The Odious Complex

Overheard on a bus in Gloucester

Her: "I gotta do Freud"

Him: "I thought you did that"

Her: "I did that last year but I gotta do it again.
He's a really freaky guy. He's got this theory right.

When a girl is born she fancies 'er dad and is jealous of 'er mum. When a boy is born 'e fancies 'is mum and is jealous of 'is dad.

It's called the odious complex.

See this [girl points to book], 'the odious complex'."

The playlist for Kate's party

Most of this music was chosen by Kate and isn't what I normally play. I did enjoy an early hokey cokey though.

Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life
Kylie - Better the devil you know
Phill Collins - Can't Hurry love
Lionel Richie - All Night Long
Tom Jones & Stereophonics - Mama Told Me Not To Come
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Hokey Cokey - Hokey Cokey
Various - Mambo vs. Ketchup
Michael Jackson Vs S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin Billie Jean
Spice Girls - Wannabe.mp3
Uptown Girl - Westlife
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
S Club Juniors - One step closer
Atomic Kitten - Ladies Night
Van Halen - Jump
Starship - We Built This City
Frankie Valli - Grease
The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing Ther
Beatles - Hard Day's Night
Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
Beach Boys - I Get Around
Showaddywaddy - Under the Moon of Love
The Crystals - Da doo ron ron
Elton John - Crocodile Rock
Los Lobos - La Bamba
Mavericks, The - Dance The Night Away
Jive Bunny - Swing the Mood
Bette Midler - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Christina Aguilera - Candyman
The Commitments - Mustang Sally
John Parr - St Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)
Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (Its in his kiss)
John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - The Grease Megamix
Irene Cara - Fame
The Kids From Fame - Hi Fidelity
Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
Neil Sedaka - Oh Carol
FREEZ - IOU
Grandmaster Flash And Melle Mel - White Lines
Bananarama - Love in the First Degree
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round
Pink - Get this party started
Boys Town Gang - Can't take my eyes off you
Meck Feat. Leo Sayer - Thunder in My Heart Again
Vicki Sue Robinson - Turn the Beat Around
Earth, Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland
Tavares - Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel
Martine McCutcheon - On the radio
scissor sisters - Filthy gorgeous
Donna Summer - No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
Geri Halliwell - It's Raining Men
Cardboard Box - Booty Luv vs Inaya Day vs Camille Jones vs Freemasons vs Madonna vs Loo & Placido
George Michael - Careless Whisper
Leo Sayer - When I Need You
Kids From Fame - Starmaker
Tony Christie - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo
Monkees - Daydream believer
Elton John - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

Last night's setlist

Dancing Queen, ABBA
Switchin Alive, Bee Gees vs Will Smith Vs Cheekyboys
Bowie X (Go Home Productions), David Bowie vs Liberty X
Don't Stop Movin' Billie Jean, S Club 7 Vs Michael Jackson
Booty Luv vs Inaya Day vs Camille Jones vs Freemasons vs Madonna vs Loo & Placido, Cardboard
Who? Yeah!, Spice Girls vs Usher
Sharp dressed party, ZZ Top vs Pink
Supermen Lovers Vs Donna Summer
Just A Little, Liberty X
Macarena, Los Del Rio
Saturday Night, Whigfield
Cha Cha Slide, DJ Casper
Aint no stoppin us now, McFadden & Whitehead
Money, Money, Money, ABBA
Let s Twist Again, Chubby Checker
Booker T and the MGs, Booker T and the MGs
Louie Louie, The Kingsmen
Johnny B Goode, Chuck Berry
Love Me Do, The Beatles
I Saw Her Standing Ther, The Beatles
Twist And Shout, The Beatles
Jimmy Mack, Martha & The Vandellas
Needle In A Haystack, Velvelettes
Tainted Love, Gloria Jones
Sweet Home Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd
You Really Got Me, The Kinks
She Sells Santuary, The Cult
Should I Stay Or Should I Go, The Clash
Teenage Kicks, The Undertones
Hate To Say I Told You So, The Hives
Song 2, Blur
Sweet Caroline, Neil Diamond
Ladies Night, Atomic Kitten
Car Wash, Christina Aguilera Missy
Groove Is in the Heart, Deee-Lite
Jump, Girls Aloud
It's Raining Men, Geri Halliwell
Day & Night, Billie Piper
Lady Marmalade, Patti Labelle
Le Freak, Chic
Can you feel it, Jacksons
Bingo Bango, Basement Jaxx
BENDOVERSOLE, PILCHARD
"God Save the Queen", British National Anthem
When I Need You, Leo Sayer
True, Spandau Ballet
Careless Whisper, George Michael
Daydream believer, Monkees
New York, NY, Frank Sinatra

Baby books

for the last week or so Beatrice has been asking to see pictures of babies. So apart from photo albums of her we would be stuck if it wasn't for Flickr.

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Weird ideas that work - Robert I Sutton

I saw this on amazon...

Weird Ideas that Work takes an unusual perspective. Professor Sutton is focusing on how companies can be more creative for tomorrow, while still being effective at delivering today's products and services. He chooses to call these ideas "weird" to get your attention, and to acknowledge that the ideas may not send too obviously correct to you the first few times you hear them.

The three key principles are:

1. increase variance in available knowledge
2. see old things in new ways
3. break from the past

The 11 1/2 "weird" ideas for implementing those principles are paraphrased below:

1. Hire smart people who will avoid doing things the same way your company has always done things. ( Diversify your talent and knowledge base, especially with people who get under your skin. )
2. Hire people with skills you don't need yet, and put them in untraditional assignments.
3. Use job interviews as a source of new ideas more than as a way to hire.
4. Give room for people to focus on what interests them, and to develop their ideas in their own way.
5. Help people learn how to be tougher in testing ideas, while being considerate of the people involved.
6. Focus attention on new and smarter attempts whether they succeed or not.
7. Use the power of self-confidence to encourage unconventional trials.
8. Use "bad" ideas to help reveal good ones.
9. Keep a balance between having too much and too little outside contact in your creative activities.
10. Have people with little experience and new perspectives tackle key issues.
11. Escape from the mental shackles of your organization's past successes.

Going swimming

 
 
  

Going to Luke & Claire's Wedding

  

Not sure

  

On the play mat

  

With mummy on Mother's day