Accelerator Cables? Where we're going we don't need accelerator cables..

You are wrong Doc.

I am writing this blog to you whilst sitting on the edge of the A970 just outside of Lerwick. Dirk, my brother, was driving us out west when all of a sudden, climbing the brae, his accelerator pedal stopped working, the wire snapped. He’s away right now, we flagged down a car, he’s getting a lift to get some parts to fix it. Meanwhile many cars have just driven on by, all kinds of vehicles, red and white and silver. 

Van

I thought, given the time spent sitting in the car before Dirk get’s back, I’d blog. I had a few plans to blog earlier this week but it has been hectic. My main aim was to get a blog post written during Screenplay’s 24 hour film challenge. In which Maddrim was given the following requests from the audience:

    Line - “a small step for man, a giant leap for mankind.”

    Prop – a beer bottle

    Setting – King Harald Street Play Park

    Character – Sensible person

We were given all this at 8pm Thursday and had to have the film ready to screen at 8.30pm the next day (before the screening of The Exorcist).

We had hashed up a plan of action, drafted a rough script, acquired specific roles, ate some Chinese takeaway and we were off.

Moving props. Picture from https://twitter.com/maddrim 

Thursday night involved filming the first half of the first section (there were three), capturing and editing, whilst others got props, wrote the next sections, storyboarded and built to small and two larger rockets.

I could go into greater detail about the filming and editing of the 24hourfilm, however that would involve way too many spoilers. All you need to know is we were up working on it till 4.30am and then we were up again the following day at 7.30. Shooting right up till tea time while Chris Halcrow was constantly capturing and editing. We had it finished around six then the lovely Simon or Ronas Media got the film onto a blue-ray for us. There were times where I thought I could blog, but then, aside from my leaving lunch with work colleagues, it was never ending, and it was great.

There was a lot of doubt around the project, and not unrightly so. Film making, in fact, just screening a film can go awry ALL THE TIME. There was also a worry ideas, plots, the actual film itself would suffer due to the time restriction in place. This could go on..

I have finally found Spaced gifs.
The enjoy-ability of this blog has increased 23 fold.

So, the film has been shown, it worked. Maybe I'm biased, but I feel it worked so well and I love the finished film so much, it is now one of my all time favourite Maddrim films.

Many thanks to all those who supported, helped and jamp into the project full of enthusiasm. You're credited on the film... which I will post it's own special blog post for once it is online for your eyes.

On a side note, I am now at home in Selivoe. The parts Dirk got to fix the car worked (washer and some nuts) and we made it back to the house by midnight, after stopping along Magnus'. So we got home 11 hours later than planned, I should also mention we were leaving Lerwick itself about 7 hours later than planned, so the car breaking down was just a part of the adventure. HOME SWEET HOME.

Now to a more personal note, I feel that I've also kept this blog on a level of noncoherent thoughts that are usually focussed on film, tv, ipods or buying bread. I never really delve much into my life, what I am doing on a more private level. Reasons for this vary through: 

-It's not interesting

-Anyone can read this blog

-I don't want to give the internet too much of my soul

-I'm terrified of conspiracy theories

-TV is the best

However, I think that giving too little information about myself make for very little context of many of the stories here. Also, I am leaving Shetland to move to Amsterdam with my boyfriend Hayden, and if I don't explain that now it's going to be confusing on this blog when all my photos of foodstuffs have name's like HAGELSLAG and APPELSTROOP, which is what I'm about to live off.

Also I think moving to a new country, finding a new job, finding new clubs to join (Dutch Maddrim?) will be interesting, and for me blogging about it will give me another way to meditate and think about how I'm settling in and a nice way to keep in touch with home. I believe blog posts are a nicer way to read what a friends been up to than a quick facebook status update. Although I've been watching Vines on Youtube lately and they are great, I need to get something to make vines on. Like an Ipod3*.

So the first foray into my life I'll tell you about Hayden without saying so much I'd want consent. He's my partner and he has just started studying at the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam on the double bass. The jazz course. He doesn't really know his internet memes, or he has a wicked sense of humour.

_____________________________________________________________________

From: Hayden Hook
Sent: 13 August 2013 12:45
To: Robertson Marjolein
Subject: Re: 

hay there no credit

but ye come over at 1:00

xxxxxxxx

______________________________________________________________________

From: Robertson Marjolein
Sent: 13 August 2013 12:50
To: Hayden Hook
Subject: Re:

Cool will do. Maybe five past one.

