Ruthless

Just returned to the chateau from a work trip up north. Went well. Colleague-wise, OlderArtist had a refreshing easy-to-work-with quality, Emma – who was playing main sidekick – was a woman with ill-timed PMS (though I survived!), SidekickOfOlderArtist was an ill-hidden PainInTheArse – and all because “[partner] and me had a big row* and he went stormin’ off last night”… the night before we all headed north for 24+ hours. Thus, she was unslept and wobbly – a not unreasonable state given the circumstances, but I’m thinking ‘What kind of a twat are you playing with here?’. ‘Storming off’ would have been a very uncool parting gesture. [Dear Reader, Can you tell that I’m erring towards tired, unsexed and grumpy? I wonder whether you can.]

* (rhymes with ‘cow’). An argument.

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Radio 2 decide to play ‘Don’t You Forget About Me’ by Simple Minds. A nostalgic watery eye (just the one - the left, always the left) threatens to compromise my imminent effort at being hard and cold and really attractively ruthless. Boll. Ox. Well, let’s just see about that…

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This week’s starry directions:-

Capricorn: Suck a ginger person’s toe. Don’t argue, it worked for Fergie.
Aquarius: Lick a toad (that’s not a euphemism for a ‘cheatin’ love-rat’).
Pisces: Bake a cake. You don’t need any ‘tactile’ encouragement.
Leo: Get some Basic Skills training.
Virgo: Tell a good friend that you fancy/fancied their Mum/Dad/both.
Libra: Convince someone with good self-esteem that there’s nothing wrong with them.
Scorpio: Give up shop-lifting.
Sagittarius: Do your bit for the security industry: take up shop-lifting.
Aries: Tell a lie on Friends Reunited.
Taurus: Sell your Man United shares to a man named Malcolm.
Gemini: Report a dirty toe-suckin’ Capricorn to the Toe-Cops.
Cancer: Your body is a temple. Welcome all to it.

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I hear that Kenneth Clarke is not ruling out an attempt to run for leadership of the Conservative Party. Let it be noted… I’m not either.

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Then a Gwen Stefani song comes on. It’s synthesised Madonna-bland, far from nostalgic, but that Stefani character, she works. It is she that Shane will marry.

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Got drama workshop #2 on Wednesday. Should be… on.

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I love NY.