Fears Forever

I AM DIETING!!

2007-12-04T12:34:00.000Z

Hello everybody, it is nice to be back blogging again after all this time!

I have been "mad crazy busy" as Americans say. Me and my lesbiene partner Cheryl have bought our own home out here in our secret location in America. I have had to take on a second job to help to pay the mordgage which has taken up a lot of time. I am working as a short order cheffe at an American diner, which is very stressfull and hectic. Still, all the extra money is a great help, especially as it is Christmas!!!

The only problem is that I have been sneakily tucking into a lot of fried food that is left over from the meals, and as a concequence I have put on a lot of weight. Even Cheryl was saying that I had "love handle's" so I have decided to do something about it!

Even though so many American's are fat, I do not want to end up being so enormous that I get stuck in the doors of buses and cars, as many Americans do. So I have been eating healthy salads and "smootheys" and to spurr me on I have stuck a picture of the avatarr from THE GIRL WITH THE ONE TRACK MIND on my fridge door - the one where she is wearing a rubber dress and readlng the Shaggy Bog Stories book. Hopefully, I will loose so much weight that I will have a picture of me wearing a rubber dress, reading the Paul Potts Autobiography "This Is Me - The Real Paul Potts" in a few months time, and I will post the picture on here!! Fingers crossed that it all goes well!

NEW TALENT AT LAST!!!

2007-07-30T11:50:00.000Z

In my last post, I may have give you the impression that I am living in the past because I like television shows like "Some Mothers Do Have Them!!!!", but this is not always the case.

I am now fourty five, but I like to "keep up with the times", although I do not keep up with the music or the fashions as much as I used to. There is a shopping "mall" (or shopping centre as they are known in Britain) near to us but I don't go shopping for "way-out" clothes there!

However, I am always open to new ideas and take the advice of my young neieces and nephews in Britain, who keep in touch with me because of the internet.

I do not always agree with their tastes in music, or they with mine! They do not like Tears For Fears and I do not like My Chemistry Romance or Blink 247, who are their great favourites!

However, this wonderful clip on "You Tubes" was recommeded to me by my neiece Kylie in Leek, Staffordshire, who says "this might be to your taste Auntie Glen LOL, the bloke that won this only won because all the voters thought he was a bit simple and they felt sorry for him, LMFAO."

I think this is a little harsh, because although he is a little strange looking, he is a wonderful singer - the best I have heard since Roland Orzabal!

His name is Paul Potts and this is him on "You Tubes"

The programme was called "Britain Has Talents" and for once they are right, even if one of the judges is the horrible Simon Cowls who never has a good word to say about anybody. My friend from the TEARS FOR FEARS EXTREME forum, Kelvin, once auditoned for Pop Idol singing "Mad World" and Simon was extremely cruel to him!

However, the lead up to the winning result on this show is very exciting. It is obvious that the man with the ventriloqwist dummy is shaking his head and knows he will not win, and the wrapping group look very surly, as if the world owes them a living. However, Paul Potts is a born star and I love his version of the Pavvarotti song "Nissan Dormer". That song reminds me of my ex husband Clive watching the 1990 World Cup and not talking to me for a month! However, I think that Paul Potts is a better singer than Pavaroti, and, as his LP has got to number one in the British charts I think he will go on to be bigger than the Beatles - although he is not better than Tears For Fears!!!! LOL, as my neiece would say!

OOH, BETTY!!!

2007-07-26T15:43:00.000Z

The last post was about the late comedienne, Peter Kay, which inspired me to think to myself "what is my favourite comedy of all time?"

Well, I have to say that there is very little on the television now that makes me laugh at all - well, apart from the fact that I don't have a television out here in my secret lesbiene love nest in America!

But that is not the only reason - it is because there is not much these days which is funny without being rude, disgusting or hateful towards people.

There is too much nastiness about today about people who cannot answer back or who bring joy to millions, such as Parris Hilton, Brittany Spears, David Beckam (a great embassedor for Britain in my opinion!) and other very famous people. They are all seen as objects of ridicule but why??? The reason today's so-called comediennes laugh at them is because they are all jealous!

For me, the funniest comedy all comes from the 1970's, when there was no swearing or filth.

If you had to ask me what I would have to chose as the funniest part of a comedy programme ever was, it was this:

Wonderful Frank Spencer on "Some Mothers Do Have Them"!!!! My mother was at the recording of this programme and as you can hear on the clip, everyone was in histerics!! She said that all of the audience looked at each other in excitement when they watched this bit of the show - they new it was going to be one of the all-time greats and they would be able to say to their grandchildren - "I was there!" (if they were didn't die before they could see their grandchildren or if they didn't already have grandchildren).

