Yo Friday peops
Had a lovely time at the SPICE Diamonds are Forever Ball last weekend - I went as 'Jaws' - kept flashing my crown - to distract from the lovely cold sore on the end of my snozzer! Despite that I still managed to attract a nice man to give us both a lift home. The headmistress surpassed herself and didn't fall asleep over dinner....... instead she saved herself for the Roulette table - and managed to drop off while still standing up - quite a feat - the next round of bets were on whether she would wake with a start and shout "HOUSE!" or just slide under the table..... I was asked out but totally wimped out at the last minute and had a bit of a guilt trip - but had some on line e-mail counselling - thank you Sarah and Garry :-/
I'm off to Barratts of Feckenham tomorrow to get myself some new feckin walking trousers - have finally admitted defeat - and going for size 14's as I'm off with the Golden Girls and Timmie next week to Arran (so no TGIF.. phew I hear you say). I'm looking forward to the break - work has been a bit poohy this week - big investigation - horse/bolt/gate jobbie if you get my drift! I also spent 2 days on a leadership course - now usually I'm quite cynical about these things, but actually the content was spot on - of course the proof will be in the pudding (incidentally the puddings there did not help with the walking trouser situation!) so we'll see. I've shared some of the things that I think were worth bringing back from the course - as I'm sure you'll be able to find use for them in your own places of work - let me know how you fare with them.
Have a fab Easter everyone - see you in 2 weeks
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Hi Friday peops
Did you miss me? We welcome Wendy back into the TGIF fold (and baby Nathan) - at last a boy amongst you little breeders!
Well, it was lovely in Arran with the Golden Girls and Timmie and we met some other nice SPICERs too - and one complete plonker - Johnny (from another SPICE group of course). He chucked up all over the Hotel Reception register on Saturday night, and was still irritatingly skunked on Sunday morning when a group of us got the ferry to nearby Holy island - beautiful tranquil Buddhist retreat (http://www.holyisland.org/) where they asked us if we would kindly refrain from certain things like drinking alcohol, bonking and swearing (SPICE!!?!?).... anyway we had to smile when this rather sweet Buddhist gent who met us in his baggy Oxfam cardie ended up swearing after 5 minutes of greeting us - after meeting Johnny - plus we broke the other rule about not taking alcohol onto the island as we reckon Plonker was still at least 80 % proof! It was too cold and windy to do the other - so I have come back with rosy cheeks (facial).... nothing to do with the Arran whiskey distillery.... your honour.
Mommy and daddy have also been away with the little brother to Rutland Water - apparently the weather wasn't so kind - although they enjoyed themselves.
Thought I'd send some Scottish jokes - the first one is for the headmistress who couldn't rouse for Easter Sunday service on Arran as it was before the dawn chorus - and the last one is for Millie who wasn't sick on the ferry to be fair despite it being the best and wettest rollercoaster ride, but wasn't so hot on the coach trips - memories of Goat Fell wont be quite the same as for those of us who kept our breakfasts down.... (http://www.walkingworld.com/results/walksummary.asp?method=thirdpartyid&wlkno=1838)
Have a fab weekend - I'm off sketching around Meriden on Sunday - memories eh you Kiwis - I'm meeting some other pencil cases at the Bulls Head first!
Lesley - Simon G from QE is running in London Marathon on Sunday! Manda hope Rich does OK on his sims in Bangkok x Ro' and Chris - stay safe in Nepal - thinking of u x
Have a good un
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Hi Friday peops
Spent a lovely relaxing day with SPICE "rambling with a sketch pad" - laaarf..... Julie took us to a riding stables - my attempts looked like pantomime horses - they kept turning so all I could see was their arses! Mind you had a better day than Millie who went on a different ramble and came home with a twig up hers! Then at Meriden Churchyard I didn't want to draw the church so I did the dead people instead - fell in love with one of the stones where Mr Thomas Balls had died in the 1800s - good job his name wasn't Harry.....Julie has grave concerns about my sketching now! I shall take my pencils to Snowdonia this weekend though and have another bash....
Tuesday I "helped out" at a wine tasting event - not the best of nights - our wine master was late having been stuck on the M6 - so in my haste to put out all the glasses niftily I smashed one to bits scattering glass everywhere and then confused people who thought they'd come to a knife throwing event when I tried to pass one over to poor Gary to slice his loaf - it flipped sideways and clocked someone - oops!
