Philomena M

I'm getting married next month and my period is due the day before the wedding - worst timing ever! I'm not on the pill and never have been so that's out, but I'm wondering is there something natural I can do to hold it off for a few days? There must be some type of food or concoction of some kind that I can try? I'd even be grateful for an old wives tale!

I'm 27 and have never had one, and I'm getting married soon so I figure I should go get one to make sure everything's ok before we start making babies - I was just looking it up and I read that you shouldn't get one till you've been having sex for a few years; I was a virgin until about a year and a half ago so... should I not get it?

The UKBA website is pretty confusing, I can't find what I need to do to get the visa - there's an option to search for the forms you need but of course it's not as simple as looking for a form called Transit Visa; you have to know the number of the form! And the Contact Us page is no help either as every single question seems to have a different place you have to go, and again none of the options seem to apply to me! Help!

Somehow my photos have ended up as NEF files instead of JPEGs - I'm trying to upload my holiday photos to facebook, when I connect my camera to my laptop it only recognises that there are four photos on my SD card; these four are actually JPEGs, and when I look at them on the camera they say 'Normal 3008x2000' in the bottom right hand corner, whereas the NEFs just say 'RAW'. How can I convert them all to JPEGs so that they can be uploaded?

If so, is it legal in a 'Western' sense?

I'm not working right now so I can't sponsor him, so my parents are going to do it. As part of all the documents etc. that we have to provide to immigration, we have to provide evidence of how they (my parents and my boyfriend) know each other. They haven't met yet so don't know each other personally, so my question is: As I'm the connection between the two parties, is it ok to provide evidence of a) how I know my parents and b) how I know my boyfriend - thereby 'linking' the two? (Also, if it helps, my parents have to provide a letter of invitation, so in that letter they'll be saying how he's their daughter's boyfriend and they want to bring him to Ireland to meet him and get to know him etc.)

I've really long hair and was thinking of chopping about half of it off when I wash it and have the conditioner in, so it'll be all wet and silky and straight (my hair's REALLY curly!). I've heard that doing it yourself is a bad idea because the scissors aren't proper hair-dresser scissors?

Comfortably I continue

On in my endeavours,

Romantic ideas banished for the

Moment from my mind;

I take the time to

Count my blessings in disguise.

Gone is my former

Fairy-tale self -

Forgotten,

For now disabled.

The beginning is nigh and

I am unafraid.

The fire twinkles in the dark

As the humanity is burned away

And I plunge deeper

Into my concrete casket of death,

A calm commotion hidden inside me.

They wonder about my

Particular type of innocence

And ask why,

But I run

Wild and free,

Without the answers.

The first two lines are from one of my favourite songs, I used them to start me off :)

I wish I had a river

I could skate away on;

Leave all my troubles behind

And forget the mistakes I've made.

I wish I had an ocean

I could sail away on;

So that I wouldn't have to

Be reminded every day

Of what I've done.

I wish I had a cloud

I could float away on;

Leave my worries on

The ground below,

Just let them flow

Out of my mind.

I wish I had a horse

I could ride away on;

Off into the sunset

Where serenity lives,

And the night sky gives

A second chance.

A cold wind

Snakes through my bedroom window -

Involuntary shivers tingle

On a limb,

A body that can't swim,

No-one can

Save me... so I sink.

I reach for

The sky, arms don't lie,

Fatigue overtakes me,

I ask the universe why.

My lungs drown

As the sun goes down,

Legs like concrete,

In clothes they are bound.

Will is strong

But only serves to prolong

The inevitable outcome;

The end of my song.

I begin to

Feel numb, my body succumbs,

The end is

In sight... I'm struck dumb.

Now my bond

To the Earth is gone;

Happy and free,

From my shell I abscond.

The corpse

Glances fearfully about,

Death's files are all around.

A curious wonder

Burns in the place where

A heart used to be,

But where there is

Now only a

Frightening contortion

Of torn muscle

And a runny red stream;

Life liquified...

Bones crack dryly

In the dark

Of a forever night's despair.

The gathered crowd

Mourns mechanically

As it looks upon the

Face that speaks no more.

He caught his death

While asleep in the river -

No sporadic violence

Nor an unjust hand; he was

Simply swept away.

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...there's no way I'm going to get it used within three days? It's a jar of curry sauce - I only use a couple of tablespoons mixed in with my rice!

I can hear a watch ticking;

It moves upon

My wrist, the gist

Of time passes by

Without permission or consent,

Whether or not we are content

To allow it to

Slip away from us.

I stare at the clock on the wall,

Unsafe in the knowledge

That these minutes

Will not come around again -

I will not get a second chance

To make something of them -

They will not be reborn

Afresh, unwasted.

All is defeat

As I sink into the comfort

Of my silent, anonymous grave;

My heart whispers the answers

To my deaf companions

And shows the proof

To the empty sockets

In the neighbourhood,

And the chance to defer

Does not occur

Until the deadline has past.

An ancient dust descends

Upon the dead room

And blots out the sun

In favour of a dread gloom,

A spiderweb here and there

For decoration.

And the bodies on the floor,

Innocent of the crime

For which they were committed

To this deathly place,

Cannot speak now,

They cannot protest their ignorance,

They cannot howl at the night sky

Seeking salvation from sin...

They cannot.

...that they couldn't open the attachment and could I "resend it in Microsoft Word format of in HTML format"! I don't even know what that means, never mind how to do it! So a) how do I do that? and b) what's wrong with it the way it is, why can't they open it?