You know you're desperate for a blip when...

I had a number of things to achieve on my 'to do' list today. I managed to tick off only one of them, and that basically involved sitting around making pleasant chitchat and bemoaning the demise of 8 track car stereos while a stylist hacked off a foot or so of my hair. We waxed lyrical about timber panelled microwaves that required two people to carry them, the first time we saw a VCR (for me this was well into the eighties but the stylist swore she had a VCR in the 70s), and how long it would take for the little white dot on the tv screen to fade when you turned the telly off. Ah, the 1970s was a glorious era.*

But I digress. Somehow it came to 10pm and I'd achieved nothing else, and suddenly I was running up and down the hall waving my hands in the air and shouting Wargh! a lot because I didn't have a blip. Damned if I was going to put my shoes back on and go out to hunt a night shot of the Duck floating in the harbour (see yesterday's blip).

In the end, it was a feeble toss up between my souped-up baking tray-internet-booster-thingy, or a dodgy iphone photo of my eye and a bit of hair that wouldn't stay where it was put (bumped up with some extra grain..the photo that is, not the hair). The only reason the eye won out was because the baking tray booster hoojah is somewhat lacking colour-wise. If I had seen the big hairy huntsman spider who has taken up residence in my bedroom these past 2 months I would have blipped him - but no! he's suddenly vanished, just when I want him.

And before anyone comments, it may look like I have blue eyeshadow on, but it was actually a green. I'm not sure that's much improvement from many blippers' point of view, but I have a deep-seated fear of ABBA blue eyeshadow. Just so we're clear on this.

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* Those who know me well may suspect I started this eminently daggy conversation. I didn't, but seeing the only other topic that the hairdresser wanted to talk about was the flipping Hobbit, I was quite happy to stick to The Jackson Five and whatnot.