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Blog: Life of Sophie

Discussion in 'Hall of Fame' started by SophieK81, Jul 1, 2018.

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  1. S-type

    S-type Remember to smile! Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member

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    You're presumably at Edinburgh in an official capacity? What do you actually do there? (No names, no pack-drill.)
     
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    SophieK81 Like the deserts miss the rain ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Movers & Shakers Asked & Answered The girl most likely to... Phun Award Holder

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    We represent people, there to aid them & take photographs.
     
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    S-type Remember to smile! Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member

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    Anybody we might know?
     
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    SophieK81 Like the deserts miss the rain ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Movers & Shakers Asked & Answered The girl most likely to... Phun Award Holder

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    A few.
     
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    S-type Remember to smile! Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member

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    A long time ago I used to host our company's presence, a marquee providing cover from the sun (always early July), plus tea and other refreshments to use as a base to explore the whole event, at The Great Yorkshire Show. A number of complimentary tickets used to be given to representatives of a few local businesses (our customers), and we occasionally invited some local celebrity. On the occasion I'm thinking of this was an Olympic Swimming Gold Medallist - it might have been Adrian Moorhouse, but I'm not sure after all this time, but lets assume for the purpose of this anecdote that it was.

    Working in Marketing & PR rather than the Sales side I didn't know any of the business representatives personally, and of course I'd never met the swimmer. I had a wander around myself at intervals, but through the day I did meet several of these business representatives who called in to do the courtesies, and it was a case of mutual introductions and chats. During one of these chats I learnt about a bee-keeping display comprising an active glass hive with a transparent tunnel leading to the outside of the display tent through which bees could be seen coming and going, so I set off to see it - it was fascinating and I bought some honey for my wife.

    When I returned to the marquee it was empty apart from a member of my staff and a gentleman whom I assumed was another business representative, so I walked over. As I appoached she turned to me and said, "Oh, I must point out that 'Mr Moorhouse' needs to leave shortly - do you want an autograph?", to which I disdainfully replied, "Nah! Not my scene at all thanks!", to which she responded, half turning to the gentleman beside her, "By the way, this is him!"! :rolleyes:
     
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    Love it, with some of ours we're meant to be mind readers, they change plans by themselves they don't inform us
    and we're meant to be aware of it.

    I love Edinburgh and the Fringe but its a really strange month, you have so many artists/performers, etc (they say London
    moves to Edinburgh but there are performers from all over the World), all working in an area a few miles square, they' re
    living in various (vastly overpriced) apartments for a month, they performing daily (some of them two performances a day)
    then you're out partying, going to see other shows until the early hours.

    Then for many, you're up early the following morning and out on the streets promoting another day's show.

    This goes on for a month with two days off, its the Worlds largest arts festival and when you're there you can see why.

    Is Adrian Moorhouse the bald guy?
     
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    I don't know about now, but he wasn't back then. But you're thinking of Duncan Goodhew.

    PS This was Adrian Moorhouse back then :-

    [​IMG]

    He's looking a lot like Duncan these days!
     
  8. SophieK81

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    I have a vague memory of Duncan Goodhew for the media stuff he did after his swimming career ended.

    Adrian Moorhouse doesn't register.
     
  9. SophieK81

    SophieK81 Like the deserts miss the rain ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Movers & Shakers Asked & Answered The girl most likely to... Phun Award Holder

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    Seems like my little blog has become a bit of a ghost town.

    Oh well all good things.
     
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    Don't worry. You weren't around for a couple days and some of your followers got a bit anxious :D
    It's ok, give them some time.

    A bit of Emma to feel better
    [​IMG]
     
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    Flippy Las cucarachas entran, pero no pueden salir. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member Power Poster

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    Still here soph. I may not reply to everything but i read plenty.
     
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    SophieK81 Like the deserts miss the rain ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Movers & Shakers Asked & Answered The girl most likely to... Phun Award Holder

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    Thanks for Emma

    Not need to be anxious!

    Tonight I'm watching
    At Eternity's Gate...
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    I went to the Van Gogh exhibition at Tate Modern in London and loved it. Its on until August 10th if you're in the UK.

    I can't say who my favourite artist is, but Van Gogh is definitely up there at the top of the list.

    Something I didn't know until recently was that Van Gogh lived in London a few miles away from where I live, he worked in a Art Dealers in Covent Garden.
     
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    I strongly recommend watching the animated feature loving vincent if your interested in him. Animation to die for that closely resembles the style he used in his paintings. It did remind me a bit in its style of a scanner darkly where they had actors doing the scenes but thet are animated afterwards. So what you see is a scene of an animated version of the actor.
     
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    I have it thanks, I plan to see it before I leave for Edinburgh.
     
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    And now a pic at Bedtime..
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    Night
     
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    Have ya read about the movie 'Underwater' that she has coming out ? :)
     
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    I've been asleep for the last 12 hours, kinda freaked out. So there's my reasoning for being absent, unless you want to hear my captivating tale of gorging on pizza.
     
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    Depends on what sort of pizza it was?
    Tell me more?
     
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    Hang on, what do you mean its the last day of July?
     
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    it is really hard for me to put an artist as the absolute number 1 it fluctuates alot depending on where i am in Life. At the moment i like the work of Chris Foss and his landscapes and spaceships of outer space. At the same time as far as more traditional paintings goes i like a local painter from where i live called Lars Lerin.

    http://sandgrund.org/galleri/
     
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