Marshalling

Ohh, yeah, I am a TT marshal. Not fully qualified yet, but I will be by the end of Friday. It's so cool! I get my orange tabard and my armband, and have the powers of a constable and can go on closed roads and can arrest spectators... I haven't had to do that yet, so it's all good. But it's very exciting, because there's always the possiblity that a rider will come in (hopefully their decision; not a crash). I marshal at the 11th milestone with lots of nice people, but before that I helped at the scoreboard with the Scouts. All very fun.

Lovely Sayings

I love phrases! I keep finding absolutely insane and lovely ones in random songs and books (not all of which I can remember). Such as:

I wrote your name upon the back of my hand, slept upon it, then I woke up with it backwards on my face, reading forwards from my mirror to my heart.
~ Twilight Omens - Franz Ferdinand

Isn't that lovely? Also:

Now the sky could be blue, I don't mind, without you it's a waste of time.
~ Strawberry Swing - Coldplay

Or:

The wrinkles around his lips and nose gathered together as though they existed solely to bear up his smile.
~ The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

I really want to find someone who I can use that phrase to describe. And, while we're on the subject of phrases and other wordy stuff, I found an very strange description of a Teletubbies episode. Two, in fact:

'Laa-Laa comes and joins the others to watch some children squeezing things.'

And:

'The Teletubbies watch a group of children washing their goat in the river.'

Anyway, see any cool phrases, please write 'em down, and I shall endeavour to incorporate them into my everyday speech.