Urgent blood donation appeal in the UK

Can you help a young girl in the UK.

This informaton is taken direct from the Facebook page linked below.

Can you help.

Please Help save an 11yr old girls Life. Blood urgently required

About	Melanie is a young lady with 2 very rare conditions. She is having a bone marrow transplant and needs Fresh blood group B+ urgently. Please help us save this little girls life

Description

Melanie was diagnosed with Chediak Hegashie Syndrome & HLH approx 6mnths ago. She is very poorly and currently in Great Ormand Street Hospital. She has been very luck to find a bone marrow donor and her consultants need to do this transplant ASAP. To enable her to have the bone marrow she will need fresh blood infusions 24hrs a day 7 days a week. BLOOD GROUP TYPE B+ Please could you check you blood type share this group with EVERYONE you know. This needs to be done NOW!!! The blood donation must be fresh as they are unable to use blood banks as the blood is not fresh enough. You will either be asked to travel to St Georges hospital in London or you may be able to go to your local hospital and the blood will be sent up straight away. Funding may be available for reimbursment of travel fares. Her dad estimates that she will need about 200 donors. If you are able to help please inbox me or email karenfriend@emporium-parties.co.uk with your name & contact number or TXT ONLY to Melanies Dad Paul 07971 366062 with your name and the wording im happy to help i'm B+ and the hospital will be in touch with you. Thank you for helping and please please please pass this on to everyone you know. This is the only chance Melanie has to survive.

More toys on the way from Floggermeister.

I've been an industrious little pervert :)

I've just been out and bought a welder. Will be added recycled metal products to my toy portfolio. Look forward to seeing collars, shackles, yokes etc.

For those who like their kink eco friendly, get in touch, either through my ebay shop at Floggermeister,com or contact me direct through either @floggermeister on twitter or direct by email. If you see something you like but would prefer it made to a slightly different design, I can make to order.

What the hell happened to the last two years?

Well, things changed, drastically.

How much can things change in two years?

A hell of a lot, due to relationship breakdown after 15 years, and my third redundancy in 4 years, and having to find a house and get settled I haven't chance to blog at all.

That might sound like a crappy 2 years, but not so, it had its ups and downs, but things have turned good and I'm happiest I have been in years.

1. I'm broke but happy.
2. I have my own home for now, buying not renting.
3. I'm slowly getting setup as self employed making Vegan friendly BDSM toys.(Floggermeister.com) using recycled materials where possible.
4. I'm engaged to a wonderful beautiful feisty sexy lady, and hopefully this time next year We will be getting married (Steampunk/Victorian themed).

Quite a change in two years. So, what does the next year hold? Well, We need to plan the wedding, the business needs to get going, planning on hitting the Twisted Leprechaun in September, with a full and expanded range of floggers, cuffs and collars, quirts and other assorted fun things, and I will shortly be joining the veggie fuels movement with a change of vehicle to carry stock and materials around.

Even though things are tight at the moment, I am in the best place I have been for so long, spending every weekend with someone I love, and actually planning for the future instead of living in the moment and worrying about it the next day.

The new Star Trek movie.

Thank you JJ Abrams.
I wanted to hate this film being a fan of Star Trek:TOS. But so much was done and undone during the watching that I can't help but love it and I really hope that there is a spin off TV series in the wings featuring the talents of the movie cast to their best to build on relationships forged in this opening stanza of what could have been simply a rehash of an established televisual and artistic SF canon.

Zachary Quinto is magnificent as a troubled young Spock , and the fighting between the contrasting halves of his genetic makeup is enthralling, and goes someway to dispell the worry we all feel everyday about somehow changing history through a temporal paradox. We see an older mellowed Spock giving the sage advice his younger self to provide the stability a new future needs.

My biggest plaudits have to go to Karl Urban however as a young Leonard "bones" McCoy. This role is legendary. DeForest Kelly made it his own, featuring as far into the future as Star Trek:TNG as a very old man who never got over his fear of having his particles scattered across the universe. Karl Urban does the unthinkable and out "bones" bones in this film, and even manages to capture the essence and even the look to a 'T'. Don't even get me started on how JT Kirk got his name.

