I've always got up around 9 or before, but since i bought a feather duvet and use the heavier bit over last couple of months i've gotten a bit lazier. Even though i'd be awake i do be so cosy i keep giving myself another 5 mins maggi x

Has everyone gone again?
Come on Susie Anna give me what you think would have happened.
Bye the way i haven't talked to you before, have you been here long?
Welcome if you are a newbie.
Its the only place to be if you support both.

Oh i am an early riser at the best of times ,around about 6 am usually, but this 4am lark is driving me mad.
Its sooo quiet and dark and kind of creepy.
You know i should think by now (especially if you read my tweets) that i have a very over active mind.
Iam either full of silliness or in a dark place.
Here i am comparitively "normal" thats why i love it here.

HaHa, saw a few of ur horse tweets, but how do you define ''normal'' maggi x

Shall i tell you about my trip Jinx 3?
I will if there is no one else about,
just to keep the thread moving.

Ah sure you might as well maggi x

carnt wait

Mags i thought you had gone.
Well i did say comparitively "normal".
I think i am in my third (Not Second) childhood.
I was always up for a laugh (still am of course)
but i find myself getting sillier and sillier.
I laugh at things that other people would sneer at.
Also have that nervous laugh that Josie has.

Trip Jinx 3.

Again this involves the same group of friends on the Blackpool trip
with the exception of Miseryguts.
We had banished him from further trips because of his curmudgenly behaviour.
Bye the way i will post in bits and pieces incase my lappy sends post into etherdom.

Well to begin.

We all decided to visit London for the weekend.
A couple of the group had nnever been there.

So we piled into two cars and set off.
We took duvets and pillows with the intention of sleeping in the cars.
None of us could afford London priced hotels at that time.

Got to the outskirts of london and decided to leave the cars in a good parking place in Bethnal Green.
We would go into inner London by tube.
I had never used the tube before but the comedian said he knew it well,

Of course we being gullible believed him.
By the way we were set in visiting a pub in Leicester Square becouse
some friends from a pub where i lived at the time had moved to this one.
So we thought we would surprise them.

Anyway we had a cup of coffee and then made our way to the nearest tube station.
Let mayhem commence.
Comedian gets us on first tube arriving and guess what it took us to some station miles away in the opposite direction.
So we got off that one and he(not so funny now) insisted he had it right this time, we would go back to where we started and begin again.
Well to cut a long story short we crissed crossed london like a game of naughts and crosses.

By the time we reached Liecester Square we had been on the tubesfor two hours.
everyone was tired hungry and thirsty.
I think i moaned with every step i took, but we eventually made it
to the pub in question.
What a relief, we would surprise our friends and have a good sit down a good drink and perhaps something to eat.

Back again I was getting ready for Laura's return from school, forgetting that a) she has after-school club and b) after that she's off to tea at a friend's house, first time ever! If I had a memory cell I'd be dangerous


What an interesting question I always thought John's overreaction to Josie putting the gunge over JJ's head was unnecessary, seeing as it was her right to put it over anybody's head she chose. I really don't think he'd have had the same reaction had JJ done it, as Shem (I think above) said, he did seem to revere JJ ... probably cause he was so glad to have a bloke his own age around (I also think they had met in lockdown?, although I'm probably wrong, Kelly is the girl who knows all of these facts )

I often wondered how many nominations John would have received (and Josie, but doubtful) that week had the noms been in private; I feel fairly sure that he wasn't gunged at all cause it was out in the open and people feared him kicking off if they gunged him - not to say he would have, just that his temper/argumentative ways were fairly well known and I do sometimes feel that some HM's just backed away from situations with John that might have resulted in him going off on one.

As we approached the pub we thought omg it looks really
dark and dingy in there.
Then we saw the notice ...... CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS.
Well as you can imagine my heart sank.
I was tired i was hungry and thirsty as were we all
went to the cafe next door and at least had a sandwich and cup of tea.
The chap who owned it said our friends had gone away for the weekend.

You see that was the problem for me, he had no right to be furious about anybody's votes really; they are their own nominations that they should be allowed to do without fear of him kicking off, hence my belief that some people didn't nominate him just because it was out in the open and fearing his rants.

The boys then wanted a proper drink as they called it.
I suggested we make our way back to Bethnal Green and have a drink there,
knowing we had to navigate the tube again, but no they wanted a drink.
We then traipsed the streets of London looking for a pub that wasn't filled to the brim.
We went up this street down that street like a tribe of nomads.
It was hell i tell you.

Agree absolutely. I don't see how Josie could be confused any longer; I do think there are some people would like to think she is still confused about the situation, but I don't see her as being so.


Again agree; I think it's fans that want things to be a certain way so desperately (some supporters, of course, not all), they are thinking about John in relation to Josie that they seem to see everything Josie says and does in relation to John, when there is no indication that Josie thinks about John very often and certainly no sign of her pining for him in any way, shape or form. I know that some people want it to be the case, but that doesn't make it so.


It must have been strange going back to the BB House at first, I can imagine the memories were bitter and sweet, but it might also have been cathartic for her, finally thinking of it as a TV show she was on and seeing it moving forward with new contestants. She said on her DS interview that it was a great time, good memories, etc., so she obviously has a fondness for her time in the House - which is a good thing, I'm glad she doesn't look on it all with bitterness.


Hopefully, like the rest of us, time has (or will) softened some of those more negative memories and she can look back on the good ones with a smile at some point

Lol I'm loving your stories

Hello everyone

Gucciau what you doing here

It was now 9-30pm and i was getting woried about getting back to the cars.
But the boys insisted they had to have a drink so we squished into a pub where there was hardly room to lift your glass and had a couple of drinks.
We girls then put our feet down and insisted we get back to cars, so we made out way to tube station. when we eventually found it it only took us 3 trips across London this time to reach our destination.By this time it was getting on for 11-30 to 12 pm.
As we walked down to where we had parked the cars( me moaning with every step and the boys laughing at me) we saw that a pub that was obviously having a lockin.
comedian knocked the door and asked if we could come in,
No said the land lord "if you had been here for the last couple of hours it would be different"

lmao

You can imagine how i gloated at that.
If we had got back when i suggested we could have been sitting in an east end pub having
whale of a time. ha ha ha.

Despondantly (on the lads part, what is it with them and drink) we made it to the cars only to find they had parking tickets on them.
So we came home.
Went on Saturday home at 3am on Sunday. Par for the course .


The funniest thing we found out later on was that our Landlord and wife friends we had made the trip
for, had come to surprise US.
Now theres a surprise.

OOps nearly forgot.
OT John and Josie lived in London And Josie still does.

Going now to do my dinner.
Hope i didn't bore you all to death.
Got lots of stories , might trot out some more one day.
BBl all being well Byee.
Shem xx

we had a good laugh anyway