Fairy Jasmine

seren @ 2008-12-10T09:13:00

2008-12-10T09:14:54Z

I just wanted to let any visitors to my journal know that my posts are 100% friends only, so if you want to read anything you will need to be added as a friend first. Also, I don't often notice when new people have added me, so if you do want me to friend you back then please leave a comment here. Thanks :)

Lucyisms

2008-02-17T18:41:51Z

"Daddy is the grumpy in Grumpyland!"

"Mummy, you're the loveliest in Lovelyland, and you always make me cheer up." <3

"Daddy eats *tadpoles*!" (she actually meant that he eats tablets - his vegan vitamin supplements :P)

Me : "Mummy doesn't iron."
Lucy : "No. Daddy irons though. He's vegan."

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2007-07-27T19:07:49Z

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Originally uploaded by phoebechicken

Puppies! There are a few more photos of them if you click the 'puppies' link on Flickr.

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2007-05-05T18:30:04Z

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Originally uploaded by phoebechicken.

Today was Climbing Frame Day in our house. It took Stu 5 hours to assemble. She absolutely loves it and it was worth every penny :)

Announcement

2004-07-13T20:11:34Z

Lucy Rhiannon Scott was born on Monday July 12th at 4.28am. Birth was fairly eventful but there is honestly nothing I would change about the way things were handled. Will write the story and upload photos soon, but I haven't slept since Friday night and am way too exhausted to do anything right now other than care for my daughter (imagine that, I have a daughter!!)
Lucy weighed 8lb exactly and looks exactly like I did as a newborn. Her daddy loves her to pieces and I have never been so happy in all my life. We got home this evening after a 36 hour stay in hospital after the birth. Now if I could just stop looking at her for long enough to sleep.. :)

seren @ 2004-06-14T21:31:00

2004-06-14T20:32:58Z

Have had a bit of a friends list cut - apologies. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but I'm going to have a lot less time soon, and to be honest I don't really keep up with everyone even now. I also like to know who's reading and sometimes people don't give any clues. I don't really see the point of keeping someone on my friends list when there is no real connection, when we never talk and probably skim each other's entries.
If any of you have been dying to delete me for ages, but are afraid of hurting my feelings or something, then please just do it. I've wanted to delete people but have been afraid of hurting their feelings, but I'd rather nobody felt they had to pretend.
Also, I'm not going to use baby_roo for much longer, so if people don't want to read posts about babies, you'll be better off deleting me.
Take care and stuff x

The differences between us..

2004-04-28T07:52:14Z

I think I'm realising why the house is so messy and why I feel so lazy and frustrated all the time.

Housework done by me yesterday
Dishwasher loaded and emptied twice
Washing hung on line and brought in when dry
Spare room cleared
Dinner prepared
Cake baked
Cats fed twice

Housework done by the boy yesterday
Dinner served (I was watching Eastenders :p)
Cats fed once
Spare room cleared (he did more than me because much of it was heavy boxes and furniture moving)

To be honest I have no idea how much he'd do if he wasn't nagged, I don't take that risk ;) Seems very unfair as we're both on holiday and both work full time and while the dishwasher and laundry seem to have turned into my jobs somewhere along the way, his jobs like cleaning the kitchen only get done once every few months (I feel sick when I go in there.. little lumps of dried on cat food everywhere.. mud and grass all over the floor..) I hate cleaning the kitchen so I'm not going to just do it, I'm going to make him do it :p He only seems to clean when people come over, and never cleans just for me :(
Anyway, I think I'm due a nice lazy day today while himself does all the sanding and painting! Muahaha.
We're both going to my midwife appointment at 11, slightly nervous about this because I've only taken Stu to 2 appointments with me before but I cried both times. It seems like a bad omen. I can't think of anything I've got to cry about today though, I've got nothing to bring up with her at all. But he wants to come and I'd like him to come too, to hear the heartbeat and maybe hear what position the baby's lying in and everything (I can't work it out, I know sometimes a hard lump sticks out of my left side, but I also feel movement on my left side and in the middle, down low where it hurt :p Perhaps that's the two arms? Hmm)
Anyway off for breakfast, boiled-to-death egg and toast :)

seren @ 2003-12-09T22:27:00

2003-12-09T22:31:22Z

The time has come for a friends list cut. I hope nobody is offended - I just couldn't keep up with that amount of people. I'm also feeling the need to keep my own posts more private in future, and I'd rather not have people on my list if I don't know that they're reading, or if I can't give them the same sort of attention, or whatever. Take care.

