Sunday, 24 July 2016

Hello and welcome back

Let's start with this 
From Sweet Paul
Pommes Anna

This gem from
Melon and lemon with prosecco
Love you, love your body
Remember to be mindful 

Simple and sleek 
Via Wallpaper Magazine
Then this something blissfully bold and crisp 

Chocolate sorbet
By Smitten Kitten

Tomato Pie!
Via
Pizza in L.A
Via EATER


Darling
The goddess of all things that make you explore your mind
Via DAZED
More
Coconut madness
Via Great British Chefs
Reality bites to this American diner 
Dangerous minds brings you a twisted, mysterious fantasy
Downtown NYC 
A glimpse of beauty
Via 
The New York Times

Tasting tables perfection of childhood bliss
Love doing for Marc Jacobs
Via Dazed

The nature of beauty
Via 
Harper's Bazaar


Leave it behind, let it go time to be honest you are not letting go!
Move on, don't be that person that holds on for "dear life DARLING"

Vogue brings you this
But he's not living in it
This sadness
From the Guardian

This woman, this brand
Via Huff Post

Total IDOL
A true girl,raw, open and speaking out
M.I.A
Via 
NYLON

Bore off with god awful mauling of women's lives
Via 
DAZED

Viewing power
Give these ladies your love!
Via 
Style.Mic
Emin 
Via Artsy

Disturb you eyes
Via
Dangerous Minds

This 
Via
AnOther

Watch out
Via 
Highsnobiety
My city, my history
Home from home then?
Via 
The NY Times
CHANEL has my heart!

French food
Of course

FUCKING YOUNG
Cavalli Fall/Winter
McQueen
Viv


Wednesday, 13 July 2016


Hello and welcome back

This blog is dedicated to a review of a track
of
Help Our Heroes
The song is much more than a track, it's thoughtful and mindful.
Gentle but explains pain, powerful and yet again with the music I have reviewed frank and easy to understand.

The track is modern but with a world wide topic.
Made easy to understand by the younger generation which in it's self is impressive.

War and it's effects effect not just the person who fought for us all but everyone around us.

The track is very professional and sounds like a track you'd hear on the radio but is not just something and nothing we need to take this onboard and listen.

To see more look here via the social site
Facebook
Download it here
Buy it here

The lyrics
UNTOLD STORY
Inside my head, it's running through my veins,
I lie awake at night, to live it all again,...
Another brother lost, my minds dragging me down,
Pages to be filled, of an untold story.

I still see visions of him, 20 Years later can't find peace within,
If I wasn't a veteran could of been my brethren, on another day could of bought a drink for him,
But on the front line, it's do or die,
Fighting the fight for civilian lives,
That's why I thank god when I look in the sky, thinking how my son could of been a fatherless child,
(I see) happy families torn apart,
(I see) brothers and sisters die in my arms,
(It seems) that's the reason that I'm mentally scarred,
And I can't find the strength to forsaken my heart,
Trapped in my own thoughts though I try to escape,
Confined in my own flesh like my bodies a cell,
They say I'm going crazy, I ain't right in the head,
They call it PTSD and all I need is some help ye,
Inside my head, it's running through my veins,
I lie awake at night, to live it all again,
Another brother lost, my minds dragging me down,
Pages to be filled, of an untold story.
Sometimes it feels like, we taken for granted,
Sometimes it feels like, we are forgotten,
Sometimes it feels like, we are abandoned,
I don't think they understand the effects and damage,
I could of been a doctor could of been a nurse,
I could of been anything I wanted in the world,
I sacrificed it all to protect and serve and all I ask for is the credit I deserve,
Gone for months at at time maybe years sometimes,
Missing out precious moments of my prime,
Gun shots ringing off, day and night, scrambling to survive with every minute passing by,
Fiancé at home anxiously waiting, mama stressed out, loosing her patience,
Can't even deny its weighing heavy on my conscience,
Story of a soldier you gotta pay homage.
Inside my head, it's running through my veins,
I lie awake at night, to live it all again,
Another brother lost, my minds dragging me down,
Pages to be filled, of an untold story.
Still miss you every night and day until the next time I see you again,
And every night I lie awake just to live it all over again
Still miss you every night and day until the next time I see you again,
And every night I lie awake just to live it all over again
Don't brake me down, don't let me go
Don't brake me down, don't let me go
I still miss you every night and day until the next time I see you again,
And every night I lie awake just to live it all over again
again.



Dating, failing and a shot to the head!

Hello and welcome back
A huge welcome to my new readers and old alike.

