Sunday, 28 February 2010

Jobby on a lead.

Well.

Jude, my friend since we were 2 years old, my sister....laughed out loud said a cute, little happy Dachshund (we saw walking past my house with its owner) looked like a jobby with four legs.

Oh haha.

Thursday, 25 February 2010

Sunday, 21 February 2010

Driving Dog?!

After a delightful afternoon cuppa with my lovely chum Jude, I returned back to my car in the car pack and saw an interesting site. Put a smile on my face as it wasn't what I expected to see in the car next to mine! Hope he has a license.

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Gordon Brown and Piers Morgan - the PMs

I was fortunate enough to be in the audience for the recording of the much hyped interview with The Prime Minister and Piers Morgan. The interview was not about to be about political views, taxes, Iraq... but more a deeper invasion into the life of the real Gordon Brown, the man who, like it or lump it leads our country - chosen by the British Public.

The ever so enchanting Piers Morgan took to the stage first, receiving a very warm welcome from the audience and he greeted us, asking if we could put our political views to the side and see the interview more as entertainment as he delved into the inside private life of Gordon Brown.

When Mr Brown entered the show he was received with an open mind from the audience who cheered and clapped enthusiastically.

From the beginning, Piers probed question after question, we soon found the somewhat guarded PM let his barriers down and relax into chat and closeness of his real life outside. He is a family man, loving, kind and adores his children and his wife, Sarah.

Mrs Sarah Brown was also in the audience with (I think) her mother, father and a couple more relatives. The camera man did his best to capture her during certain revealing stories.

Mr Brown admitted he does not take the full PM pay, there are no major perks and needs about 6 hours sleep to function the next day. As a family man he confessed the best parts of his job is the openness of his family, who can run into any meeting and ask daddy if they can "do a treasure hunt" after tea. He can see his family as and when during the working day.

In the papers today, the headlines are PM weeps on TV. Well, any loving father with deep love for his family would while discussing the tragic death of his 1st child. He definitely welled up, showed very passionate and sad emotion and you could feel his pain. Sarah was weeping. Silence as he spoke and you could feel it was difficult to speak about it. I looked around the audience at this point to capture their emotion, there were people were sniffing into their hankies, tears welling up at this heart breaking story, human tragedy strikes a cord when a child is involved and as Gordon spoke softly we could feel his pain and sadness. Nobody deserves this kind of human pain. On a happier note their 2nd child was born bringing much joy to the proud parents and their 3rd son joined the family only to find out he has Cystic fibrosis. Another cruel and painful experience for the Brown's, but taking a positive and occasional, why us feeling the pair carry on to do their utter most best to bring their boys up in a private and beautiful family lifestyle. They even enjoyed an outing to Nativity at the movies at Christmas time.

Gordon had the support of the audience in the studio as we were touched with his emotional love for his family, his slight awkwardness of being in the public eye; we giggled, laughed and encouraged him to tell us more of his intriguing life.

I won't spoil the 2 and half hour interview as it's shown on TV on Sunday 14th, but from a non political point of view, the interview was intriguing, fascinating and heart warming to watch.

There are so many people who believe they know what's right and wrong, how they should run the country but Gordon Brown is doing the job just now, not us and as he said it's the people who let him know if it’s a good decision or wrong.

At the end of the day the interview didn't sway my voting decision, but I now like and warmed to the PM or just the man in the public eye, known as Gordon Brown.

My secret confession is my favourite part of the whole show was at the end when my friend Marti managed to grab Piers as he was walking out of the studio to sign my book. He did that and I made sure he saw me, saying thank you with full eye contact, I'm easily pleased!