______________________________________________________________________

From: Hayden Hook
Sent: 13 August 2013 12:53
To: Robertson Marjolein
Subject: Re:

          thats you with straight teeth

______________________________________________________________________

She does have the most exceptional teeth.

Right, I'm off for a swim in the sea and a row. Thanks for reading everyone, just time for the goodbyes, the thankses and the asterix at the end that if you didn't scroll down for earlier I bet you forgot about till now didn't you?

Thanks to:

http://zogga-san.tumblr.com/

https://twitter.com/maddrim 

http://fuckyeahspacedgifs.tumblr.com

www.businessinsider.com  

*Note to self: Send apple the series of blog posts about rescuing my ipod from the sea and maybe they'll send me and Ipod3 and by that I mean an Iphone3. That works in Holland.

"When Marjolein was four she drank an entire bottle of sewing machine oil"

The title, a quote ladies and gentlemen, from my Mam. I overheard that a few days ago when she was telling Dad about times when she reckoned we didn't need the doctor.

It's all cool she was a Nurse.

In Amsterdam.



SO, NEWS.

Firstly Claire and I got to do a way fun day of photos with John Carolan and Babs Clubb, she did the make up, John took the photos. It was a fun day with a free jukebox full of good heavy metal music. If it were possible to listen to Holy Diver too many times in one day then that would've been it (but it's not).

Here's a couple:

Claire - natural

Claire - full makeup

Me - natural

Me - full makeup

For more photos from John Carolan click here:
http://www.johncarolan.co.uk/

And for the Youtube account for Babs Clubb try here:
http://www.youtube.com/anesthesiashetland


Last time I wrote here it was January, and I hadn't been to any Up Helly Aa's yet. Well I have now, been to three. Let's update you.

For anyone who doesn't know what Up Helly Aa is, it's a Viking Festival we have in Shetland celebrating our Viking Ancestry, the lightening of the nights and also originally started to spread out the drinking from Christmas and New Year so there was less of a binge in December.
(True story)

The best known Up Helly Aa is most likely the one in town; many consider this to be the main one. Always held on the last Tuesday of January, over 900 men, in costume, take part in a procession through the streets of Lerwick pulling a Viking Galley which they then burn in the play park for everyone to enjoy. This is before embarking on a night of performances, music and revellery. Actually I explain it pretty well here:

This is Maddrim's latest addition to Youtube

That's not all Maddrim did for Up Helly Aa, no it is not. We also got to help Promote Shetland with both a radio show (Joe and Marjolein's Radio Hour), a live web stream of the procession and some footage from the day (which will be added to Promote Shetland's page in the near future!) The web stream went live to over 8000 different viewers from around the world! AWESOME.

Here's Shetland Islands Council telling you in yet more detail, there's a lovely picture of Joe and the back of my head, and another of Katya taking care of the TriCaster - mad skillz (Check out how I use the word interviewing twice within eight words):
http://www.shetland.gov.uk/news-advice/PR-MaddrimbroadcastUpHellyAa.asp

Up Helly Aa is awesome, I encourage everyone to come to Shetland to see it, whichever one, there are 10 official festivals, there are also a few others, such as the Waas one, I was Guizer Jarl (as in Head Viking) there in my youth. Proudest moment of my life. Before graduating.

Andy, Annie, The Guizer Jarl and I

Woaaaah, just as I was typing this I got an email:

"Your membership order below has been shipped. You will recieve your membership package shortly. Thank you for your patience.
Your 2012 Ultimate Soldier Megapack contains:
-Megadeth Cyber Army 2012 T-Shirt
-Cyber Army Challenge Coin - Series II
-Deluxe Megadeth Logo Sticker
-Megadeth Cyber Army Laminate
-Welcome Letter from Dave Mustaine
-8x10 Glossy Band Photo
-Cyber Army 2012 pikCARD"

YUUUUS! That's right I am now a proud member of the Megadeth Cyber Army.
Claire got me to join after months of telling me about how awesome it is. It is awesome.
Dave Mustaine, Chris Broderick, David Ellefson and Shawn Drover all have their own forums where you can read messages directly from them, the other members are sweet as, you get early announcements for tickets and deals AND you get the awesome welcome pack that is written above. And finally why wouldn't you want to be a member of the fan club for Megadeth.

