Like many people today, I am stuck at home gazing out at the blizzard...I have been out though. Had to get to the office to do several urgent things. The journey there was fairly intense - several hairy 'no brakes, no brakes, no brakes, ahh, brakes!' moments. Having got there and done my urgent things, however, I thought it best not to stay there, as the snow was clearly going to keep coming, and possibly make eventual journey home even more extreme. So here I am, taking the opportunity to blog instead. All a bit annoying really, since I was due to meet a man about some lovely new handbags for the website, and would have liked to test out a handbag's ability to hold an A4 pad for a customer who has just emailed me - sadly me and said bag are now miles apart.
Anyway, enough of all that. I have had a most lovely weekend. On Saturday evening I went, with many family and friends, to a charity ball in aid of this brilliant charity http://www.poppyfieldsappeal.co.uk The theme was 'Royal', and so we had a room full of characters including Elvis's (should that be Elvi?), Ozzy Osbournes (think about it), several Cleopatra's, a Marie Antoinette, several Robin Hoods (requires a small amount of lateral thinking), a Princess Fiona (not sure I'm brave enough to go out 'greened up), a Cavalier soldier complete with curly wig (my brother), a Prince Charles complete with fabulous outsize ears (my other brother), and me and my sister-in-law in royal blue with tiaras fashioned by yours truly. My first ever attempt at tiaras, and my sister-in-law was actually asked where she got hers from!
The ball raised an amazing £6,500 to go with the many thousands already raised by this brilliant appeal for Birmingham Children's Hospital. Please do visit the website (and their FB page) and help out if you can!
