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Lady Louise's A-List Life
Thursday December 8, 2005
I’ve had a really busy week this week, and it’s only Thursday, I still have the rest of the day and tomorrow to go before I can catch up on my sleep! Tuesday was the last day of the aromatherapy course which mum and I have been going to for the past 10 weeks! As it was the last one, we did secret santa  and afterwards went to the pub! It was really fun as we’ve been sitting with these women for 10 weeks and you don’t really get to talk to people on a personal level in the classes, not the way we did at the pub. It was really fun, and we will keep in touch with some of the people, especially as I have invited them all to my photographic exhibition next year… this would be the exhibition I haven’t got round to booking the hall for yet!  Ah well I’ll get round to it! Anyway, while we were out I got talking to one of the ladies who has bought a few properties abroad of late! Including 2 in Bulgaria, now Bulgaria is somewhere I have myself considered buying a holiday property before because it’s just so cheap and apparently very beautiful. She really just promoted the idea a lot more and since I have been seriously thinking about it. I mean with house prices being what they are here I will never afford my own place, and I need to start investing in something otherwise what the hell am I working for? A house full of handbags and shoes and mad nights out! No these properties are a real possibility for me! I am going to spend the next year clearing the debts I have and researching the possibility, who knows this time next year I could be buying my very first property! Although I don’t know Bulgaria so it might be of use to try and find where are the nicest places to buy there, I want somewhere that is going to give me some revenue from renting it out to holiday makers too! Right so after one lateish night on Tuesday I embarked on another one lastnight! I had to get Peter’s Christmas present. I have already bought most of the other gifts I needed to get, but Peter was after this aftershave called Creed, Green Irish Tweed. You can only get it in Harvey Nichols though and our closest one of those is Birmingham, so we went over there shopping lastnight after work. By the time I managed to get home, have a bath and get to bed it was 1am, and I’m feeling the burn this morning!  Tonight is the first Christmas party of the season…  I’m really hoping I perk up by then as I don’t want to end up looking tired! I’m sure I’ll be fine, just need some food I think as haven’t eaten this morning! Might go and get a snack in a bit!  | | | |
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Tuesday December 6, 2005
Around about 9 months ago… or it could be more, I was contacted through friends reunited by a girl I went to school with… in fact that isn’t a fair description, it was a girl I had been best friends with but when I was about 16 there was a big falling out and we never spoke again after it. It was ashame really because we got on so very very well, I used to spend many a Sunday afternoon at her house and her at mine, listening to music, talking about boys and dressing up. Anyway, needless to say after almost 8 years of not having heard from her I was pleased when she got in touch with me, and we kept in touch, she was at Uni at the time and was engaged, but has since returned to Coventry and married her fiancée. Lastnight I was invited to their house to see the house, and to meet her husband and to see her after 8 years. I’m so glad I went. When I pulled up she was at the door as some guests had just left, and although she looked the same as she had done when we were young, she looked so different too. More grown up, but in a good way, she looked really well. She introduced me and mum to her husband who is a really lovely chap, very witty and they make such a nice couple. We talked about friends who we had kept in touch with from school, which isn’t many on either of our parts, about what we were doing in life, she wants to be a writer, and I know she is a great writer, she has always been very literary, but she is having such trouble trying to break into the market as a lot of publishing houses are so sticky. I also got to see her fantastic wedding photographs… it was nice to see she hadn’t gone for the traditional white or ivory number, instead she was wearing the most tremendous claret coloured taffeta gown, with a corseted bodice, she looked beautiful. It was so so nice to see her settled into her lovely house and happily married. I had a really good time, I can’t wait for them both to meet Peter, and although I have said I will invite them to the house warming party… which of course I will, I might arrange something a bit closer, maybe drinks at Christmas so they can all meet. Of course there was the odd awkward silence during the night, and there would be after such a long period of time, but nothing too major and all in all I think the night went wonderfully… I hope she thought so too!  | | | |