seren @ 2003-08-09T23:15:00

2003-08-09T22:19:57Z

Jennifer - Your real name should be Jennifer.
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fun to be around (and crazy). Congrats, you're
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2003-02-12T21:26:53Z

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seren @ 2003-02-02T15:47:00

2003-02-02T15:43:11Z

I realllllly need to go to sleep but am waiting for my aunt to phone. Apparently my cousins tried on their bridesmaids dresses yesterday and I think they fitted and all. Yay.
So bloody tired. Yesterday was good. Have photos but Photoshop has gone weird so can't put them online yet. I did well and didn't pass out til 2.30am. That was only because I'd had a drink too many and felt ill, rather than that I was tired or anything (just like Stu's hangover today is because he had a dodgy piece of cheesecake and nothing AT ALL to do with the alcohol :P)
Was lovely to see people again. The food went down well. I remember there being quite a lot left (mostly mini jammie dodgers) which probably had to be thrown out but we only spent £45 on heaps and heaps of stuff so I don't mind - it could have been a lot worse. John had a huge lion cake that was yummy.
I guess the next party will be our housewarming? :) Its going to be weird moving. While I don't like living here all that much I will miss the people. A lot, actually. Meh.
I have that niggling feeling trhat I may have done something embarrassing or offensive because I am far too honest when I'm drunk. I just hope nobody was sober enough to remember ;) I always get like this the morning after the night before. God it's not morning any more though is it, how scary. Weekends always fly by and weeks go soooo slowly, and I'm always more dead on Mondays than the Friday before!
Stu just made us both a huge fry-up, he is lovely. Diet starts again tomorrow, have had 3 days off but have enjoyed them very much indeed.
I don't like it when a good party comes to and end and real life resumes :( can't wait to sell mousses all day tomorrow, honest. i have never liked mondays ;)
I am leaving this post friends-only because otherwise Frances won't be able to see it. I need to find out what to do to fix that actually.

seren @ 2003-01-27T19:59:00

2003-01-27T19:55:52Z

Kelly and Becky, if you can see this post, it means that you haven't been logged in to read my journal, as I have recently gone friends only and that is when you started saying you couldn't see my posts.
To everyone else : yeah, friends only ;) If you've added me to your friends list and I haven't added you back there's not much point you keeping me. You won't get to see anything of any importance. Sorry!

seren @ 2003-01-12T22:04:00

2003-01-12T22:01:04Z

(OK, this anon thing is all turned off now, so don't bother because it won't get posted :>)

Ok. I have turned on anon comments again, but not for long, so you have about a day to reply to this if you so wish :p
Basically I am jumping on the bandwagon and saying "leave me an anonymous comment telling me honestly what you think of me." I will never know it's you. I don't know why the hell I am doing this, please don't be too mean :P

seren @ 2003-01-11T17:28:00

2003-01-11T17:25:27Z

We are making Niall style curry and naan bread :)
I have chicken.
I have also lost all the Christmas podge now, I don't know how much I gained, but the good news is that my weight is the same as pre-binge, hooray!
The house Claire's friend wants to rent us sounds perfect, and is in a great location and they're fine about the cats and I am 99% sure we're going to love it, so yay! And it actually has 3 bedrooms. It's going to be so nice not to have a shit landlord or a greedy agency running the whole deal. They want to come back to it in a few years time, so it's obviously a nice enough home :)
The honeymoon site is still down, but if we can't book then nobody else can either.
We are going to Beth's second birthday party and we get to buy her dressing-up-box goodies and I can't wait :D She has to have at least one pair of fairy wings too, doesn't she?
I hate to say it, but 2003 is going extremely well so far, and I am very very happy.
Plus I get to watch LOTR (the extended version) tonight, along with a bottle of wine, some Milkybar eggs and chips 'n' dip (because it's a diet free day). YAY about 4 hours of elf goodness.

