September views from my window...

This week's A to Z

A is for "I'm renaming it 'Antisocial networking!"
B is for giving blood, buttock clenching (yes, that's the exercise recommended whilst you're giving blood!), my lovely, comfy bed and dreaming of brownies; the yummy, chocolate, sticky, melty kind
C is for confusion, counting the days till Lisa's back from her hols and chicken dinner :)
D is for dead cygnet :( and the anticipation of Downton Abbey :)
E is for EVITA; brilliant performance at the hippo, even though I did lose the plot at times!
F is for fragile
G is for getting my mojo back
H is for happy, happy, happy home
I is for impossible
J is for just wishing the days away, which I never do, jive dancing and the delicious calm of a Japanese restaurant, Soushi
K is for K xx xx and keeping my cool!
L is for losing my balance, losing weight and unconditional love x
M is for missing the people I love, moments you'll never share and creamy, white mozzarella, yum
N is for narky, nuisances
O is for just get OVER yourself!
P is for plum wine on ice - delicious japanese wine, plasters and piggy people
Q is for the thought of silky peace and delicious quiet
R is for relentlessnessnessnessnessssss
S is for surprises, not always nice ones, Saturday shopping to buy new scarves and sushi
T is for Tim, Tim the property man :) ten roses (2 hit by the recession!) and new baking tins :)
U is for whoever lovely is reading this - YOU
V is for lovely, gorgeous china V&A mug which I bought to cheer me up
W is for working nocturnal hours
X, Y and Z are just my impossible letters
Phew, I feel better already, thank you! X

Strictly Jive...

Best bit about this weekend was the start of Strictly! It was more like a preamble to the start, which will begin in 3 weeks time, but it was still worth watching, twice! Strictly always makes me think of the lovely MGC, and our marvellous evenings watching the dancing inbetween playing with paper and glue. So today I played with paper and glue too, which made me feel a whole load better. Ginger would be proud of me, though she doesn't know it yet. I have been talking and thinking of going to dance classes for a long time. More than a century in fact. And I planned to go last week after work. I thought of loads of excuses as the hour got closer and even tried staying late at work to avoid having to turn up. I drove home convinced that I'd be too late but I wasn't. In fact, I drove onto the car park with about 5 minutes to spare. I had thought about sitting on the car park to see who might be going too but after giving myself a good talking to, I went inside. Not one that's usually shy of meeting new people, I soon got into the swing of things and I'm now enrolled on the jive class - and they're expecting me again next week, woo hoo! I'm hoping that as the weeks go by I'll become more accomplished at jive and then I'll be able to pick up some tips from the professionals on Saturday night - ha ha!