STOP THIS MASSACRE! Please, we can do it!

Today I received an e-mail from someone who's mailing list I'm on. I don't normally read his e-mails but this heading stood out. In the e-mail was a link to Magenta Pixie's blog. I have copied her post here because I felt that if I only linked her site people might not click on it and read the message. I am ashamed to hear that Sweden is supporting this brutal massacre. Very ashamed! By posting this message on my blog at least I'm doing something. I have also sent an e-mail to the Danish prime minister as suggested.


"At the current International Whale Commission meeting in Portugal, Denmark has asked for Greenland to hunt and kill 50 humpback whales. Sweden is supporting their request. Fifty more whales to slaughter!! Isn’t it enough that they keep beaching themselves en masse, from the sonic torture in their habitats and other alterations man is rendering to their eco-systems?

My friend, Hardy Jones, of Bluevoice.org is calling for help. We need immense social outcry to stop Denmark (and the countries that will follow their lead!) from killing these great and beautiful creatures. Humpbacks are slow swimmers, easy to hunt. Their populations are just rebuilding after remorseless hunting. The targeted humpbacks are well known and loved by populations along the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada and admired and respected by people around the world.

He is asking you to please take action by writing to this misguided ‘leader’ URGENTLY and expressing your absolute protest against killing any more whales:

ACTION TO TAKE:email the Prime Minister of Denmark. This must be done from your own email account – not just a click from BV which will be filtered. Below is the email address and sample letter – you can add your own personal comments which make the email more effective.

I protest in the strongest terms Denmark’s support of the slaughter of fifty humpbacks from the Northeast Atlantic stock. Humpbacks are loved and respected by many around the world. Your actions are unthinkable. When making travel plans I shall remember your efforts to kill these highly intelligent, social and endangered animals and I will do everything in my power to help others, who are still unaware of your intentions, to join my protest against this inhumane and unnecessary slaughter.

Your signature

Note; Email for the Danish Prime Minister: stm@stm.dk
(You must cut and paste this address) – please do not simply forward it to him as it will have far less impact.

Beloved lightworkers, we have to do something immense. Global and unprecedented. We have to shout this out to everyone we know, flooding this Prime Minister of Denmark with emails and letters from around the world. Write to your governments as well – write your representatives, media…anyone you can think of to help save these innocent, joyous creatures.

Please care.
These gorgeous beings can’t defend themselves against this ruthless killing. Only we, the ‘awakening’ human beings of this planet, can help them live and prosper.

If you can, please donate to bluevoice.org by linking to: http://www.bluevoice.org/donate.shtmlThey need us to keep the fight going. These are the warriors who risk their lives TO HELP THE INNOCENT BEINGS OF THE SEA LIVE."

We can make a difference.
And we must.

www.sirianrevelations.net

Check Out Some Stunning Art Jewellery

On Thursday I received a renewal letter of my contract from my landlord. I rent my room on a yearly basis and have always done so. I quickly scanned the letter and registered that they'd put the rent up yet again but that was expected. Just before I was going to bed I thought I'd better find out by when I have to return the signed contract and this time I actually read through the whole letter. At the very end it said that "clearly you will have to make the necessary arrangements at your bank to ensure the Direct Debit meets the revised sum". It went on to say that if I wanted to renew the tenancy I should return a signed copy of the contract together with a cheque for £90 to cover for the Administration Charge. Ninety pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Excuse me??????!!! Do you print your f*****ing contracts on gold paper? Or is it diamond encrusted? Because that's what I would expect for a price like that.

Let me tell you that I did not sleep well that night. On Friday morning I called all numbers I've got to my landlord (which happens to be the largest letting company in the UK). Nobody wanted to take responsibility until I actually got hold of the property manager. She did waiver the fee for me for which I am grateful. But I can't help wondering how low my landlord has sunk. And what about next year when it's time to renew the contract again. Will they waiver the charge for me again? Probably not.

I've been looking at flat shares but everything is so expensive. I'd love to have my own flat but if that's ever going to happen I'll have to move out of London OR find myself a wealthy man soon.

