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Hehehehehe… Do you like drinking games???  Well… I don’t but I’d deff give it a go to this one. Why??? Because Nigella is HAWT!!!

Drinking Games: ‘Nigella Express’

Thursday, April 30 2009, 06:00 BST

By Alex Fletcher, Senior Entertainment Reporter

 

Do you love watching food shows, but get sick of foul-mouthed chefs, preaching cookery upstarts and dull-as-dishwater Ready, Steady, Cook clones doing all the work in the kitchen? If your answer is yes, then like us, you probably adore Nigella Lawson. Her ludicrously indulgent style, often dubbed “cookery porn”, is as tantalising as one of her very own yummy double-choc brownies. In the spirit of all things decadent, DS has come up with our very own Nigella drinking game. Just remember, don’t drink too much and mention her bottom!

1. When Nigella manages to turn an ordinary food process (using a blender, cutting pastry) or ingredient (brussel sprouts, figs) into a sexual innuendo, down a shot.

2. Crack into the red wine each time Nigella comes out in full make-up and a revealing nightie for a “late-night fridge raid”.

3. Each time Nigella tells us that she’s “busy, busy, busy” and just like us plebs, have two fingers of lager.

4. If she proves it by working hard in the kitchen, getting on double decker buses around Chelsea and helping her children with their homework, have two more fingers.

5. Every time a cameraman lingers a little longer than he should on Nigella’s curves, cleavage or suggestive hand rubbing over her rolling pin, polish off a pint.

6. Down a hefty amount of vodka each time you witness a dinner party of “Nigella’s friends” quaffing her sweet treats, booze and guffawing inanely in the background.

7. Each time she seductively sucks some cream/custard/general goo from her fingertips, help yourself to a hefty double spirit.

8. If at any point you think her descriptions of “plumptious” cranberries, “juicy, shapely” pears or “lovely and firm” meringues may have a second meaning, down a shot. We reckon she’s talking about her nipples.

9. When the blokes that live under her stairs with the cameras “catch her” having a fumble in the pantry, knock back some brandy. “Ooh, you caught me”" she coos, while suggestively licking some sticky syrup off a ripe banana.

10. If she manages to rustle up some “plump” steak, “scrumptious” Eton mess, “a festoon” of fruits and “gooey glugs” of hot chocolate sauce all in 15 minutes while still managing to dressed and dolled up in time for one of her dinner parties, polish off all your remaining drinks.

That is a word that would describe tomorrow if seen from today’s point of view.

Bleak: –adjective, -er, -est.

1.	bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.

2.	cold and piercing; raw: a bleak wind.

3.	without hope or encouragement; depressing; dreary: a bleak future.

Monday brought some VERY bleak news to the UV household.

I really don’t want to ruminate on them so just for the sake of history keeping here comes a small round up:

Cafe needs to make double of what is making if we are to survive the first year (hell the first 6 months) / I can’t really make it happen without an investor (or loan) / Money reserves are depleted / we’re having to make cuts… loads of them / we are definitely f$%^&d …

I know I am supposed to be a man of faith but right now… I don’t know where to find any.

Got some contracts that should alleviate the situation a bit… but it is still a long run for us to go before I can breathe…

We need a miracle…

PS: Sorry for the bleak view of life ATM… but I write what my heart and my mind are full of… and at this precise moment they are overflowing with… (fear???)

I wish I could still be positive…

TB woke up today with a one tracked mind: He was to spend the whole day in his firefighter costume.

He finished his second breakfast (don’t ask…) and found a basket at his Toy-room (the conservatory) full of his costumes and whilst rampaging through them he found both the Spiderman and Firefighter costumes (no interest in the Peter Pan one today).

After 2 minutes he decided what he wanted to wear (it took me other 15 to convince him to wear some other piece of clothing underneath) and he became Mr. firefighter.

“Daddy, firefighters go everywhere by car, so you need some lights in the car so we can go to the hub (The Metanoia Cafe)”

IT is just a 5 minute walk from home so I convinced him that firefighters do loads of healthy stuff like walking… plus sometimes they can’t get through traffic on their cars so they take their firefighter scooters. That was enough to convince him.

After a very cool scooting around + arty craft making and PSP playing and generally being bored day, at about 3 pm we were VERY bored I decided to close up shop a lil earlier and go home.

