubbles and lo and behold,there were the gloves,bobbing along happily ,no longer hidden by the foam.

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Darn it.


I wash everything by hand.I just spent ten minutes scrubbing away at a stain on my blue bottom sheet then remembered it was a very neat darn I did after the sheet tore as it was hanging on the line when it got caught on the rose tree.

Saturday, 28 July 2012

Even though I'm watching the Olympics 24/7,I still have time to make catlols

Laoco�n


So,this is my situation.
I am watching the 3 Day Event dressage on my laptop which is plugged into the internet.
It needs charging so it's plugged into the power cable.
I have headphones on because BF is watching the cycling on TV,
I have a crampy tummy so have an electric hot pad on it,plugged into the wall socket.
I nave two pads from my TENS machine on my shoulders and two on my lower back.
QUESTION;- is there anywhere else I could attach a wire?

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

I'm been driven demented the past few days.


It's been hot and I've been bitten all over by mosquitoes. A friend has been having a melt down which has not been easy to watch or deal with.The doctor's have messed up the scripts yet again.I feel exhausted and ill and achy all over.I need a holiday and the chances of getting one are zero.

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

quick update

Back needs Tens machine,batteries dead,can't find spare batteries,BF puts them in,puts them in wrong way round,are now jambed in,get one out,flirts across room and under drawers,can't bend down to get it out,BF gets brush to get it out,batteries in right way at last and now I'm throbbing away like a motor boat.

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

For all of you complaining about the weather.

Weather

Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,
And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be--
Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth,
With a record of unreason seldome paralleled on earth.
While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth,
From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth.
He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote
On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote--
For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow:
'Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow.'

Ambrose Bierce

Friday, 6 July 2012

Daily Photo Theme;-Gold


It's an Olympic year so what else?
Here's a nice Olympic related story.

Poem for July

I always think of roses in July



My Heart Is In July

shifting away from June's bud
to leave dandelions scattered in the yard
this dawn of July
marks the end of a lie
a lie from past season
for a strong reason

in July
robin will make herself shy
and cover her reddish breast
with her celestial hued crest
then flap her wings to fly
close against the sky

i want to kiss July
and make July
lasting forever
in beauty but not ephemeral

i will preserve July
on my canvas and with magic brush
so that she will be enthralled and blush

i will paint July
with charming colour
so that she will be captured in delight
and her soul enraptured

because my heart is in July.

Niji Chrys

Friday, 22 June 2012

Shopping in the rain


Because I've been ill lately ,I had to go and do a big shop. Of course it was bucketing down. I waited until 11 AM when it seemed to ease off a bit and set off .It was like a dull November day out then a car speeding past me drenched me from a puddle. Still it was quite warm in the supermarket and Grant's whisky was on offer.
I got catfood and tins of baked beans and salad stuff and gooseberry fool to eat amongst other things..
Then came home had a nice coffee with a slosh of whisky in and listened to Radio 4 extra.
I was also reading a book ,Orley Farm and that was being read on the radio,which was spooky.
So now I'm going to lie down and chill with cats sat on me and do nothing else all day.

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Poetry for June

' JUNE...JUNE...JUNE...JUNE

This is for June....and all the summers it brings
Wind chasing bells......of a Church steeple ring
Olde songs of wedlock....over top hat, and lace
'Fore June passes torch....to July's scarlet face

Tree's are full jacket's...........of multi-hue green
The last pink magnolia leaf......still can be seen
There's a breeze in the air, that carries a scent
Of her sweet honeysuckle....fresh efflorescence

Still, nights cast a chill, but June has its motive
An inviting warm flame....bright amorous votive
Moonlite romance...'neath a nautic June breeze
Make love in June sparkle like starshine on sea

___________________- F j R -___________________

Frank James Ryan, Jr.

