Filed under: CHARITY INFORMATION !, OTHER ! | Tags: arguments, charity, colour, cure, mil milligan, tea, underwear, words
Now, see, the problem with water dispensers is that the hot is too hot and the cold is too cold, if they work at all. For example: I’ve been sitting here for at least fifteen minutes with hot Lipton tea on my lap, and having tested the temperature a few seconds ago, I scalded my tongue. Call me crazy but… that’s not right. Wonderful! But seriously, I have very little much Robin Hood to say today, but I was kept up all night with an amusing list of things I’ve argued with everybody about in the past. It gets ridiculous, but here’s a teaser:
My telephone number
The definition of the word ‘legal’
Whether or not I should still have Little John’s underwear in my drawer
Arguments: yes, arguments over arguments
“Get your hands off me – you’re freezing.”
The colour of the little thing that cleans your toilet water
British English and American English
Miracle cures for the common cold
Sugar or milk going in your tea first
What Twitter is for
My feelings for other people
The question that has the answer “forty two”
The plural of ‘moose’
If that green mercedes had enough fuel to get to Denmark
The birds and the bees
Whose minion Little John’s cat was when we were kids
Which icecream van
Need I go on? I’d start sounding like Mil Milligan if I did – great author, look him up! Now, Robin Hood: I’m hoping to get some charity work in tomorrow, or Monday. A friend of mine goes to a lot of poverty-stricken places and helps with projects to raise money, like bear making, and bag making. I’ll be dropping in as myself to help her out a lot more than usual not that my work period is done for quite some time. Exams are over, y’see.
- Robin Hood, sleepless-ly
Okay, so I’m not American, but if I had a penny for every time I hear someone say that… A friend sent me this a few days ago, and I just wanted to tip my hats to the people involved.
- Robin
Filed under: ALL IN THE PAST !, CHARITY INFORMATION !, HOT OFF THE PRESS !, OTHER ! | Tags: 17 again, charity, coffee, little john, love, make poverty history, movie, plan, robin hood
Okay, so I promised I’d keep this baby updated once a day? I lied. I was studying – even Robin Hood has to study if she wants to keep her day job. You’d think I’d know the difference between polar and non-polar by now but I majored in history not chemistry. So, here we go, little update in the form of two things: a proposition for you all, and a movie review. I’ll start with the review ’cause it’s easier to say, if a little out of character for me to have gone to see a film like this in the first place.
There’s this film out now with Zac Efron (who, ussually, I would precede with the words ‘Oh God why’) and Matthew Perry (whose name I add ‘yummy’ to, even if I am a woman in my twenties or maybe in spite of…) called 17 Again. It’s sort of a one-way Freaky Friday, but that it’s a guy who falls over a bridge – bear with me on this – into a whirpool and gets home to find he’s reverted to his seventeen year old self, the point in his life where he felt he frankly screwed everything up. You know, dropping the chance of a basketball scholarship ’cause he got his girlfriend pregnant – well, seventeen years on he wished he hadn’t, and it actually turned out to be better than it sounded! Piqueing my interest, of course, when his best friend, thinking the kid is an intruder, attacks him with an orc’s ax, a sword, and then a red light saber. Topped up with two cups of coffee I was killing myself laughing by the end of the film, which I just got back from. My rating – 89%. Would’ve been in the 90s% range if there’d been more geeky stuff. Those parts reminded me of my own past, eh Little John? Light saber fights sound familiar? And it also reminded me of a part of turning seventeen I would want to relive. Unfortunately there is a man out there who I know knows he can steal my heart and break it into a hundred pieces, even my rock of a heart. Of course, my prom date blackmailed me into said prom and sweet-talked me into a dress (which I wore jeans and Doc Martin’s underneath, granted) but what we had back then, well, part of me wouldn’t mind it back, but Robin Hood…. maybe gets in the way. The Merry Men for one wouldn’t be chuffed.
Now, before we get onto the seriousness, you might have noticed that I had two very large cups of coffee, which I gave up for Lent and ever since have been drinking in the daily bucketloads, often in absence of food. One cup, caramel thing with extra caffeine, came from The Coffee Bean, and the White Chocolate Mocha I’m finishing off now came from Starbucks. I’m no coffee, conneiseur, so I’d love to hear what you think was best, hence the following poll. Plus… I’d love some more comments. ^^; Shameless plug much?
