http://www.tinafreeth.com en-gb tinafreeth.com 2008-6-18T00:00:00Z tinafreeth.com http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#25719 Ive realised that posting in two places was stupid. So this is the last post for the website blog. Please go to www.tinafreeth.blogspot.com to read my current blogs from now on. Thanks Tina 2008-6-18T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#21737 BBC Nineteen SeventySeven here reporting for Tina Freeth television.... March has been extremely busy for me. Ive missed two weddings a hen night and a christening oh and a funeral. Sounds like a film doesnt it Apart from being a bad friend and feeling guilty for abandoning my fellow humans during BIG occasions Ive also reinforced my beliefs that to make it as a successful writer I need to work hard and devote my time to manifesting my goals. Yes I am putting a lot of effort into creative endevours and still not getting any moolah but Im having so much fun doing the things I am doing at the moment. Ive been focused on learning the craft of screenwriting and also Ive been in front of the camera too making a BBC Videonation diary. Not an easy thing for the girl who doesnt like to look into mirrors very often. Id already signed up for the screenwriting course and so I didnt mean to miss two of my friends weddings. In my defence I did not receive the invitations until the week before one ... 2008-3-22T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#18363 Ive been pretty rubbish at keeping my blog up to date on here and my blogspot. That is because life has been happening. Life and other misdemeanours. Most of December I was trying hard to avoid Christmas and my body had the perfect answer...the flu. Shaking my bucket for charity in cold and draughty places did not help my immune system and so Ive been blogless for a while. But Im back baby and I know that 2008 will be an important year for me in terms of my writing and career. Right now I still have no career its a funny old word that. Its one that people band about and when you start a job even ones you dont really want to do they tell you how good it will be for your career and that there will be career progression but sometimes you just want to get by and pay the rent not a career. I do want a career but I want it to be something I love doing something that has meaning and if I make loadsa money doing it thats perfect too Over Christmas my dad said to me you love money and food d... 2008-1-8T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#15736 There are no geese in this blog. I just wanted to put the words flying geese into this bit. I dont know why Im a writer and as such Ive realised you can pretty much write anything you want. It is supposed to make sense most of the time but sometimes its fun just to throw a curve ball in there and stick in something that completely baffles people. Who wants to be conventional On sunday I was part of the book launch for the Original Skin anthology which was finally published is for sale in Waterstones Bham and on Amazon.co.uk roll up roll up and get your copies before they sell out I was knackered before the event my eyes as red as the dress and shoes I was wearing. Thankfully the audience were too far way to see my eyeballs doing their impression of a red sky at night. I was glad there were free nibbles and wine.Again I confess I had a glass of wine to wake me up and get me feeling a bit more alive. Im going to turn into an alcohol writer They say lots of writers are alcoholic dont t... 2007-10-23T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#15507 There is a phrase we ballers use in basketball terminology shake and bake its when you have the ball and you trick your opponent by moving to one side performing a fake but quicky to the other side to disorientate the defender to get to the basket. This blog entry is not about that. I wanted to explain how I went from shaking to baking at different book events in the past four weeks. Last month I went to Coventry to perform two of my very very short stories The Last Hao Gao and Cupboard Love at an open mic in a pub. I was nervous. More nervous than Id ever been before. It didnt really make much sense why I was so nervous as I was up there for less than five minutes. Was it because I was reading my own work Who knows All that I know is I was SHAKING. I had performed stood on stage reading off some red bits of card at the Artrix Theatre in Bromsgrove January 2006 not quite in Sophie Wards league but not terrible either. I played a comfort woman the main focus of theVagina Mono... 2007-10-15T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#14809 I just wanted to say that if you see any typos in my blog please please please ignore and dont email me about them. I eventually slow down to read them and then I fix them after a few weeks. I just write and then I press the button toPUBLISH. I know I should be a PEDANT like a peed on ant but I write too fast for my editing eyes and brain to keep up and I need to go to the loo. I need a subeditor..any takers There is nothing in this post about LYCRA...I just wanted to put it in the title. 2007-9-24T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#14810 I woke up on Saturday and bent myself in two. Ive managed to do yoga everyday for over a week. I feel much better for it. Ive not written anything new though for a few weeks. Since early August my memoir had been on the back burner whilst my head has been in the oven therefore it was good to be out at a day for readers and writers. I arrived not knowing what to expect. I was plesantly surprised that much of it was relevant to me more so than others I expect... An unfamilar writer with big erratic black hair took the stage with another man with sedate hair a literary agent no less and I wondered if they would have anything useful for me to hear. I did think big haired man would be amusing big haired people usually are. The writer began to talk about his memoir newly published this year. He talked about how he hadnt read a memoir about an Asian family in Britain that wasnt all gloom and doom. Those misery memoirs we are so used to seeing in supermarkets and airport lounges with sexual... 