easter’s finally here, which can only mean one thing – a long weekend – whooppee i hear you shout! to celebrate, i’ve put some things together to put you in the easter mood (aren’t I kind?).

something to make you smile…

thanks to rakka for this picture. who would have thought eggs decorated as kiss could be so amusing? If you’re not already smiling, this easter bunny is bound to have the desired effect…

damn i need to get me some of those moves – he’s hot!

now it obviously wouldn’t be easter without an easter bonnet parade – after all what better could we doing with our time than sticking random bits of paper and fluff to an otherwise decent and expensive hat?

last but not least is the easter egg hunt – now how am i going to do this on a blog i expect you are wondering – well where there’s a will there’s a way. the first thing that i should point out is that it’s bunnies hiding (the same as the top of the post) rather than eggs as they’re cuter and i have already eaten all of the eggs!

so, the challenge is to find the 8 bunnies, hidden throughout my site, each with their own special code. once you have all of the codes email me at melkirk1@gmail.com and you’ll win an easter egg – what more could you want? an egg and entertainment – genius

let me set the scene, my mum found my blog…. within 10 minutes she was on the phone and concerned that i am using my blog inappropriately as an outlet rather than speaking to her. i know that she’ll probably be reading this, so i’ll take this opportunity to say, mum i love you, there’s nothing to worry about…

for me, the blog is fun, it might be amateur but i enjoy writing my hopefully amusing stories. If nothing else, it doesn’t seem so bad when incidents happen – in fact i’m almost pleased as it gives me something to write about! I’m not the only one, I recently came across this blog which i think it’s fair to say is almost as random as mine – and i love it. If you look at this post it takes it even further, but there’s something endearing about it

in my opinion it’s a generation thing – youngsters growing up now feel a lot more independent, free to join communities and develop their own identities. whether this is sustainable, only time will tell. there has already been evidence that things might have to change, only confirmed by the recent kathy sierra situation. whilst 99% of the people out there using the web are decent individuals, it’s the small minority that have to ruin it for the others! whilst freedom of speech is imperative, people should be accountable for their actions when they act in an irresponsible manner.

for me though, my blog is just a bit of fun, i’m not taking myself seriously and i just hope that i make a few people smile. i can understand why people might have reservations about posting pictures of themselves on the worldwide interweb but i’m fine with it as it’s not like i’m posting any indecent ones of myself. i see a blog as an addition to my life, it doesn’t replace human contact and it certainly doesn’t replace a good old natter – but sometimes it’s good just to type away and press publish!

so the question is, do i change my ways and keep my matters private or continue to publish my incidents??? whilst i ponder, i’m thinking of a great post for easter…

you know when you were young and your mum used to say “lies come back to bite you” – it’s true! i should have listened to her…

last night was going swimmingly, everyone was having fun as when consumed our margheritas – maybe that’s the problem, i consumed one too many margheritas and i’ve spent the whole of today regretting it. that aside, i got up this morning to find that my camera and phone were missing from my handbag – i’d lost them. this was probably made worse by the fact that i had only just sorted out a new mobile following the washing machine and toilet incidents.

feeling like my oxygen had been cut off without my mobile, i got straight on the phone to the insurance company. this was where the white lie began. i didn’t really think that i could claim for a new phone using the line “i got horribly drunk and misplaced my mobile” so instead, my story was as follows:-

“I was on the water ferry in bristol docks yesterday when i left my phone on the side of the boat to get something out of my handbag. in the meanwhile the phone dropped off of the side of the boat into the merky depths of the river, never to be seen again”

i was informed that i would need to report it to the police and visit the branch – which i did. the sales assistant seemed suitably persuaded and my claim was referred for a decision. by the time that i got home, a taxi driver had been in touch to say that he had my mobile and camera. great news i thought.

ten minutes later and another phonecall down the line it turns out that you can’t just cancel an insurance claim, you have to email them details of how the phone was recovered as they put a bar on the phone. how do you explain a phone being recovered from the depths of the ocean and not being water damaged??? this was how i tried…

“i was out with friends last night and had had one too many drinks. this morning when i noticed that i didn’t have my phone, my friends informed me that it had fallen off of the side of the boat that we were on. i therefore went into the branch and made the claim. however, when i got back, my friends had been in touch to tell me that it was an april fools joke and that they had my phone – they weren’t expecting me to have tried to replace it etc so soon. the police have now been notified”

good god, how do i get myself into these situations?