***This blog contains adult topics and adult language so please be mindful***

Today's blog discusses dating/internet dating.

As a thirty-something in an ever-increasing world where people care less about others with the

"throw away society"

we have become and let's not bullshit we have become like that.
It's hard to even know where to begin with dating.
We've all been there and done that at some point in our lives.



I am the kind of girl that wears my heart on my sleeve, literally, I have them tattooed on my left wrist.

They are there for personal reasons but believe me I was judged on those by many but I will get onto that later on.

I am not even sure where to begin.
Modern times for me means I work and write my blog. When not doing that I am out and about seeing friends and doing things for my brand.
I have little time to waste and always plan ahead.
This is not uncommon that people have little time to do other things so internet dating seemed a good choice.
Like others I am not great at picking up signals, does he like me? Maybe he's just being polite.
So being home, sitting and talking online seemed a reasonable, safe and more gentle approach to what seemed a daunting and lonely world.

I am not talking shite here, these are honest and frankly raw feelings so go with it.

I uploaded some photos, mindful of myself and that the wrong photo/s can give the wrong or even right impression.
So no busty shots, one or two full length maybe and others just of myself.
None of the strange pouting, lots of makeup or pissing it up all over the place.

Sites ask for you to write a bio, a break down of what's what so I did just that.
Not that it went down well.
**This is not what I wrote however**
I'm a modern woman, my own money, my own thoughts and frankly I am able to screw a lightbulb in myself.

I was in fact very honest about myself and gave what I thought was a fair and open view of myself.

Me being honest did not go well and it went to the shitter, men seemed pissed that I can handle myself and my bills.
Dating isn't to find a man to pay my way it was to meet someone nice.
The fact I have my life together, am fairly busy and would like to meet someone for just that to meet someone and no hidden agenda was confusing to these men.
Almost like I ought to be frail, unable to cope and needed a man to complete me and make me happy.
I was already happy, life's really good I just wanted to meet someone to add to something already going well in my life.

Dating is a torture I can do without, even before a "date" guys on this site have decided what's what.

There are types and streams of them.
These are but a few.

Men who want to chat endlessly online that you'll never actually meet.
That more than likely are after an ego boost they also they tend to have no photos.
Who has no photo on a dating site and why would anybody expect to talk to someone they can see without showing themselves?

There are men who are emotionally damaged beyond repair and are bitter.
To the point, it's aggressive, abusive and scary.
"Women just want money and are bitches"
Apparently...

Men who hound you till you have to block them because you won't allow yourself to be taunted with strange messages. Then re-open new accounts to carry on, yep it's true.

You'd think I was making this up wouldn't you believe me I wish I was.

The guy who sits and talks about his x's all night, then the ones who do that and their x's turn up.
Not attractive and a little worrying, fancy meeting the x. Nope, no I don't.
The flip side is they talk about their x's and nasty about them.
If they are doing that about them, they will then do it about you.
Best to get your jacket, be polite and leave.
Or run, just run after being honest that is.

Then there are men that set dates with you, message you endlessly, call you and text you. Date you once and decide you weren't worthy of them and then go on to ignore you.
These are the "victim guys" a simple, I don't think it would work is obviously hard to say even through strings of texts keeping you to your phone was easy.
I found these guys the worst to deal with, yes deal with that's how it is.
The word "victim" is correct because if you dare to ask why they'd not been in touch to at least be polite and let you know it spirals into a weird game.
There's no line, they saw it and laughed at it and thought fuck others and their emotions.

There are some lovely men online don't get me wrong, caring, open men who are genuine. I don't think all men online or otherwise are bad.

It does seem though men online are emotionally damaged and treat people with no regard. I am not even sure they like themselves enough let alone care to be mindful of others.

Broken homes, broken marriages, and cheating is their main complaint.
However that's not a healthy way to begin looking for another woman in your life is it,
Or you'd think anyway.

Safety first though, always meet in a public place where you are familiar with things. Tell people who you are going on a date with, where and what time.
Sites will always stipulate this and rightly so.
Just because you spoke online and felt comfortable that's not always the case!
Stay safe!

Back when I was a teen dating was easy, so simple and less in your face. None of this grinder, plenty of fish etc. You knew more where you stood with people plus there was no social media or mobile phones that cut most nonsense right out.

Now though, it's rife with bullies, liars and wild people who want to fuck on the first date.
Seriously, I was asked to marry someone on the forth..
That's another story for another time.

