Life takes over….

I love writing, but I’m a lazy writer. I’m very good at prevaricating and I will even let work get in the way of picking up a pen. There’s no point in me paying for a site that I don’t use so I’ve given myself a good kick up the backside and opened the app. This will be a little catch up, a little look back on all the things I should have written about. All the words that were floating about aimlessly have been netted and tethered in my mind so I shall commit them to paper….in a digital papery sort of way.

I shall begin with today. Today was amazing. Today I went to Gaddings Dam in Todmorden for a dip with Rachel. We hiked up the steep path…I really need to get fitter as I huffed and puffed my way up but the feeling when you get to the top is awesome. The air is clear, the view is beautiful, the wind is exhilarating and the water is ready and waiting for us to get in.

I can’t lie, the water was bloomin’ cold, it made our toes tingle, our fingers freeze and every particle shout out, “Wow, we are alive!”

We loved it.

Going back a week, Hallowe’en is my next memory to write about. I went to a Mad Hatter tea party, I did a Hallowe’en firework swim and I dressed up at work. You can’t beat a bit of dressing up, spooky clothes and face paints, I love it.

Gale is 50 at the end of the year and for her fiftieth year she is celebrating every month. Sue and I were invited to the October birthday at the Richmond Tearooms. It was ‘fun’ getting on a bus into town wearing a frock coat, a glow in the dark rib cage top and flashing skull lights in my hair….oh and skeleton leggings lol.

Sue stayed ‘normal’ until we arrived then she donned a rainbow wig and flashing unicorn horn.

A bit of dress up, a few drinks and good company…lovely.

I had wished that I’d been a bit more adventurous with my make up. I made up for it the following evening when I went for a spooky swim. Victoria and I whizzed off to Boundary Water Park where we joined the other girls at the Uswim Hallowe’en dip. I went along with a Day of the Dead theme. There were some good costumes, but I was definitely the most colourful.

Swimming in the dark is wonderful. The water was inky, black and cold. The level was quite low but the weeds were high. They wrapped themselves around our arms and legs and tickled our faces. It added to the scariness as we looked like the monsters from the deep when we got out as they entangled our limbs.

It wasn’t just masks, face painting and weeds that made people gasp. Jackie and Cath had a clothing mishap which gave the drivers of Holmes Chapel a thrill. As they tried to get out of wet swimwear at the back of their car that was parked on the road that runs alongside the water park their dry robes slipped and they flashed and mooned at cars. We heard the beeps but not their squeals lol. I haven’t decided what was the scariest….weeds or flashing at drivers.

I was working in Hindley for Hallowe’en. It was fun to stab people in my spooky costume.