Still grabbing at every challenge laid before me I have finally decided to do one of Robin's Voice Challenges. Normally I duck behind the parapet when these are going on because I have an unerring ability to transform into a stuttering eejit when asked to read aloud. However I've realised that even I couldn't mess up this one: How about we turn Valentine's day around? Read something slushily romantic in the least romantic way possible?. Well for me all I had to do was read it.
I realise this isn't very clear. It's fairly self-explanatory as to why that is. If you want a crystal clear rendition of it pop over to Whirl's gaff as he annunciated and projected for benefit of Maurice.
In the picture: my notebook and pen, the memory sick that contains all my writing, a cup of tea in my favourite mug, a packet of Lemsip flu capules, a box of (and several used) tissues and a bottle of echinacea drops.
With apologies to lovers of the Bard everywhere.
25 comments:
This was so tantalising! I kept getting glimpses of what your voice might be like without the horrible cold which was, I have to say, an effective antiromantisiac.
I'm on Sudafed, ibuprofen and paracetamol and using up tissues by the crateload too. We could do a sneeze duet.
I hope you'll record something for us when your cold has gone.
Hi, Janey, nice to meet ya, girl!
Thanks so much for doing this, complete with the pic of the homey goodies you have when you have a cold, you little cutie.
April is gonna be a blast.
Well, you're right. Not romantic!! I hope you get better soon.
Awwww - even sick, an Irish accent sounds lovely!!
omg Janey, you make FH sound healthy! Go to bed!
And that wasn't romantic at all. I could hardly listen, I was so afraid I would catch something through the screen.
Wow! You are sick! But I'm still happy to finally hear you nonetheless. You rest:)
Awe :( I hope you feel better!
Aww... I found that really cute!! But seriously, you need rest... get well soon!!
the memory sick that contains all my writing
Talk about a Freudian slip. By the way, don't carry those things through airport x-rays without backing everything up first. I learned the hard way.
You poor dear. I do have to say that you effectively removed any trace of romance. I hope you can breathe soon.
Aw lookie here! My word verification is "apperly - which is like happily and apply said with a blocked nose!
Fairyhedgehog - I live to tantalise and I might just have to adopt the word antiromantisiac. Every good aphrodisiac needs a counterpoint. Mind you I think I'm going to need an aphrodisiac - Hubby's taking me out to dinner on Saturday. First Valentine's date in 14 years of motherhood that I'm not doing the cooking and I'm a snot monster. A sneeze duet sounds like a laugh - karaoke colds! Love it! I hope you feel better too although in this time of economic uncertainty we can be happy that we're supporting all the employees of Kleenex so well.
When the cold is gone I'll certainly try another recording. Whether or not I post it though ……
Thanks Robin - I had fully intended to give this a go even before I was hit by the cold. I was going to read some ode to love in the style of Sid Snot (JB will explain) but I fear I tempted fate.
As to the pic - out of shot I was sitting in a mound of pillows with a quilt over my shoulders and a duvet on my lap. I'm very fond of my homey goodies. Can't wait for April. I really should get on with finding us a venue!
Thanks Paca - no definitely not romantic. I'd go with "gross" actually.
Aerin - lovely? Seriously? You're weird - but you're the kind of weird I really like.
McK - luckily I was already off work before this cold struck so bed was and is the option of choice. How's that for an optimists outlook? I believe that your brief was to do be as unromantic as possible - surely that makes me the winner? And don't worry about catching anything - I'm wearing a surgical mask and disinfecting everything as I go along.
I'm also a total liar.
Aww Natalie you're sweet. Fear not "rest" is my middle name. (see last statement of comment to McK above)
Thanks Sara! I'm quite jolly although I appear to be maintaining current levels of congestion. Forecast is for sinuses clearing from the south - outlook sunny for the weekend.
Thank you too Aniket. That's very sweet of you. But seriously - cute? LOL I'm pretty sure I'm closer to icky right now ;0)
Oh Pete - total freudian slip! How many times did I read that and miss it! And I remember you saying that about the memory sticks before. Hubby has me warned about backing up back ups. Sometimes I think that maybe I should have hard copies too!
And as for romance - there's nothing quite like a horrible cold to turn that off is there??