Tuesday, 19 June 2012

not felt like blogging for a week or two

Firstly,there was the mess up with my painkillers.I was in awful pain and could barely move and it left me exhausted.
Then the outsides of the flats have been sandblasted and the noise has been intolerable.
Then on Thursday all my windows and back door were replaced.This meant on the day before,I had to move furniture again and my back felt like it was on fire.
The windows are nice,double glazed and the handles are low down and nice and large so easy for me to use.But one came pre-broken and is held together with tape.A replacement has been ordered.
The back door is painted a very nice green and has a new catflap.So yeah,have been teaching the cats to use the new one.Sabre took runs at it and charged in full speed till she figured it out.Joe sat in front of it and poked it with his paw for ten minutes to work it out .Amy is still not sure.
She is not helped by Joe who sits in front of it all day because it's just at the right height for him to look out of.He loves it.

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Shadows,daily photo theme


Because this is how we feel inside when we get old.
Yesterday was siblings and I have issues with mine so *I posted our sister planet Venus seeing that she was transiting the sun.

Monday, 4 June 2012

Statues daily photo theme

Made by an artist called Jenni Tieaho who uses bark and willow

Sunday, 3 June 2012

Somewhere you went in your youth,Daily photo theme


Blackpool,if you lived in Lancashire,you went here on the train for a day.We were poor so never went on the funfair or piers.Then in autumn you got another day there to see the lights.


If the sea was out and when it went out it went a long,long way, there was nothing at all to do.In my childhood the sea had raw sewage directly pumped into it.
I was always very bored and with our family being what it was ,at least three monumental shouting matches would happen.

Friday, 1 June 2012

Having a go at the Daily Photo Theme

Tilted

Spike from Buffy.A friend of mine who is a huge SF/fantasy fan goes to a lot of cons.He bears an uncanny resebalance,all he has to do is bleach his hair blonde.He has met James Marsters who was also impressed to find a twin.

Having a go at the Daily Photo Theme

Tilted

Spike from Buffy.A friend of mine who is a huge SF/fantasy fan goes to a lot of cons.He bears an uncanny resebalance,all he has to do is bleach his hair blonde.He has met James Marsters who was also impressed to find a twin.

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Animals strike back

http://www.shelbystar.com/articles/bites-64260-highway-stacy.html

This guy was bitten by a snake he captured by picking up the bag it was in by the bottom where the snake was,Time for a new job really.


He learned the trade from his father who also died of a rattlesnake bite? Dullards never learn.

Animals strike back

http://www.shelbystar.com/articles/bites-64260-highway-stacy.html

This guy was bitten by a snake he captured by picking up the bag it was in by the bottom where the snake was,Time for a new job really.


He learned the trade from his father who also died of a rattlesnake bite? Dullards never learn.

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Who remembers...?


your mother coming in the house and taking off her clip on earrings and rubbing her poor pinched ears to get the feeling back in them?

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Loveliest of trees;-A.E. Houseman


Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.


Loveliest of trees;-A.E. Houseman


Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.


Monday, 21 May 2012

Have you got a minute?

A friend of mine is trying to win a make over for her cat shelter.Scroll to the bottom and vote for Carol's Ferals if you could.

Saturday, 12 May 2012

Drinkies


Yesterday my friend Carl came round with a dead laptop for Lance to fix if he could and then borrow.It had never really worked because it came from the shop with Vista on it which pretty much meant it could run nothing.So while Lance nuked it from orbit we went out for a drink.
We went here and sat outside in the evening sun enjoying bottles of Stella Cidre.


There is always a "floorshow" of fancy dress hen parties going past.It was nice for me to get out for once but today I'm so stiff and my knees are swollen up.Still,it was worth it and I have nothing to do having shopped and done the laundry early on Saturday.
The laptop was successfully fixed.

Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Banks


I told you all before how I tried to set up my bank details on line and it kept insisting the line where my name went would only take numbers.Well,last week ,I felt particularly braced and went to town to sort it out.The guy at customer services tried and he couldn't do it either so he sent me to the it person.She was very nice and said it's come up a few times,is a glitch on the page and has been reported.Meanwhile,she set it up for me.
Looking at my email address,hotclaws@xxxxx ,she asked did I like cats and when I said yes,asked did I want one.I darn't take in another just yet but she said she'd taken on a dead relative's cat which did not get on with her dog and she was out at work all day.She'd phoned the RSPCA but they weren't very helpful,it wasn't in immediate danger and they are rather overwhelmed at the moment.
Luckily,I had a contact number for the Cats Protection which I gave her and she was overjoyed.
So obviously,the whole site wouldn't work so I could help out someone trying to find a home for a cat.

