October 2011
3 posts
7 tags
Airplane (Bulgaria Pt 2)
Balkan Air
Cheap Fare
Seats Tear
Plastic air vents fall on heads, as we take off in the air
9 tags
Cocktail coat (Bulgaria Pt. 1)
Bulgaria bound
He is wearing a leather jacket
one pocket contains a litre bottle of tequila, the other, a carton of orange juice
Tequila sunrise
6 tags
Car Vs Sea
Galun holiday, stupidity time
drive on beach, in Cherokee Chief
Tide going out. No! Tide coming in
Standing on the bonnet, screaming for help
September 2011
29 posts
5 tags
Denmark Part 2 - Giles gets high at legoland
Legoland riding the big wheel
Brother decides to open the door at the top
crowds smiles suddenly turn to shock, as my little brother stands and waves
he always was an attention seeker & I have always been scared of heights
8 tags
Galunatics & European Driving don't mix
Denmark bound
brother and I dressed in matching sailor outfits
Big Audio Dynamite blasting out of the topless Golf
as we drove down the wrong side of the motorway
6 tags
Conference catastrophes
Pharma company, doctors, conference, New Orleans
landed, overbooked hotels, Shit hits fan, Slidell
working, all night, working, all night
New Orleans broke me
8 tags
Parenting the Galunatic way
Glamourous mum
Galunatic dad
mum brought us up
Dad threw us up
9 tags
Pet number 5 - the date and saucepan wrecker
Reb was the ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ of dogs
my (first) date rings the doorbell
dog goes mental and blocks my exit from the kitchen
Stuck for 8 hours, forced to pee in a saucepan, date thinks he has been stood up
10 tags
Model pupil - stage school pt 2.
Part of my stage school curriculum,
was modelling on Wednesday afternoons
can now do a mean catwalk show, while bouncing a beach ball
never seen Kate Moss do that…amateur!
5 tags
Nicholas Fried Chicken (no chickens were harmed in...
He was a naughty boy
running amock, chasing chickens
around the garden, and into a penned bonfire
their garden smelt like scorched hair & KFC
8 tags
The Godfather and the electric blanket
“Liv, my bum is hot” said Giles. “Shut up and go to sleep” I replied.
smoke filled room
brothers electric blanket on fire
Godfather wading through smoke with full snorkel apparatus on
5 tags
Escape routes
Childhood cubby holes, seperated by no mans land
Personal items, like missles, being launched across the expanse
Desperately trying to work out an escape route
From the alcohol induced rage
11 tags
Early morning drinking in Fenders - age 11
Sneaking downstairs at 7am in the morning, into my dads bar
Heads under the Guiness taps, frothing at the mouth
creating cocktails out of creme de methe and chardonnay
drunk by 9 - green and black vomit by 11.
6 tags
Stage fright caused by...stage school?
Aged 11, sent to stage school to improve my confidence
Owners were called Sheila & Andy
Thus ‘Shandy’ Stage School (yes, you can vomit)
I mostly hid in the bathroom
7 tags
Drunk and in charge of a burger
Hired as short order chef in my dads rock club
drunk on cider and black,
hearing the bass of Slayer, whilst lying on the kitchen floor
How do you like those undercooked burgers - cheque please!
6 tags
The day my life changed forever
That afternoon, my gran picked us up from school
Nobody would tell us what happened
fire - the great destroyer
of life as I knew it
9 tags
White Lightning Crush
His name was not important
but he was my first school-girl crush
I drank a bottle of White Lightning, went on the Waltzer
and promptly vomited on his feet
8 tags
My first and last waitressing job
Dads created a food platter masterpiece, complete with a watermelon head
I trip carrying it up the stairs
platter covers entire first couple of rows of audience
drummer hits cymbal, applause please
7 tags
Bonding with dad - aged 10
Basement in Gray’s Inn Road
on a Saturday morning
Dad teaching me to shoot
at random Time Out Posters
8 tags
Dad therapy
Nervous breakdown
Dad has the solution
knocking down a conservatory with a sledge hammer
listening to death metal
8 tags
Stranger at christmas
She came to stay for christmas
A haggard, aged rocker with a cackling laugh
wore leather mini skirts which displayed her ovaries
she gave me a half used Body Shop gift set
8 tags
Dinner at Fenders
ITV staff in our packed restaurant
a real New Orleans vibe
pet axelotal decides to grow legs and walk down aisle of restaurant
crap tips that night
2 tags
Toothless grin
New Care Bear,
Dad home, run to say hello, so does pet number 2
I can fly,
no front teeth.
6 tags
My third and fourth pets
Fish said “No Hurricane”
Quails can’t fly…
they did that night
no posh eggs for tea.
6 tags
Early Meals out with the family
Smashing popadoms over our heads
suicide sauce,
eating chrysanthemums
Dad asleap in spaghetti
6 tags
Learning to dive for first and last swimming...
Oasis outside Swimming pool with dad
shivering, on the blocks, success
competition day - perfect dive
last place
7 tags
My first pet
Jamie dog
ate my toys
walked along walls
stolen by gypsies
6 tags
Escitalopram Nightmares
New meds - new nightmares
hand curled around two cigars
paper containing school girl poetry falling out of a sleeping steve’s mouth
dad sitting downstairs listening to Enya
7 tags
My first gig
Me, eleven
Beastie Boys playing at Marquee Club
big furry jackets
I served them a fruit platter
6 tags
Christmas Eve
Bucket full of Newcastle Brown Ale
Dad in leather jacket,
playing drums with wire brushes,
accompanying Macgowan
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Demanding brother
“I want a plastic egg with a watch in it”
watch does not work,
brother cries,
dad eats watch
7 tags
My second pet
Home from school
dog has ate the fridge
bloody dog
dog go night night