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Monday December 5, 2005
Well, finally I have got round to telling you about the second half of my weekend. Perhaps I should try to cram less into my 2 days every weekend and then my blogs wouldn’t be so extensive… It’s just I don’t want to miss anything out and leave you feeling short changed! I’m sure Sunday used to be a day of rest… not anymore. Sunday morning… well it wasn’t strictly morning, as I say it’s a long time since I’ve had a lie in so I cherished the opportunity. So sometime on Sunday, I woke up and decided I had to go into town while the shops were open and look for a headdress! I have the first of my Christmas party’s taking place on Thursday, and I am going to wear my green silk dress (if you scroll through the blog entries there is a picture of me in it on my birthday) and my Louis Vuitton silk shoes, but I wanted to look really… well I wanted to stand out! So I dragged mum out of bed and persuaded her to take a trip in with me… for a headdress, all I had in my head was something with feathers. God it was murder trying to find one, I tried Monsoon first and found a lovely black one with like a bow and feathers… I guess you would call it a cocktail hat, then I tried Debenhams, but they were all on headbands and I don’t want a headband, tried Marks but they had none, so then I went back to Monsoon and bought the first one! It’s fab, it’s on a comb so I am going to put my hair in a bun and put it on. Mum kept trying to get me to get a tiara, but everyone gets a tiara for the Christmas season, I want something a little different. I know I am going to look so eccentric, but what the hell who cares, I wanted a cocktail hat! It wasn’t and entirely unproductive trip for mum either, she bought some new shoes, with tassles on… very Dita Von Tease! Sunday night was a bit of a rush to get ready again! We were off to the Nags in Nuneaton again for another tribute band, I think I am getting a bit addicted to the tribute band don’t you think? Well this one was called Bad Obsession and is a Guns n Roses tribute. Talk about good, I swear you would think you were watching Axel Rose himself! Even slash with his hat and his fag was damn good! I also had my first encounter with a mosh pit! Not sure I liked that actually, I was trying to get to the ladies, ended up having to kind of mosh my way through! I made it unscathed though, although I did nearly get a fag burn…. I love heavy rock from the sidelines I think! Peter wasn’t as sold on it as he had been with the Blondie one and the T-Rex one, but that was because he wasn’t so up on the songs this time… the musicians were great though! The next one we are going to is the Bon Jovi one… which I suspect might be a rock phenomenon again! Back to Monday morning where I was cheerfully greeted by a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne on my desk… and so the week begins! | | | |
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Hello blog fans… Well another fantastic and full weekend! They seem to be coming thick and fast in the run up to Christmas! Saturday, when I finally peeled myself out of bed, I was grateful of the lie in as the past couple of weekend I have been up early all weekend! So anyway, mum decided she wanted a look around Warwick, it’s such a long time since I have taken her to the antique shops out there, I think she was missing them. She was intent on getting a new ring, and despite the heavy rain and the fact that we were pressed for time she came away happy having bought one! I came away with another really old black and white postcard of Lady Godiva… well it’s Miss Viola Hamilton who was one of Coventry’s Lady Godivas, I have 3 of these postcards now and I aim to collect them all! It’s a bit disheartening though, when you look at the Godivas of early 1900s and compare them to the ageing minger which we have now! I think they should do a Lady Godiva beauty pageant and get a new one myself! Anyway aside from the postcard I indulged my recent interest in crystal healing by buying some crystals; For me I bought blue lace agate, For Peter Tigers eye And For mum blue lace agate and blue agate! I’m not entirely sure what they do… although I know the tigers eye is for the digestive system, but I need to purchase a book I think! After some successful purchases then we found a lovely tea shop/restaurant, I think it called the Aylesford, and the staff were so nice, must go back there for dinner I think with mum and Peter! It wasn’t too expensive either and the Maitre de was telling me he part owns it with his brother who was previously manager of Café Paris in Birmingham… so I’m