I'll share with you the song that got me into Megadeth back at the tender age of 14:

You are welcome

So, join today. Just cllick the bar below to check it out and then join:

I promise next time there will be more chisels, hacksaws, Ipod and chance of gore. I just really gotta go clean my room now. GOODNIGHT.

From your beloved She-Wolf  xxxx



HAPPY NEW YEAR/BURNS NIGHT

So.
This could be awkward.

Or we could push through the long silence and get back into this like I never forgot about you, blog.

Soz pal.


Yeah, apologies I've been away for ages, and the longer I was away the harder it was to return. There is a song about that somewhere, and I think it may be this one:

(Courtesy of Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha-FS_CHmGw User: Z7TomC7Z)

If not, I'll bet you're still glad you listened.
There is a lie in this blog. Can you read it?

So I haven't been here, and I've been waiting to have something very hilarious and entertaining to greet you all with, but I decided I shouldn't wait for something to happen, I should type it. Luckily that's when I got an email from a friend who pointed out the good coverage the MET office made for February's forecast. Here, read it yourself:

UK Outlook for Monday 6 Feb 2012 to Monday 20 Feb 2012:

The forecast for early February remains very uncertain. There appear to be two main scenarios, each equally probable, but which are very different. The first scenario consists of a changeable westerly or southwesterly weather type with rain at times (amounts greatest in the west), and with temperatures noticeably above average for early February, with only occasional frosts. The alternative scenario is that much colder weather with winds mainly from an easterly or northeasterly quarter, will prevail well into February, bringing widespread frosts and snow to some areas. In this scenario it would be the east that was most vulnerable to snowfall.

So, was there a point? In case your wondering, I'll put your worries to rest, I have a good idea for March, so I took some liberties, illegally branding myself as the Meteorological office and have come up with a rough assumption for the third months weathering:

UK Outlook for March 1^st 2012 to March 31^st 2013

So in March yea, it will begin most probably dark, because it should be starting after midnight on February 29^th. We can’t promise anything, as sometimes there’s an added day in that month. Then it should get a lot lighter towards seven o’ clock, unless it’s cloudy; then you may need to keep your car head lights on till nearer eight. There is also a chance, although maybe not, depends on the galactic weather, of an eclipse so you may need to keep your headlights on till 8.15.

The rest of the day should be fairly overcast with chance of rain and as a result slippery roads.

The alternative scenario is that it could turn out to be a nice, sunny day, with temperatures reaching a max of 38 degrees. Factor 50 Recommended.

The pollen count will be somewhere on the grey scale.

Chance of high winds.

Once upon a time my forecast was going to be posted  in the format of video. We filmed it, but I have no idea when it will be ready for your eyes. And I am too kind to leaving you waiting for any longer. So I thought you could read it, reading is better for you after all.*

There is one thing I've done that is all ready to show you. Here is a video Mam, Dirk, Claire and I made on Saturday:

Courtesy of me. Url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVHCryThEOM

This is Mam's filming debut. Well done Chaz!

So now we've all discussed the weather, and I linked in my new film, there's nought much else to say. I was thinking about what direction I'm going to take this blog in for 2012. Not that is really ever had a direction before. I was going to go with some sort of improvement programme but I didn't make any New Year's resolutions. I summed it up in fewer than 140 characters on Twitter:

Look Blog, I forgot about Twitter for a while too.

However, earlier this week (Monday) at our Maddrim Media meeting Cara got us to make a Skills Wall, where we write our skills on a pink post-it, and then on a yellow post-it write what skills we'd like to have. Here are my post-its:

Skills I have

Skills I'd like

So. In a gripping tale of adventure and huckleberry finn I'll let you know how that develops.
And my Ipod is well and truly dead. I know because I charged it overnight and nothing happened. I'll try opening it up in the shed later. Actually that would be way more interesting then that skills thing. Yeah! Let's open my Ipod!

See you next time for some core slicing fun.


XXXXXX MARJOLEIN

*Yes that was the lie.

I will miss the moustaches

Ok, I've almost missed Movember. Shiiiit.
But there isn't much time to blog, there's a storm brewing (Mam wants to check her emails) also there is a hurricane soon to hit. I name it Hurricane Skunkydoo; cause Mam won't let me name the new cat Skunkydoo. We are currently debating between Sjakie (pr. Sha-Key) apparently this is Dutch, but then again so is Marjolein, who knows. I wanted Skunkydoo after our Kiwi relation's cat, but that's been wiped off the table most unceremoniously, so I now want Archie, as Archibald is a good strong name. And let's face it, it needs to be a good strong cat if it's going to live side by side with the force that is 'Flippy' (Mam named that cat)

So all this animal chat got us talking... (some more about animals)

Mam started it with talking 'bout the dog to Dad. The dog being a girl, a lovely little lady, named Belle.

