» Gyms

Everyone remembers the time...
I have a membership card to a country club in mid Wales and I was in the gym there. It's a holiday place and most people are out playing golf or tennis, plus the grounds are much nicer for exercising and walking dogs and so on than being cooped up. This means that the gym area is always empty. Instead of air conditioning there are french doors which are always kept open. I was doing some stretching on the yoga mats on my lonesome before I tackled some proper exercise. I was mid stretch with my leg on a big old squidgy exercise ball when it is shoved out of the way! I not-so-gracefully fall sideways, just in time to see the collie dog bounding out of the french doors with another exercise ball being pushed with his nose.

I was giggling too much to carry on after that.
(Mon 13th Jul 2009, 12:31, More)

» Will you go out with me?

I will never forget the shy girl
who was helping man a stall at the church Christmas fayre, when I was but a young slip of a Brownie Guide.

"I like your brother, i'm going to ask him out!" she whispered to me. I was confused.

The girl guide uniform betrayed that my brother was in fact, my sister with a severe pudding bowl haircut from mum.

The poor girl guide fled and we were left to man the stall ourselves.
(Tue 2nd Sep 2008, 21:07, More)

» Banks

The bank I go to is lovely
It is run by two ladies who are best friends, and know everyone by name and have a chat with them. Their kids go to the local school, they jog together at the gym and eat picnic lunches on the grass outside the bank. When I was young I very much wanted to be bank lady #3 to be friends with them, as they make it look fun!
(Sat 18th Jul 2009, 16:24, More)

» The Boss

I work in a pub
My landlady is an alcoholic. She is obsessed with doing the suduko in all the newspapers "before the punters get a chance" and is never without a glass of rosé in hand. As is often the case with drinking, you never know if she's going to be very lovely or very mean. Once she began telling me off for something or other, but fell over sideways which somewhat hindered her intimidation technique. Another time I was sure she was going to tell me off again, when she shrieked "surprise!" and showered me in handfuls of black jacks and fruit salad sweets.
(Fri 19th Jun 2009, 14:05, More)

» Celebrities part II

I went to a Phillip Pullman lecture
And took some notes because he was speaking about children's literature and it was interesting. However he had a bit of a problem starting up the lecture and getting his presentation onto the screen. I wrote "Phillip Pullman can't do Powerpoints" at the top of my book.

It was the first thing he saw when he autographed my book after the lecture. I tried to laugh it off, but my face was roughly the colour of the sun and he half-grimaced and got me out of the queue as quick as possible...
(Fri 9th Oct 2009, 8:13, More)