In those days the BBC could not afford to get stuntmen, so brave Frank, played by Michael Crawford, had to do all his own stunts.

My favourite bit is where he says "Oooh, Betty, I have been articulated!!!!!" Just saying that to myself makes me fall on the ground in histerics!

Oh the memories! Click on the "You Tubes" clip to bring all the laughter flooding back!

I AM BACK!!!!!

2007-07-13T13:08:00.000Z

I am glad to be back in the world of blogging after wrestling my blog away from the awful Mrs Prentiss. I know many of you will mourn her passing, but she was a viscous old woman who deserved her fete. You do not know her like I did.

However, it has come to my notice, from a comment made on the previous post, that the comedian Peter Kay has died. As we do not have a television at the moment or get British newspapers where I am living in my lesbien love nest, I was a little shocked to say the least.

Peter was, along with the Ross family, part of one of the "television" families! All his relatives are famous! They include his brother Vernon, who lives next door to him, Gordon Kay who was in the 1980's comedy Hello Hello I Was Just Pissing By Your Door and Jay Kay of Jamarqwai the pop group.

It is a shame that somebody so young should die needlessly at such a young age. Still, nobody dies in vein. His death will serve as a warning to people who overeat. It can only lead to heart problems and probably an early death.

It is good to be back.

IN MEMORIAM

2007-04-18T19:40:00.000Z

Mrs Betty Prentiss, 5th January 1928 - 18th April, 2007

REAL POETRY

2007-02-16T09:50:00.001Z

Well, what a disaster it was asking Tony Adams to contribute some poetry to this weblog!

However, we all learn from our mistakes. Wasn't he an old miseryguts? If men had all been like that when I was young we would never have won the war!

Still, a number of readers phoned or wrote to me to say that they knew what "real" poetry was. Many of them agreed with me that Patience Strong is the best poet of all time. I'm so glad that many of you feel the same way!

I would particularly like to thank reader Mr Barry Onions, who lives in a village in the West Country. He suggested the poem "Desiderata" is one of the finest ever written. I have to agree with him. It really is a "feelgood" poem, as they say, and very inspiring.

You can read the words here. Aren't they great? I particularly like the advice to "avoid loud and aggressive persons". This is so true! I work in a sweetshop, and find that a lot of the children of today are loud and aggressive. Some of them even ignore the notice on the front of the door saying that only two children at a time can come in to the shop!

There is also a lovely interpretation of the words set to music, spoken by Les Crane, who has what we used to call a "dark brown" voice. I must say, I generally don't like much modern pop music, apart from the Cliff Adams Singers or Edmundo Ross. The awful Glenda tried to persuade me that the pop group Tears For Fears were "music". You call that load of shouting and noise music?! However, this song is very easy on the ear. The video here has lots of lovely images of youngsters. It's only when I realise that in a few years they'll be the sort of little horrors who cause so much carnage in my sweetshop that I begin to shudder.

Still, don't let that put you off.

Yours faithfully,
Betty Prentiss

FRIGHT IN BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT

2007-02-02T13:50:00.000Z

We share blood
We share veins
We share vanity
To hide our pain.

We share secrets
Stories untold
To the vast majority
Wrongdoings and weaknesses
Faults manifold.

We wear masks
Hiding ugly intentions
Covering our lies
Or our evil inventions.

Try as we might
The truth shines bright
Behind the armour
It shines bright white.

Copyright Tony Adams Poetry (UK) Ltd.
Published by Tony Adams, 2nd February 2007, England.

IN THE QUIET HOURS

2007-02-02T13:49:00.000Z

IN THE QUIET HOURS

In the quiet hours
Just before dawn
As the birds sing
The darkness washes over me,
A pain that never ends.
I think of life's highway,
Its twists,
Its turns
And its hidden bends.

LIFE
Is not a rehearsal
But LIFE
Squeezes all
The joy
From
Us
At times.

Copyright Tony Adams Poetry (UK) Ltd.
Published by Tony Adams, 2nd February 2007, England.

2007-01-28T20:18:00.000Z

Hi.

I'm Tony Adams, former England and Arsenal footballer.

I have walked through fire.

Some people thought that my over enthusiastic singing of the National Anthem at England matches was the mark of a man who had a patriotic fervour.

I can only tell you, with shame, that it was the mark of a man who was full of pain.

A pain that was only dulled by consumption of beer.

Those days seem so long ago now.

During that time, my therapist encouraged me to write poetry of a cathartic nature.

