Lady of Leisure

The madre came to stay and we ended up lapping up some serious luxury...

I am VERY excited to say that a couple of weeks ago I got to stay at this beast over the weekend (good work daddy crouch with the free points... obviously I could not afford such an extravagant gift for my mums Christmas pressie!) BUT one spa day ticket for the madre later, and we've ended up with a lovely night away on the Thames.

Anyway, we had a nice day trip out on Sunday, shopping and generally mooching around Covent Garden, watching some poor street entertainer attempt to bring out a crowd in the freezing cold and then back to the hotel for a bit more spoiling.

The view from our room was amaze, we managed to wangle an upgrade, the beauty of being female....

And check out the view on that beast.

The next day it was time to treat ourselves at the spa.

I have to say I'm mega jel of the mother though... I booked her a 30 minute massage, and, when phoning to book I was asked whether a male massuse would be ok, to which I promptly replied YES... and then I found out his name is Danielle... Immediately I knew this would be a wise decision, conjouring up images of a beautiful tanned French/Itallian male, however the madre informs me that he was not a French God as we had originally hoped. Disappointing, but he did a mean massage so we'll forgive him of his British origins. I speant the morning taking advantage of all the other facillities, sauna, steam room and jacuzzi and so feeling thoroughly pampered it was time to leave.

I don't think I could do it full time, but being a part time lady of leisure would be a little bit lovely.

Strewth Mate... Aussies are back

I have noticed a running theme that seems to have returned into my life for February...

the Aussie charm.

Now most of my friends will know that I am no stranger to the odd Aussie accent and regularly dapple in Aussie slang, but this was a fair old while ago, largely inspired by those lovely peeps down at The Bat and Ball. We revelled in serving customers with Aussie accents and of course always got extra little bit of excitement when we actually got to serve real life Australians whilst rocking a bonza accent.

So when Grace introduced me to the world of Bogan Bingo of course, like any self respecting Bat and Baller I was loving it...

Aussie, 80's themed retro bingo

What a fantastic idea.

The two presenters were amazeballs... largely because they were dressed up like this...

But also because their hillarious mockery of all things Aus (they were actually Australian which makes this ok) was incredible.

Having to pic your winning prize from a board of images such as that dog out of Neighbours (no I cant remember the name), Jesus (because he has a mullet and therefore must be Australian) and Skippy pretty much sums up the tone of the evening, as does the air guitar competition that is taken VERY seriously at half time followed up with a slow mo victory walk for the winners.

Obviously after a couple of bottles of wine this makes for an amazing night out & gives you enough quotes to annoy everyone at work for days after.

Comedy Gold.

If anyone comes to Clapham, make sure its on a Thursday & I'll see you at the Underdog.

The reigniting of the Australian flame in my life has also been followed up with the decision to create our very own Harry Potter from down under. I'm sure you will be as disappointed as I was to know that the fact that you can watch Harry Potter in Australian on the DVD does not mean that it is subtitled with "G'day mate" and all the other aussieisms that we know and love. As a result of this cruel realisation we thought it would be a good idea to do Disney a favour and create our own version.... we have a wonderful character list including faves Ringo, Dingo and Shane (Ron, Hermione and HP), Steve Irwin (Dumbledoor) and Karl & Susan Kennedy (the Weasleys). And highlights to include the first BBQ at Hogwarts (The opera house), pints of fosters down in Ramsay Street (butter beer in Hogsmede) and the rise of Hugh Jackman (Lupin, the werewoolf).

Filming is to commence in the coming weeks... watch this space.

New fave advert

And unsuprisingly it's from T Mobile once again... these guys can't put a foot wrong in my books... I swear the only ads that I ever share are from them!!

Sooooo now here's the question...

What else does Britain love?

Oh what a wonderful facebook campaign I see ahead, can't wait to see what they come out with pre olympics, and fingers crossed they'll be another spoof for the Jubilee... we can hope it will be Kate & Wills eat your heart out