Laughing Woman

Ok, Blog time.

I have an I-Phone. It will be active from tomorrow.

I have a new hospital radio show.

But first I have to tell you about a couple of funny things that happened this morning.

Sitting having coffee in Cafe Nero with my friend and watching over the city, people watching as I often do....

We noticed a woman sat on a street corner laughing to herself wildly while all the people walked past her. At first, we presumed she must have a funny text message or something, or maybe she was using a hands-free phone.. but after a while, we realised it was neither of these.

This woman was laughing hysterically!!! happily!! wildly!! for no apparent reason.

Of course this made us laugh too, and we expected her to stop laughing at whatever was tickling her, and walk on her way. But she didn't. Instead, she remained sitting on the corner as people walked past and laughing.

We noticed that there was a kind of pattern......

She would stop laughing, and some people would walk past but it wouldnt make her laugh...
then someone would walk past, and for no apparent reason, she would look at them and then crease up laughing uncontrollably... for about say 10 seconds then she'd calm down....

We then started watching passers-by and guessing whether or not they would make her laugh...

Like "This guy's gonna be funny..." then sure enough, one glance at him, and she would crack up.

Needless to say, me and james were in fits of laughter watching. Most passers-by ignored her, being too bothered with their own concerns, but some of them joined in the uncontrollable laughter with her.

It kinda seemed that she was laughing at everyone and everyone was laughing at her.

She was either high on drugs or high on life, but it really didn't look like it was drugs, and I hope so so much it was high on life :-)


Another cool thing that happened today. I watched some kids break-dancing in a square in York. Young kids showing off their moves. Most of them were average - but better than me obviously - then this one kid came on, and started doing cheesy kind of dance moves that didn't look like much. The crowd that had gathered, developed a kind of pitiful look - as if they were thinking - 'oh well, everyone is of different ability and at least it keeps them off the streets.'

And then, out of the blue, the same guy starting spinning round on the floor, fast as anything and pulling out some of the most insane moves ever. The crowd went wild with surprise and of course admiration.


Yes - my radio show is now to be on Wednesday - it will have new features, and a different format to the sunday show. Also there will be new special guests each week!!! Whereas before my special guests were generally amazing individuals doing amazing things..... For this new show, i'm going to have a section of the show about different charities - in particular local charities - and so the special guests will be from the charities.