"Is that the Andy Warhol?"

So it's official, I now have a lovely, brand spanking new pad to move into on Friday in the up and coming area of Dalston, London. Oooo how very exciting!

In other news, whilst on my search for a new flat, I came across some interesting people. Whilst drunkenly covorting around the streets of Shoreditch on Friday night we stumbled upon a motown night at Catch. It happened to be the birthday party of the keyboardist from Florence and the Machines boyfriend. And very lovely he was too. Florence could be seen smoking in the toilets, tut tut, and dancing rather dramatically in the middle of the dance floor.




As I was doing my best Edie Sedgwick impression, complete with 60's style attire, my eyes set upon an Andy Warhol look alike across the dance floor. I felt it was only fair that I told him my thoughts and after a lengthy convo about the north and art it became apparent this Warhol look alike was none other than Florence's dad. Peculiar times to say the least. 'Nick' then divuldged that Andy Warhol actually went to his wedding! This was all a bit too much for me...I was talking to someone who had talked to Mr Warhol himself. Well I never!

Quote of the night, "Well everyone said that Warhol would have gone to the opening of an envelope". Kuddos to Mr Florence and the Machine!

Fish and chips on the front please

For those of you who know me well, you'll know my favourite place in the whole entire world is Blackpool. There's something beautiful about the tackiness of the whole affair. Blackpool rock, fish and chips, old ladies almost blowing away to sea on the windy sea front, the gypo's on the pier, novelty T shirts and the pleasure beach. I ask you, what's not to love?

Kindly, VBS.com have obviously recognised my love of the Paris of the North and created this documentary...

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/rule-britannia/blackpool-las-vegas-of-the-north

...if you watch it you may just fall in love with Blackpool, as i have. Or perhaps you won't. Either way give it a watch, if only for cultural purposes.

Lonely girl, aged 19, seeks fun loving male with GSOH

I've recently become interested in the modern phenomenon that is Internet dating. Not because I'm looking for love myself, if you must know I'm happily loved up at the moment, but because this is something which has come around completely within my time upon this planet. I mean, before the Internet our parents and grandparents actually had to go out and meet people....face to face...yes, i know, how terrifying. Never could they cower behind a computer screen flicking through cheesy display pictures, having to pour over endless blurbs speaking of a love of pina colada's and getting caught in the rain.


Whilst browsing through the many ads posted on gumtree which isn't even really for dating anyway, i realised it must really take a certain kind of person to think that the love of their life is waiting for them somewhere in the abyss which is cyberspace. You don't exactly have to be the prettiest girl in the world to go down the town on a Saturday night, low cut top and towering heels, bit of lippy, pint in hand and waltz up to first man that notices all the effort you've made for a quick snog. If you're lucky you may exchange numbers. If you're really lucky he won't have given you a fake one...

But, surely actually meeting someone face to face is a little more rewarding than summing your whole personality up in less than fifty words complete with a picture which you've spent ages finding in the archives of endless holiday snaps...it will be at least twelve years old and shows a rather 1980's looking size 8 with a perm, grinning...perhaps grinning because at the tender age of 20 she never knew this picture would one day grace the pages of a dating website aged 42, divorced, three kids...

Perhaps i am being a bit harsh...i understand that not every member of a dating website is a lonely spinster complete with as much baggage as an airport lost and found but it does seem to be something my mind can't comprehend. I do have a friend who, aged 19, arranged to meet a local young man whom she met on gumtree.com. At the end of the date it became clear that he was only after one thing and it wasn't marriage. This to me indicates exactly my depiction of the underbelly of the Internet dating world...it all appears very seedy and unnerves me somewhat. It's all too easy to hide behind a quirky description and an out of date picture showing your 'good side'.

This is a pledge to get out there and meet people in the real world...or you may end up with....

"Dontcha Wish Ya Had a Boyfriend That Is Hot Like Me Age: 38" He's 5"10, has blue eyes and is seeking a girl to explore with.

What exactly he wants to explore, however, has not been divulged in the ad...