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Claire Maxwell »
An account of my time at the hairdressers
Posted on 9:43am Monday 22nd March 2010
Earlier this week I spent a record amount of time in the hairdressers getting my hair ‘dip-dyed’. It cost me an extortionate amount of money and is already fading. It is dark chocolate brown, and it fades into a bright copper colour. I look extremely cool. I’m just joshing, I suppose it would depend on your definition of cool as to whether you would look at me in sheer awe or take a sneaky picture of me and ‘twitpic’ it along with a hilariously witty, but derogatory caption.
Claire Maxwell »
Politics, newpapers, and my small incompetent brain
Posted on 2:33pm Friday 5th March 2010
I know nothing about politics. A mere glimpse of Gordon Browns face on the box and I’m changing the channel before a single word can be uttered (on occasion, in my haste, I have found myself on ‘Traffic Cops’ and even then felt the sheer relief of escape).
Claire Maxwell »
A boxset of joy
Posted on 9:28pm Monday 1st March 2010
You know you’re middle class when you refuse to watch television when it is originally broadcast (unless of course if it involves Kirstie and Phil, Sarah Beeny, Monty Don, or that guy off of Grand Designs. I forget his name).
Claire Maxwell »
Stuff I like
Posted on 3:54pm Friday 26th February 2010
1. Dorset Cereals muesli (pref. fruit, nuts and seeds). If I was to show you how grotesquely large my bowl of muesli is in the morning you would probably look at me in disgust, delete me from facebook, and spend the rest of your days attempting to eradicate any connection with me whatsoever.
Claire Maxwell »
Stuff I don't like
Posted on 4:53pm Friday 19th February 2010
1. Tess Daley. She is, without doubt, dead behind the eyes. And when she speaks I find myself subconsciously reaching for the arsenic. 2. People who over-take me when I’m going 40 in a 30mph limit just because I have a learner sticker on my car. I have a good mind to cut their limbs off and make them into soup.
Claire Maxwell »
For Lent I vow...
Posted on 10:35pm Tuesday 16th February 2010
Today I was told that Lent starts tomorrow. I was surprised, to say the least, we are still finding bits of Christmas tree under cushions. I racked my brains all day for an ingenious idea to give up for Lent. I even called on Twitterville for their expert advice. Give up listening to terrible covers of Journey songs was amongst the suggestions.
Claire Maxwell »
My flippin' Valentine
Posted on 4:56pm Saturday 13th February 2010
Tomorrow is Valentines day and I plan to spend it as I spend every other day. Single and content. (Perhaps with a heftier amount of chocolate). I am not a fan of the consumerist, butt-clenchingly cringy nature of Valentines day. I only have to walk into Clintons and the will to live starts to rapidly evaporate.
Claire Maxwell »
Comic 'BLADY' genious
Posted on 4:46pm Thursday 11th February 2010
Comedians are great. They are funny, they are rude, and they say what everyone else is thinking. And only occasionally have to take the wrap for it e.g. Sachsgate.
Claire Maxwell »
Skins. Oh how their lives reflect my own (ahem).
Posted on 4:59pm Monday 8th February 2010
Settling down on the sofa. Its 9:59 pm and I am watching ad after ad, not once being thrust into a state of dizzy hoover-based need. E4 springs into life with the welcome sound of that-guy-that-does-the-x-factor's voice. Skins is introduced. I tuck into my packet of biscuits.
Claire Maxwell »
chatroulette.com
Posted on 4:41pm Saturday 6th February 2010
Its popularity is growing in steady proportion to the freaked-out nature of parents spreading across the world. Last year it was omegle.com. A chatroom that puts you in touch with a random stranger somewhere in the world whom you can wag-chins-with for as long as you feel necessary. Until you press 'next' and it’s goodbye forever.
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