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Kelly Clarkson - I Do Not Hook Up really put a smile on my face. A song you can relate to.

We really are in a world where anything goes. As discussed in Cherry Picking 1.0 we have so many pallets to pick from.

• We can think, act and dress however we like. It's about being yourself -  the most sparkly version. If you can forget labels/stereotype given to us by (ourselves and/or) others, it leaves us free to be your 100% best, sparkly self.

• Cherry pick from who or what inspires you - celebrities or otherwise.

• If a reinvention is in the works, then do it- Maddonna does. Reinvention can be gradual. It can be subtle enhancements or changes as you try out differents attitudes or looks.

• The aim of cherry picking from looks, attitudes, anything is to feel good about yourself and add to your confidence. Confidence is the thing that allows Lady GaGa to pull of everything she does, including the outfits.

• I am loving Who Do You Want To Be Today?: Be Inspired To Dress Differently which is a cherry picker's guide to how to borrow the look and the attitude of twelve different looks. It's a fun and inspiring little read.

• A little Fake it till you make it works a treat... 'imitate confidence so that as the confidence produces success, it will generate real confidence'.

• I just adore Lady Gaga's words 'I operate from a place of delusion - that's what The Fame's all about. I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then fight so hard for it everyday that the lie becomes the truth."

• Many will totally disagree, and that's fine, we're all inspired by different things. Each to their cherry picking own.

• Cherry pick what and who you listen to. Switching off the news is a good thing sometimes. Strive for a little self-awareness.

• Listen, watch, read whatever it is that makes you feel good. Take what what clicks or makes sense from them, don't feel obliged or pressured to do everything they say or recommended and leave the rest. Just like this website.

Homework- reading (optional): Who Do You Want To Be Today? / Reinvent Yourself

The Gothic Towers of Cardiff CastleWhat's behind that black facade?

• Historically speaking, the Goths 'were an Eastern Germanic tribe who played an important role in the fall of the western Roman Empire.

In the UK, by the late 1700s, however, nostalgia for the medieval period led people to become fascinated with medieval gothic ruins. This lead to a Gothic Revival resulting in breath-taking architecture- like at Cardiff Castle and The House of Westminster.

The gothic novel of the late eighteenth century, a genre founded by Horace Walpole with the 1764 publication of The Castle of Otranto, was accountable for the more modern connotations of the term gothic... establishing much of the iconography of later horror literature and cinema, such as graveyards, ruined castles or churches, ghosts, vampires, nightmares, cursed families, being buried alive and melodramatic plots.

By the late 1970s, there were a few post-punk bands labeled "gothic" and by the 1990s, Victorian fashion saw a renewed popularity in the goth scene, drawing on the mid-19th century gothic revival and the more morbid aspects of Victorian culture.' (Remixed from Wikipedia)

• Fashion wise, Stargazer describes Goth as 'Wearing black clothes and fascinated with the romance of the macabre this fashion is about the individual wanting to rebel against every day fashion and representing themselves as individuals in the sea of everyday mundane fashion. Often described as moody and rebellious the look is taken from a bygone era that represented romance and dark mystery.'

• And Gothic fashion is being referenced in modern fashion, in the anything goes culture that we are seeing... see ASOS with it's gothic-glam take.

• Wikihow has a brilliant guide on How to Be Goth - keeping the emphasis that it is about the individual, creativity, understanding the subculture, music and fashion but staying true to yourself!

• I like to appreciate Goth as a subculture, and cherry pick from it. Rebelling against the trend to have tango skin. Dark makeup, clothes accessories are cool to mix up a look or exude an attitude. Mix Goth with electroclash. Goth can stretch to any hair colour too! Enjoy it.

Channel 4 are great for their near the knuckle comedy. They've given us Balls of Steel and The Inbetweeners... which fall off the edge of decency.

Now we've got the TNT Show, a ballsy, topical entertainment show that is sharp and stamps all over being PC. Catch it Thursday nights, just after 11am!