Banks


I told you all before how I tried to set up my bank details on line and it kept insisting the line where my name went would only take numbers.Well,last week ,I felt particularly braced and went to town to sort it out.The guy at customer services tried and he couldn't do it either so he sent me to the it person.She was very nice and said it's come up a few times,is a glitch on the page and has been reported.Meanwhile,she set it up for me.
Looking at my email address,hotclaws@xxxxx ,she asked did I like cats and when I said yes,asked did I want one.I darn't take in another just yet but she said she'd taken on a dead relative's cat which did not get on with her dog and she was out at work all day.She'd phoned the RSPCA but they weren't very helpful,it wasn't in immediate danger and they are rather overwhelmed at the moment.
Luckily,I had a contact number for the Cats Protection which I gave her and she was overjoyed.
So obviously,the whole site wouldn't work so I could help out someone trying to find a home for a cat.

Monday, 30 April 2012

Pinterest


I have been sending all the macros I have made to Pinterest.
For some reason,this has been repined about 30 times up to now.I actually think it's one of my weaker efforts still the public like it.
If you are on there,give me a follow and I'll follow you back.
However,I'm pretty sure I won't be posting pictures of food.

Pinterest


I have been sending all the macros I have made to Pinterest.
For some reason,this has been repined about 30 times up to now.I actually think it's one of my weaker efforts still the public like it.
If you are on there,give me a follow and I'll follow you back.
However,I'm pretty sure I won't be posting pictures of food.

Sunday, 29 April 2012

had a weird few days


On Wednesday,my laptop died.It was over 5 years old and had been in constant use the whole time.Problem was ,Lance's puter had died too and he hadn't replaced it because he was looking to build just the right one.
So I watched my baseball on his PS3,problem was.I had to use the games controller to comment on the gameday thread and I wasn't any good at it,the posts came out like this
gggood hjuthy ssssscors arun
On Friday I was ill .I'd been brewing flu for a while so I took to bed where I proceeded to get in a muck sweat and hallucinate.
Saturday,even though he had the flu too,Lance lent me some money and went and bought me a cute little blue ,10 inch Hewlett Packard notebook.It's brilliant for the money.
Only one problem,Windows,ugg,I hate that bloated,advert and unwanted shit filled crap/
I can replace it with Mint but right now I'm just hoicking everything off the old hard drive.
Still,new puter,HURRAH.

Monday, 23 April 2012

I've had no internet all weekend


It involved a locked cupboard and a dead battery in a phone.I'm too annoyed to explain any further.

Sunday, 1 April 2012

Spring

When April with his showers sweet with fruit
The drought of March has pierced unto the root
And bathed each vein with liquor that has power
To generate therein and sire the flower;
When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath,
Quickened again, in every holt and heath,
The tender shoots and buds, and the young sun
Into the Ram one half his course has run,
And many little birds make melody
That sleep through all the night with open eye
(So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)-
Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage,

Spring

When April with his showers sweet with fruit
The drought of March has pierced unto the root
And bathed each vein with liquor that has power
To generate therein and sire the flower;
When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath,
Quickened again, in every holt and heath,
The tender shoots and buds, and the young sun
Into the Ram one half his course has run,
And many little birds make melody
That sleep through all the night with open eye
(So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)-
Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage,

Saturday, 31 March 2012

Dancing


With the warm weather,we have had the windows open in the flat.Yesterday a ginormous bumble bee made it's way into the front room.Of course,it wouldn't leave,blundering round the unopened window in a foolish manner.
Now as you know,bees dance to communicate ,so Lance got up and danced for the bee but nothing happened.He tried again,this time making sure the bee was facing him.It kept buzzing round wildly,everywhere but the open window.Making a slight adjustment to the position of his right little finger, Lance danced again and this time the bee flew straight out.

