In Your Dreams 007

Well I am pleased to report I have finally recovered from the ' piggin flu'. Hooray

One of the stranger side effects has been quite exciting dreams .The most vivid of which was that I had a key that would open any car - cosmic!! Obviously I tried out every sports car available to me ..... a few Porches an Aston Martin and a Ferrari (it was a dream after all) Driving at speed doing all manner of stunts . The weirdest thing was that I actually morphed into none other than Pierce Brosnan and turned up at the HQ of a large office complex where I used to work in my career girl days in an Aston Martin which I parallell parked using a hand brake turn squeeling the tyres - talk about making a n entrance! In the real world - I am actually crap at parking.... my car is usually the one parked at a weird angle - hence the reason I have loads of dents in my bodywork .

On Friday I felt sufficiently recovered to negotiate a trip to the Trafford Centre for some much needed retail therapy and as it was 20% off at Debenhams I hot footed it to the ladies clothing department and quickly picked out half a dozen dresses from the Julien McDonald 'Star' range which I love. However despite my best efforts the piggin flu bit back at me by making me feel too tired to try them all on and worst of all ...despite having survived on cheese sandwiches and water for a whole week - I seemed to have developed a tubby tummy (well spare tyre!)... I just hope I don't grow a snout or a tail next !!

Piggin' Flu for Two!!

Well of course the inevitable had to happen after tending to Mr Kate -the piggin' thing got me and I spent the weekend in bed instead of out painting the town red with Mr & Mrs Emma!

I was very well looked after but we were both gutted at being laid up - however- I am sure we will make up for it in the coming weeks!

Piggin' Update

I am pleased to report that Mr Kate is now recovering from what has become known in our house as Piggy flu (as opposed to man flu). Unfortunately I am now suffering with a sore throat - face masks at the ready!!

Piggin' Flu

Having suffered from some kind of malaise last week involving a banging headache and a feeling of wading through treacle along with extreme tiredness- which resulted in us cutting short our Wednesday night out - we just managed a lovely meal in Velvet but had to call it a night there and landed home by 10pm - In fact I was in bed by 10.30pm !!

Then off course all the fuss about swine flu came to light - but fortunately I was feeling better at his stage and had no contacts in or out of Mexico so that was obviously not the cause thankfully.

Happily we made up for the lost time by meeting up with Emma mid-week and then meeting up for Bevs delightful meal on Saturday followed by a spot of late night dancing. I also had a bonus mid-week shopping trip to Cheshire Oaks with Emma who kindly offered to chaffeur me during which we acquired a new handbag each in the Fiorelli shop - but the highlight was a 'proper' afternoon tea served on a 3 tiered cake stand complete with slivers of cucumber, salmon and ham sandwiches, chocolate brownies and scones (supposedly baked by the same lady who makes them for the queen) and of course a large pot of Earl Grey tea served with lemon slices - very ladylike and sophisticated - What a treat!!.

As I am writing this poor old Kate/Bob is in bed with the same symptoms being waited on hand and foot by me of course!! I have said if he starts growing a snout or a curly tail I will have to report him to the flu police!!

The Perfect Man

I have just found the perfect man - His name is David - and its Ok dear reader Mr Kate knows all about it..........

A friend of mine recommended him to me and he sounded just my type.... tall, dark handsome immaculately dressed in a smart suit with a toned and muscular body and all for just £10!! At the flick of the wrist he reveals all and He can do wonderful things for your lips making them glossy and tasting of creme brulee. .........

All this and he comes complete with a pheromone strip - Phew!

The fact is that he is really a lip gloss in disguise - but hey it brightens up the day - The description on the packaging made me chuckle and reads thus

"David is a hardworking man in the gym and most importantly in bed. After a gruelling 60 hour week he still has the energy to come over and put 110% into you. Undress him with a flick of the wrist to inspect your benefits package".

If you are tempted He is currenly available in good department stores (I got mine in Debenhams but Boots also stock them) but hurry a guy like this is bound to be in demand......Grab him while you can.

