My usual day of fun would be relaxing in a spa with friends, shopping or having my hair done. But when my team manager at Adrian Flux offered us a day out Karting I just couldn't resist, and the best thing of all was that it was mostly paid for by the company....how nice is that!!

We arrived at the track and it was pouring with rain, I wasn't keen to be honest as didn't want to get soaked and hoped secretly that they would call it off. But I'm glad they didn't as I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!

We did a few practice laps and we were placed in our teams. There were 7 teams with two people in each. I was team 5 and started off in second place. At first I was a bit scared as the track was so wet from the rain and I was sliding all over the place but after a few laps I got the hang of it and whizzed around the track!! I was loving it so much that I didn't care that my face was covered in mud and my mascara had run and quite frankly I looked a mess :- ) It was then time to swap with my team mate so he could have a go ( I didn't want to give the kart to him but I had to share I suppose, after all the purpose of the day out was team building!!)

The checkered flag was in sight and the race came to an end. I checked the leader board to see if I was last, and to my complete amazement............we won!!!! Team 5 was victorious!!

We took our position on the 1st placement podium and was awarded our trophy.

I can now honestly say that Go-karting is my ideal fun day out - bring on the paintballing!!

Last month babes Penny, Charlie, Gemma, Sam, Laura and myself went along to the Max Power offices in Peterborough to have some shots done for their 2009 calendar, with some the MaxPower babes.

The venue was a freezing cold garage in the middle of nowhere – seriously. I’m surprised we managed to find our way home! It totally stumped Brian who didn’t find us until we were back on the A47! Really handy Brian!

However, despite the early morning, late finish and the cold ‘studio’, as predicted the shots look amazing and were well worth it!

We even had the company of Elvis for the day. He didn’t sing though. But he did get lots of attention from us girls!

Here are some behind the scenes shots – to see the real thing, I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until the end of the year…it’s worth it though…

Being bit of a geek, and to follow on from our visit to the history Museum at the start of the year, LOG and I spent a day at the Science Museum. LOG wasn’t as excited about this museum though due to the lack of dinosaurs. I was.

After wandering round the museum for a couple of hours looking at the space stuff and rockets, cars and planes, playing the ‘In future’ games, and cringing at the medical history area, we stopped for some lunch feeling rather pleased with ourselves. Only to discover that we hadn’t even seen half of the place!

We visited the Who Am I? section, according to one of the games (cough they're aren't only for kids cough) I have a female brain. Good job really. I also discovered that there is a phobia of left-handed objects. Being a lefty myself I took offence, there aren't even that many things designed for lefties, and the things that are can be useless. I've never know a pair of sharp left-handed scissors.

We visited the Science and Art of Medicine floor. I rather wish that we hadn't as some of the instruments and 'tools' looked rather unfriendly and made my plams go sweaty. However, there was a funny, if not odd, portrait of a woman looking miserable titled 'A Portrait of the Mad', in the mental health area. Apparently it's one of the few portraits of mad people at the time...see odd and slightly funny because of the randomness...

Next came Launchpad, the hands on part of the museum, mainly designed for kids, but that didn't stop us! we spent an age in front of the heat sensitive camera, playing with the various masks they had, LOG built a bridge, we played with magnets, and I spents ages on a game that you could play various noises at different speeds to wathc the lines on a graph thing change, depending on the speed. As you can tell, I took no noice of the science side of it, I just found it hilarious making a cow moo at high speed!

Luckily, we managed to see everything before the end of the day and headed home with sore feet and a whole load of new science knowledge.....kind of....

Last month, the band my brother's in had a return gig at the Met Lounge in Peterborough. As usual with the 'away' gigs a coach load of us fans went along to show our support.

The coach trips are always fairly interesting and eventful with things like the driver not being sure where they're going to people running late and chasing the bus down the road!

This time the drivers sat-nav did a Brian on us and got lost, luckily as Peterborough's fairly local, one of the lads on the coach knew the way!

We got to the Met Lounge in plenty of time, and as per usual I was asked for id! I would say it's flattering, but I really don't think I look 17....it's quite worrying actually...for now anyway!!

When Kuda took the stage, it turned out the 'Kuda' chant from the Emergenze competition hadn't been forgotten, and so the Kuda fans took up the chant!