seren @ 2003-01-09T18:54:00

2003-01-09T18:50:28Z

was going to have a nice relaxing day off but got called in to work. while it is good that the agency is finding me stuff, and its nice to know i will be getting paid next friday, when faced with the choice of hanging out at home in comfy clothes watching dvds or stuffing envelopes for 4 and a half hours for a law firm, i know which i'd choose! oh well. bought rainbow coloured knee high socks to cheer myself up afterwards.
we're now making a mini roast dinner, and then stu is going for a drink with some mates. was going to go, but am so tired and legs are still suffering from retail hell yesterday (who needs the gym?!). instead im going to eat junk food and watch the new episode of friends (yay!)

seren @ 2003-01-08T11:26:00

2003-01-08T11:22:06Z

Woke up, found it was snowing. Took Phoebe to vet's - her cat box got snowed on (and in) and she was unimpressed. Got on bus, after waiting 20 minutes while none turned up, which made me 8 minutes late for me 9.10am appointment. So they made me wait til 9.50, until all of the other animals had been seen to, for being late. How unfair?
She was fine anyway, and the vet said she was sweet. Was talking to a woman in the waiting room who was very nice and also has an unsociable female cat and a younger boy cat named Dylan. She even sounded Welsh. Perhaps she is me in 30 years time?!
I have to go to work in a bit! I'm worried about how I will get there, or more importantly how I will get home - it's no huge loss if there is no way to get into Croydon but it would be horrible not to be able to get home :( I'm sure it will be OK. Am not walking through thick icy snow in work shoes, though. Am wearing trainers and changing when I get there. Will be bad enough having to wear trousers that have been snowed on!
Think I am getting a cold.
Am boring, so here is my survey.

-what is your opinion of the death penalty?: I don't like it. I don't think anyone deserves to die for something they did and I don't think the law has a right to choose who should die for their crimes. Surely it is a worse punishment to imprison people for life than to kill them straight off, anyway? I just can't help thinking of all the people on death row who didn't even commit the crime they were found guilty of. And if there is any risk at all of that happening, it should be made illegal :(

-what is your opinion on abortion? Pro-choice. It's up to them, who are we to say 'yes you must put your body through a massive change and have a baby that you don't even want?' Are there not enough unwanted, unloved and abused kids out there? So yeah, pro choice, but I would never have an abortion, I don't think.

-how do you feel about the legalization of drugs?: All drugs? Or just some drugs? It's a bit of a vague question. Obviously cannabis should be legalised. If alcohol and tobacco which are major killers can be readily bought then cannabis should be also, even if they only sell it for medical use to begin with. Other than that, I don't know. I can see why they don't want to legalise drugs because that would be giving in to something which does kill lots of people or have lasting permenant damage (hmm, alcohol again). But surely if they sold ecstasy pills that were made properly, people wouldn't die from taking a super-strength drug or from the nasty stuff they cut them with? I don't know.. start with cannabis at least.

-how do you feel about censorship? When is it okay and when isn’t it?: It's ok to censor TV before 9pm. And it's ok to make sure kids don't get hold of anything that could affect them in a bad way. However it, as with most other things, has gone way too far - aren't they even talking about banning Harry Potter? Has anyone ever met a kid who was traumatised by Harry Potter? So it's ok within reason..

-what is your opinion on pre-marital sex?: I think it's wrong :p or maybe not. it's up to you, isn't it? I would say it's better to do it before you get married though. I mean look at Charlotte in Sex and the City - they tried to hold off, and it turned out he couldn't get it up for her anyway. However if you have a strong belief that you want to wait, who am I to judge?

-Do you identify more strongly as a pacifist or as an “eye for an eye” person?:Pacifist.

-Do you feel that Bush is a good president? Not really no.

-Do you feel Tony Blair is a good prime minister?: He's OK, but he's not as good as he should be. On the other hand I don't pay a lot of attention, I just know that everyone is complaining and striking, and nobody is getting enough money, and we're paying a huge amount of tax that seems to give no visibily good results (although every Sainsburys I know has been done up recently - maybe they should give some money to the NHS or schools instead?) I don't much like the idea of going to war, either, but I don't know that he has any choice :(

-If you’re American, did you vote in the last presidential election? Who did you vote for?: Not American.

