Stuff

Feeling a bit ill at the moment (hope it’s not swine flu ) but enjoying slobbing on the sofa with my hot water bottle. 

I’m really looking forward to Question Time this evening.  Not sure who’s on it, but there’s sure to be a lot of focus on MPs’ expenses, ha ha.  I hope the audience give the unlucky politicians who are booked for this evening a grilling!  Thieving so and so’s.

In other news, I’m going through a bit of a reality-TV-stars’-books-thing at the moment!  A couple of weeks ago, I read Katie Price’s book, then moved onto Jade Goody’s autobiography.  Now I’m reading Nikki Grahame’s “Dying to be Thin”.  Yes, I know it all sounds sad, people keep telling me so, but, hey, I’m enjoying them. 

Katie Price’s book was a real page turner … complete trashy nonsense, obviously, but I was gripped. 

Jade Goody’s biography was fantastic, and I really gained new respect for the woman after the reading the book.  She had a such a terrible time as a child, yet managed to escape the poverty and misery, and become successful at what she did.  (And I don’t think she was a racist … just gaffe-prone, and damaged).  It was really well-written, too (by ghost writer, Lucie Cave).  Nice review here.

Nikki Grahame seems to have written the book herself.  It’s all about her struggle with anorexia, and, bloody hell, what a struggle it has been for her.  She’s only eight in the bit I’ve got up to, and she’s already spent 6 months in a psychiatric hospital because she was so badly affected.  I’m really enjoying reading the book as I’m quite interested in eating disorders (have never suffered myself though, thank god).

As I type this, Gossip are on TV singing “Standing in the Way of Control”.  I love their music and this song in particular.  Enjoy this clip!