Kuda were brilliant, and gave an awesome performance which included, Dom on the floor playing his bass and Mark drumming from the front of the kit! The 2 other bands who played rocked, and everyone had a great night!

Somehow, I've also inherited a Ted Baker t-shirt that was left on the coach at the end of the night, and still hasn't been claimed!! Why someone had a spare t-shirt with them I'm not sure!

Can't wait for the next gig!

This weekend Our local Royal Air Force Camp in Marham held a track day on their air craft run way...  As Adrian Flux were the sponcers of the event, a few of us babes paid a visit to check out everyones pride and joys!

There was such a range of motors being taken round the track, it didn't matter if you had a 900cc corsa .......or a ferrari, it was the taking part that counted! 

Me and sammi were even lucky enough to be taken for a spin in some ones beauty ... that was an experience I'll never forget I can Tell you! 

I was Lucky to go to Wembley, it is a massive and a great atmosphere, as you can see by the sky the weather was not too great!!

Portsmouth were playing Manchester United in the Community Shield, it was a OK game, No Goals and went to Penalties.

I went with My boyfriend and his Brothers, who are devoted Portsmouth fans, and me secretly being a Man United Supporter (my boyfriend trying to Sway me though....... not going to Work) made the day very interesting.

My Favourite Part of the day was seeing My all time Favourite Ryan Giggs - What a Legend.

However a Trip to Wembley ain't Cheap. We had to sit in the Platinum seats and Fish and Chips for £9.00 - stings your Purse!!

I sat on the Pompey side all day - keeping Stum!! :)

Earlier in the year Kelly my fellow Fluxbabe and I went to New York and it was amazing!

When we arrived we wandered over to Times Square to have a bite to eat and found a lovely little Mexican Restaurant. We didn't stay out long as we were so tried after our flight (or probably something to do with our heavy night of alcohol abuse in the Hilton at Heathrow the night before!) so we headed back to our hotel.

The next morning I was up and ready for our day of sight seeing. I had it all planned!! We jumped in a Taxi down to Statton Island Ferry and took it across to the see Statue of Liberty. It was absolutely freezing on the ferry and I'm sure Kelly was cursing me as I think she would have preferred to be chilling out in Central Park or shopping!!

Anyway, I think she would agree it was definitely worth it.

That evening we walked up to the Rockafeller Centre to see the sights at night. It was a beautifully clear night and the views were spectacular. The bright lights and the buzz of the city below were sensational. From the top you could see the Empire State Building in all its glory.

The Next morning we were up at the crack of dawn for another day of sight seeing!! We sat in Bryant Park with a Starbucks coffee waiting for the doors of the Empire State Building to open. We waited in the queues to reach the top and once again we were greeted with fabulous views.

You could see for miles.

After taking about a million pictures, we left and decided to have a walk around the city. We came across New York's Public Library, Maddison Square Garden and then Maceys. We did a little shopping and then trekked to Fifth Avenue. We then came across Prada, Gucci, Elizabeth Arden, Versace, but needless to say we didn't do any shopping in there!

Then it came to our last day, we bought a few NYC souvenirs and decided to spend the last day chilling in Central Park. We walked from our hotel and came across an Easter Parade, everyone was dressed up in the most wonderful of costumes and the Easter bonnets were something that Blue Peter would definitely be proud of!!

We sat in Central Park and enjoyed the various street comedians and dancers that would just appear from nowhere and then just relaxed watching the world go by.

It was then time to leave this mesmerising city and say goodbye to The Big Apple!!!

On the weekend of the 13th and 14th of September both me and fellow flux babe sammi went to Worcesterhire for the national volkswagen Camper van Vest.
We were asked to lend a helping hand to our sister company HIC.
We were able to give live quotations for people who had purchsed there new pride and joy at the event in order to cover them for their journey home.

We also had an excellent compertion running for the change to win a years free insurance insurance.. so fingers crossed for those who entered!
We also had a great selection of free bees to give away.. that seemed to go down a treat.

We had a torential down pore of rain on the friday night.... rain + fields ..as you can imagain= muddey mess! - all good fun
Dispite this everyone seemed to be in good spirits, i was really impressed with the campers that I saw.. me and sammi where of course busy working most of the time...
We did have a few favourts ...

It was really lovely to meet some of the guys from our sisterling company, fingers crossed we shall be back next year.