The Olympic Park is getting there!

It really is not that long until the Olympics comes to London. Seeing the latest photos that have been released of the park at Stratford has got me rather excited! It is so nice to see development around London and I really hope that we can keep something from it once the olympics are over. I know that there are pessimists out there that think that it will all go belly up and that we will be left with a white elephant but all I can say is that the O2 arena was a white elephant and look at how amazing that is now! (I am so amazed by the O2 arena that I will have to do a separate blog on that too!) anyway to the olympic park. You can see the finishing touches are being made to the stadium and what looks like the TV screens are going in. What intrigues me is the paths that surround the stadium and I wonder what colour they will end up as every promo picture seems to show different colours! Other things of interest are the Orbit. The tower is now full hight and the viewing platforms are going in (I swear there is going to be a restaurant up there too or I may be making that up) anyway, take a look and marvel at the site! its going to be fast pace from here on so we can expect the finishing touches from the trees to the wrap and everything between to be coming very soon! 

Signing out, Thatmfeeling 

The Ghastly BT Tower Sheds It's Skin

Over the past couple of weeks I have noticed news story after story about the BT tower. Recently the tower has gone under a slight image change with the removal of all the dishes that once gave this tower its striking characteristics. The dishes were removed for heath and safety reasons as they had been deteriorating for a rather long time. What surprises me with this tower is that it is grade listed. Whilst I have come to accept the tower and understand its need to be there, its needs for residence are becoming lesser with newer technologies in communication. If BT decide to abandon this building, the sad though is that it will still have to stand there year after year looking rather ugly. I have a great acceptance of architecture and love reading about and visiting many places around the city but the one building that I will never come to love is this ghastly tower. Now that the dishes have been removed, there are talks as to what to do with this rather large space that has been freed up. To be completely honest, anything will be better than its current state but some of the suggestions have been to fill it with advertising or even decorate it with lights. The latter sounds better to me but the problem that I think should be prioritised first is the overall look of the tower during daylight. For a company that seems to scam so much money out of the public and certainly gave me some hellish years, you think they would have enough money to spruce up their building and give some new life to the skyline in this area. Whilst you will very rarely hear me talk badly about London and its architecture, the best thing to happen to this tower would be for it to fall down and take the company with it. Merry Christmas :) 

Signing out, Thatmfeeling 

Sabrina And Her Magic Pussy

I was randomly thinking about what to write about today and then remembered that I had come across one of the funniest videos I have seen in a while. (I showed my friend the video and she did not laugh at all so maybe it is just for me) The video was a reunion of Sabrina the Teenage Witch with her one and only loveable pussy Salem! It got me thinking about how some of these programs have defined our childhood and I have to admit that Sabrina the teenage with was one of those many programs that defined mine. Oh we were rather random children! well maybe I can only speak for myself. It is funny looking back at it now because whilst I would contemplate buying the box set to watch the whole series over again, I know it would be awful. I watched one episode on youtube the other day and I did not find it funny at all, yet I kept on watching and it just took me back to my childhood.I love the stupid aunt! I think she was the main reason why I watched it. Whilst creating a little bit of sad magic myself, I decided to look up some information myself and was shocked to find that the program ran for seven seasons! Yes thats seven seasons! I mean did we actually watch them all!? I swear I have probably only watched two (then he buys the boxset and realises that he has watched every episode!) I also discovered what Nick Bakay, the guy that speaks for Salem actually looks like a pedophile and all I can say is his voice is far better looking than his face (oh that is awful! I am sure he is a lovely guy!) its just good that he wasn't on the show because he may have scared the kids!The only other thing that I learnt from this, what can only be described as fascinating adventure of knowledge is that even though I love Melissa Joan Hart, I have never actually seen her in anything other than Sabrina. So to top off this great blog that I am sure you are  just willing to go on for longer, I am going to share the link to what I think is the funniest video I have seen in a while (minus mine of course!) The whole cup and pussy incident just makes me crack up again and again. What programs did you share your childhood with and can any of them beat the teenage witch!? I will leave that one to you,