Oh, this is absolutely delicious. I can almost see the buboes rising like pumpkins with accelerated growth.
You can't beat method acting — but I hope you're feeling better for Valentines. I'm off to a ceilidh to celebrate my friend's 40th so I'm guessing there will be plenty of hugs and kisses as we romp around (hopefully to Donovon O Donovonovon and his cheery tin whistle...)
Whirl romping on Valentine's day...
No, I really am full of cold because the thought leaves me unmoved.
Jane - I do hope you feel better by tomorrow. It's such a waste of a Valentine's night off if you feel crappy. Are you taking echinacea? That sometimes helps. Oh, and lots and lots of vitamin C.
Whirl - can you see me? And I'm so careful to keep my buboes contained normally too!
I am doing myself with all manner of snake oils in readiness for the 14th. Even if an ambulance has to be called, I will be wined and dined. My secret is out - my idea of romance is "not cooking"!
Enjoy your céilidh. If The Walls of Limerick come a tumbling down you know you're having a good evening and there's always The Siege of Ennis to look forward to. The tin whistle is the only instrument I ever mastered. We learnt it in school. I could ring out a mean jig back then. Hope that the piper plays the uileann pipes - they're so much easier on the ears. I'm feeling all nostalgic now. Have fun!
Fairy - you poor sausage, you must be ill to be unmoved by such a wonderful thought! I am determined to feel better. I've had two months of one thing or the other going woopsie - I'm done with being sick now! I am taking echinacea, yes and I will up my Vit C intake for extra insurance. Feel better soon yourself too!
And Whirl - when I said that "I'm doing myself" please, please believe me that I meant to say "I'm dosing myself."
I'm laughing so so so hard at the 'doing myself' thing that you explained, Janey, that I'm having trouble typing this.
You so achieved your aim. Not the least bit romantic. There were a couple of times that I wanted to run away. I hope you get better soon. I'm still hacking and sniffling along with you.
Awwwww, poor sick Irish girl who still sounds lovely even as she hacks up a lung!
Feel better soon!
LMAO! Oh dear you reedy do hab a berry dab code in door dose doo poor ting!
I'm fascinated that you have a memory sick to contain all your writing... :-P
Be bepper reedy soon xxx
Oh you poor thing! You sound horrid!
I agree with FHH about the glimpses of what your voice might be like - you will do this again, right? In the midst of summer, hopefully!
Listening to you and WO in stereo could put me off romance for life.
Man, this is how I usually sound in class.
Word verification: fligynon
Robin - when I saw what I'd written, I snorted the piggiest snort ever (which with my cold was really unpleasant, I tell ya). But seriously - I had to explain it. What if my Dad read it?
Oh Lotus - I'm sorry for the stomach-churniness of it (although, to be fair, that was kind of my aim) and I do hope you feel better soon ;0)
Thanks Ell - how sweet of you to say so but I fear the lung hacking is also hacking away at my (it has to be said - considerable) loveliness. Healthier days on the way!
Abdolude Baninna - I'm gedding bedder ebbery day (sniff, sniff).
And yes I have backed up everything onto that stick but it's also on several computer harddrives. I have back- ups for my back ups. The stick just gives me access to my writing whichever computer I happen to be on at the time. We're a family of 5 - there are 'puters all over the place!
Sylvia the latter half of the recording after I do that particularly attractive throat clearing thing does sound more like me - albeit with a peg on my nose. I will do the next voice challenge though, now that I have mastered the technology. But I will need weeks to prepare - rehearsal is the key to my reading 'impediment'.
I can't speak for Whirl but I'm delighted to have fulfilled the brief so … absolutely!
Are you coming in April to our little get together in London?
Freddie - I hope that you don't have a permanent head cold! I feel like I'm battling with some B-movie monster that lives up my nose right now. The good news is - I've got it on the run!
I wonder what fligynon could be? Sounds like a birth control pill!
I have a new name! Vanilla Baninna - bananas and vanilla - oh yum! With chocolate too, please.
Certainly Vanilla Bannina - you can have that lovely dark Lindt stuff with the sea salt that you love so much!
I must say this may not be the least romantic one (it comes close) but it's the funniest one I've heard so far. Good job and hope you are breathing really, really soon. - like now.
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