It opened up a new avenue of expression for me.

These days my spare time is not spent drinking. Instead, I sculpt, paint, embroider, take black and white photographs, compose classical music and, most of all, I write verse.

Some of that verse will be shared with you in forthcoming posts. I hope you get as much from it as I do.

POSTED BY TONY ADAMS, 28TH JANUARY, 2007, ENGLAND.

THE REAL GLENDA

2007-01-16T19:32:00.000Z

Hello and welcome.

I am Betty Prentiss, owner of Prentiss Confectioners, Arthur Street, Bath, England. It is one of the oldest confectionary shops in Bath and has a reputation which is unrivalled in the West Country.

I have been given access to this blog thanks to Glenda's soon to be former husband Clive, who has told me who the "real" Glenda is.

I must say, I wasn't surprised.

She is a dishonest, duplicitous person who ran away to America, leaving him in a state of despair. Fortunately, he has found happiness with another employee at the sweet shop, Edith Potter. However, what Glenda did to him is despicable.

I was not surprised at her behaviour. She always struck me as a dishonest and duplicitous person.

In the mid 1980's she took A MONTH off work to follow the pop group Tears For Fear on a tour of ballrooms. Now THAT is what I call irresponsible behaviour.

She also used to steal menthol lozenges from the shop, on a weekly basis, and not pay for them. In all, I may have lost as much as thirty pounds' worth of menthol lozenges.

In this blog, over the coming months, I hope to put you right about the REAL Glenda and tell you about some of her scheming ways.

The world has to be told and I have a duty.

Thank you for listening.

Yours ever,

MRS BETTY PRENTISS

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

2006-12-17T19:48:00.000Z

This is going to be I and Cheryl's first Christmas in America, and it is very exciting, but different.

I wish to wish all of the readers of this weblog a happy Christmas and New Year and enjoy yourself. I have missed the final of the "X" Factor and Strictley Come Dancing over in America, which is a pity, but I am sure that the fact that Cheryl is with me and we are very much in love will make up for that, as we are together at this special time of year.

As it is Christmas there is a bit of fun on this weblog for a change - here is a festive game which features a Tears For Fears song! I hope you have hours of fun enjoying it and once again ENJOY YOUR CHRISTMASES!!!!

LAND OF THE FREE

2006-11-09T10:35:00.000Z

Since I have been living in America I have not been able to work yet because every time I try to get a job employers are suspicous of me and think I am an illegal immigrent, which I am. However, I and Cheryl are both trying to find similar work to what we used to do at home. Cheryl used to work at a motorway service station as a cook, and I used to work in a sweet shop.

However, because I have got a lot of time to myself, it has got me thinking in all that spare time. I have come to realise that I was right to leave England and Britain because in my opinion IT HAS GONE TO THE DOGS.

I look at the 1980s which to me was a time of greatness, and things were so much better.

In those days there were heroes who were REAL heroes, who you could look up to and realize that they were good people. They did a lot of work for charity or they were clean cut and did not take drugs. People like Cliff Richards'sis and Jimmy Saville either believed in God or did a lot of work for charity and were great embassadors for Britain. Pop stars like George Michaels and Tears For Fears did music that had tunes and they did not take drugs or were promiscous. Even the strange looking Boy George said that he preffered to drink a cup of tea to having sex!

Nowadays the papers are full of awful so called "celebreties" such as Kate Moss and Pete Dockerty of the group Babyshampoo. All they do is take drugs all the time and spend all their time in rehabitulation units. This is not a good example to set to youngsters. Roland Orzabal would not have done that! Nowadays, even 1980's pop star George Michaels has fallen into disgrace because of the modern age, and is caught sleeping in cars that have crashed into a lamp post after smoking potash, or gets up to all sorts of things in the toilets in local parks where people take their families for days out.

I am glad that I have moved to a country where there are celebreties who are fine upstanding examples to young people, such a Brittany Speares and Pamela Anderson.

HALLOWE'EEN NIGHT IN AMERICA

2006-11-01T10:10:00.000Z

Hello everybody!

Life has been very exiting for me recently. I have moved to America with my partner, Cheryl, as an illegel immigrent. We could have waited to get a work permit to stay in America for a short time but that would have taken ages. I feel now that I have found true lesbian love for the first time that life is too short, and besides, we both wanted to do something irational for the first time in our lives!

We are living in a top secret locaition near the home of Roland Orzabal of Tears For Fears.

Last night Cheryl and I were going to go "Trick Or Treating" and hoped to confront Roland at his front door. That is a picture of me above in my "Trick Or Treat" outfit with our pet cat, Roland.