Signing out, Thatmfeeling

The X Factor Finale: Little Mix To Win

So I have not really been following the Xfactor this year after the disappointment of the judges and (I don’t mean to sound nasty) the lack of talent that this year has had to offer. In true Xfactor style, you hear about the show even if you don’t have a TV or internet connection so it was only a matter of time after each program finishes that I would hear about it. I will admit to you that I watched the first part of the finale last night and I was impressed... by the arena, not by the people singing on it. Even if I hate to admit it, the show is huge. Even a death and blind person would be able to tell you that. I am surprised that it has taken the show this long to move (even for the finale) to a bigger venue. The impact is so much greater ad I think it makes for such a good viewing experience. There has only been one thing about the show this year that I have loved to hear about and that is the group Little Mix. Every time I hear about them it makes me want to see who they are and what they have been doing and so I listened to them sing and was really impressed. Watching the finale last night, they were the only ones out if the three that stood out and that I enjoyed listening to. Amelia Lily chose the worst song to perform! if you are going to choose a Christina Aguilera song then you have to be prepared to sing all the high and long notes. Lily did not sing any but chose to cut them all out. I am glad that she was voted out and should have stayed out from the beginning. Marcus Collins had by far the best stage set up but again disappointed with his song choice. He did not make it his own nor did he reach the standards of the original. If it is the finale then I think the singers should be belting out some impressive songs to show that they are the top of the crop and apart from Little Mix,I don’t think they did. I will not stick up for Little Mix as I think that they only topped their best performance when it was time for them to sing with Tulisa. I loved it!! They deserve to win all the way. My final opinions are that I think the Xfactor should be in a bigger venue next year for the whole time (or at the very least give the studio a complete makeover because it is getting so boring!) They need to keep Tulisa and ditch all the other judges (I do like Kelly but she just did not click!) and finally (you will hate this one) they need to get a new Dermot! I just dont think that he has a full personality and we need someone more dramatic and entertaining to fill the role! 

singing out, Thatmfeeling 

Concrete Block Thrown Off A Bridge That Hits A Car

Whilst I do like to keep things lighthearted, there was a news article that I read recently that I just had to talk about. It is one of those situations that I could never imagine myself in and that I hope I never ever have to experience. The article was about two cars that had large chunks of concrete thrown at them from a bridge. The people in the first car managed to get away unhurt, yet I can imagine rather psychologically damaged as I would be if something was thrown at me as I was driving. The second car was even more serious and what looks like a bucket of solid concrete smashed the whole front of the car and hit and seriously injured those in the car too. Now when I read this article it got me so angry. I can imagine some little chavy kids thinking it would be fun to throw something at passing cars and as the game went on, the items got bigger and bigger until what happened did. I can not honestly believe that someone or some people could actually think it would be entertaining, funny or amusing to do something like that to someone. What did they think was going to happen? They couldn’t have thought to themselves “lets go and kill someone tonight” I really hope, without proper words to describe it, that these people or person is sitting at home, shitting themselves. I hope that they get found out and that they pay an extreme price for the stupid (not even childish thing because I cant not believe that a child would be so stupid to do something like this) thing that they have done. It really frustrates me when I hear / read stores like this because I just can not fathom what is going through their minds. Why would you want to go out and destroy a random person’s life as well as destroying your own. You would like to believe that every person can have even the smallest amount of self control but by these actions you can tell that some people have nothing. They need to rot in prison because they have no hope at all. 

I hope that this lady makes a full recovery and that the evil people that did this get caught

the damage done to the car and the massive concrete block itself

Winter: I hate it!

Everything seems so sudden with the weather recently. We had amazing weather that turned bad, only to turn great again and then in the click of a finger, we skipped from Summer to Winter. Whist we can all admit that it could be far colder, it is only a matter of time before the big chill hits us and I am really not looking forward to it. Firstly you must be wondering why I am talking about weather, well I am British and this is something we do rather well. Secondly it is because the weather affects us so much. I think snow looks beautiful but when you are living in a fast paced city, it looks ugly and destroys everything. You dress up warm but have to take it off when you get n the underground. You have to have multiple shoes with you because you cant walk down a road in the usual smart shoes because you would get hit by an out of control, swirling double decker bus. Transport screws over and then everyone is late for work, you have no space to put all these extra items of clothing and the list just goes on and on! I have to say that I think we have had a great year for weather and everyone knows that with the great weather will come some extreme bad weather too... Its just WHEN! with the snow and coldness comes the bad news stories of people freezing to death, heating bills going through the roof and the country slowly starting to shut down. I hope that after long learning we can all look back at this blog and say “ahh we coped really well last Winter” even though saying this, I don’t even have a coat! the recession has hit me so hard that I need Burberry to sponsor me for Winter! (please!) so I can get a coat! Whilst a part of me would love to have a week of Winter (it makes you realise how much we love Summer) I hope it is just that, a week of Winter. I look forward to next year when  we can head back into the warmer figures and we can put all those pretty little pictures into our albums, along with our coats (not for me) scarfs and gloves! 

signing out, brrrrrrrrrr..... Thatmfeeling