...a month or three back at Smart Bitches which led to my coronation. Yes, I am an official dubbed-and-everything member of the Smart Bitches Peerage. All because I happened to remember the Mills & Boon trilogy by Sally Wentworth titled by the characters' names. Calum, Chris and Francesca. Also the vineyard scene made an impression. I suspect this may have been the first family trilogy I ever read -- another reason for memorable -- and I still love and adore the family trilogy. Have been meaning to update my sidebar and I will do that (one day) but in the meantime here is me, the aristocracy, as it should be.

Labels: fun stuff, Mills and Boon, trilogies

Here's a fun thing I nabbed from someone's blog a while back (and my apologies to whoever/wherever I nabbed from, but I didn't save the link and now can't remember, mea culpa.) If you've ever fantasised about being in a band and seeing your band name on an album cover...

1 - Go to Random Wikipedia articles. The first random article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to Random Quotations. The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. (EDITED TO CORRECT LINK.)

3 - Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days". Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Put it all together, that's your debut album.

Here's mine:

Band Name: A Mid-Winter Night's Dream

Debut Album: We're in Big Trouble.

And this is the cover. Cool, huh?

Labels: fun stuff

It's been a blogging drought here at the Sunburnt Country but I saw something on the weekend's news that I just had to break the drought to comment on. Mostly because I just love that headline. Mandrought. Isn't that a cool term? I could imagine using it all kinds of ways when writing (although, rats, it does not suit my current characters' situation!)

Anyways, in the story I saw on Weekend Sunrise it referred to a shortage of men in Cairns, a decent-sized city in the far north of Queensland which is very popular with tourists. Apparently men in their 30's-40's are far outnumbered by women, so in the interests of public service I thought I should get that message out. Y'know, in case anyone's looking to visit and wanting to check out the manscape. ;-) Although I should point out, in the interests of full disclosure, that there are plenty of men in the 50's-60's demographic.

Mostly I just wanted to use the words mandrought and manscape!

Labels: Australian life, fun stuff

I'm hard at work on a book due all too soon. In the meantime, I'll post some amusing stuff that has tickled my funny bone recently. This is an extract from "The Irish Medical Dictionary". Corny, but fun.

Artery.........The study of paintings

Bacteria.......Back door to a cafeteria

Barium.........What doctors do when patients die

Benign.........What you be after you be eight

Caesarean Section..........A neighbourhood in Rome

Catscan........Searching for Kitty

Cauterize......Made eye contact with her

Coma...........A punctuation mark

Dilate.........To live long

Enema..........Not a friend

Fester.........Quicker than someone else

Fibula.........A small lie

Impotent.......Distinguished, well known

Labour pain....Getting hurt at work

Medical staff..A Doctor's cane

Morbid.........A higher offer

Nitrates.......Cheaper than day rates

Node...........I knew it

Outpatient.....A person who has fainted

Pelvis.........Second cousin to Elvis

Recovery room..Place to do upholstery

Rectum.........Nearly killed him

Secretion......Hiding something

Seizure........Roman emperor

Tablet.........A small table

Tumour.........One plus one more

Urine.. .......Opposite of you're out

2 x Condoms....To be sure, To be sure

Labels: fun stuff

A little late for Easter, but I reckon this Peep Show can be enjoyed all year round. Thanks for the link, Jen!

Labels: Easter, fun stuff