They’re supposed to go to this….Sew…Last weekend I went to a dance. An Enchantment Under The Sea Dance as they did in one of the greatest movies EVER made. Organised by Nicki of PPHV, The Positive People Of Hill Valley Preservation Society, which I have mentioned in another post. This was all organised to raise money for the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinsons research and to pre celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the date that he goes Back To The Future (Which was 4.29pm) October 21st 2015.
So I went with my partner in crime Connie. As I have said before, My go to girl for girlie stuff. Sew as usual I was late, as I had a late night and started doing my hair late:took way too long. I didn’t have a dress, which I had planned to make, left that till late as well, so panic bought 5 dresses hoping one would look the biz and one did. If I do say so myself…what dya think? 😆
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There was a friend that I hadn’t seen for ages and he invited me down to Wales to spend a few days. He was my Manager for 5 years and became the person that I phoned from work on a Friday afternoon. We’d talk about work and personal stuff, it was such a nice way to end the week. He became ill a little while ago, so when we finally were able to contact each other again, I jumped at the chance as I knew he was on the mend.
I got the Coach down there so I could chill out and have a snooze; the journey was only 3 hours long. He met me from the coach and we gave each other the biggest hug.
We chatted for hours and he tried to fatten me up on homemade welsh cakes. I met his daughter and Grandson who has the most plump cheeks I have seen on a child for so long. I had to stop myself squeezing them like I do to my Nephews.
On the first day he cooked a fabulous meal and I slept in a big bed with an en-suite.
The following day we went to meet another of my ex managers who now runs a coffee shop (The Coffee Post) in Fairford, which in the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire.
It is picturesque little town.
Welcome to FairfordThe Coffee Post
Soy milkshake and green tea The local Parish Church
The local Church, beautifulGraveyard, not spooky at allLike an old Bonsai TreeLooking at the old watermill, which is now a private residence
Sew today, as we were both off for the summer holidays my Mum and I decided to do stuff.
I’d heard that there was a lavender field near us last year during the winter, not so good to see in the cold (plus it’s closed). I told my Mum that we should go but she thought it was too far away. I’d heard that in my area, back in the day, it was full of lavender fields; there are a couple of streets named Lavender Road and Lavender Gardens, so knew this too be true. Make a long story short, we went. It’s a 30 minute drive from where we live and it was a beautiful sunny day.
It was only £1 to enter, which helps them to maintain the gardens from April to October. The smell was amazing. A huge field of lavender bushes that had a heap of bees in them. When we were away from the crowds we could hear the faint buzz of the bees. I tried to get a photo and almost succeeded. Tell me if you see them or not…
Lavender Fields foreverMe and the MumkaNow can you see them?See any bees?
Sew, as the boy was off work today, as he is working on Saturday we decided to take in some culture and go To Hever Castle which is only an hour from South London. Its expensive to do the Gardens AND the castle but I wanted to, so we did. We couldn’t take pictures of the inside of the castle, unfortunately, but I have WAY too many pictures of the Gardens, which I will edit and post tomorrow, not all of them mind!!
Sew… a few months ago I saw some pictures of a very pink room with some very pink marshmallow type chairs, this piqued my curiosity. Then about 3 weeks ago I was reading Time Out and saw the Pink Room and the Chairs…Happy Happy girl. I discovered that they were at Sketch, a restaurant in Mayfair. I immediately went to my go-to-for-girlie-things friend and asked if she wanted to go…Of Course!
I booked online and we were on our way. I was planning on wearing a cute dress but the weather was not going to agree with me so I had chosen nice jeans and a floaty blouse combo. Fifteen minutes before I was due to leave, the weather changed and I went with the dress. 😎 I teamed this with white socks and my new black loafers. If it’s good enough for Alexa Chung is’s good enough for me. With a HUGE black handbag, I was ready to take on Mayfair!
Both my friend and I actually arrived on time which is so unlike us, so we did a small High Five. We got told where to go and went to the Gallery Room. There are 4 rooms in total. The Parlour, The Lecture Room, The Glade and The Gallery which is where we were heading.
We got shown to our table and I reminded our waitress that I’m a vegetarian so a few tweaks were made to our Cream Tea selection which made me a happy. I choose White Pearl tea and my Friend choose the Earl Grey.
A few minutes later our Sommelier came and asked us which Champagne we would like and we choose the Brut. I had to stop my self chugging it down and sipped it sophisticated like!.
I won’t go into detail about what we had in case you want to go but, it was divine. One thing I will say is that the Panini was absolutely LUSH.
Lots of girlie chat was exchanged while we ate (nibbled) and sipped champagne. Then we were asked which scones we would like. We picked plain and decided to spread the Devon way. Clotted Cream and then Jam. I only had the one pot of tea which was enough for me as I’m not a massive tea drinker but it was beautiful none the less. Below are a few pictures of Sketch.
So why had I decided to do this colour run? Well, for one, I thought it was on a Saturday and 2, I thought it would be a lot of fun, with a bunch of mates and would be mates. Angelique made a WhatsApp group and the messages started. Message back and forth about when we should be meeting up, what we were wearing, and just random girls stuff.
I suggested 2 weeks before the run to meet up for drinks to discuss running strategies, outfits etc. It just ends up being a boozy early evening in the beer garden & Night inside. I didn’t mind as one outfit mentioned took my fancy-TUTUS
Tutu And Snowboarding Goggles
Although excited for the following week, I was none the wiser as to where it was, what some of the other girls looked like, what time we were running and some of the finer details.
I eventually got this info from my Angel and my mind was at rest.
On Saturday I pimped 4 pairs of goggles and decided which 2 of the seven tutus that I had received we’d need! Ordering panic! I babysat my Nephews that evening.
Sunday rolls around and after some more messaging in the morning- I got up, had a shower ate some breakfast, done some general running around the house and was picked up at 10.30.
We met up with another Sam, got our T-shirts and waited for the other to arrive.
We were due to have our warm-up at 12.30, which was basically a short Zumba class. but before that could happen we had to get down, low and when the beat dropped…it went a bit crazy. A lot of people had paint sachets that they just threw in the air ad you get covered. It was all the pre-run party to get you in the mood.
Jumping with paint Moving Picture Colour Run In London 2015
We all (14 of us) made our way to the start, where you could see the obstacles from and waited then another 20 minutes before we actually went. The first obstacle just a wooded upright panel with footholds on it. Then we got sprayed with paint. Now, this was good paint as it was just coloured cornflour which doesn’t stain clothes or hair.
So, not to go into boring detail, various inflatable obstacles were tackled that we had to either crawl through, under, over or push through and eventually we all finished. We slid down a giant slide and walked through some foam. Collected a pack of colour paint, joined the end party and threw it and danced again.