Mommy was 70 yesterday so we had a Bucks Fizz lunch - it's quite amazing how many candles you can get on a battenburg cake... then we went to see Miss Saigon - great choice Kim - how fabulous but how sad! The Dust of Life song really got to me!
Anyway, off to Snowdonia tomorrow and the weather looks promising so may get my legs out :-)
Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend
PS Ro & Chris are fine in Nepal - so that's nice news
Kim x
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Hello Friday peops Had a lovely break in Snowdonia - managed to get off the beaten track a bit - and avoid the bank holiday ramblers - we passed Snowdon - and it was like Tesco's - heaving! The boys (as always) found us some lovely peaceful walks so I've picked up my first ramblers tan - lovely brown knees! Managed to splat only once - humongously loud belly flop onto a huge muddy boulder in a mountain stream - no harm done - the stream's flow is now redirected - I'm sure there's a term for the anatomical geographical alteration of the environment? Have felt a bit Bridget Jones-ish since I got back and tried to eat sensibly for the rest of the week after scarily squeezing into my walking gear and hearing the stitching groan at every step like those submarine films when the whole sub is breaking up! I was spurred on too when Sarah told me she was making all her own breakfasts with healthy yoghurt and fruit and felt quite proud of herself - not least because she was justifying the frightening amount of Tupperware she has accumulated! I went up yesterday evening to Earlswood and we pounded round the three lakes in 50 minutes - so we will be doing that again I reckon if there have been no local radio reports of earth tremors?. I'd get myself a personal trainer if I thought it would do any good - Sam down under has done very well with hers (go girl go!!). Weather is glorious here in Brum - but of course will change spectacularly when I join Millie and Tim for a bimble in Bourton on Sunday. Off to the Farmers market again tomorrow - don't worry shan't repeat the same boring joke...............because actually I've decided I don't want a farmer anyway............ Have a great weekend folks Kimmie x
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Hello Friday peops
This is one week I'll be glad to see the back of - lots of shitty bitty things - and I know you're just dying to hear all about them.
Last weekend's relaxing Cotswolds ramble turned into a minor catastrophe after Tom Tom Sat Nav decided for a laugh that he'd take me an 'interesting' winding bumpity route along all the 'D' roads let alone B!! (Tim did say I could talk this one up - after he'd finished giving me that rolly eye blonde look!!). Anyway to cut a long wet story short Tom Tom (with John Cleese's voice) directed me to an impasse - a ford which looked more like a village pond - so flooded you couldn't see the ramp in or out! Three choices - reverse back up the windy bumpity road, or a 1:4 muddy track or the ford - I did what any good Risk Manager would do - I pretended I was in a four wheel drive and went for it - bumpity bump over the three foot boulders which had been washed down stream - and when I got to the other side and could hear a grating sound and with my little pink thing coughing and spluttering I got out all of a dither and fortunately only the number plate was half on and half off - she's still sulking mind you!
Had a better walk round Hatton on Tuesday night with SPICE and Earlswood with Sarah on Wednesday night - both filled with the beautiful smells of rapeseed fields and bluebells - much nicer!
Have tried painting the fence every opportunity - me and dad started last weekend with the sprayer - it effectively sprayed everything including me and dad and most of the plants! Each time I get geared up and the brush out it rains - so it's half done - so looks quite modern really. Last night though I brushed against my beautiful Acer and I'm not kidding a swarm of black fly landed all over me - I was in shorts and bikini top and they were making me itch like mad - and I forgot I'd got the loaded brush in my hand so (hope the neighbours didn't see) I was slapping 'Autumn Gold' all over me!
To round the week off nicely a bird crapped on my car yesterday - and managed to aim it perfectly to slide between the door and inside the car! I swear it was an ostrich the bloody amount!
Anyway I'm off to see Ladysmith Black Mambazo with mom tonight, and have Issie & Rob & the top violinist and fencer coming - if their extra curricular activities allow - and jut to get my own back on the bird world I'm doing ostrich stew!!!
Have a good un folks....
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Hi Friday peops
Bit better this week - no catastrooffes!!
Fabulous Saturday evening with Issie, Rob, Alex + Flips - with live entertainment between the courses! In between the crispy Boar pancetta, mango & cucumber starter, Alex played a 5 minute Einaudi piece on my piano - (waiting for the roasters y'see!!)... then after the Ostrich casserole and lemon pud we had a rendition of Massenet's Meditation on violin - with Flips making a very interesting mobile music stand - but what a mellow time...
