Rebel Badge Work

I've slowed down with my badges a bit - mainly as I have many to sew onto my camp blanket, and doing that involves time. I have badges ready to work on, though as with everything it doesn't actually mean I'm ready to work on it yet.  Anyway, I think as life is so busy at the moment that's not necessarily a bad thing. Though whether there's a "Went to the Dentist because I forgot I had booked it" appointment would be good to know. Mainly as my last appointment was in September so remembering anything from before I had my operation is a challenge.  Maybe that's my brand...  remembering appointments. I have everything logged on a spreadsheet to keep on top of it all.....  Now to find a decent app to create a badge! 

Yep, I'm getting through these programmes fairly quickly I think. Although today's, which is 'Four in a Bed' is on fairly continually during the day and early evening - so this one isn't as challenging when talking about the programme. Though actually, what I've noticed instead is that the programme follows a fairly similar journey each week.  Firstly, let's describe 'Four in a Bed' - there are four families, they all own a B&B style place and they're all being judged on how clean their B&B is. Each family visits each B&B and judges it, checks the room for dust and overall cleanliness and then at the end of their stay they grade everything out of ten.  There are all sorts of categories - whether their hosts were welcoming, did they sleep well?, how clean it is and then the BIG question at the end, would they stay there again. Then when the anonymous grading has been done the hosts read through it all - and work out who has scored thei...

I'm out of practice reviewing things and waffling coherently, so let's see how we get on with Extraordinary. Extraordinary is streaming now on Disney + - it's a story of people who get various magical powers when they turn 18 which may or may not be useful. The story centres around Jen who, in her twenties still doesn't have her power. Jen shares a flat with Carrie, Kash and finally Jizzlord, a cat who shapeshifts into a human who has no recollection of his previous life. Mainly as he has been a cat for several years.  Each episode is around the 30 minute mark, enough time for a plot, conclusion and a decent story arc running across the eight episodes. Nothing is too dragged out. I found myself laughing out loud a lot - and also feeling sympathy with some of the characters.  Some turn their powers to their advantage whereas others don't quite as much. This bodes well for Series 2 and other characters coming into the story when they find ways to use their powers.  If...

Another clause that I've completed for The Love Challenge, but this one isn't going public until the goods have been delivered - but covers the clause "Make someone feel loved with a random act of kindness" - now, I guess this could be interpreted many ways, but I've chosen to make it a very simple one - I've bought some Lady Bakewell Park cookies for Shaun and he'll get them on valentine's day. Given we don't celebrate the day in question this is going to catch him off guard, he'll probably feel bad and I'll almost definitely insist we have pizza for tea to make up for it. But it is a random act of kindness and they're quite cute looking too.  I just have to try not to eat them beforehand.  I mean, LOOK! they're ace. I hope husband shares them.... 

This is one I'm still mulling over - what exactly is my brand? I mean, currently you could say "Brain Tumour Person" but that seems a bit blunt and awkward for anyone who might see it.  "Undecided Me" maybe? As in, I can't decide what my brand actually is. But then that could change and I could become "Decidedly Me" maybe? So probably not the best brand badge.  Let's have a look at the clauses. The first one is to write a list of 10 words that I'd like other people to use when they describe me.  Talkative Likes her music Tottenham supporter York City supporter Women's Football (ooh maybe could be onto something for this one) I'm actually struggling now - and I've just had a look and I haven't ordered a My Brand badge yet so I knew this one would be tricky - one to add to the next order I think. The good thing is I have all the time to complete this so that gives me a lot of time to think about myself.  I can see one of the c...

Signed off work for a fairly long time, I have more than enough time to watch tv right now. This makes the TV Critic badge quite an easy one to achieve - I have been off work for over three months now which means I know which channels to switch to when I need a certain daytime tv fix.  Clause 1 is to choose five different tv shows to watch over a four week period. They need to be different genres as well - and fortunately we've had a bit of a Netflix/Disney+/Amazon/BBC style mix of programmes of late. So my five different tv shows are.... 1. Wednesday 2. Happy Valley 3. Extraordinary 4. Four in a Bed 5. Harry & Meghan  Ted Lasso I think that's a good spread of the shows I've been watching.  Now I need to write a review... to keep this challenge going I will only review the shows we've finished - though Four in a Bed is week to week so is the exception.  Wednesday. This is the story of Wednesday Addams and her starting Nevermore Academy, the place her parents Mort...

This one was another easy one to achieve, mainly as I've been working on this for so long now - My Collection. Which, obviously, has to be my cloth badges on my camp blanket. The badges cover several years of collecting - from some dating back to 1977 when I first became a Brownie, to 2023 when I've picked up badges along the way (hello National Trust). So... the clauses. I have to put together a collection over six months. Well I think the above covers that - and way more than six months too. Since I've been signed off work I've done little bits around the house, and one of those tasks was getting the sewing machine out and getting all the badges since July onto the blanket, and the teen's too. Which is surprisingly tiring - I was managing around six badges sewn on a day before having to have a rest.  Which covers part two of the clauses too - finding an attractive way to display the collection. Because who can resist a well populated camp blanket?  Part three is s...