Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

There be trouble in them skies says I.
We’ve just had, sleet, rain and snow in the same half hour and now it’s sunny. Could this be a clear sign of global warming? Probably, though people will ignore it.
Now, imagine you’ve been bored all day and the library’s closed so you can’t even read that book you were so desperate and so thrilled to find last Thursday. You have had little inspiration and you’re bored, but you’ve been looking through some of the stuff (drawings mainly but ...

Okay. So, I wore my red t-shirt on Friday, and my paperclip ring. I wore my t-shirt under my school jumper. Mum said I’d be to hot in my usual kind so I wore one of the slightly older, thinner ones with the shorter sleeves. Big mistake. I was bloody freezing (as I told her later on the phone). I had to pay my pound to Richards at reception. According to a notice in the common room it seems that I’m no longer her problem. There seems to have been a reshuffle with the SWC’s and now Mr Happy is in ...

Silly me. It wasn't a D I got last time, it was a U. It's gone up by two grades. That makes me so happy.
Too tired to further update.

Bluebiird out

I’m still happy. Why you ask. I shall tell you, but in chronological order.
This morning, I was running rather late and then I discovered that I’d run out of toothpaste. I’d been squeezing out every last bit as is humanly possible over the passed week. What was I to do?
I considered using mum’s but it’s too strong. I think I’ve already said it somewhere, but I’ll say it again. I’m allergic to mint.
Well, that may not be exactly true. It’s probably not an allergy. More like ...

Right. Next up, last Saturday. Mum and I went to look at another university. To cut a long story short, it was great. We went to the English literature talk, then here and there, then we had lunch. They had these really tasty little sandwiches. There was a wide selection of cold finger foods on offer, like orange slices, melon slices, sandwiches and hot beverages or apple juice. Mum and I took some time to admire the abstract artwork on the walls. One looked like a pile of lettuce to me and another ...