Mom has treated me this week to an England thong, which Alex says is Chav! She should know being 17 - I'm sure it's only 'Chav' if you have it hanging out the tops of your jeans?.... which I shan't be doing.... yuk!
Got a last minute order for a wedding cake - which is taking the stress off a couple of lovely SPICE pals - so surrounded by mixed fruit soaking in brandy :-?
Walked round Waseley Country Park on Tuesday night and barricaded myself in for BB launch last night! Love a couple of the characters already - Pete (got Turets syndrome...) and Lisa - a seemingly 'genuine' Chinese girl... so there goes my summer. The frantic texting between Numpty and myself began in earnest - so 'Orange' will be getting their moneys worth!
Had this joke off Pat over the road last week - d'you remember the old days when neighbours would hang over the garden fence nattering - it's e-mail now.... :-D
Have a good weekend folks - off to Burton Dassett on Sunday walking..... if Tom Tom Sat Nav can find it!
Kimmie x
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Hi Friday peops
Well, apparently I've been outdone on the rain front - Lee (in New England, US) has had QUOTE..... " 12 inches of rain in 4 bloody days……..UNQUOTE....
So I suppose the fact that I'm now having to paint my fence panels half a foot a day and round my now full bushes is nothing in comparison - he's 90 feet above the river so OK - just a little damp.... whereas I'm fighting 9 feet of bush and soaked through - but I'll stop moaning ;-)
We had a slightly damp walk last Sunday around Burton Dassett near Oxfordshire - goodness knows what the trees were that we parked underneath but they were trashed when we got back!
We had a big visitor at work on Tuesday - Prof Aidan Halligan - Deputy Chief Medical Officer working for Dept of Health - anyway.... turns out he'd resigned his post on Monday - he was a genuine guy tho - and has only resigned cos he thinks the NHS reforms are not working and he doesn't want to be false - sound good guy eh?!!
My silver frock has arrived ready for the SPICE 25th birthday party in June - and I've lost 6lb so can get into the size 12 - wished I'd seen the courier put them through my letter box tho - they were still on the coathanger and protected like dry cleaners fully hung - so he must have had to post them through inch by inch!
Got the usual text frenzy going on with Heather, Numpty, Sarah B and mom - cos Big Brother has started - the usual mish mash of wannabees - that's the contestants not the texters....I'm liking the gay Canadian guy - Richard, Pete the Tourette's guy and Lisa the Chinese Mancunian....there are a couple of plonkers - the biggest being Nicky - do you remember those rubber dolls in the olden days you could put your fingers inside the back of their heads and contort their face? That's Nicky........... there is also one with £35,000 worth of knockers - also with a touch of the rubber face problem - who looks like my bro's wife - so that's not pleasant viewing for me either....
Well, off to try and do a bit more fence and washing before Sarah B arrives for a BB night in!
Off to Prague on Sunday with my Golden Girls - the headmistress has got us an itinerary - so if you are there and see a little row of middle aged gorgeous things walking across Wenceslas square in a 'school-style' crocodile - please say hello :-)
Have a great bank holiday weekend folks
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Hi Friday peops
Back from my 4 day 'stretch' in Prague - and ecstatic to be back in St.Irchley :-) It had some good points, the pavements, the food exquisite, the Gershwin 'Plink Plonk Plunk' played by a string quintet wonderful, the Charles Bridge band, the glass shops and the marionettes amazing....shame really - cos Prague has such potential to be so much better but I have never seen so many tourists being herded around and jostling for positions - and so Barcelona still holds the magic for me, city-wise.