On a much more positive note I'm really pleased to announce that my company Charmed Spirit is selling some of Claire Gerrard Designs unique art jewellery.

Claire works with sea glass and ceramics which she picks up from the beaches in Anglesey and North Wales.

She then turns it into stunning pieces of jewellery. Not one piece is exactly the same as the other. Pop over to Charmed Spirit to take a look.

Something To Think About

My dear friend Miriam sent me this e-mail the other day. I thought it was very thought provoking and instead of sending on to everyone in my address book I've posted it here.

A man was exploring caves by the Seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake. They didn't look like much, but they intrigued the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him. As he strolled along the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as he could.

He thought little about it, until he dropped one of the clay balls and it cracked open on a rock . Inside was a beautiful, precious stone!

Excited, the man started breaking open the remaining clay balls. Each contained a similar treasure. He found thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had left.

Then it struck him. He had been on the beach a long time. He had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of the clay balls with their hidden treasure into the ocean waves. Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands, but he had just thrown it away!

It's like that with people. We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel. It doesn't look like much from the outside. It isn't always beautiful or sparkling, so we discount it.

We see that person as less important than someone more beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy. But we have not taken the time to find the treasure hidden inside that person.

There is a treasure in each and every one of us. If we take the time to get to know that person, and if we ask the God to show us that person the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel away and the brilliant gem begins to shine forth.

May we not come to the end of our lives and find out that we have thrown away a fortune in friendships because the gems were hidden in bits of clay. May we see the people in our world as God sees them!

Magical Music

After a week of negative posts about how everything is going against me and how I'm receiving odd e-mails from match members I thought I'd finish the week on a more positive note. When I had my stand at the Mind Body Spirit festival my friend Linda helped me out for a few days. She went to see Sacred Earth playing.


I also had the pleasure of meeting Prem when she stopped by my stand. Their music is magical bliss! Please pop over to their myspace site and have a listen.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Is This Guy For Real?

When you're registered on Match.com you get five randomly selected "matches" every day. I don't know what they base these matches on because so far nothing has matched at all! I mean, I couldn't believe it when I read this guy's profile below. Is he for real?!

You see too many introductions which come out with the same old rubbishy statements like 'The most difficult thing is how to describe yourself' and 'I like to curl up on the sofa and watch DVDS, go walking in the park, and order up half-baked listeria infected pizza from the local takeaway some evenings and watch TV' What a load of old cobblers! Stand out from the crowd, why don't you.

Well , I know fine well what my admirable characteristics are. Here goes: 1. Total confidence in the superiority of my intellect, education, and knowledge. 2. Intolerance of foolish, stupid people. 3. Ruthless ambition. 4. An ability to earn lots of money, and to enjoy it! 5. Drinking fine champagnes in clubs in London, in front of poor, less fortunate people who cannot afford it. 6. The glee from stocking my wardrobe with the finest suits that money can buy. I love Jermyn St. 7. Contempt for political correctness, and those who hide behind it and can't think for themselves about the innate worth of people. I think Rabbie Burns beat you by about 200 years in saying a man's a man for a' that, you idiotic fools. 8. My disdain for people who can't tell right from wrong, and make lamentable excuses about how society has affected people one way or another for the worse. Grow up, and get on with it. And don't use the 'failure' of society to justify being paid buttons in a dead-end job. 9. Appreciation for women who like to emulate the above characteristics. 10 .Contempt for losers in life who wallow in self-pity, and whine about how they have brought it all on themselves. No one said life was going to be put on a plate for you!! Wakey, wakey! 11. I permit myself an eleventh characteristic, which is sarcasm and contempt for people of low IQ. My role models in life are: 1 The Master from Doctor Who. A true genius of malevolence and self-preservation against the odds. 2. The Romulans from Star Trek (devious, predictably treacherous, ruthless and ambitious) 3. Napoleon Bonaparte (with phrases like 'Men are led by toys' and 'L'etat, c'est moi!' - Brilliant) 4. Richard III, last Yorkist Kind of England. Ruthless, and ambitious to the end. Fantastic. 5. Sir William Wallace (born one mile from my hometown) 6. Sir Fred Goodwin (born one mile from my hometown) 7. Machiavelli for that fine training manual, the prince! 8. Robert the Bruce - winning against the odds eventually, and crushing the army of a weak English King, who couldn't lace the boots of his formidable father. King Edward I, though an enemy of Scotland, was a worthy one and one of the greatest, power hungry kings England ever had. I salute him! 9. JR Ewing 10 . Julius Caesar. Edmund Blackadder nearly got on the list! And remember, the Emperor in the Star Wars movies was played by Ian McDiarmid, a fellow Scot. The way of the future, hopefully! I am fiercely loyal to my friends and family, and hate lies and double dealing. Like most Scots, we make great friends and would do anything for you, but really vicious and nasty enemies when provoked (but not in a violent way!). We have long memories about bad-manners. Similarly, I hate mind-games and ambiguity. Don't waste my time with emotional indecision. I don't do second chances, fortunately. If I get messed around, it will mean a red-card without warning. I like talking about history, culture, travel, sport and a wide variety of subjects. Big Brother isn't really my thing! Hopefully, we can enjoy many stimulating hours of conversation. If you can deal with the challenge of the above, then you are the right woman for me. Looks are relatively unimportant, because we all lose them to some extent eventually, and some things are more valuable. Intelligence, ambition, and direction in life are much more attractive, ultimately. If you would like to share pink champagne with me, then perhaps you might find I have a humble, caring side underneath. I'll let you decide, and hopefully we can have fun along the way!