Dancing


With the warm weather,we have had the windows open in the flat.Yesterday a ginormous bumble bee made it's way into the front room.Of course,it wouldn't leave,blundering round the unopened window in a foolish manner.
Now as you know,bees dance to communicate ,so Lance got up and danced for the bee but nothing happened.He tried again,this time making sure the bee was facing him.It kept buzzing round wildly,everywhere but the open window.Making a slight adjustment to the position of his right little finger, Lance danced again and this time the bee flew straight out.

Friday, 30 March 2012

I'm doing nothing


I caught a cold last week ,nothing much just a few sneezes and a bit of a headache,but it has left me so tired.I can barely lift my head up from my pillow.Meant to do loads of stuff tidying up my laptop but have never got round to it.
We have had a few ,glorious spring days,the cats have just disappeared into the gardens.
Poor Amy has had a swollen lip,not sure if she caught an early bee or a squirrel bit her as they are out of hibernation and running round on the fences and she's stalking them .It's going down and has not stopped her eating or anything.
Petrol and pasty crisis here in the UK. Luckily ,neither affect me directly.

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Transmission

I listen to the radio a lot on my laptop. BBC radio cache their programs so you can listen to them for a week after the live broadcast.It takes about an hour for it to be formatted and put on the net.
BUT on Friday afternoons,they don't appear,they often take til the next day.I wonder what happens to prevent this on Friday afternoons? TGIF ?

Monday, 19 March 2012

Ouch


Yesterday,while helping me in the kitchen,Lance dropped a peppermill on my foot and broke the little toe nail.
Is that as-salt and battery?

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Engage brain before operating mouth

Because of my FM,I sometimes just can't get words out.I just lose the word in my head.I have to try and describe it somehow but can't actually say the word,it's a bit like a party game to my listeners,lol.Yesterday ,I excelled myself.Being unable to get the word cigarette lighter out ,I came up with thumb-sparky -thing.

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

So tired

I'm sleeping or dozing all the time. I think all the shifting of boxes (haha ,wrote "shitting" of boxes first) has caught up with me.I do this,go full speed at a task that must be done but have to pay for it, I only have so much strength .I know I owe Lolcats to people but damn ,I'm too tired to hold my head up.

Friday, 17 February 2012

R.I.P. Moon

Moon died Thursday night.She was her usual self in the day but in the evening,I knew something was up.In the early hours she got into my arms and I held her for a couple of hours while she just drifted off.I don't feel too sad because she was very old and had a wonderful,spoilt life.She was not ill,just old and gradually everything ran down.Lance buried her in the garden.

Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Shopping.

There is nothing more cheering when shopping than seeing a goth in full black eye-linered ,white faced glory ,sweeping down the aisles in ASDA ,trailing his full length ,black leather coat ,buying micro wave pizza for one.

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Gatefold Cover


When pre- recorded cassettes started being sold I wasn't impressed .Firstly because I had already rerecorded my albums onto cassettes of a far better quality than those used by the music companies at the time. ( yeah,that's why car steroes shredded double albums ) Secondly,where was the cover art?
One of the great pleasures of buying a new LP was the cover art,even better if it was a double gatefold cover.


OK,if you weren't into prog rock,you maybe missed out and have never heard of Roger Dean but everyone knows about Sgt. Pepper.
I still have my postcard from Wish You Were Here somewhere.
So CDs came out and there were a few more inches for artwork but not enough yet,the companies missed a trick.You see we play them on computers and there could be room on them for a glorious piece of cover art you could luck at while you listen.
Now sure sound quality and ease of listening has improved ,and some music videos are beyond brilliant but still now and then I look at my LPs still snugly preserved in the plastic dust covers I bought with them and miss a part of music.

Thursday, 2 February 2012

For Sunday

Macro cats


I make cat macros all the time.
Would you like me to make them for your cat ? Post a picture and I'll see what I can do.