-Do you think that Martha Stewart should go to prison for her involvement in insider trading?: I don't even know who she is let alone what she did :)

-What is your opinion of Howard Stern? How often do you listen to his radio show, if at all?: I haven't heard of him and have never listened to him. Is he American?

-Are you democrat/labour/liberal OR republican/tory/conservative?: I am none of the above. I want to start my own political party or something :p I did vote labour, though.

-Are you a feminist?: Sort of. I think women should get equal rights but am perfectly happy not to be sent to war, or forced to get rid of spiders of carry heavy things or open jam jars. I also want to stay at home and have babies rather than having a top job, but it's good that I have the option, right?

-How do you feel about Homosexuality? Are you homophobic, gung-ho queer rights or somewhere in between?: Hell no. I just wish society would let them get married and adopt and all the rest of it. I mean why the hell not? That's like discriminating against someone for not liking beetroot, or something.

-Do you believe homosexuals should be able to get legally married and receive the same benefits as heterosexual married couples receive?: Erm, yeah, see above.

-How do you feel about gays in the military? As boy scout leaders? As teachers? As church leaders?: All of the above. Why not? maybe not church leaders though, because it says in the Bible that gay = bad, doesn't it? So it might cause more hassle with the congregation than it's worth. But then I would imagine a gay man would not want to follow a religion where he is made to feel bad.

-Would you say you are more racist or more open-minded about other peoples’ races and cultures?: I have to admit, I am slightly racist. I think/hope that everyone is. I don't do it consciously. I just get annoyed with people and if they happen to be foreign, I mutter about it. I don't do anything about it though. I don't avoid sitting next to them or talking to them or befriending them. If a white person pissed me off and they just happened to be say, a punk, I would mutter about punks for a bit. I don't know :( I am glad we live in a multi cultural society though, I just wish I'd been brought up in one, then perhaps I wouldn't find it so weird to live in a mostly black area.

-Do you look down on forigners? the ones downstairs I do. They are gits.

(cut the rest - got to go to work :s)

seren @ 2003-01-07T18:23:00

2003-01-07T18:19:49Z

Another reason to get out of London :/
Tomorrow I am working for a well known department store from 1-9pm, I have never done retail before and I guess this is because I told the new agency I could do evenings. It's only £5.50 an hour but it's money, and work, and experience. I'm kind of looking forward to it. Although I will have to remember to video the new series of Sex and the City. Hmm. Also, why am I working til 9pm? Are the shops open til 9pm at the moment? Or do shopworkers have to stay around for hours after the shop is closed? Meep.
Ooh, and I have found a honeymoon! It's in Crete. It's £360 for 7 days in a self catering apartment by the beach and it says it's perfect for people wanting a quiet holiday near to busy attractions. It's the cheapest they do so it's pretty basic, but that's all we need/can afford. Going to book it very soon if Stu agrees - Stu's parents have yet to give us £700 towards the wedding so we can use that to cover it, as no other big payments are needed for a few months now, so we should be able to save up for those ourselves.
Thinking of getting a posh hotel in Bristol for valentines day and then spending Feb 15th house hunting :)
Ha, looks like I got out at the right time, doesn't it?!
So happy and smug at the moment. Wonder if that will be killed by department store fun tomorrow? :)

seren @ 2003-01-06T17:18:00

2003-01-06T17:14:19Z

I am happy :)
Went to a few agencies and they weren't taking on any temps, but then went to Brook Street and they were wonderful! Got a job within about 15 mins of walking in the door. Did the whole skills test thing - my audio typing speed is now 93 wpm (she said very loudly that she'd never registered anyone as fast as that before, which made me blush furiously :P) I am working for 6 days from Friday on a (slightly but significantly) higher pay rate than I got from Blue Arrow. Plus the work sounds skilled! Hooray, how novel!! It was a really nice, friendly branch.
I'm looking forward to starting and earning some money again :) She said I can expect lots of work because of my audio speed. I am so chuffed that I even have half baked ideas about transferring to a Bristol branch of Brook Street (if there is one) and getting permenant audio typing work through them or something :p We shall see.
I didn't find a Care Bear at all, so bought some moonflower shower gel and raspberry kiddie's conditioner from the Body Shop sale. Tried on some grey trousers I liked in Miss Selfridge but all they had was size 16 (way too big) and size 14 (slightly big - hurrah! - and also 'longer length' which I am definitely not). So didn't get any, but am quite chuffed that I must be losing weight if I am too small for a Miss Selfridge size 14 ;)
Saw some knee high rainbow stripy socks and many other funky sparkly and Miffy socks in Top Shop which I MUST buy. When I have money.
Which will be sooooon :D Hooray!

