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Karon x

TV Run

You know how sometimes things just sort of happen once you've been putting a wee bit of thought into them (Law Of Attraction - more on that another day), well I've been moaning a bit to myself (and anyone who will listen really) about how I need some motivation to get fit again and do more running.

Okay I know I started the running again with the New Year after my 'foot break', but I have to admit girls, I've been less than keen and any excuse whatsoever (weather - always a good one round these parts, something/anything else to do -  gym shoes being stolen by elves - the usual stuff really) will keep me from donning the trainers and hitting the lane.

Well a few weeks ago I got an email from Scottish TV to say that they were thinking of putting together a team of the experts from The Hour programme to run in the Great Scottish Run (10k) in September. Did I want to take part?

Yes I did, at last something to motivate me to actually get back into the running properly. Well this was a few weeks ago and of course I didn't really scamper out the front door raring to go. Hmmm that is until last Friday when I got the call to say that we are all meeting up TODAY for our first training session with Stella the lovely but scarily fit (and looks horribly good in lycra) fitness instructor.

So today is the day. Best foot forward and all that. Shall report back if I make it through the session.

Karon x

Cheerful Cherries

 

Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor.........

 

 

Did you count your cherry pips?

 

 

Did you marry a sailor? A tailor?

 

Did you enjoy eating the cherries?

I did.

Karon x

Exploding monkeys and Birthday wishes

Twas the night before Christmas, oops, sorry wrong date! Twas Idgy's birthday. My girl enjoyed her day and even started it in our traditional style.

 

Yes it was prezzie opening on the bottom of my bed. Oh how I will miss this ritual when she grows out of it and thinks unwrapping boxes on a bed is silly.

Even her furry friend has to get into the act.

 

Now the evening's entertainment is supper at a local restaurant and a trip to see the lovely Mr Depp in the latest Pirate of the Caribbean block buster.

 

Please note that the large inflatable monkey is no ordinary guest, this is Jack-E, who was originally meant to be Jack the monkey from the film.

The day before Idgy and I had spotted the monkey balloons when we were getting some party bits and pieces in town. How cool, a huge blow up monkey wearing shorts and shades. Idgy loved it. Alas Tigger the car didn't. There was just no way that both Idgy and I could get into the car and have Jack in there too. There was a mad moment when we did try, three faces pressed against the windscreen, one grinning maniacally, the other two falling about laughing. Back into the shop and hand back Jack, can we have a deflated one please. No problem. We leave the shop armed with a somewhat subdued (well let's be honest he was flat) Jack the monkey and head off to the restaurant to drop off him and cake (do you like my sunflowers?) and other party bits.

Keen eyed readers may have noticed that the monkey in the photos is somewhat more  ladylike (or is Jack just a cross dresser?) than I have been describing. I ask the waiter what happened to Jack. "Oh dear, we hoped you wouldn't notice, he exploded when we tried to inflate him" explained the waiter somewhat sheepishly.

So we end up a merry group at our booth with Jack-E the monkeyess, loads of  food, too much cake and lots of girly laughter.

On to the cinema and two hours of swashbuckling madness, 3D adventure and dear Mr Depp at his most aluring and dramatic. What can I say, another exhausting evening in the company of the joyous Johnny.

We note that Jack the monkey has a very small part in this film, you only see him about twice and each time as part of a ship in a bottle scene. Never mind we've brought our own. See us in the back row with giant inflatable monkey. Okay so it has had a sex change and wears dodgy lipstick, but hey ho, what the hell, we are girls on a mission - sheer enjoyment.

Twas Idgy's birthday.....

Karon x

 

 

Dear Idgy,

 

Tomorrow morning you will wake up and be a teenager, I can't beleive it, thirteen already, no longer my little girl. There are so many things I should say, so many things I should have said. I just don't know where to start.

 

 

Let me say first and foremost that you are wonderful, truly fabulous. You started that way and you always will be. Just look at you here with Hank, ain't you cute. And so are you Hank.

 

 

You are you, all you. You've never been overtly girly (well okay I have caught you here in your one moment of girlydom way back when - and if you can get those rocks as the real thing, go for it!) you are a tomboy just like your namesake (see film Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Cafe for the amazing heroine Idgy) and I love you for that.

 

 

You are honest and open, an outdoorsy country girl who loves her animals, her friends and just being you.

 

 

You are fun to be around, you make me laugh.

 

 

You are beautiful inside and out.

 

 

You care.

 

 

You are my bestest friend.

 

 

You are clever and smart.

 

You are the beating of my heart.

Thirteen years have flown by and I feel I haven't spent enough time with you, shared enough adventures, played enough games.

So this is it, moving from one era to another, a teenager, my baby all growing up and gorgeous. I still don't know what to say, oh yes maybe just one thing,

I love you.

Mum x