TGIF :-) Hanky Panky Morris Dancing Special!

Hi Friday peops

We all had a lovely bimble round Staunton Harold Reservoir in Leicestershire last Sunday - all week at work they've been asking where I've been on my holiday! Yes - it was gorgeous - we are all a little sunkissed - also a little scabby right now - as Gary lost the path at one stage - and we got brambled -lost the path??? more like lost the plot - Eva won with 65 scratches and I came a poor second with 60 - we both looked very pretty at work this week I'm sure - not quite the lady Gilette 'silk scarf test' advert! See the pic - you can even see the ramblers tan starting or is it simply the dirt tide mark? On the plus side we all enjoyed our first Magnum of the season - I'm never going to get rid of this bum :-)

Continued flexing the old walking muscles on Monday round Earlswood lakes with Sarah - the bluebells have all gone now - so we're back to our tree hugging route round the lakes edges...nice and magical and energising. Continuing the girlie week had a nice catch up with Charlie (witchy friend) on Tuesday evening - one of those spontaneous e-mails at work during the day jobbies, and in the pub by sundown - fab! I finally gave her her Christmas present - cuddly bat.....to add to her collection apparently... and I got a lovely pendulum - think it's malachite - so shall be doing some dousing again - I need to practice - last time I had a bash - it was like a 'Vicky Pollard' pendulum - "Yeah but no but yeah but..." - didn't know whether to twirl or swing or do any bloody thing!

Spent Wednesday in therapy - alongside our clients I did a fitness class, gardening workshop, quiz - and came a poor second in our team! and the finale was a singing workshop - where one of our clients taught us all his African national anthem -and boy did we sound good :-)

Last night I met up with Nessa's Morris (aka Dave) and joined the First Sedgeley Morris Men for a hanky and stick dance - had a brilliant time - loads of pics on the blog - hysterical - I'm facing the totally opposite direction to everyone else in one - the rest should attract some caption competition entries.... I was quite a sweaty betty after my half ho's, hibs and hanky panky. I now know how much I am really missing the opposite sex - as I fell in love with one of the Morris Men - and there has to be a bit of problem when you find a man waving two white hankies sexy - maybe it has a hidden meaning and I'm drawn to a man who already looks like he's surrendering! :-D

We're off to Kinver Edge tomorrow with Steve on a figure of 8 walk - with a pub in the middle - and it's Sue's turn to drive - yeeeehaaaa!!! Plus - Phil and Cathy will be there from the Morris dancing - so I hope they bring their hankies - I'm ironing mine ready tonight!

Have a fab bank holiday weekend - looks like we're in for a deluge on Sunday and Monday - but that excites me now I have a big butt............. :-D

Kimmie x

TGIF :-) Dental reincarnation clinic Aciiiid!!!

Hi Friday peops,
Last weekend's bimble in Newnham was lovely - only got slightly damp - but it was warm so we didn't mind the good ol' 4 seasons in one day weather. Gorgeous views over the Severn Estuary - so I'll get a pic up here later.

Monday - I had an appointment at the Dental Hospital - and in my inimitable blonde style - when I eventually found the place, hidden in the back of beyond in Birmingham, I waltzed in and asked for the 'reincarnation clinic' at the reception desk - luckily the blonde receptionist knew I meant 'restoration' - so off I toddled.....anyway it turns out I have a phenomenal over-bite... and very interesting wearing down of my bottom deck and might end up with a 'Toyah Wilcox' lisp - which I'm thinking will be my only redeeming feminine feature, so something to look forward to? The acid environment is apparently wearing my teeth down... there's a whole list of things that can cause it, even the dentist suppressed a giggle when she listed them...... bullimia and vomiting....."Yo Tubs".....I don't think so......mind you, I was pretty gobsmacked at thje stuff that can erode your teeth - I mean we all know about coke - but did you know about herbal teas?
Then...the most embarrassing moment was when she asked me to slide my jaw forward... and I asked which one - top or bottom?
OK.........Go on.....try it

Yes - your top 'jaw' doesn't move cos it's attached to your skull.................I knew that...............

Had a bad hair week - though have managed to hide much of the day after a rather silly blonde moment well.............. actually I'm not blonde any more - I put the colour on and got into e-mailing and bantering on MSN.....lost track of time and resemble Morticia at the moment - so am spending as much time as poss in sunlight to try and lighten it!

I'm off into the hills of Derby on Sunday and will be wearing a large hat to hide my embarrassment - mind you Charlie I am looking more witchy....

The week has ended pooh like....I'm feeling old.... I've now reached that stage where my Vitamin supplements didn't fit through my letter box.. I wish I'd taken a photo... it's bad enough when they leave your fat old telephone directory propped up your front door - but it's not the sort of thing you want to come home to on a Friday when you're getting into weekend mode....alas the neighbours know my secret is out about how I stay looking so young....it's all those ginseng related pseudo Botox brick size vitamin supplements piled up to the letter box.... ;-)

............... Mind you I've managed to fool the neighbours on the business over them being concerned about how much alcohol I'm consuming - the buggers were counting my recycled bottles.... and wagging their fingers, so I've taken heed...........yes - I've started getting those cardboard cartons..hopefully they aren't sad enough to go though my paper recycling....

Fab news this week - Issie has a new job starting in the new term in September - and Alex is testing very expensive bows for her violin - I was gobsmacked at the price of those things - special mention next week for anyone guessing the cost - to the nearest thousand........
Hope you all have a lovely weekend
Kimmie x

TGIF :-) The Big Split - Men are from Mars - well some bloody planet anyway!