(Funny story, our neighbour's dog is also called Belle, ha didn't think that one out, especially when up in the hill working with the sheep... but more on that.. never)

So, and I gotta be quick due to aforementioned stuf.
Mam talked about Belle: "I think he did a poo on his lead"
Me: "His?! She's a woman"
Mam: "Dogs are male and cats female"
(and this carried on)
Mam: "Horses are male and cows female"
(to full circle)
Mam: "Dogs are male and cats female"
Me: "But not in this house? What about other animals? Rats male and mice female?"
Mam: "Yah" (I don't think she heard me but I'm adding this in for comedy value)
Me: "And guinea pigs are all male till one of them ends up pregnant?"
(this guinea pig reference relates to a hilarious period in the Robertson house hold when.they.kept.breeding.)
Mam: "HA HA HA they are hermaphrodites!"


Or something like that. To be honest, November has been a pretty busy and super exciting month. None of which I have told you, but you don't want to read about that. But I will make you anyway. IIIIIIIII went to London, did work experience for Avalon, had our Shetland Improv group's first performance and started filming my new film for Maddrim... it's all exciting but none of it is about animal genders and so therefore, for tonight, has been put on a back burner (Also Ipod is still sitting, waiting patiently, to be turned on.)

Well, as I said, I better go, and I should probably stop typing before I type even more brackets and cause you're eyes to convex to infinity. WHA>!!!1

5,203,921,789

Yes that is my ranking in the world. Out of 7 billion. Not bad, but I'm not sure what good is.


Last time I 'blogged' (there was no need for parenthesis I know I just hate that word.)
Yes. Last time I 'blogged' here was when I was busy desalting my ipod. I kept that process up for about 2 days and changing the water when saline levels made it undrinkable. Since it's been drying in rice, then in a bag with some more (boil in the bag) rice and a silicone packet and I've not tried turning it on.

Boil in the bag Ipod (highly impractical due to silicone packet)

 When I'll try to work it I'll let you know.


What I should tell you is a story I started but never finished way back on the 2nd October:

 What happened to the otter?
*SPOILER* We freed it.

But enough of all this maritime-otter-rescuing-Ipod-abondoning ridiculousness, it has plagued this blog for too long. This used to be a place where I posted old notes from Facebook. Those were the carefree ctrl+c then ctrl+v days.

To new matters at hand. I've not been here in a while, I've been busy, I got to go to the "Youth Volunteering Achievement Awards" on  Tuesday, which included a buffet (but no mozzarella sticks) and, thanks to Maddrim's nomination for an award, sneak into the group photo. Willem is to the right of me with Maddrim's actual nomination, and Ceidiog and I are on either side modelling our free mints. I got 6 packets. Ceidiog got 8. Thank you Rotary Club!

Then on Monday, this is not chronological, I got to see Ed Byrne as he preformed his current show Crowd Pleaser in the Clickimin Centre. Very much enjoyed the show. Highlights for me included: his retelling of when he met the Commander of the Starship Reliant in an airport; his 5 views on a boy wearing a certain 50cent t shirt and his tale of confusion with Craig Campbell (Who also came up here and rocked the Isles). However my favourite joke was a quick addition to a longer story:

"I've never been a big cat person, but then I've never been bitten by a radioactive cat"

He's a fellow geek. Which he himself declared in the show. He proclaimed his love for DnD and when talking to him after the show about the game I realised I really need to get my blog on. My new blog. For my DnD game. It's going to be more an epic tale of quests and adventure but I'll write it in the guise of a blog, cause I'm 21st century like that.

Ed and I

Should also just say a big thank you to Mr. Ed Byrne (because he reads this? HA) but he came up here, tirelessly gave an amazing show, was happy to come and talk to everyone after and is Be Nerdy.

So that is what I've been up to.
Isn't this like when you're back in Primary School and someone has there show and tell? Yes. Yes it is. Which reminds me. Show and Tell is on tonight. Television.

Update on the fishing business

This going to be a short entry because I've still got to write the improv ideas film for Maddrim.

