Boybands

I have never been a massive fan of boybands.
And before you say anything, McFly are not a boyband.
'A boy band (or boyband), in pop, rock, hip hop and R&B music, is loosely defined as a popular music act consisting of about 3-6 male performers. Despite the term "band", boy band members usually do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on stage, although exceptions do exist.'
So yes, McFly are technically not a boyband. I also, with a couple exceptions, do not like girlbands either. I do like plenty of bands and it just so happens to be that they all play their own instruments (well apart from classic 90's groups such as Steps and S Club 7...) I just don't get on that well with boybands. I love McFly, obviously, and they play their own instruments. I like the Jonas Brothers, and they play their own instruments. I also love Scouting For Girls. And they play their own instruments. I also love(d) the Busted boys. I love Chameleon Circuit. But that's mainly due to who's in the band...but they do play their own instruments :')... I don't like Take That, but that's mainly to do with my loathing of Robbie Williams...I don't like boybands such as One Direction, JLS and The Wanted. A lot of people think though that I don't like them due to the competition they are to McFly. I don't give a shit about that to be honest. As long as McFly are making music and making their fans happy, they I, being a fan, am happy. I don't care that One Direction got a number 1 and McFly haven't in ages etc.

Okay 'hate' is a strong word. I love What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction, and can understand the attraction to them, but mneh...they're not for me. Same with The Wanted. I love Glad you came and again, I can see the attraction but I don't personally like them. JLS have had quite a few good tunes but again, not for me.

I guess I just love guys with guitars too much.

Random Question: The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig:

Once upon a time there was a bald frog. He was born bald and his parent's told him that he was special. But when the bald frog went to school, he was bullied. All of the other frogs had hair! He was called names and once he got home after his first day, he cried to his mum and dad. He told them he hated school and hated being bald and wasn't going to go back to school. His parent's thought about the situation for a looong time before coming to a conclusion. They took bald frog down to the wig shop and bought him 7 different wigs! One for each day of the week! Bald frog was so excited for school the next day and he went in wearing one of his new wigs and he was never bullied again. Everyone wanted to be friends with bald frog - well, wig frog! (is it weird I really enjoyed writing this :') )

I just wrote this for my answer and then got told it was too long. I couldn't not post it - I'm proud of it :')

9/11

Wow, has it seriously been 10 years?
I was 6 when 9/11 happened and I never really understood or got told much about it but over the past few years on this date there have been a lot of TV documentaries about what happened and the aftermath of the plane crashes. These programs devastated me and I realized what a true disaster this had had upon the world, let alone America, or more specifically, New York. People lost their partners, their parents, their children due to this disastrous event which should never have happened.

There were a total of 2,996 deaths, including the 19 hijackers and 2,977 victims. The victims included 246 on the four planes (from which there were no survivors), 2,606 in New York City in the towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon. All the deaths in the attacks were civilians, except for 55 military personnel killed at the Pentagon.

It's so sad to think that 2,996 people lost their lives due to this. Well, 2,977 innocent people lost their lives to the stupid acts of some stupid terrorist hijackers.

I cannot put into words how angry those 19 people make me feel. They didn't only shorten the lives of nearly 3,000 people but they broke the hearts of thousands of loved ones. They killed the fathers of children who would never be able to meet their daddy. They destroyed a fricken hell of a lot.

My heart goes out today to everyone who lost someone in the Twin Tower attacks which took place 10 years ago.

xoxox

Book Review - Amanda's Wedding

 

Amanda's Wedding - Jenny Colgan

Mel and Fran can't believe it when their old schoolfriend Amanda, Satan's very own PR girl, pulls off the ultimate publicity stunt in getting herself engages to a Scottish laird.

Who cates that Fraser McConnald has worn the same pair of Converse trainers for the last three years and that his castle is a pile of rubble with one Calor Gas heater - she'll be titled!

Something must be done...

Gentle, decent Fraser is clearly ignorant of her wiles, and Mel and Fran still smarting from the memory of all the mean things Amanda put them through in their days at Portmount Comprehensive, set out to sabotage this mismatch of the century.

So between fighting off the attentions of a love-crazed accountant, keeping Fran's deadly manoeubres with the opposite sex under control and trying to win her own war of love with the elusive but gorgeous Alex, Mel finds herself attending a wild Scottih stag night, a hen night from hell, and preparing for a wedding that's everything you'd wish on your worst enemy.

I've been reading this book for a while. Well, I read the first few chapters over a week or two and then over the past few days I've got really attatched to it. It is full of twists and I am pretty annoyed about the ending, but I did like it because there was an EPILOGUE which actually ended the book! If the book didn't have this, it would have made sense but I prefer the fact that it does have one.

The story is told from the POV from Mel. We are thrown straight into the story, her life and her relationship with other characters in the book. 

We a given a few flashbacks towards the start of the book to give more background to the book which if they didn't have, the book wouldn't make sense in parts. 

I mentioned that I didn't like the end of the book. Only because I wanted Mel to end up with one guy and thought that she was going to but she ended up with someone else. Otherwise, the ending of the book is perfect, one of the best endings which I have read for a long time.

I haven't really got much else to say about this book. It is really good, it does take a little while to get into it but it is worth it, and does have plenty of twists (one which I KNEW way before we found out ;) ). Worth reading :) xxx