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Sunday 24 January 2010

He's once, twice, three times a cheater....


This weekend was spent comforting one of my oldest friends who found out last week her boyfriend of five years has multiple mistresses - Tiger Woods style.


After a tearful phone call from her on Wednesday I booked the train home to Birmingham on Friday where I met Vicky... She has been living in Leeds with said boyfriend but is now back in Birmingham with family for the foreseeable future.


Not one mistress, not two but three. And those are just the current women, how many more must there have been during the five years they were together? And how did she find out about said women? She became suspicious from a message left on facebook, then hacked in to his email account to find the unfortunate truth. Better to know the sad truth than to live a happy lie I told her, but it offers little comfort at this stage.


How was her cheating spouse accumulating all the ladies? Is he some Brad Pitt stud I hear you wonder. Far from it. In fact I wish I could upload a photo of the oaf here just so you could all see how far he is from that description. But unlike him I am not so cruel. No he did not have women flocking to him left right and centre, he attained them via the method of Internet chat rooms and dating sites, of which there were many listed on his email account for my lovely friend to break her heart trawling through.


One such site was not even a dating site but some sort of sex meet up website apparently. Such a shame that men like him, and Tiger Woods for that matter throw away what they have. They clearly still want to be with their partners otherwise they would leave them and not have to sneak around with other women. But they seem to have a self destruct button which detonates everything good around them.


Letting her hair down on Saturday night seemed the way forward for Vicky so we set off to our favourite nightclub in Birmingham, Flares. Vicky and I have been dancing to the same 80s songs on the same dance floor in Flares since we were seventeen...before she met said scumbag and life was far more simple. Our biggest concern at the end of the night was where to get some food from on the way home.


It was a night of highs and lows, alcohol bringing out a range of emotions from this car crash of a relationship. Luckily at the end of the night G drove to pick us up, redeeming our view of men to some degree and offering the male perspective that yes he was an idiot and yes she could do better. And even though I've been her friend for 15 years I think it meant more coming from G, who she has only met a handful of times.


I'll keep you updated with Vicky's progression. After she has had a chance to grieve this relationship I plan to find her a far more deserving and worthwhile man.. I already have a few lined up in my mind...

Sunday 10 January 2010

Formula One Midlands style!





These photos show what I got up to this weekend. Never one to let snow stop play, G and I found out about an indoor racing tack and went along, putting wagers on which of us would win.


It turned out to be a lot of fun - but G won both races by a couple of laps and his reward is that he gets to pick what we get up to next time he comes down to London to see me (football match here I come).

As you can see from the photos this was not my most glamorous look. I had to wear a child's outfit due to my challenge in the height area, and as you can see it struggled to accommodate my top half. Added to that a pair of fluffy pink gloves and my mums trainers which I borrowed because I don't own any....and we have the dreadful outfit which was more Rupert bear than formula one promotions girl.

Never mind it was a fantastic day and I would recommend it to anyone thinking of play acting at Michale Schumaker for the day!

Tuesday 5 January 2010

Where were you when the clock struck 12? New Yr 2009





Happy New Year!


I hope you all had a fabulous night on the 31st Dec whatever you got up to.

G and I went back to my old uni town of Bournemouth for a night of drinking, dancing and kisses under the mistletoe. We had a fantastic night and stayed in a lovely hotel. Where were you when the clock struck 12? We were in nightclub walkabout and at the stroke of midnight someone threw a glass high in the air in their excitement which fell on my shoulder cutting it quite badly! Instead of Cinderella and the glass slipper at the stroke of midnight it was Ava and the glass embedded in her arm!

One can never say my nights aren't eventful. After the shock and a bit of TLC from G we carried on the night and had our own pretend midnight countdown at 1am since the long distance glass thrower had somewhat interrupted our proper midnight...

Glasses aside, it was a fantastic night and one I won't forget in a hurry. I wore the dress G had bought me for Christmas, I've posted some pics here hope you like it!

Here's to a happy 2010! x