expecting good things of it! Saturday night then I had tickets booked to take Peter to the Loft theatre in Leamington to see ‘Seasons Greetings’ a play by Alan Ayckburn! Peter picked me up at about 5ish… think he was feeling a little under the weather because I had gone out earlier in the day and not left much time for us to get there, but we still managed it by 5.30, and went straight off to the Leamington Bar and Grill. I had spotted this place on a shopping trip in Leamington, it’s on the ground floor of the Travelodge hotel on the parade and is in a lovely Georgian building. We were pleasantly surprised at the grandeur of the place. It has really high ceilings, is all decorated in understated hues and soft lighting and we were given a lovely table right by the gorgeous fireplace. The service and the food were both fantastic, I’d love to go back there! More than anything though I think we talked about some really useful things, firstly there was the party I am going to throw once Peter is in his new house, I can’t wait. Also we talked about a few things which had been playing on our minds for a couple of weeks and really cleared the air! Sometimes you just need to do that, both of us had been under pressure just lately, we were really starting to feel the burn, but the talk on Saturday night cleared so much up that I think we are moving onto the next stage of our relationship now… especially in the New Year, with the new house! At the theatre we really enjoyed ourselves, the play was so funny, it was a satirical look at the Christmas period and was welcome relief… Peter enjoyed it so much that he has vowed that we must make an effort to visit the theatre once a month! I won’t be arguing, I love the theatre! At the end of the night we drove home, happy and clearer and having had a wonderful night out to watch a video with mum, Ghost ship! Fantastic night… and day too I think! | | | |
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Friday December 2, 2005
Quite often… in fact more often than not, I drift off into a little dream world… I am the first to admit that I am wildly materialistic... I’m sure that those who know me would agree, I am greedy for knowledge and like to try to learn everything, just so I can be a know all, but also dream of being able to afford not just ordinary things but wildly expensive dreams. I can’t afford them, so sometimes I just have to have a little grasp at them, and I do things like buying a plot of land in Sherwood Forest, or framed shares or something! My want of these things is so well known that a few years ago I was bought a title and a plot of land at Loch Borrolan... Not that I own the property on this land, but people know I like these sort of useless gifts and dreams loll! Well today I am in a particularly dreaming mood… just thinking really about what I would do if I was rich. Well I’d flaunt it… of course I would give some to charity, I do loads of charity work now and I have nothing so I wouldn’t stop doing that if I was rich… in fact I’d do it on a grander scale, but I would buy an island! Now believe it or not there are actually websites on the internet selling islands, and whilst dreaming and browsing today I found one I quite like the look of, it’s in Ireland, Castle Island and the best of it would be if I had the money to buy the island, I would have the money to do it up, and make the castle into a hotel… which I could then make more money out of… see it’s true what they say, money follows money doesn’t it? Now while I was dreaming of this luxury lifestyle… whilst scoffing chocolates, which I really shouldn’t be doing as I am trying to trim down for Christmas, well not just for Christmas, I am hoping to make it a long term thing, anyway, I stumbled along a website, Luxury Lifestyle and wow, more things to dream about having! I sometimes wonder if I can fake this sort of lifestyle, I mean I have the title, I have some designer goods, I have taken to drinking champagne whenever I go out, although last nights offering in DOGMA tasted more like paint stripper, I barely drank any, what a waste of £7… but I think I can do it! Perhaps, I wonder where this materialism came from in me. Maybe it was my upbringing, we didn’t have much… I have to say though for not having much I was happier than all the kids that had everything and I ended up forging a better education for myself too… so sometimes having not much is good for you, I do think it is the reasoning behind the way I am though… anyway, have a look through the things I am dreaming about today and then you can all dream about them too… you might not want to, but it’s always good to dream, without dreams there is far too much reality and I’m sure that isn’t good for the soul. Now I’m going to check my lottery ticket and see if I have won! | | | |
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