Unfortunataly I was rather nervous at the prospect of meeting Roland, so decided to drink a little Cherry B to settle my nerves. Then I opened another bottle of Cherry B, then another, and I could not remember what happened after that.

I have got to go now because I think I am going to be sick.

I HAVE HAD AN EPIPHENY

2006-09-30T09:23:00.000Z

I have not been able to write since my last post about the weblogmeeting, because my head is in a whirll.

I know I said I had a headache due to all the drinking of port and lemon, Cherry B and snowballs at the weblogmeeting, but at the weblogmeeting I had what I now know to be an epipheny.

You see, I have fallen in love with another person who was at the weblogmeeting.

That person is the person in the picture above - she is Cheryl Troutmann who goes onto the Tears For Fears EXTREME forum.

As you can see, she looks a little like my hero, Roland Orzabal of Tears For Fears. And also the actress Angelina Jolly!

Perhaps that is why I fell in love with her!

I did not realise that I could find another woman so attractive, but I have fallen head over heels in love. I have been floating on a cloud of love and it reminds me of the Tears For Fears lyric -

"sowing the seeds,
the birds and the bees
my girlfriend and me
in love"

I have left my husband Clive and she has left her husband Keith, and we have set up home together in a flat on the outskirts of Bath. We are saving up to move to America so that we can both live near our hero Roland Orzabal of Tears For Fears!!

I am so in love that I can't think of anything else but Cheryl and of course Roland Orzabal.

I do not know if I will be able to carry on with this blog, but I would like to thank all of the many visiters to this site who have supported me in the last few weeks. I hope you will not miss me too much and will enjoy life ...

... and, most of all ...

You will realise that it is a Mad World, but we can all find Pale Shelter, even though Everybody Wants To Rule The World, if we Shout, Shout and Let It All Out.

KEEP THE FAITH!! KEEP LOVING TEARS FOR FEARS!! NEVER LOSE THE FAITH!!!!

Peace and love,
Glenda September 30th, 2006, 10.30 am

THE WEBLOG MEETING!!

2006-09-22T20:33:00.001Z

Last night was the night of the weblog meet in Bath.

As I mentioned in the comments, none of the rogue elemants turned up, and this was good as I had been worried that Mr Ivanakowski would turn up with a herd of cattle, some bikers, and with a pig under his arm and the horrible, rude Mr Swipe, and we would all get thrown out of the pubic house.

Unfortunatley Farmer Giles, who seems like an old fashioned country gentleman, could not attend because his uncle's cock has died. If he reads this, I hope he realis's that all our thoughts go out to him and his uncle.

However, everything went very well and many of the people from the Tears For Fears EXTREME forum turned up and I have not enjoyed myself so much for years!

There is so much to tell you, but I will leave it untill later to tell you something momenouos that happened, because I am not very well today and have a headache.

MEET ME IN PERSON!!!!!!

2006-09-14T05:05:00.000Z

I wish to draw people's attention to some things.

The first thing is that I have now got a statisitic counter so I can see who visits this weblog, which will be very interesting, so I can find out who all my visitors are. Perhaps I will meet like minded people who like Tears For Fears. Who knows!

So far I have not had any visitors apart from someone who did a Google engine search to find Kurt Smith of Tears For Fears. They stayed for zero seconds, but I could not help them with Kurt Smith, so that is alright.

The second thing is that I have made a "links to other weblogs and websites bar" on the side of the weblog with some help from my husband Clive! I have linked "Tears For Fears" of course! And some great embassadors for Britain around the world - Cliff Richards' and Tim Henman the tennis player. I have also linked Mr Ivanskini because he has left some comments on here that are not rude, although some of them were getting a little bad tempered. Still, perhaps that is because he is Russian and drinks a lot of vodka!

The third thing is that I have organised a weblogmeet for everyone who visit's here and hopefully is a Tears For Fears fan or admirer!

I will meet you in the reception area of the Winking Kitten theme pub just off he second ring road before you get into Bath town centre a week today, which will be Thursday September the 21st, 2006.

I will be the short woman with bobbed "mousey" hair and will be wearing a green patterened just below the knee length Laura Ashley skirt and a light green polo shirt and will be carrying a mustard coloured handbag and, just to make it easier for you will be carrying a copy of "Tears For Fears" The Hurting album with me!

I look forward to seeing all of you there and it should be very good fun! Perhaps we will become great friends for many many years to come!

SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE

2006-09-04T14:52:00.000Z

I wish to tell you about the greatest pop song of alltime - Sowing The Seeds Of Love by "Tears For Fears" and what it means to me.

It is a very long song which brought them back into the public eye after a few years out of the pubic eye. It arrived during the acidhouse era and Tears For Fears picked up on the hippy attitude of that time but did it better than the drug taking acidhouse groups such as the Shamen and The Reynolds Girls.

The song reminds me a lot of the Beatles' album Sargeant Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club, but it is much betterer than that ever was.

It is a long song - or an "epic" as they would say. In it, there is a yin and yang.

Let me explain. Kurt Smith sings just the one bit, where his voice is very "feminine" and fey, so he is the yin. Meanwhile, Roland sings the other bits, and he is "masculine", full of passion like a Spanish opera singer or some other sort of Latin lover! His masculinitiy is overwhelming! He sings with such passion that it sounds as if his testicles will explode! Roland is the yang. It is like how an apple and custard tart comprises the tart tasting apple and the smooth tasting custard. That is how yin and yang works!

Please look at the vidio here and you will soon agree with me. Be patient - it is a very long song.

HOW RUDE!

2006-09-03T10:27:00.000Z

Unfortunetly, there are some horrible rude people who use the internet.

Read this to see what I mean, in response to a comment I sent, and written by the writer of the weblog.

Does anybody know what "monomaniacal" means, by the way? I think it is the eyebrows of those two brothers in the pop group "Oasis", but that doesn't make sense, does it?

HOW TEARS FOR FEARS CHANGED MY LIFE

2006-08-26T07:07:00.000Z

I wish to tell you about how my life changed, forever, for the better, in 1982.

At the time I was in an unfulfilling marriage and lived in a semi detached house in Leek in Staffordshire in England. I had a job in a building society.

I was preparing my husband Barry's evening meal when I had what is now known as an epiphany.

In our kitchen we had a small portable television. As I was chopping some onions Top Of The Pops was on it. David Kid Jensen introduced this clip.

Hearing the song Mad World for the first time literally changed my life. I was drawn, magnetically, not to the singer of the song Kurt Smith but to the other member of Tears For Fears, Roland Orzabal. He had such a magnetic presense that I knew that my life had changed forever. His dancing was spectacular in my opinion. Later I read about shamens, and I now know that to me, Roland was a shaman. I had lost all my inhibitions and life would never be the same again. Although some of the comments about Roland's dancing under the YouTube clip are not very nice and make me angry because they are not very respectful of him.

The epiphany led to me leaving my husband and moving to Bath, home of Tears For Fears. I got a job in a sweet shop, which eventually closed down, and another sweet shop where I have been working ever since. For some time I camped outside Roland Orzabal's house, because I felt that we have a spiritual connection. Occassionally he would nod to me as he left the house, as if he "knew".

I changed my name from Glenda Griffiths (my maiden name before I became Glenda Bracewell) to Glenda Griffiths Orzabal, in honour of Roland Orzabal of Tears For Fears.

When Roland moved to America, I was devastated. This is the way we treat our stars in Britain, so badly that they have to move to America.

I however still live in Bath, which to me is the spiritual home of Tears For Fears, and where I met my current husband, Clive Tidworth. He too used to go on the Tears For Fears Extreme Forum and I could feel a bond with him. We grew closer and, unbelievibly, he didn't live that far away from Bath! It was as if we were both on the same cosmic leyline or something!

Clive has changed his name to Clive Tidworth Orzabal in honour of Roland Orzabal of Tears For Fears.

Unlike me, however, he doesn't have exactly the same date of birth as Roland Orzabal! Still, you can't have everything can you!

WELCOME

2006-08-25T17:52:00.000Z

Hello.

Let me introduce my weblog.

It is a weblog devoted to what in my opinion is the greatest pop group in the history of pop music - TEARS FOR FEARS.

I hope that I will be able to share the joy of Tears For Fears with all of you around the world and that we will come to a greater understanding through the years.

I feel compelled to share my devotion of Tears For Fears with you because of my appearances on the Tears For Fears EXTREME Forum. "Why don't you start a blog, Glenda,with you profound understanding of Tears For Fears?" several people said.

I was also shocked at the ignorant attitude of some people towards Tears For Fears.

The person who wrote this for example. I sent a comment complaining about it to their weblog but was completely ignored.

All I can say is TEARS FOR FEARS FANS WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD. WE WILL NOT BE HELD BACK.

I will be writing more soon. I look forward to your comments or feedback and hope you will all come to regard me as a friend and Tears For Fears as your favourite band, if they are not so already.

Thank you for reading.