seren @ 2003-01-06T01:56:00

2003-01-06T01:52:21Z

OK I just deleted some people from my friends list. If it was you then I'm sorry, I just couldn't keep up and we didn't really communicate that much. I'd appreciate it if you removed me back. Also, if any of you have been wanting to delete me for ages and haven't got around to it or whatever, then go for it and I'll remove you too and we can forget about it. (Although if you are what I consider to be a good friend on here, then I may ask why you chucked me :P)
Have to go to bed or will never be up for agency-prostitution tomorrow. Night night x

seren @ 2003-01-05T22:37:00

2003-01-05T22:33:43Z

Just came back from seeing Lord of the Rings. I didn't really like the first one, as I haven't read the books and I just got very restless and thought it dragged and didn't come to a proper ending. However I was looking forward to this one and a chance to drool over Orlando Bloom for three hours and I thought it was brilliant. Will watch the first one soon, and read the books before the third movie. Will also host a LOTR dvd-a-thon in late 2004 which will go on for about 10 hours.
Why does that Schmegel (?) thing look so much like Dobby from Harry Potter, though? :/ She can't have copied it, because although LOTR was probably made before COS, she wouldn't have had a chance to see it.. weird.
My sleep pattern is screwed. I went to bed at 2.30am last night but just lay there for hours, and then didn't get up til 12.30 - not yay. Must get up tomorrow and go to agencies and wow them with my CV and demand that they let me register!! Apparently my cousin once went to an agency and refused to leave until they found her some work. I wish I was more like her. They will probably go "No sorry we don't need anyone" and I will say "oh ok" and go home. But no, I HAVE TO become more assertive. I rule at mundane work and they at least owe me a chance, right?
*potters off to join the Orlando Bloom community, for he is second on the laminated list of five.. :P*

seren @ 2003-01-04T01:04:00

2003-01-04T01:00:55Z

I never had a Care Bear as a kid.
And I always wanted one. Specifically Birthday bear because it had a cake on it's tummy.
Well, now I am 22 and I have no money but the damned Care Bears are back in the shops and I am damned well going to buy one and cuddle it every day :D
And it is going to be either the one with the cake on it's tummy or the one with the rainbow.
OH YES.

seren @ 2003-01-04T00:37:00

2003-01-04T00:33:33Z

Niall makes a stonking curry. He even made it mild. I have eaten so much though. *collapses*
Was lovely to see Niall and Becky again. Hope we can do it again?
I can not believe what some people are like. There was this woman at Norwood Junction station who was almost crying going "oh my and my boyfriend are stuck and we need £2.80 to get home and thats a lot of money to some people." So Stu gave her £3. We went looking for a bus stop and by the time we found it the last bus had just left, so we wandered back towards the station and saw the same woman lighting a fucking fag - she never had to go anywhere, she didn't need £3 to buy a ticket home. She probably wanted a packet of cigarettes or some drugs or something. She looked pretty scared when she saw Stu and dashed off. I don't get how people can be so moral-less :( We ended up having to get a taxi home (who knows, if we had not stopped to chat to her for a minute, perhaps we'd have got that last bus?) so that's good :/
It's people like her that make the rest of us go 'oh, they probably only want it for drugs, I'm not giving them anything.' I didn't really trust her, but how can you sift out the really poor and desparate people from the greedy ethic-free ones?
I also learnt tonight that our area is fucking huge. I had no idea.