Would you like to share pink champagne with this bloke? My gosh, I certainly wouldn't.

How NOT To Ask Someone Out On A First Date

Since I got dumped by "Potential" I have registered with Match.com again. I've received lots of winks and quite a few e-mails. Quite frankly, some people frighten me. I mean, if you've never met a person before and want to hear back from them would you send an e-mail like this?

Hello my dearest soulmate!!! How are you doing? I cant help but say you are beautiful, you are a pure dublicate of an angel, I am really amazed at your beauty. I am NN, am 41years old, successful business man. a native of italy living in Uk I am currently single, divorced some years ago. I really don't have much to say about my self except I am being asked. I really will love to hear from you. You can add me to your yahoo Messager, my id is xxx. Kindly send me yours so i can add you too...You are beautiful, Cheers till i hear from you.I wait with curiosity to hear from you.

Well, my dearest friend. How do you know we are soulmates? We've never met, remember?!

Then there was this e-mail (this one is rambling on a bit so scroll down in you can't be bothered):

hello cute....,well that was a romantic and good profile there..................,i will have to tell you the truth,i was moved by the words and the beautiful pix.there is one thing i want you to have at the back of your mind and what is that thing it is the ability for you to see how God has creadted everything beautiful and he has made them for us to begin to access and admire,today i am happy that i have gotten a baeutiful face,the face which i have long wanted to meet.well,distance can it be a barrier???????............i was angry when i sensed it that you are not in my present location which was as a result of my job,well i am an advertiser and you know we travel far and wide the world to make sure that our clients get there targeted audience they have wished to get.INTRODUCTION...........i am NN by name the only son of late mr NN,he was such a nice man,from united state of america,and my mum from united kingdom,after the death of that renowned philantrophist,i was taken to united kingdom by my mum,beacuse she could no longer stand the life there and she has been called by her uncle to at least come back and establish herself.When we got there the thought of fullfilling the long dream of my father to be a responsible person in life struck my precious mother,well,she is love she is a pearl in my life.i started my primary education there in one of the schools in london,although it was not part of the happening achool but i was given the best at the school there i proceeded for my college studies where i was given proper training in ART, aspects of education and it was there i got the flair for communication i beagan to build up myself,not until when i had an auto accioednt and i broke my leg,if not for the intervention of the almighty i would havr been in the six feet today,but he restored my life and brought me back to life and you know what i can walk perfectly well,he brought me back for damsel like you.............,so that we will together fullfill that dream that we will share together.cute, at this stage it was time for me to go to the university,well the courde of specialization was a big problem,but you know what i have adream i want to realise it,my family memebers wanted me to study LAW,but i said NO to it because it is my wish,i want to make my right choice do that i dont have problem with my wife and family,baby it was not easy through the university and today i am a graduate of communcation with specialisation in advertisieng which has helped me alot in travelling because i want to travek and whenever the thought of contact comes to the office i am always happy because i will go,menaing that i will travel.baby, i want to get that princess of my life that my night dream that long dream,i am here to make you happy,let us see what we are going to d o to eachother,i promise you we are going to make a good macth together.i will be expecting your reply to my mail address,we will talk more there.............[e-mail addres]............. hoping to ssee you there,hoping to hold you in my arms hoping to sing the song of love.....YOU ARE THE ONE I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.