Well, that’s not the only reason why we closed up shop earlier. I have received the news that some big Photography company is about to open a studio at the Mills, which infuriated me profoundly. That and the whole Bulshit Telecom Broadband problem (engineers coming to fix it tomorrow apparently) were enough reasons for me go home and do something about the piles of work on the Metanoia Website and advertisement I have to finish… the day was being VERY slow anyways…

And that was enough (after talking to a photographer interested in renting the studio and to Kathia yesterday) to accelerate my plans to make photography a weekday fulltime thing to dedicate to photography again. Just taking a different approach this time offering the courses I had already planned to offer at the HUB.

What saved the day was the idea of taking advantage of TB’s firefighter cuteness… hehehehe

Before coming home we took some time to take some pictures to properly test the studio capabilities…

We had loads of fun… and I kinda liked the photos! TB is a natural in front of the camera.

If you wanna take a look at the photos, click at the image bellow:

TB the Firefighter (or firestarter?)

You can also watch the Animoto Video of the TB’s phototshoot right down here.

Hope you liked it!

And if you want some like that taken of ya gi’me a shout… I can both set an appontment at the Upper Room Studio for ya or I can go to you to do the photos. I have a portable Kit that I can take to wherever you are…

Anyways…

zya!

I am just about to have a very well deserved time off…

2 days to be precise. 2 days away from London and my crazy life here… Yes, I will be terribly, horribly worried about leaving mum to look after the cafe on her own (well Chris will be here as well but hey… )… 

PArt of mee really wansts to stay and make sure everything runs smoothly… Part of me just wants to see how things will be running really… part of me wants to be in charge… But really… all these parts need that brake. Because all these parts are exhausted to a breaking point…

And there is the part of me that I have been neglecting for the past couple of months…  that part needs urgent attention: My Family.

So yeap… to make sure I don’t end up going to the cafe we’re getting out of London for the next 2 days.

First we’re going to Vic’s mum’s in Hants… which is good cuz that menas having rosted Turkey and Gavy!!!

Then on Monday we’re heading up to Birmingham to see nan Gerda, wich means I will be back to London with a couple of extra Kilos on my conscience as I will be fed anough to keep a small army for a whole week.

Sounds great, doesm’t it???

The why am I so uneasy???

The world will not end because I am not in charge (or so I keep trying to convince myself) !!

And yeah! I need this brake! Otherwhise I’ll end up in a hospital again (loke last time when they forbid me to have my mobile, laptop etc etc etc… and THAT will be even worse, won’t it???

See?? Now you have it!!!

I think I might still need convincing…

Oh well… Never mind… Will keep in touch anyways… Keep an eye on my twits!

zya!

OK… I should probably keep myself busier more often…

I definitely should NOT stay idle for more than 15 seconds…

Why???? Simple… if I do I start thinking… and that, taking in consideration the latest events, could be quite dangerous in fact…

Want an example? OK… today I started wondering what would have happened if instead of opening the Metanoia Cafe I had opened the CWI hub in one of the smaller units at the Merton Abbey Mills… a studio, a few computers and work stations were all I would have needed… That would be more than enough for me to dedicate time for the courses, web-design  and photography/film making… Paying a rent that would be a fraction of what I pay today and I would have not invested all the money I invested in building the second floor at the cafe… meaning we would still have all that cash in the company’s account…

And I would definitely be A LOT LESS STRESSED!!!!

No, I have not repented to open the Metanoia Cafe… I am just… well… wondering how great it would be to not work all weekend long and having to worry about re-supplying the cafe with food every week… and I wouldn’t spend all the time feeling bad because I am not dedicating time to do what I was actually meant to do: dedicate time to photography, design and film-making which, let’s face it was what I intended in the first place…

I am not complaining… just that the cafe was supposed to be a secondary tool to provide funds to get the rest of the business running… and instead it is taking my whole time not letting me dedicate to the rest of the business…

I know that second-guessing decisions I took 2 months won’t help in anything… but… I don’t know… I think I am frustrated that I can’t spend time photographing etc…

I am looking for a partner on the cafe… someone that would help with the running with the business so I can actually get out there and GET the business happening… Got someone in mind, but we haven’t really concertized anything yet…

Anyone interested in buying 25% of the shares???

(I never spoke more seriously….)

People coming in… Gotta go…

zya!