WORDLESS ... OR: IS LOLA A GAY ICON?

WORDLESS... OR: IS LOLA A GAY ICON?!

Move over Lewis Hamilton, Jensen Button and Michael Schumacher!

Back briefly but not long enough, unfortunately, to visit other blogs! (:

btw in my last post, my incompetent P.A. gave an incomplete link for My Romantic Home. It should have read Cindy~My Romantic Home which is such a beautiful site for sore eyes! The other one seems to be some strange spam-type blog! Which reminds me I’ve lately been receiving so much oriental spam - not to mention some rather naughty comments that make me wonder if Lola’s maybe become a gay icon like Madonna and Oprah! - that I’ve reluctantly had to add author moderation to word verification pro tem.Sorry!

Happy Ruby Tuesday - and do visit other terrific Ruby Tuesday posts! (Links at Work of the Poet's marvellous site.)
Enjoy!

XOXO LOLA:)

PS Whatever you do, don't miss YOUR LOLA LIFELINE this Thursday, 15 April!!

'L' IS FOR MY LOLA AWARDS!

Dear readers, I am participating in Jenny Matlock’s Alphabe-Thursday where ‘L’
is for both The Lola & Superior Scribbler Awards!

Firstly, I’ve got a little confession to make! I received most of the awards hanging in the sidebar over a year ago and, er, forgot about them - until now! The reason? The site’s had a spot of spring cleaning! And not just a coat or two of cooler, paler colours, polishing the pics and rearranging the text furniture. But hanging up winter’s woolly words and dusting down all those wonderful awards hanging over there, the most recent the Superior Scribbler Award from the wonderful Bhavesh Chhatbar which I’m passing on today together with the most famous and prestigious of all, my very own Lola Award for Services to Blogging!

But now, back to our awards today! Now I’m aware some of you don’t "do" awards and I’ve tried to bear that in mind with the nominations below. However, mistakes do happen dear readers and if, inadvertently, your blog’s been included ~ or excluded for that very reason ~ please blame it all on that useless P.A. of mine, Nora...!

Now, my Lola Award is for recently discovered blogs and, like all similar blog awards, is useful because it introduces wonderful new blogs to a wider readership. This means, regrettably, I have to EXCLUDE those esteemed fellow bloggers I’ve known now for a little while (most of whom have already been garlanded with well-deserved awards). In fact, all those listed on the sidebar deserve award after award but I’m restricted to just 20. (Stop gushing and get on with it. Your P.A., Nora.) So, ripping open the shiny, sealed envelope on the blogosphere podium, I momentarily pause (for drumroll and swig of whisky from artfully concealed hipflask) before reading out the nominations for both the Lola and Superior Scribbler Awards (in no particular order):

Jenny Matlock

Bermudabluez

Jacque4u2c

KatiewhatcanUdo?

Trying to look fab in your forties

Teawithonesugarplease

Seens from the backs of my Eyelids

My Romantic Home

The Misadventures of Mrs B

Haute World

Smiling Sally

Me and My Memes

The best hearts are crunchy

Daydreamnworld

Show my face

Carmen's Chronicles

A La Carte

Here's to Life!

Styling Bodies

Hyacinths for the Soul

Finally, thank you all my dear readers and also new followers who visited or left comments this past week! Have a great Alphabe-Thursday! And do check out other great Alphabe-Thursday posts! btw I’ll be MIA for a few days cos’ my P.A.’s away on a brief business trip again! But she’s promised to type up and post my latest YOUR LOLA LIFELINE! next THURSDAY, 15 APRIL! Make a note in your diary! Don’t miss this historic, earth-shattering event!!

XOXO LOLA:)

PS Be good while I'm away!!

THE BEST APRIL FOOL'S JOKES EVER!

THE BEST UK PRESS APRIL FOOL'S JOKES EVER!

Dear readers, here for Ruby Tuesday are some of the best April Fool's jokes in last Thursday’s UK press specially for you! Some are hilarious and one I fell for (forgetting it was April 1!) Which do you think is the best (and which do you think I fell for? I’ll reveal all at the end!) And does the press in your country print April Fool's jokes too?

1 Specially trained ferrets (above) have been used by Virgin Media for over a year to help lay cables for its broadband service to deliver broadband to rural areas following groundbreaking techniques used by an Internet provider. The ferrets wear jackets fitted with a microchip which is able to analyse any breaks or damage in the underground network. (Notice the red!)