Now…. Robin Hood again, eh? I had a proposition I wanted to put to the world, which is mostly why I want comments today. Actually, it’s maybe good that I didn’t post it yesterday, ’cause I didn’t have it finalised until… ooh, five minutes ago. I have sort of got exams in May, but after that I’m a Freebird – please, no Lynard Skynard people, it’s already going ’round my head. What I’m going to do my best to organise here is a world-collaboration for making poverty history. It’s something I’m going to do regardless of whether it sparks interest on this blog, but if I get enough interest here I’ll post up details and a date and see how much we can raise. The idea is you dress up as Robin Hood, and don’t steal, but go out like that, with a collecting bucket, rustle up as much small change as you can – maybe do a small show in your local park, or if you’re in school, get your class to perform in the yard after class or something. Even if it’s just a matter of walking through the streets loudly talking “like ye merry men of olde in ye merry forest of Sherwood”. That’s what I’m rustling people up for. Bit of Men in Tights-ing. And there’s a handy way that you can send all of this to Make Poverty History, and they have lots of resources you can use to advertise too. So… Post if you’re interested, eh heh. Wow, me, shy? Shock!
- from Robin Hood with crossed fingers and an over-active imagination x
Filed under: CHARITY INFORMATION !, HOT OFF THE PRESS ! | Tags: bus, charity, easter, funny, guns n' roses, little john, london, sent in
This officially made my morning; a friend of mine who lives in London took one look at this and thought of me. Not that she knows what I do, but she does know I have a certain thing for Robin Hood past and present. I got the photograph in an email earlier, but I’ve been a little busy to post it. I really have to thank whoever got that put up, it’s legendary. They’ve got the right idea too, people generally don’t seem to get that there’s more than one of us: note the plural. I’ll be forwarding this to Little John later. If he’s talking to me – I was sort of responsible for getting a bucket of cold water thrown over us yesterday. Alright. Entirely responsible.
On another note, thanks for the shoulder help, Perspecillum, my shoulder’s feeling much better. Granted, still pretty sprained, wound up in the gym after all rather than being allowed to feel sorry for myself all day, but generally the mug of coffee and sitting still as long as possible paid off. I’ll be back out in costume again in no time, sorry NCPD. I can’t wait! Can’t stand sitting still, but at least I’ve been getting some charity work in too, here and on my about page. Those guys are doing some great work, Make Poverty History and World Hope. At the risk of sounding like a preacher, please do your part; with the right effort, we could eradicate the worst of poverty by 2015. All we need to raise, across the globe, is .5 billion pounds, that’s the price it cost to build EuroDisney. 20% of the world possesses 90% of the world’s wealth – sure you can’t spare a fiver?
That’s all for now. I’ve got to get stuff ready for work next week when the holidays end, much as I’d like to keep blogging. Which reminds me – Happy Easter. Some people might not think it, some might, but I do have a heart.
- listening to Guns N’ Roses, the Modern Robin Hood
Filed under: HOT OFF THE PRESS ! | Tags: big issue, charity, help, neverwhere, pain
Pulled something in my shoulder last night. 360 degree pain, right the way around, somehow, can’t even walk, it’s crazy, and I hate it. Damn it, I’m Robin Hood, I don’t sit still very well. And here I am, in a chair, with my arm at a funny angle, ’cause I fell over yesterday and went to the gym when I really should’ve gone to the doctor’s. Which is where I should be going now, in all honesty, but I can’t bring myself to do it. I can still go out, do my gig, ’cause at least I’m right handed, not left. Anyway, anyone out there able to give me a hand? No pun intended; lifting my left puts nerve pain in my shoulder, what can I do? Is there a doctor in the house?
Alright, so I had a gig last night, is what happened. You might read about it sometime, but long story short I had all this money stored up from thefts and what not, so I spread it out to all the bums on the street from time to time. A tenner here, a tenner there. See, thousands of people in the United Kingdom alone are thousands of pounds in debt, and all you people out shopping can’t spare some small change so they can get a cup of coffee? This isn’t Neil Gaimen’s Neverwhere, there is no Floating Market where they can trade a piece of string for a poppadom. That’s why I’m still doing this, why I’m risking imprisonment and a lot of hell to do some sort of part. It’s not much, but it’s raising awareness, and if it buys some homeless guy I don’t know a meal, then so be it. At the very least, buy a big issue – surprisingly good reads.
My point this morning, though, was that I fell down the stairs on Burton Street. Smart huh? Landed on my shoulder, got home, fell into bed on the other shoulder and woke up feeling sorry for myself. Looks like the police’ll have a quiet week chasing after me. Paladins too, might lay off for a bit. Can’t afford to dodge someone shooting laser from their eyes or whatever power shows up this time. Seriously, it amazes me how much those guys can hide from the general public. So maybe this is Neverwhere.
- Robin Hood, in pursuit of a splint x
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