Bridget's Readings, Ramblings, Recipes and Randoms

Gotta Share

Bridget Schaumann — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:08:26 +0000

And of course I found this lurking on Twitter, oh and I’ll post this to my FB page too. LOLz. Regular visitors will know I like Improv Everywhere, they’ve been here before, and really it is just cos they are damn fine and awesome. I particularly like this one too.

Tagged: funny, video

Damn cats!

Bridget Schaumann — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 06:11:50 +0000

Now they are explaining such complex things as social media! Is there nothing they can’t do. Have a look over here to see it in all its gloryfullness. It is very funny!

Tagged: cats explain social media

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

Bridget Schaumann — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:42:28 +0000

It isn’t often I read a book about modern warfare, or any kind of warfare, but this book was recommended to me so highly I thought I’d read it. I’m so glad I did, this small book packs a powerful punch. It moved me. Reading the memories of John a soldier, from country Virginia USA, and his reflections on what happened when he was in Iraq has been gripping, moving and thought provoking. The writing in this book is poetical with imagery which is vivid, clear and bleak. You know he speaks from personal experience being a veteran himself of tours of duty in Iraq and while I’m sure it is even more horrific than the picture he paints here this book makes you think you have some idea of the experience. The dirt, dust, architecture and bleakness. The attitudes of the locals to the American soldiers and their attitude to them.

Bad things happen at war and these bad things affect you, make you unable to cope with life when you come home and they twist and turn in your mind and make you a different person to the boy you were when you left home. Read this book to get a tiny bit of understanding of how this would be. Of how you would feel when your friend is killed in a horrific way – but then there are so many horrific ways to die in Iraq – and how you would deal with the promise you’d made to his Mother that you would watch out for him.

It is a stunning book. I highly recommend it and will be singing it’s praises for a long time to come.

Tagged: books, reading, Yellow Birds

The Jockstrap Raiders

Bridget Schaumann — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:51:04 +0000

Watch this gem. It is about 16 minutes long so you need to set aside a little bit of time but it is so worth it. Enjoy.

Tagged: funny, video

Then what happened?

Bridget Schaumann — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:26:01 +0000

Well you see it is like this, I just got distracted by other shiny objects. Often it was this, and then it was this, and then I got a bit over cooking for a bit, and got really into this. There were other distractions like Hey Day, the horribly addictive iPad game. In my defense I did spend some time doing work at night on various projects. But, online life became a series of time wasting exercises or tutuing around on websites of all types, helping out my friend Miriam on her marvellous new endeavour for SLANZA but also rather a lot of TV watching.

In the meantime though this blog continued to get hits, about 20 odd a day, people were coming to check what was going on, and finding nothing, and then the other day I bumped into a regular reader in the lovely University Book Shop and we chatted for a while and she said to me “What’s happened to the blog?” I came home, had a think, thought I’ve done more baking, I’ve read a 100 odd books in the last year and I haven’t blogged about any of it, I’ve been collecting quirky stuff from around the web but just storing it for later.

I’ve got some books to talk about coming up. I’ve got lovely things in my garden and I have plenty of opinions to share. Best I get on and do something then!