I ended up cutting my photo down to this one.
You'd think it would gain less attention right?
Doubtful..
Men who'd seen this image before came back at me, not even realizing it was me simply because they message lots of women.
The crux of any dating site or dating means, of course, you are not the only one the other person is talking to.
I've had dates and not with one "type"
I began to lose focus on who was I attracted to, what I wanted and was getting past it all.

I met some genuinely nice guys, who haven't attracted me to me or I wasn't them and remain friends with them and it's nice.
That's how adults with their shit together act, it's quite nice really.

Then there are ones who get pissed and quickly because it did not work even when they are the ones who decide it won't work out.
Just to clear that up
a guy decides he does not think it will work out, which is fine but then gets aggressive.
Don't ask me how I have no idea...

I've had people take my things and hold them ransom, men feel me up when I have said no.
No means no, so I called the police to handle that.

Men mocking me because of my weight, white men question if I am white. Not even sure how you categorize that,  and men question every detail about me.
I have never come across being told I write like "one of them" before.
Who are "them" that person went on the tell me to "go back to your own fucking country".
Just to clear that up I am Yorkshire girl, Grandad had a trawler in Hull and I may have foreign blood but so might you also.

I have invested in getting to know a couple and found cracks, serious deep wounding cracks and not from me.
These men are still on the road to "meeting the one" the one ought to be themselves and focusing on getting their life firmly on track before dicking theirs up more and introducing another to it.

I personally feel unless you are ready you ought not to date, invest and let someone take time to be with you if you are not certain you are ready.
It's selfish and indulgent to take some one's time and then cast them aside to say "it's not you it's me.
Clearly, it's you and not me... you took my time and my emotions to make yourself feel better for a while.

Dating sites are not for the weak hearted literally.
It's a brutal game of hopping through hoops.
Giving sex easily and compromising yourself in the hope that someone will be nice and you'll get lucky.

If the person you are talking to inline simply wants sex, which there is nothing wrong with they should at least put it on their bio or let you know when you start talking to them. That way you can make a choice and not be duped into thinking and being lead to think there will be something nice to come from talking etc.
Anyone who was to pretend there would be more dating or a relationship is honestly desperate, filthy and vile nothing more than a sexual predator praying they can fool people into sex to cut them off.

I dated away from dating sites and found most of the above applies but is slightly less frustrating.
Dating men my age means they've been married or got children in some cases they've never cut the marital strings and that's a total turn off.
Hearing the ex-wife is their best friend means they've not let go and don't want to.
I could not imagine anything worse than having to meet the ex more than needed in the street or if they have children together via the children.

I have dealt with crazed x's and never wish to do so again it takes a long time for them get over that their x has moved on and it can get messy.
A new woman in an x's eyes can be a sign of some weird battle of who's the better person.
Turf war and them feeling put out in the cold.
Another sure-fire signs their old relationship is not over for one of them at least.
So dating a man who has no children or has a fair responsibility seems the better option.

I just wanted to meet someone down to earth, open to my life and the quirks. Who was able to understand I am less orthodox than most women and freer.

I am at a loss with it, I am however starting to see the light on what has been staring at me for a very very long time.
That my friends will remain private and not for any blog and is the end of this bizarre path I went on.

***I need to iterate that I had asked men to come forward for this blog, non choose to do so.
I am writing in general terms and nothing in my blog is directed at one person or one circumstance.***

Friday, 10 June 2016

Hello and welcome back.
 
This weeks blog features
 
REDEYE FEENIX
A Hull based Musician ..
***So to the intro ***
Let's start with what I know about the album and Redeye's music.
I hadn't heard anything till this album.
Visually, the cover is expressive and dark.
Featuring Graffiti well known with Hull's scene.
For hire and viewings
See more via the facebook link below
 
 
***To the music***
The sound is deep in Hull's tone.
You'll know when you hear it, there's no confusion it runs through the album and plays well.
You'll see the streets in your mind if you close your eyes.
 
Take track six for example
It will make you think of Dre and Snoop in an old American car.
In a video from the early 90's hip hop/rap video cruising in the sunshine.Ain't nothing wrong with an old school track nor an old school trip.
 
Heavy deep beats, almost James Brown and Prince with a Jazz tone in track thirteen.
It's enough to make you get up, dust it off and dance.
I liked that one the most, it won't get old.
I need to add this to my mp3 player so it can be on repeat constantly.
 
I would love to Redeye do some work with
COUNTING COINS
with their Ska and trumpets it would be an insane mix.
It's just an idea though guys.
 
 
Each track is very different you'll hear a deep, velvet like woman's voice (track four)
Featuring Hull's very own Rebecca Robyns
Known for her music and beautifully shot photography.
 