Also... I note that if you take the PU out of Prague you get rage.... And so whilst you kept me in touch with Reality TV and the Big Brother news, goodness knows what my mobile bill will be like, I was having my own 'Reality check' and have to sadly announce that I have been booted out of the Big Sister House - but to be fair I managed a good length of stay - all things considered - I think - I mean my OCD and IBS can freak out the most patient of people, so I lasted till Tuesday night before I was told, by one of them that I was a 'Babe In Total Control of Herself'. It was all over the Monopoly money (Czech Kronas) - so it brought back happy memories of Monopoly games with my brother - and when I won those games, despite his own extensive personal loans from the Monopoly bank to himself.... he also used to acknowledge that I was a Babe In Total Control of Herself.... so I'm nothing if not consistent :-)
Sadly, not all people are blessed with the gift of directness, and can only manage subtle digs. I follow the Celestine Prophecy teachings though, and Ness sent me through an appropriate e-mail on Tuesday night - which I only picked up on my return - but everything in life is so perfectly timed isn't it? I felt a pang of real sadness while it was all going on, because I know how lonely it can be with one other person in the room, but to feel lonely with three is quite an experience. In the end it was easier to say nothing since the hole I seemed to be digging myself was getting deeper - yes folks - Kimmie quiet for two whole days!!!
I am going to Tutbury tomorrow to take part in a very obvious dig - an archaeological one - and feel ultimately prepared for it. This obviously means that after today there will be a reduction in numbers of my TGIF e-mails, however to show how proud I am to be in total control and direct I have copied them in for their swansong TGIF :-)
So, it's goodbye for now from the weakest link, but proudest B.I.T.C.H. x Have a good un folks
Jean - got your new address x Steve hope your shoulder is better - mom is being injected next week :-/ Happy tooth birthday Sammie - hope your little week down there has been good Jane - it's not too late to request a new roomie for Centre Parcs!!!
Kimmie x
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F :-) 090606Hi Friday peops
Unbelievable weather isn't it? ... sorry Manda n' Rich who are a bit chilly, and soggy Lee - it's around 30 degrees here.... and I've got my lovely ramblers tan back - ankle sox and various criss cross patterns on my back - rounded off nicely with builders bum tan too - after last Saturday's archaeological dig at Tutbury Castle - brilliant fun but hard work! Found some animal bones, pottery and wattle and daub - which the archaeologist got excited about!
Finally finished the fence - like you care.......and put the trellis up too - got some bummer blisters on my palms though.
See photo.....
Dad's birthday on Tuesday on the 6th of the 6th - he managed to reach 75 after dying once this year - so pretty pleased with himself - we had a devil of a day at Burford House - lovely gardens - stood and watched the Damsel flies bonking over a little brook, and visited a nursery on the way back and got loads of lovely grasses and alpines. Mom's had her shoulder injected today - got a nasty rotator cuff injury - at least dad wont have to put up with all the clobberings for a while.....
Nice bimble round Knowle last night and then back to Oliphant's for my daily 5 portions - it's a pudding place - and I managed Rhubarb crumble, Chocolate brownie, apple pie, raspberry pavlova and bread and butter pudding! Hoping to walk a bit more off tonite as Sarah B is coming over for a Big Brother girlie eviction nite in - hopefully it's goodbye Sam for those of you out there who give a stuff....
Thought I'd share some Colemanballs with you as it's World cup.... Have a smashing weekend folks
Congrats Andy & Bex - I hear you became officially entwined on beautiful Bardsey? Wonderful news.....
Love Kimmie x
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Hi Friday peops
Well, it seems like you too have exciting lives, and I'd like to share with the rest of you the lovely Owen's exciting news - he's managed to make his own wheelie bean - yes his broad beans are upwardly mobile now - in a wheelie plant container - well he is posh and from Hertfordshire.... I know Clive will like that one too, as he and Pat have their photos taken by wheelie bins on their holidays so they can show people when they've got back where they've 'wheelie been'..... honest - they do....I'll shut up now!
My little pink think gave me cause for concern this week as I could hear a horrible grating sound for about 2 days as I drove around.... listening intently so I could explain to the nice garage boys exactly what it sounded like....anyway, when I arrived in Clent the other evening for a SPICE bimble - Steve B pointed out my very flat back tyre - so turns out the noise was the wheel trim on the road....felt a bit girlie......oops! I only have one of those temporary wheels and that was flat too - and worst of all diarrhoea coloured - so she was not aesthetically pleasing - when the boys did their 'Penelope Pit stop' show - thankfully it was dark when I drove home! All sorted now :-)
Mom and dad have been dragged to the NEC garden show today by bro' - I hope they've taken a big trolley cos I have Clematis orders in and asked for lots of presents!
Looking forward to a sweaty hot weekend - baking wedding cakes and sorting birthday cake out. Shall be getting my Big Brother fix later - the mad text frenzy continues with the 'BB Four' every evening - and we're only a third of the way through I think! Eviction night tonight - Goodbye Grace..... Booooooooooo!!!!!!