2 The Daily Express and The Daily Mirror both carried the same story that the Queen booked herself onto a flight with budget airline easyJet to cut her travel costs. "One paid just £22.99 for a ticket from Luton to Aberdeen" she declared to reporters. A fellow passenger said she was treated "just like any other traveller." (Again, notice the red!)

3 The Guardian reported that Labour is planning to embrace Gordon Brown's (above) "reputation for anger and physical aggression" in a pre-election poster campaign. Three billboard adverts are reportedly being considered by aides, to present the Prime Minister as a "tough guy" – each bearing the slogan: "Vote Labour. Or else." (Red again!)

4 The Daily Mail gave the Automobile Association a James Bond makeover by claiming that its breakdown rescue service had launched a rapid-response patrol of "AA Rocketmen" (above). It said mechanics with jet packs, similar to the one worn by Sean Connery in Thunderball, could now reach stricken motorists more quickly by soaring over traffic jams. Tests would run above the M25 between dawn and noon. (Note the red!)

5 The Independent said it had seen a preliminary study commissioned by The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) looking into the feasibility of creating a second Large Hadron Collider (above left) using the 23km tunnel of London Underground's Circle Line (above right). If the scheme goes ahead, two proton beams would collide at Westminster Station directly below Portcullis House – the offices of more than 200 MPs. The collision would happen "within feet of Circle Line passengers stuck in perpetual immobility" but that health and safety advisers warned that the experiment could create "a mini black hole at Westminster".

Dear readers, which Joke is the best? And Happy Ruby Tuesday - and do visit other terrific Ruby Tuesday posts! (Links -in sidebar-at Work of the Poet.) And, yes, it was the third ad I fell for. All too realistic!
XOXO LOLA:)

WORDLESS...

Why do men prefer playing with their 'toys' while we girls prefer more worthwhile pursuits like, er, shopping?

A Happy Blue Monday to all my dear readers - especially in Australia, New Zealand and the Far East where it’s already Blue Monday!!
More great Blue Monday posts at Smiling Sally !

XOXO LOLA:)

EVER OK TO SWEAR AT WORK?

IS IT EVER OK TO SWEAR AT WORK?

Dear readers, do you think it’s ever OK to swear at work?

****-laden tirades against chefs and kitchen staff have become Gordon Ramsay’s signature dish, while Malcolm Tucker, the BBC's fictional Downing Street director of communications in The Thick of It barely opens his mouth without uttering a four-letter word or six.

Swearing can help you let off steam at work but has turning the air blue ever caused you long-lasting problems with colleagues? Might it be better to institute a swear box – at the rate of £1 ($1.50 ) for every expletive – to create a biscuit fund? Might everyone then benefit from those tension-busting episodes... or not?!

What do you think, my dear readers? What's the worst expletive you've ever uttered at work? Time to 'fess up: you know your secret's safe with me ~ and my thousands of lovely readers!! Do let me know!

Have a splendid Six **** Saturday! Check out other 6WS posts at Show My Face!
XOXO LOLA:)

A HAPPY VINTAGE EASTER!

A Happy Vintage Easter to all my dear readers!

More great posts at Postcard Friendship Friday and Show and Tell!

XOXO LOLA:)

THE NAME IS KELLY. GRACE KELLY! ~ BUT AM I REALLY THE NEW STYLE ICON (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MAD MEN) FOR 2010?

Dear readers, welcome to Alphabe-Thursday where ‘K’ is for Grace Kelly - is she really the hottest new style icon for 2010? What do you think? Will YOU be wearing her full-skirted dresses, twinsets and pearls this year?

This season, a number of designers, from Prada to the award-winning Erdem (who designs for First Ladies Carla Bruni, Michelle Obama and Sarah Brown) have shown collections that reference her flirty femininity and polished glamour. And while Mad Men’s sensational blonde, Betty Draper, has caught the public’s attention for her Kelly-esque look of twinsets and pearls, London’s V&A Museum will be hosting the exhibition "Grace Kelly: Style Icon".
Here are some advance scenes from her life and movie career. But will she really be this new style icon? Do let me know what you think, dear readers!
Happy Alphabe-Thursday and do check out other great posts!

Enjoy!

XOXO LOLA:)