But that is the best thing about this film. We see so many back stories filled and developed in parallel and what feels like real time that you wonder how we have managed for so long to live without knowing how Spock met Kirk, and why there was always so much tension between Kirk and Uhuru.

If you see one pulp SF film this season see this.

I have that yearning. A car from my past.

We all have that car from the past we regretted selling.
For me it was a Saab 900 T16S. It cost me £300 because it was an "early" one, was badly advertised and only had a short MOT. Up until then I had an obsession with old soviet era Skodas, basic simple old and cheap. The 900 was my first grown up car. With the help of the guys over at Saab Central and Saab Scene I was able to tweak it a little and fix a couple of niggle and make a lot of friends.

Thing is, apart from the odd front handbrake, a very early T16S is the ideal car to have. OK so it wasn't black and didn't have leather or air conditioning, it boosted properly and pulled like a train, and it passed the MOT with a tweak of the handbrake settings.

Drove that car for two years and lived with a mystery oil leak. I couldn't fix it and finally gave up.

Then the day it was sold and due to be collected I found it was either the oil cooler or one of it's hoses that had split and was spraying back in the wind when the engine was running and the car was moving. I was gutted.

So now I have that yearning again. OK this time I want a later one. It must be black and it must have Buffalo leather interior with with a Suede Momo or OMP steering wheel. I have a decent CD/MP3 headunit to go in, and it has the benefit of a bluetooth handsfree built in.

It wouldn't need much tuning, stock performance would be fine, but I would like to tweak it to make it personal, like fitting a Bi-Xenon H4 H.I.D Kit and LED bulbs throughout the rest of the car, including the dash and interior lights will lower the current requirements and put less strain on the alternator.

Carbon fibre trim would make a change from the usual wood, and make it look a little more modern with aluminium switches.

A suspension a fettle would help with the handl, dropped springs decent heavy duty shocks and some polybushes would help there.

Then there is the brakes. A set of 9000 Aero caliper and 9000 Aero fitting Brembo grooved discs and some decent ceramic pads will make things stop properly.

Once I'm happy with that, who knows, the sky is the limit, they are a tough old car and love to be loved and love to be driven.

The world is doomed and we are all going to die!!!!!!

Seems we are all going to get flying pig flu.
Apparently the latest potential pandemic that is going to decimate the civilised world is a mutation of Avian, Porcine, and Human influenza, skipping the pig to human phaze and transmitting directly between humans with fatal consequences.

So is it part of the new world order conspiracy?
It is if you read the story over on Alex Jones's Infowars.com where everything is the work of the Bilderberg group and the Illuminati, planning to reduce the world population to 10% to secure it's hold with a global language, currency and government. I'll leave you dear reader to decide.

So is bacon safe to eat?
Don't know, but I'm going to risk it.
But on a lighter note in these times of financial austerity, at least bacon should come down in price, because a) people will get scare stories about eating it, b) the flying pigs can deliver themselves to the slaughter house, saving the farmer the cost of fuel for one leg of the journey.

It's that time again

The Migrating goth heads to a small Yorkshire fishing town overlooked by the ruins of an Abbey.
Yes, it is the spring Whitby Goth Weekend, the first of 2009. 5000 dark clad individuals swell the population adding to the already growing native gothic contingent.
Good spread of bands this year.

Friday 24th April
Abney Park
The Last Dance
Zeitgeist Zero

Saturday 25th April
Diary of Dreams
The House of Usher
Razorblade Kisses

And on the side.
Don't forget there is the Whitby Fringe, and no that isn't the crimped dyed mop hanging in their eyes,
This is the loverly side events list that includes the Kumquat/Dead Funny comedy festival.

So go on, spend money, drink loads and enjoy yourselves. I won't be there in body but I will be in spirit.