Thought I'd share some more Colemanballs - Kevin Keegan's are funny - on the edge of my seat yesterday watching England - missing loads of opportunities - but then, hey life's like that! :-/
Have a good un folks
Kimmie x
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Hi folks
Weirdest week - at work snowed under with trying to explain the new electronic incident reporting system and risk register - which is not easy when you are not IT friendly - but typical NHS - giving these jobs to us blondes - who don't know the 'front end' or 'back end' of a web based system - and the biggest risk so far is that we all have the same password to use it!!! Hmmm...............
Today I was sitting with the Boss having my PDR on my KSF (or to other people in the outside world - CPD/IPR - y'know annual review ticky box jobbie....) - anyway was gazing round her to the traffic driving past so that I was suitably distracted thinking "What a load of balls...." when a lorry load of bells drove past... yes - honest - all dangling from a sort of scaffolding! So after three cups of coffee to keep me awake I flipped and the whole of my head followed my eyes to see round to get a closer look! How bizarre!
The lovely Owen in Herts. wants you all to know that his mobile runner beans have been joined by mobile tomatoes, sweet peppers, strawberries and French beans - I am even fortunate enough to have an exclusive photo - which I may send to Alan Titchmarsh. He also says people in Herts. don't watch Big Brother - I'll bet they are closet BBers!
I have finished the birthday cake for our Tone's mate - so he came to collect yesterday. I still have the wedding cake to finish on Monday - all ready to be stuck together which should be easy enough because everything in the house is sticking to everything else thanks to a fine film of icing sugar everywhere! It'll end in tiers I'm sure.
Anyway early e-mail cos off to Centre Parcs with a fab SPICE mate I met at new year - Jane - let's see if I can manage not to upset this one eh? Two of the ex-golden girls are going, which reminds me I must say congrats to Sue M - for meeting her Geordie boy Paul in Prague - and moving to Durham soon to be with him - well done you Sue! All I got in Prague was a cold shoulder (or three!) - so good to know it does have some positive memories for some! Got to get to CP early cos otherwise we'll end up in the kiddies bunk rooms.....Off to pack my best Bridgets now for the weekend - hope yours is a good 'un!
Oh, heard something interesting today - did you know that Camels chew in a 'figure of eight?........
Now hands up all those who tried doing it? I hope no one saw me in the car driving home listening to the radio doing it in my mirror!
Love Kimmie x
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Hi Friday peops
Had a brilliant weekend at Centre Parcs - arrived at 11am to be told that I couldn't get into the chalet till 3pm - disaster - I was on an undercover mission to get the only twin bedroom so me and Jane didn't end up in bunks -so hooked bike off car and pelted round faster than the Tour de France yellow vest to the chalet and gave the cleaner my saddest doe eyes and managed to wangle my way in and snaffle the twin - yeehaa!!
Our chalet roomies were superb - Andy was 'Peter Kay' so kept us laughing all weekend with his dry one-liners. Johno was/is Manchester's SPICE Social events co-ordinator - and made a mean vodka jelly but had crap taste in CDs - so we hid them. Me and Donna cycled back from the various Friday night parties - bad idea - still got the bruises.... Mike spent all weekend trying to teach me to talk 'Manchestaw'! and there was Moira - the quieter pretty one.
Jane dragged me to play badminton - and tho I'm hopeless shuttling the cocks, I had a great time. Volleyball was another matter. Jane decided to enter us into a game - despite me being not appropriately supported on the boob front... and I have more respect now for those babes who play beach volleyball in the Olympics - cos I just looked like Dick Emery running round falling over and running into the net - with my snozzer catching in it! The grand slam of the volleyball tournament was when I ran into a man tower and I was suspended for 5 seconds in mid air like a Tom and Jerry cartoon before crashing to the sand in a belly flop!
Saturday night party - silver theme - everyone made a huge effort - Jane got me some long silver eyelashes which I fluttered at a guy from Manchester called Mark - poor thing he was blown away with the backdraft! We all had a very early morning to bed - Jane and Mike had the brilliant idea of going off for a dawn picnic of Vodka shots!!
Mark came down to Brum and I've shown him the delights of the Lickey Hills today!! He is coming down to go eating and drinking at Cannon Hill with Heather, Sarah and me next Friday.
Hope you all have a great weekend
Kim x
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