Multi tasking just now, blogging and watching Back to the Future. Fuck it's awesome. The set up for the rest of the film in the car park when Doc explains time travel is so well done. Sorry, getting distracted, I'll mute it, no wait, the main theme is about to kick in when he's about to reach 88mph... I'll just turn the volume down, a bit.

So to the main reason for the blog: fishing.

I never should have written that last blog with the section 'how to fish for your ipod' as I didn't catch it that time and I sure as hell didn't this time. Guess Poseidon's enjoying my full discography of the Dixie Chicks just too much to give it back.

(Ad break - now I'm watching Groundhog Day. Ghad I love a bit of Murray.)

 

 So yes, my first attempt I went out in my boat with a net, this time I donned my wetsuit, goggles and snorkle, and took the net too just for some banter.

Here I am to your right, looking optimistic. Fool.

It's hard to see in this photo, but it was pretty windy, it was gusting up to f7 and it was cold. The water was murky, the sea floor muddy and I was just making it alot worse by splashing around in the cold.

There, down below, that's me splashing around in the cold.




But to cut this short, because it's too painful to write, and Back To The Future finished long, long ago, I caught nothing, apart from perhaps a cold. We'll see!

But this is not the end. There is going to be a third attempt; my neighbour Theo, is going to help me with his underwater torch... Again, damn the black leather case.

I will fish it out eventually, I will.




Big thank you to Karen Raford who drove me to the pier and photographer my efforts. I couldn't have failed a second time without her. We also had other fun adventures this past weekend that I will blog about soon.


I should also like to say RIP to Steve Jobs. This adventure would have never begun without him. If I do catch it eventually it will be the voyage dedicated to him.

It's been a long time

to get from there to here...

But seriously, I'm sorry I haven't posted here in a while, I started this blog with such good intentions; but the best laid plans and all that, I haven't posted in a while. That is until I'm meant to plan something for tomorrow and then I need to procrastinate and writing in this blog is the form of procrastination I am taking today. Not going to complain it is (sort of) productive.

But yes as I said I'm meant to be planning something, that would be a Creative Ideas Workshop for Maddrim Media Club's meeting tomorrow. Mainly there's going to be a lot of improv games and then discussions for future ideas. So I'm busy doing that, starting a new job at work, setting up an improv group and fishing for my ipod. But I'm only going to expand on one of those stories now so naturally I'll choose the last.


How to fish for your Ipod
I probably shouldn't be writing a guide on this seeing as I haven't caught it yet. Instead this should be more of a story of woe and a warning to never take your Ipod with you when going for a row.

Look this is me rowing on the voe, I really love a good row:

Note: No Ipod

To cut a pretty long story short, I went for a row, neighbours ended up joining me, four of us in two boats when to investigate a strange squeaking noise - it was an otter stuck in a lobster creel, during all the commotion trying to free the otter owners swapped boats, some people were on the pier, my ipod was left in my boat, which was then accidentally capsized resulting in a soaked neighbour and a sunken MP3 player.

My lovely, now dry, neighbour then bought me a replacement Ipod. But I still really want to fish out my old one. For three reasons:

1) It may, just may, still work, which would be a miracle
2) How many people can say they've caught a saltwater Ipod?
3) I want to put it in a bottle and hang it on my wall. That'd just be fucking awesome.

So after purchasing a 99p net from my brother's local corner shop I took my row boat out yesterday, minus my new ipod but plus one wet suit (prepared) and went fishing!
I spent two hours hanging over my boat... I did see it, almost had it, then it evaded me and I was unable to spot it again as it is in a leather case, which was actually also a present from the same neighbour.

I didn't realise at the time, because I was super busy fishing, but family and neighbours were watching and laughing and tweeting about me. Bit mean.

Yes I retweeted it

But yea I am dry now, and warm, but I can't rest knowing my Ipod (oh so wittingly named 'Marjolein's Pithus of Music' d'ya get it? Soz for the vulgarity) is still at the bottom of our voe. So this week I'm going to be borrowing my brother's snorkle gear and have a second attempt. Failing that I'll upgrade to scuba diving gear from my friend Mark. Best be soon winter is coming. Although with this lovely Indian Summer it's not that bad a problem. Indian Summer in Shetland we hit 17 degrees and people didn't know how to cope.

I've got to go, I'm uploading a film I made in 6th year of school, to Youtube. I'll maybe blog about it one day. It's a tribute to Steve Irwin. What a legend.