Family Affairs and other matters

IT’S A MYSTERY

I taught my usual Wednesday morning class of stretching and strengthening at posh club today. I brought my bag of stretchy bands with me to do some hamstring stretches.

As I was distributing the bands around the room to each person, a pair of black lacy pants fell out onto the floor. Thankfully they were already all lying down on the floor so I think I got away with it but HOW did they get in that bag?

It’s a mystery.

An embarrassing mystery.

Not professional Pilates teacher behaviour at all.

“THE WANTED” – “ALL TIME LOW”

We are playing “All Time Low” a lot in our house at the moment, which is the debut single coming out next month by the incredibly gorgeous new boy band “The Wanted”.   Personally, I think it will be the No.1 single within the month. Lets see.

Here is the video of their new song. Very strong for a first single I think. Going to be big:-

My daughter loves them and is deliriously happy because she trapped them at the Clothes show and managed to get a very good photo of them all with her:-

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CYBERMUMMY CONFERENCE

My daughter has been collecting photographs of gorgeous hairstyles. I hadn’t realised why until yesterday. Apparently she has to get her hair done before her father picks her up from my house for the wedding. I offered to do it for her but she said “mum, are you KIDDING? You’d make it look rubbish on purpose”. I SO wouldn’t. I think short pink hair with shaved sides would look really good with her gorgeous grey dress.

We went to book her appointment yesterday – “I’m having my hair done for my dad’s wedding” she told them with me standing next to her and it was sort of fine when they looked at me in a puzzled way, but also sort of really really weird. Then she called her dad to tell him that it was going to cost £50 (!!!) and he said “fine, but ask your mother to pay”.

Expecting me to pay for my daughter’s hairstyle for my ex-husband’s wedding to Builder Bloke’s ex-wife just about says everything I need to know about where I stand in the equation.

Precisely nowhere.

Needless to say lovely daughter texted him to say “I don’t think it would be fair to ask mum, she might get upset”.

Thankfully, I’ve got the most perfect day on Saturday for MAJOR distraction purposes….I have to go out early so won’t get to see her looking beautiful for her father’s wedding which is probably for the best because it will kill me and then I’d cry and spoil it for the kids. Instead I’ll be at the CyberMummy Conference (I’m sure there is a perfectly good explanation but what are the CyberDaddy’s doing with their day?) where I will get to meet lots of my invisible friends in the flesh and learn what an RSS feed is (yes, I know that after three years I should get all that stuff). Even better for total distraction tactics is that I’ve been asked to speak which means I’ll be shitting myself for the entire day and not thinking about my daughter’s expensive hair style at all……

Just perfect.

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“THE RAT PACK” REVIEW AT RICHMOND THEATRE

Do not confuse this brilliant production with a regular musical.  There is no storyline as such. Instead you are transported right back in time to 1962 when the legendary combination of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr joined forced to play at the Sands Casino in Las Vegas.   We were just part of an evening celebrating the incredible swing talent of these three world famous entertainers.

The whole production was just immensely cool.  The actors played and sang their parts amazingly well with Tam Ward as Frank Sinatra, Mark Adams as Dean Martin and Giles Terera as Sammy Davis Jr.  We got to imagine we were actually part of the original audience, listening to them sing all those enormously popular songs including “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”, “My Way”, “New York, New York”, “What Kind Of Fool Am I”, “That’s Amore” and “Everybody Loves Somebody”.

The trio just swaggered about the stage – drinking and smoking and laughing and generally taking the piss out of each other.  It was funny to watch with lots of non PC jokes you could relax and enjoy and an extraordinary reminder of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin’s total lack of racial discrimination which must have been quite something given the era.  Of course they called Sammy Davis Jr “smoky” and made lots of jewish jokes, but they also made very rude mother-in-law and girlfriend jokes.

Mark Adams as Dean Martin was particularly good.  He introduced himself by saying “Hello, I’m Dean Martin and I’m an alcoholic” and “do I look blurry to you?” and proceeded to slosh his way through his set with a huge amount of style and charm.  It just made us all yearn for that lifestyle back in a time when everybody enjoyed themselves hugely without worrying about the consequences of over-indulgence.

Three gorgeous women wearing dresses that oozed sex appeal made up The Burelli Sisters and they added the extra touch of glamour required.  This talented cast was backed up by a very tight 15 piece orchestra.

My father would have loved it.  I took an older couple who thought it was brilliant  - “a damn good show” was their summing up of events.  I slightly expected not to love it myself, but it was FAR better than I thought it would be.   I think we should all take our teenagers.  They’d learn a thing or two about life.

It is only on until Saturday July 3rd in Richmond but I see they are then moving on to Whitley Bay followed by Leeds so try and go if you can.

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CLOTHES SHOW LONDON

My daughter attended the London Clothes Show yesterday and had an amazing time. Mainly because she met “The Wanted” a new boy band. All very cute.

She has written a review:-

“It was an amazing show. The fashion show itself told a story based on “Fashion Capitals of the World” starting with Tokyo, then New York, Italy, Paris and finally London each with the outfits themed around it.

Here are the new trends for the season:-

Playsuits (all in ones but with shorts)
Floral dresses
Bodycom (very tight/leotard style clothes)
Very girly, short dresses
Karky stuff (like Cheryl Cole military look)
Sparkly things (lots of glitter)
Floral headbands

For the older woman like my mum – maxi dresses”

Great. So I’m not allowed to wear girly, sparkly, flowery stuff. Just long to the ground dresses that cover everything up.

She gets to wear this:-
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and this…

and I get to wear these:-

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WE WEREN’T ROBBED – WE WERE THRASHED

No excuses. We can say that goal shouldn’t have been disallowed. Or that Heskey shouldn’t have come on instead of Crouch. Or that Theo Walcott, who can at least run should have been there. Or that the Manager somehow demoralised the team, or that, or that, or that. But no. I think it goes deeper [...]

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END OF TERM VIDEO’S

My teenage son says there is no point in going to school today because the only thing he is meant to be doing is watching a video about a woman with two heads in Biology whilst his teacher goes to Henley. I’m not sure I can argue with that one. Why do they all have [...]

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