2007-9-24T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#14235 I woke up this morning more tired than before I had gone to sleep. In my dream I taught a large gymnasium brimming with new yoga practitioners hatha yoga. My line manager wanted to teach them in a particular way the wrong way. I stood back watching for a while then decided to take charge. I was getting pissed off. I commanded people to take off their socks get a yoga mat find space I was a bossy yoga teacher but I wanted them to do it right. I remember going through a full yoga session with them.. Knackered I woke up. I have to say that being a yoga teacher whilst asleep is really exhausting. I did have the feeling that I could teach yoga if I wanted to and that I probably did have the ability to make the masses become more flexible...either that or I could start my own cult. Today I had yogurt for breakfast fruit for lunch and yogurt for supper. I forgot to eat the salad I took to work to eat about 4.30pm because I was going to a SCRIPT workshop straight afterwork. I have to say t... 2007-9-3T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#14173 Hoorah its September. My horoscopes say I must write about food again Ive just got in from eating at The Green Room I had quiche chips and salad. It was lovely. Cooked food is yummy I found a website yesterday called Funky Raw as I was following up a item in Mslexia magazine that said they wanted writers. Yeah I could write about raw food right What is there to say You peel the carrot and then eat it Easy right I could jazz it up and make it more appetising using my literary skills perhaps that is why they put an advert in a literary magazine. Take the peeler in you dominant hand and firmly with smooth even stokes caress the skin of the carrot. Repeat the action over and over. You will feel the tender strips fall into the clear bowl like russet leaves falling from a tree. With ease that the task itself becomes sublime... No problem I could write about peeling veggies. The website promotes a raw diet nothing cooked...I sort of liked the idea of it kind of like when I wanted to... 2007-9-1T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#14151 Today was a nonday. That is to say all my plans were thwarted by feeling rather ill when I woke up. I had remembered three dreams that itself was slightly unusual I suppose. I often remember one dream per morning perhaps two but I recelled three distinct dreams. In one of them my Mom whose passed away was a guest at the house where Im living now. She was in good spirits and we ate some chips together. It was good seeing her and she looked happy. Its always comforting to have her appear in my dreams. Maybe she knew I was going to be feeling sick today who knows The next dream actually Im not sure what order they were in...I was at a Spice Girl Reunion concert and it was overflowing into the streets of a sleepy village. Groupies were filing down little streets following the Spicers and then Take That appeared and started to sing too. Very very bizarre The third dream was set in an old prefab flat it was definitely council and my friend from Uni lived there with her boyfriend...and along ... 2007-8-31T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#14123 Im hungry. Its nearly 9pm and Im contemplating having porridge and honey yes breakfast right now. I forgot to eat until 2pm today. I went to work with a bag of fruit I was going to cut up and eat but I forgot work was hectic and not in an enjoyable way. My head was muddled and I didnt eat. Im half tempted to run out and get a samosa three samosas...Not only would that be bad because of the high fat content and the time of night but it would be bad because I had one yesterday about this time too to accompany the fish and chips I also scoffed. I had to then add Branston pickle mayo and ketchup. Talk about overkill. I shouldnt drink when I drink I eat crap. I dont want to make a habit of it THE NINE O CLOCK SAMOSA SYNDROME eat at your peril. Ding Ding its nine o clock and all is well and Tina has absconded to the chippy again for fried triangles of vegetable A big part of the reason I became a semivegetarian I was a full one but it became hard to eat with my Chinese family when we met u... 2007-8-30T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#13923 Im home after a day at work. My little office was rather prolific Ive decided that delegating is the way to go. I had three volunteers in my office all of whom worked really hard. Ive been really impressed by the quality of people Ive been getting to come and help me lately. Really nice people who can get on with what you give them. Tasks which would have taken me months to do if I was alone have taken just a few hours so Im happy about that. Its less pressure on me. I also showed some people my website yes this website and I was pleased by the positive comments. I think because I did it myself it feels more personal the website Im talking about. Its like another story Ive created in a way. Moods characters settings structure...when I was constructing the site I made the biography a third person piece but obviously my blog is first person and some of the other things on the site are also written that way. I write as ME a lot of the time although Ive also learnt to create new charact... 2007-8-23T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#13922 httpwww.tinafreeth.com has gone LIVE Well obviously otherwise you wouldnt be reading this it would only be me and the techno geek from the hosting company. My last post was written as I had to get the chicken off my chest. Anyway Im finally on the web My mom Jean would have been proud she always loved the phrase dot com that is because she didnt actually know what it meant but because she would always hear it on the tv she had to find out what it was What the bloody hell is a dot com Whats with all the dot coms Its dot come this and dot come that. Yes she would be amused that a Freeth was now a DOT BLOODY COMFive days isnt bad to get a web site up and running is it Ive had a great deal of fun colour coordinating the fonts and backgrounds. Ive also enjoyed manipulating my face using computer programs. Its amazing how glam one can look using a mouse and a click of a button. The airbrushing myth isnt a myth anyone can look good with the right amount of computer savvy. People say Ah T... 2007-8-22T00:00:00Z http://www.tinafreeth.com/page7.htm#13921 Today as Im trying to construct my own website whilst sitting in my pyjamas I ponder wholl look at it. My friends Family Coworkers Fellow students I hope not the bloke with four screaming kids next door. He has a wife but we dont see as much of her in the back yard as the rest of the family. They kindly gave us an offering a couple of weeks ago...chicken biriyani and rice in a glass dish with a lid on it. Only Mo eats meat in our house shes my cat. My housemate took the offering as the neighbour said She made this for you in a matter of fact take the dish of food my wife wants friends kind of way. Now if I had answered the door I would have said Im sorry but were semivegetarians and dont eat meat. However my housemate is considerably nicer than I am she couldnt refuse the gift. We looked at it for a while wondering what to do with the bits of dead animal strewn amongst the pilau rice. I called my most carnivorous mate who is trying to wean himself from Big Macs and who happens to live... 2007-8-17T00:00:00Z