They do a spoof talk-show (which I think is quite clever) called JW Investigates, where the presenter and guests/actor wind up the audience by taking highly controversial stance. Even the title's are an excellent piss-take of certain talk shows.

The funniest bit of the show is Dictionary Corner. A guy with a very plummy English accent reads out definitions of slang words, then backs it up with an example. Too funny.

It has the 'you know you shouldn't laugh but you still do' factor with Gilbert's Special Report, where a crew of people with disabilities help Gilbert interview various celebs (including the Cheeky Girls), with pretty funny results.(Click here for Channel 4's response on this delicate area.)

You can watch the TNT show on 4oD here!

I hated PE at school. I'm not sporty and not competitive. I've only detached that stigma from exersize in recent years as I realise you need to do it for health/looking good rather than just humiliation.

There was only one thing I was ever good at... horse riding. I had lessons for ten years or so when I was younger and at the 'height' of my riding days, had two ponies, Dinky and Chester.

Then boys come along, and growing up and life gets in the way. So ten years on... (except the trek in Lanzarote last year) I've started riding again!

It's a bonding thing with my mum and we just had our first lesson. It was BRILLIANT!! It all comes back so naturally.

• Outlay: around £30 for boots, £30 for hat, and £4 for leggings (from Primark!). Lessons are £17.50 per person in a shared lesson like ours.

• Girls -put a sports bra over you normal bra to keep boobies in check on the rising trot.

• The Place: Caistor Equestrian Centre

• On doing that something you've been meaning to do for years... find a way, just do it!

And now I want to get as good as I used to be, so we're gonna go every week, which I can afford by making sure I take pack up lunch to day job. Motivation right there. Next I'll want a pony - I love being a country bumpkin (Tongue. Firmly. In. Cheek. Maybe!)

(*Natasha Bedingfield - Wild Horses)

And to wet your appetite, iPlayer has some Torchwood radio plays, voiced by the TW cast.

I'd hadn't really listened to storytapes since I was a kid (He-Man, over and over again!) but these are brilliant... just like listening to a proper episode.

Give them a listen, and remember Torchwood, BBC1, 9pm on Monday 6th July!

I'm a couple of months into having my first rabbits... and it's been interesting.

Perno is just a bundle of love, he is sweet, likes cuddles, eat carrots out my hand, tries to kiss everyone...

Black on the other hand... I've had more arguments with him... and bites... than I've had with great danes, labradors and horses put together!

You've got to watch the quiet ones... at first he'd just sit in the corner pretending not to be there, and now he's decided he's boss. He squares up to anyone walking past the outside run, chases Perno around, pees at us and bites.

And both of these rabbits have had the same amount of handling, food, love and big enclosures. I don't get it!

I'm waiting for their balls to drop... according to Bunnies For Dummies neutering helps calm down naughty and dominant behaviour. Fingers crossed.

And to add insult to injury... I'm off to get a tetanus jab today- had my last one when I was 4, so I'm like 10 years overdue. Black went for my finger (for good measure?!) this morning and has drawn blood!

Butter wouldn't melt... yeah right!

It's a girl thing and we know how to deal with them. I don't want to see adverts about them - no matter how smart or funny they are.

Call me a Mother Nature hater, but surely adverts for condoms are a better use of airtime??

You've got to love a good post-apocolypse story.

After Hollywood appears to have given up on the Resident Evil movie franchise, Japan hasn't, and has released Resident Evil Degeneration.

It's a 100% CG and takes part in the same universe at the games. We see classic Resi charactors Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield taking the lead. A twisty storyline typical of japanimation and tonnes of references to the game, this is a very cool film.

Finally an expansion on the game, where Hollywood went too far off the beaten track (in Resi 3). And as I said in the Transformers 2 review 'CGI and special effects- I think movies have peaked'.

The only improvemnts to be made are on CGI people- the walk and the talk still looks a little Thunderbirds-esque. But as far as backgrounds (even far off shots of people), they're good enough to make you do a double take.

If you like anime, Resident Evil, zombies or even just cartoons, this is a good watch!