The good news is that their are others in the range namely Tim (Blazer clad playboy type) Eric (wears a DJ - quite fancy the look of him and the colour of the lipgloss too) and James (student version ) ...too young for me !!!

Concorde x 2

Last week Bob had some time off work and we had lunch out and en-route passed some of the posh parts of Cheshire near to the footballers houses. We then found ourselves near to Manchester airport and I remembered that Concorde was now on display so we called in to view this magnificent piece of engineering and talk about a disappointment ! It was so sad to see our Concorde enclosed in a hanger stripped of all the high tech devices all we could see was the nose cone and some steps up to the body of the plane but we couldnt get in to the hanger at all. It reminded me of a sad almost extinct animal caged in a zoo - what a terrible waste of all that technology not to mention the money spent on developing such an amazing plane.

Strangely enough it was a Wednesday so we met up with some friends for a meal before popping in to the Rembrant for the other Manchester Concord which unlike the other one is going from strength to strength and has become stronger over the years.

A Tale of Two Cities

Our good friend Karen visited the fair city of Manchester last week and Kate and I spent an enjoyable evening with her in a lovely Italian restaurant and suitably refuelled headed for a late night clubbing as we often do.......thinking nothing of it as it is the norm for us now...........

A couple of days later Di had offered to guide us around her home city of Liverpool as it has been a long time since we had ventured in that direction we travelled in by train blending in well amongst the racegoers headed to Aintree in their finery ( or should that be skimpery as alot of the ladies were only wearing dresses on a chilly spring day).

Things started off well and we walked past the lovely old buildings including St Georges Hall the venue for the famous April Ashley talk. We then headed to the Met Centre as Karen wanted some items from Mac and feeling peckish had a delightful coffee and brunch in the Cafe Rouge. We then ambled past the Cavern and headed for the new 'One' centre which is very heavily advertised on local tv and radio and seems to be Liverpools answer to the Trafford Centre. Both Di and Karen wanted to get a new outfit for Saturdays dancing event so we headed to the new Debenhams and came across some lovely dresses in the Star collection one of which I encouraged Karen to try on as it was just her colour and style .

Unfortunately I got side tracked by another dress and whilst I was looking for the correct size Karen came back and told us that a security guard has stopped her from using the changing room. We were all quite shocked especially given that the changing rooms were not marked as being specifically either male or female. We then realised that we must have been picked up the security cameras as entered the store as Karen had not spoken to the assistant manning the changing room at this point. To say we felt uncomfortable and upset would be accurate - Karen did challenge the guard about the stores policy toward transgendered people as he had no way of knowing if this was the case- I think he just muttered something about writing to head office. We turned tail and walked out of the store and tried not to let it bother us - but I could see that people were looking at us - we ventured into Jane Norman but our hearts were not in it then as the experience had shaken us.

We decided that shopping was cancelled so we did the tourist route down to the new canal and the hideous new buildings that some bright spark has slapped right in front of the magnificent Liver Buidings. In need of a drink we ventured into a 'Lesbian' Bar which Di knew about (dont ask) which was a cosy haven away from the madness outside.

We were glad to get on the train and head back for Manchester - Two cities a few miles apart in distance but light years apart in attitudes and enlightenment. If Liverpool wishes to progress and become the popular shopping venue it seeks to be it needs to educate its stores and staff in such issues!

The story dear reader does have a happy ending as it turns out Karen and Di did buy their outfits (or should that be ball gowns) in the House of Fraser Store in Manchester where they were treated like royalty and positively encouraged to try on the garments. They also acquired beautiful shoes and jewellery and were able to attend the Dancing event ...despite their ugly step sisters Liver and Pool trying to stop them going but their fairy godmother named Manchester waved her magic wand and made it happen and they each met a handsome prince who swept them off their feet and transported them away to a far away land of eternal sunshine and shopping. (Yes its only fiction they actually had to kiss an ugly frog in Naps first!).