I can say this, it's not what I was expecting.
It made me think of the early MTV that I watched and the De La Soul moments I had as a kid.
Take yourself on a trip to my childhood
De La Soul at their finest!
 
I am not saying the album sounds like them, I am saying that's the nostalgic feeling it gives me.
Then it got to track eleven and a sound of A tripe called quest vibe.It's taking me right back!
Here more here
 
Laid back, great tracks and that feeling you're hearing something that'll take you back and make you feel good.
 
I played it loud, my poor neighbours endured hours of me playing the album over and over.
I got a feeling, an emotion it's Hull the tracks are relevant, honest and on ground level.
 
I have seen Chappo time to time pop up, he's featuring on track seven.
Mad world is a honest realisation of the brutal truths of Hull and our cities, society and current raw feelings.
Well played guys, lyrically it's speaking out to a generations who need to know more.
***More on Chappo below**
CHAPPO
Had to add this just for the fun of it
 
 
I wanted to add these finally it's the feel I am getting from being a Hull girl through and through.
Knowing the city, the feel of the album you'll see what I am saying and hear the beauty they all make together.
This from
ENDOFLEVELBADDIE
 
 
This from SNOOP...
VATO
  
 

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Chiedu Oraka
mixtape
 
Not Ya Average Spitting 1.5
 
***DOWNLOAD HERE***
 
Mixtape review
 
So let's begin this journey...
 
Firstly I've never spoken about Chiedu on my blog but have been a fan quietly for some time.
Chiedu pops up on my Facebook feed daily, there is something captivating about him and the things that surround him.
 He's Hull through and through.
You can't beat that.
Do I love that damn straight I do.
Can I get enough?
Quick answer NOPE!!!
 
So...
 
NOT YA AVERAGE SPITTING 1.5
 
Was brought to you with a huge Hull vibe, tone and truth.
Yorkshire, Hull accent all the way.
I am a thirty seven year old girl brought up with Snoop, Nate, De La Soul, Arrested Development, Mos Def, Soul to soul and that's the tip of an iceberg to my musical tastes an soundtracks from my youth to date.
 
Chiedu's new music brings you a deep, clear and humble voice of the city of Hull.
Full of truths,
some slang a long with a honest tongue.
Refreshing to me and hopefully to you.
 
Each track is short but sweet, this for me makes me want to skip to the next track to hear more.
A bad thing? I say not, I would like them longer because this guy has much to say and what he says works and is easy to relate to.
 
So why did I enjoy it?
If you're Hull, you'll know his lyrics ring true.
You'll know what his words mean. If not sit and listen you'll soon get it.
 
Lyrically it's like he can't roll the words off fast enough and like he's constantly thinking.
 
This is not to be taken lightly, it makes your heart race and your body energised.
Isn't that what that genre of music is all about?
Beats, a voice and something to have you thinking.
Stirring up an emotion or ten.
I love that, play pause and repeat you better believe it.
 
Which tracks did I like the best..
 
Mobb Deep
Survival Of Da Fittest
3.41 long
Then this...
Fugees : Fu-Gee-La
The whole mixtape is a playback and play some more but the two tracks above I relate to and recognise the most.
Smiling as I listen, who'd of thought the Hull accent could pair with such recognisable beats.
I never saw it coming maybe I took myself of the pulse of Hull, what it gives and what we have.
Not for long I need to write more about music and be more involved I feel I have been missing out.
 
There are enjoyable sounds from the heart beat of this city.. and Chiedu is capturing it, taking it and grabbing it by it's roots and making it come to the surface with an almighty bang.
 
Take track 4
White Stripes Seven Nation Army
It's a huge track Jack White is a legend as was The White Stripes that track and sound is worldwide recognised Chiedu went and made it his.
He wiped that track clean and made his own spin on it.
You couldn't match any of those tracks to a mixtape like
Not Ya Average Spitting has done.
Hat's off I say.
 
I say this mixtape is a ground breaker on the whole scene...
It's got passion and thought.
I just want you to listen and make your own mind up actually.

It's not the end though it's just the start so buckle up and enjoy the ride.
 
 
Here's a little more..
 
Visually also he's got class, style and holds it well.
 
With the Hull music culture bursting with talent he holds his head high and you'll often find me talking about his song I'm from a city.
See the link below Youtube video.
 
See more of Chiedu
Via the social media site
Facebook
 
True to Hull
True to OUR city
Much love Chiedu..
***WATCH THIS***
I'm from a city
 
See him live at Hull's premiere festival!