dum dum de dum

2003-01-03T01:00:10Z

So we now have three best men for our wedding. Apparently this is not weird. I think it is kind of weird, in the sense that it'd be weird to have more than one bride or more than one groom. But it's what he wants so it's what he gets and I'm happy if he's happy (after some convincing-of-self that this will not make the wedding seem a bit silly :P). Of course I'd like them all to be involved as well, but I just thought there was only one best man role.. but then if I'm wearing purple I'm sure he can be untraditional as well. I think the thing that bothered me most - although I don't like to admit it - was the fact that he didn't discuss the third best man thing before asking him to do it.. but shh
I hate wedding planning sometimes (well, 99% of the time)
On a plus side, if Beth is still my flowergirl (it's about 75/25 that she will be) I may just buy her one of these lilac dresses from Next. Quite cheap, and sweet, and would match the purple theme (although I prefer the white dress but it doesn't fit in with the theme so never mind). I hope it doesn't look that sack-like in reality (notagain, I don't suppose there's any chance you have seen these dresses at work?) My parents are actually paying for the bridesmaid dresses, and now I know I have got at least something sorted, I feel a bit better.
Actually, these dresses go up to age 14 and one of the bridesmaids Jess will be 11 - perhaps it'd be better to give her one of these dresses too, and then her 18 year old sister and the maid of honour can wear adult dresses in silver? Does that work? I wasn't sure how to find an adult dress to fit an eleven year old girl, really.
Argh, I feel so out of my depth here! I need a wedding planner like Becky in the Shopaholic book where she has 2 weddings organised..
This is the first resolution I have broken already and it's only 2 and a bit days into January. Whoops.
I know it's boring. It bores me to have to think about it in so many loops. Why can't I be a man and just go "I'll have that please" and forget about it? :P

seren @ 2003-01-02T16:49:00

2003-01-02T16:45:08Z

Nice domestic day so far : paid credit card bill, did some shopping, panicked over bank balance (£3.99 left on overdraft now, joy), sent off for wedding invitations (how scary/exciting!), bought some spaghetti and flour and quorn pieces, planted herbs, emailed mum to tell her i am homesick, made mini doughnuts batch 1, threw away failed mini doughnuts in fit of "why am I so crap that I can't even cook", made mini doughnuts batch 2 with Stu's help, sugared and ate said mini doughnuts, felt very content all of a sudden :)
Choc Express still haven't delivered the chocolate fondue that I ordered for my parents Christmas present a month ago, so they have refunded me and also put another £5 voucher on my account, so it looks like we may be able to treat ourselves to a small box of posh chocs for valentines day or something. It's a shame the present didn't turn up, though :( Still, they can have it for Easter instead - it must be sad to be a parent and have to watch your kids open Easter eggs while you don't have any!
And talking of turning up, WHEN? I have limited patience :/ I always said the pill was an evil thing, didn't I? Now I have horrible thoughts, which I know is unreasonable and can't possibly be helping, but meh :( *kicks body until it works*
Am reading Bridget Jones again :D

seren @ 2003-01-01T22:20:00

2003-01-01T22:17:07Z

We have £60 of Amazon vouchers to spend and no clue what to buy with them.
This is really rare.
Stu was going to spend his half on GTA Vice City, but he has that now, so he doesn't know what we should get either.
The only thing I know I want is the Rainbow book. I don't have a clue about anything else. I have vague ideas about "What not to wear" (apparently it's good and tells you what you should wear depending on your shape : but I can't afford to get a whole new wardrobe, so what's the point in acquiring such knowledge?). Also wouldn't mind a dance mat and playstation game (although how often would I really use it?) or a couple of books, "An unquiet mind" and "Once in a house on fire" (one of my favourite books but I don't own it personally).
Or maybe I should just give up and wait until Sex and the City series 4 comes out on DVD.
So basically I want ideas of books. I don't like romance books or trashy books, I like books about real people, things that move you, or books that you just can't put down. Mental illness and babies are, I guess, my favourite topics :P Or just comedy, such as Bridget Jones. Or biographies by non-celebrities about their unusual childhoods or something.
If anyone has any recommendations please speak now!
Also, what dance mats & games are good?? Are they the sort of thing you buy and only use once, like all the other exercise videos/dvds/books I have purchased??

Update : I have ordered :
"She's Come Undone"
Rainbow Climbing High
"Good Girls Do Swallow"
Jack Dee - Live At The Apollo

(Stuie let me have £10 of his share, bless him, since he couldn't find anything else he wanted)