Hi Friday peops

Well, what an exciting weekend I had last weekend - ready to prepare me for my weekus horribilis.. Go get a cuppa or large glass of wine. it's a long one - Jane just delete..:-)

Last Bank Holiday weekend, the Roaches bimble was good - and with Sue driving - I had rather a lot of Marstons Smooth afterwards, and we drove home in our usual 'high fidelity' girls from Fame way - see the pic - guess which one is me?

While we were in the pub the boys ie Ken, Gary & Martin wanted to have a mention on the Blog - so I will do that - hello to you boys....and pop up their photos too - so you can see how lovely they all are...




The lovely Ken - holding it in.....











... and the lovely Gary in red


However .. The same weekend saw the start of the demise of the love affair of the year. Some of you had already guessed since I was a bit negative about the 'YES' group in my rather tiddly (hic!) TGIF - yes - sorry folks about divulging all your addresses - oops!.... that things were on the slide.....

Maybe Charlie we would still be together if I'd seen in May Day with a proper Beltane love feast? :Oh well..... can use the candles for something else now or go back to BOB ;-)

Yes....Peter - bless - has decided to find something better to do on a Tuesday and Thursday - our girlfriend/boyfriend night - he has been tempted from my clutches by a better offer from Dennis - free membership of the David Lloyd gym for 3 months - and what with my Council-run gym currently closed for refurbishment (probably one of the treadmills being cranked up?) I couldn't compete. I shall miss the happy clappy 'Yes Group' nights - especially as we had only recently learned the new clappy affirmation "1-2-3-YOU ROCK!" which Sarah and I so enjoyed around the lakes this week - Sue too when we bimbled round the Roaches last Monday - everyone is positively rocking here now. Waseem - you may want a private discussion on MSN before you say 'YES' to being rocked...

It really was doomed from the beginning when my first gift from him was a book on 'How to kick the habit' - ie chocolate - by Jason Vale - I mean, that is like me asking him to give up Dennis or Brian - I love chocolate ...I've taken it in to the charity book sale at work and hidden it in a rather large Hutchinson's Encyclopaedia under "C".. and instead Sue has loaned me James Runcie's 'The Discovery of Chocolate' and we plan to have a girlie night in with a large box of chocolates to read it together..........any other takers?

I wont be all negative though - we had some good moments and ended on a nice evening out at a rather relaxing poetry night - at the MAC - with some really good Brummie poets sharing the floor - some excellent observational, political and satirical writings - it has inspired me to write a tribute to him though which I shall publish on the Blog..

Sadly for Peter - the poetry night didn't really work for him - as on the journey home he was more enamoured - and the most animated I've ever seen him - with Meatloaf's new single which was on the reality show 'Joseph - any dream will dooooo' show last weekend.. bit heavy for me - I prefer Meatloaf's 'Paradise by the Dashboard song' - very funny - the girl butting in to have her say - and it takes me back to my younger days - more specifically in a liitle soft top MG - on a T.A. skiing trip - under the stars - and Halles Comet - with a very badly placed gear stick - still makes me smile.....

Sarah made me laugh though because I admitted that I felt I made an effort as I really do appreciate that men are from Mars and women from Venus, but like she pointed out it is made all the more difficult when they are actually on a satellite orbiting Mars....

Have a good un folks...

Kimmie x


...Relationships...
Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex is smarter....

Love...Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

The only way to understand a woman is to love her - and then it isn't necessary to understand her.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Yes Group - are they for real?

Well... 15 mins till it becomes a TGIS ;-)
Full moon week - nuff said....started and ended the week amongst the bluebells - which apparently signify 'humility' :-) aaaawwwww

Last Sunday..on a SPICE bimble - maybe you had to be there.. me and Sue had a wonderful cattle grid moment -we pretended to be a car driving over a cattle grid even though we were just walking - so I opened gob wide and was "AAAaaaaahhh" girlie soprano style - with a pretend perfunctory rumble over the grids as if driving a car....and we all had a girlie giggle.... and the boys following must have been as bored as they also thought it seemed like a good idea - Ken & John - suddenly we are hearing a 'boy walking version' of a car driving over a cattle grid - a baritone and bass cattle grid rumble....

Then Monday Sarah and I enjoyed a sunny woody bluebell moment.... photos on the blog when I sort my mobile phone out...and tonight despite the weather forecast being wrong (yes how unbelievable is that!!??) we still braved the woods and lakes....and put the World to rights as per.... what do you think of the shadow pic?
Wednesday we had a 'works do' groupie night out to see our Communications Occupational Therapist Am' Dram' guy Phil play Sir Danvers Carew in the musical version of Jekyll & Hyde - it was brilliant - but we were all a bit miffed at the sad ending - you know us girlies - we like our endings happy!

Thursday I went with Pete for my second 'Yes' group - maybe I am a 'special' needs person but I can't be doing with all this happy clappy stuff - and again came away feeling the most normal person there - which of course you all know cannot be true! The guy (Dave Turner) who did a presentation on memory tools was fab...made it funny- but for the life of me I can't remember the web site he gave us - so that worked...................NOT!

Sarah and Garry thank you all for your toast/egg responses - which I forwarded - Garry was convinced he was only going to get girlie responses but has had to concur with boy responses from US, New Zealand and other such diverse places as Erdington and Massachusetts!! They are still together and were last reported snuggling up after a sweaty tennis match tonight - so all is well in Earlswood.............. no doubt dipping their soldiers and the yolk is on us?

Have a fab bank holiday weekend folks - eyelids drooping..... night night x