Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

Okay. I know England’s notorious for rain during summer but this is ridiculous. It’s July, summer time right? Then why, prey tell have we just had hailstones (while I was pushing a speedboat along a road on GTA3 for the sake of it ). Hailstones. Frozen rain. In summer. And then, it all ends with a quick flash of lightning and a clap of thunder and that’s it. Just rain, no more hail. Nature is a very very strange thing. I wonder if we’ll ever understand it.
I’m going to be incredibly bored this Saturday. You know why? No more Doctor Who Until Christmas. No worries though, because when I get bored, I still have my pirates. To my mental planning I have recently (as in yesterday) introduced a new pirate captain named captain Zorro. You can guess who he named himself after. I’m still working on what to call his ship though.
Another way of combating my boredom is doing a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle of cats. The trouble is there’s at least 3 pieces missing already and that’s just from the edge. I’ve had it for quite a long time and every time I tried to do it I ran out of room or patience or both. I’ve completed about four of the cats, about five are nearly complete and the rest have quite a way to go. There are four pairs of eyes that still need to be connected to the rest of the puzzle.
Oh, more thunder. I’m getting quite used to it at the moment. I remember when it used to happen at school when we were little (it rarely happened) and some of the others were scared. I don’t remember being scared of thunder. I’d been told it wouldn’t hurt me and it was just sound. Thinking about that now I wonder if I’ve always been the odd one out. Once I remember that when I was very little, as school the playground froze and there were little frozen puddles here and there around the edges. At that age we’d rarely had the chance to step on solid ice so some of us stood on it and shuffled our feet a bit. It wasn’t a big puddle and about three of us had to stand side by side to be on the ice. I think it was three, it may have been four but I’m pretty sure it was three. Anyway, I was on the end. A boy came up behind the others and pushed them. It was only a little bit of ice really but enough to slip on with a push. They all fell over. When it was my turn I didn’t fall over but managed to keep my balance. Then again, I saw him coming. Saw him sneak up on the first and knew what he’d do. As there were 3-4 of us he’d try it on all of us. Perhaps it was because I’d already braced myself for it. Who knows but I remember I was the only one that didn’t fall over. I was the only girl there I remember. The others were boys, perhaps that had something to do with it. But you’d have thought, with my tendency to daydream (which I was notorious for amongst the teachers at that age) that I’d have been the more likely to fall and the less likely to be paying attention but that wasn’t the case now was it.
Well, besides reminiscing about pointless things, as I’ve just done, there’s always that story. The one I’ve mentioned now and then with the different mythologies in it and all. It’ll be fun to continue, when I’m inspired, because I started writing it just before Christmas and you know what went on over Christmas. The male character was inspired by Tom, not exactly based on him, I’ve exaggerated things to make the character more pathetic than Tom and quite simply more stupid. I’d like it to be known that Tom isn’t really as weak and stupid as the character inspired by him. I’d like to say the heroine is based on me but that’s not so. She’s based on various alternate versions of me that I’ve come up with over time. The female characters I develop are usually good at such things as sword fighting and archery and usually martial arts (though that won’t be needed in this story). Basically they’re all the things that I’m not but I’d like to be. They tend to be quite aggressive and sarcastic too. (My most recent heroine, my pirate captain, is no different. She’s quite aggressive, a skilled sword fighter (she mainly prefers the katana that she made herself rather than the typical pirate cutlass) she taught herself martial arts but later learned that she had been doing it wrong and was likely to do herself an injury and was then taught properly. She has a fondness for rock music and film trivia. It’s recently turned out that she has a couple of gambling debts in Singapore and owes Doctor Frankenstein money and she was considered the best bounty hunter before she left after two years due to a prior incident which resulted in the death of a loved one. She took over as captain of a pirate ship when the crew mutinied and couldn’t decode on who should take over and prior to leaving she was named High Captain of her ship so that others were allowed to be captain while she was away but when she returned she had overriding command (this was agreed on by the entire crew). There was the whole laboratory experiment and freedom fighter before that where she first taught herself to fight and also taught herself advanced mechanics and engineering as she went along, which lead to a bit of biology too when she started making bionic limbs. As you can see, I like to work out the full history of a character. It makes them seem more real.)
Oh dear. I’ve gone on to much again.

Bluebiird out.