The Creased Pages

It started with Busted. At the end of 2002, What I Go To School For was released and I became obsessed. I was only 9 at the time, so my memories of the time seem to be a blurred muddle - especially with the monotonous primary school drivel in the way.  But I remember spending any pocket money I had on pop magazines, just because Busted were on the covers. I remember chattering excitedly in school to people about Busted, and singing my heart out to tracks like Year 3000, Dawson's Geek and You Said No in my bedroom. (I used to censor the word 'naked' from my renditions of Britney, because I thought it was a bad word!) I remember spending ages in Woolworths, trying to decide which version of the Crashed The Wedding single to buy, only to end up buying both. This led to my first taste of McFly, thanks to their collab. with Busted on their cover of Build Me Up Buttercup on CD1. Then along came Five Colours In Her Hair in March of 2004, fully igniting my love for McFl...

There's something I mention now and again on my Twitter and Facebook pages, which I realise I never fully explained. I tweeted about bits of it at the time, but I've never told the full story in one place. For me, it was one of the most memorable (and honestly frightening) experiences of my life. That makes it sound really dramatic, and I don’t mean to make this sound like an X Factor style sob story. I just want to share my account of it fully, in a way that cannot be expressed effectively in 140 characters or less.

Hello! How are you? Good? Good! I'm great too, thanks for asking! So, it's been a while, hasn't it? Sort of. Feels like it. Let me catch you up on the (not many) new things that have happened since I came back from my trip to Southampton. I got a new job! Kind of. I'm doing casual work for the 'Customer Contact' people, who joined forces with the library back in October - basically my job is to sit at the desk in the ICT suite every morning until 11.30 and monitor the computers: log people on if they need me to, take money for printing, etc. Originally, it was going to be temporary, just until the end of May, but I hope they carry it on further, because it's quite an enjoyable bit of work, really. I used to do it last summer, before the library was converted into a community hub, and it was actually my favourite part of the job. It almost makes me feel powerful, sat behind a desk, and I'm left to it, given the independence I prefer when I'm ...

I don't necessarily have a great deal of things to say in this post. See, I'm on a train at the moment - going from Southampton Central to Clapham Junction - going home after having just spent three nights in a Southampton hotel on my own. I don't think I've ever felt so lonely. Okay, I admit, I loved having my own space - a hotel room to myself, a working TV on which I could watch anything I wanted... I didn't even feel the need to lock the bathroom door when I went to the loo! It was great to have that kind of freedom, I'd been craving it for a while.