Jeeezzz!!! My intuition is telling me to run for my life.

This one made me laugh (he was 26):

wuuuu .. ur hot. can i be ur toyboy for a night lol :P ?

I was tempted to reply "Why just for a night" but thought it's best not to be too flirtatious and include sexual hints when I don't actually mean what I'm saying.

During the last week I've been e-mailing a guy a few times and he seemed pretty normal and he looks normal too. In my last e-mail I told him that I haven't been visiting the area where he lives in ages. I realised after I sent it that it sounded like I was inviting myself but hey... nothing wrong with that. The reply came yesterday. This is how he's asking me out on a FIRST date:

Well if you haven't been to [area] for years then you should get your arse over here and we could have a bite to eat down at the boat house on the river...!!

Seriously?! That really put me off. I'm not getting my arse over to his neck of the woods in a million years. I'll continue to look for Mr Right. Thank you very much!

A Massive Whinging Post

It's been a week since I last posted something on my blog. I have wanted to write sooner but lately everything seems to be going against me. And not wanting to come across as a whinging bore I've been putting off the writing. Well, things are not looking up so I'm just going to get it off my chest and maybe after this things will change. If you're in a good mood and don't feel like me bringing you down then please stop reading now.

Since the Mind Body Spirit festival I have contacted several festival organisers asking to book a stand next year. I've been getting the same answer from all of them. "Our jewellery stand quota is full". I've replied that my jewellery is unique since I make it myself and it's not the same old pendants that everyone imports from India, but to no avail. I've been told that they only have a few jewellery stands at each event and every year the current stand holders get priority offers to come back the following year. Someone even added: "unfortunately it's very very rare that we should have a jewellery stand space come available at any of our events". Notice the very x 2 for added effect. Like, if you don't get this woman then you'll never understand.

I've been wanting more shifts at the clinic where I work for ages but it's just not happening. Having said that I enjoy energy work most of all and would like to be attuned to reiki master/teacher level. I've tried to arrange a suitable date with my reiki master for months but we can't find anything that seem to suit us both. I also want to be attuned to Angelic reiki but the attunements always take place on the Saturday when I work. If I can't get more shifts and if I can't have my master/teacher attunement then how am I supposed to be able to spread the light? I'm just asking.

On Tuesday next week I'm going to do my first micro-teaching at my college course. I can't open the document with the blank lesson plan either at home or at the library. I need the friggin' lesson plan as part of the assignment. What shall I do?

"Potential" dumped me last week. (Did you hear that? HE dumped ME!) I had noticed a change in him over the last couple of weeks but couldn't work out what had happened. We'd been getting on swimmingly since we met. Well, it turns out that he felt we are too different and have our opinions in completely different directions. To this I have to agree. There were a couple of other reasons as well but I'm not going to air them here. However, I'm agreeing with that as well.

And to top it all off, I've been needing to buy a new pair of jeans since the hole in my current pair is getting bigger and bigger. I knew exactly what I wanted, H&M's "Original" fit. Easy peasy. Or actually, NOT! Because "Original" has been DISCONTINUED!!!
I mean, come on now Universe. Work WITH me! Pretty please.

So here I am. A perfectly fine woman, single, with not many shifts at work, no reiki master/teacher attunement, no print-out of the lesson plan, a large hole in my jeans, and... did I mention single?