As you've already seen from the blog we have some new fluxbabes (and might I add, all my staff - hurrah) and over the last few days they've all been having their individual shots done.

I am no longer an active fluxbabe, and instead turn my hand to helping out behind the scenes and providing assistance for our marketing team. A bit of nepotism there, as it's run by my sister! Our fluxbabe Charlie works for the marketing department full time so she's often found behind the camera rather than infront of it. So today off we toddled to do one of the new girls pictures and we thought it necessary to test the lighting first.

Above: Charlie and I in a very non flux babe pose

Above: Now this IS a pose, for the next calendar perhaps?

You can look forward to seeing some genuine shots shortly when we get the new babes pics on here. It wont be long!

Now that title makes this sound a little wrong..... but rest assured, it's all above board.

Last night me and the other half - who, in keeping with Jemma's 'LOG' shall be referred to in code from now on - let's say Mr G - took a trip to the Junction in Cambridge to see the Pigeon Detectives. It was an MTV spanking new music do so we also caught a bit of the Rascals which was a bonus!

Some dozy mare (moi) forgot her camera so unfortunately I have no photos at all, however you're not likely to want to see the sweaty mess that was me at the end of the night after much pogo-ing.

So were they good? They were brilliant - the lead singer was a complete nutcase. I think every single item of his clothing ended up in the crowd as the night progressed. I was nearly hit in the head with a shoe! The whole show was full of energy and the crowd absolutely loved it. Even the new stuff, that no-one knew, went down well. So.... moral of the story, if you can catch these guys do it - awesome!

Now if only I win those Radio 1 big weekend tickets.........

As Jemma so politely mentioned before, I did manage to stay on my feet for the entire night at her birthday do, despite wearing these shoes.......






Quite impressive for one as clumsy as me. And when the vodka had been flowing quite freely - hey, a girl is only 27 once and it needs to be done in style! My 27th is also coming up soon - myself and Jemma being two of the oldest 'babes'. We'll be botoxing before you know it. Here's a slightly 'tired and emotional' pic of us from her birthday evening - notice the multitude of glasses in front of me. Hmmmm!


Happy birthday Jemima - roll on 30 hey!

At the begining of April it was my 25th (cough cough, oh alright 27th) birthday and so to celebrate I decided it was best spread it over 2 weekends.

The first weekend was spent down in St Albans and London, with me being taken out for a suprise birthday day. The suprise came in two parts - the first was that we opened the curtains in the morning to snow - lots of snow. The second was that we were headed to London Zoo (somewhere I've been wanting to go for ages).

After a snowy stroll through Regents Park admiring the several snowmen that people seemed to have made in record time (it was about 10:30am), we arrived at the Zoo entrance with me being rather excited!

Due to the lack of elephants my favourite of the day was the Okapi. The Gorilla's bascially posed for photos, and the tiny monkey on the loose was entertaining. The penguins loved the weather and the giraffes seemed totally confused by it!

Then on the Monday and my return home, I wandered to the local with my family and spent the evening there.

Weekend 2 involved a group of us going for a meal at Pizza Express. A large part of our time there was used with us taking several pictures (some involving the table flowers) and no-one really being that interested in the food....

A joke-off was held between LOG and 'lil McCarthy (see 'lil Mc above) - I have no idea what the winning joke was, but the 2 favourite's of the night were about snowmen smelling carrots and 3 pieces of tarmac. Our very own Charlie also made a beautiful snowflake with her napkin - but wouldn't have her picture taken with it! Jenny kept asking for extra vodka...our self-confessed highly accident prone babe managed to end the night in one peice - despite the rather high heels....

This weekend may be a quiet one....



Thanks to all who celebrated with me - LOG, Leah ('lil Mc), babes Jen and Charlie, possible future babe Keely, Caroline, Fliss and Jay and the Okapi. x

I am making this post purely and simply to brag and remind my male friends that they got beaten at poker by a GIRL.........!

I am partial to the odd bit of gambling...... take me to a racetrack and lose me forever. I wasn't into poker too long ago, however thanks to the wonder of facebook I learnt to play stealthily against 12 year olds and to be honest, perverts. Having several poker friends and a like minded boyfriend the time had come to play my first 'live' game. With real money..... argh!!

So, it's a Saturday night and we gather at the house of some good friends, one of which plays every week - he's the man to beat! At this point the food had to be removed from the rather large fridge to make room for the beer. Me + beer = danger. Uh oh.......

After some serious domestics about whether to play no limit we settled and the game began. I started to realise me being in charge of my household finances was a good idea when the other half started getting a tad reckless with his chips and went out first. I didn't win a hand for god only knows how long until I got fortunate on the river and beat a pair of Aces with three queens. From then on it all fell into place -as the pile of empty Brahma bottles next to me grew... and grew.... and grew....... I'd like to tell you how I managed to win but it was all a bit of a blur!



See right for my 'poker face'.. and note the prominent beer.





I now have the bug, and having beaten the maestro (who was third) I now feel the need to rub it in his face at every opportunity! There is a lot to be said for beginner's luck though so I'm thinking I should quit while I'm ahead........... we'll see!

The photos have now been uploaded from the Motorcycle Trade Expo!! (Sorry for the delay!)

Click on "Pictures" and check out the "shows" section and you can see all the pics from Michelle, Jenny and Laura's visit to the NEC in January!

Enjoy...

I would just like to add further to Jen’s earlier post, a special mention to the 2 girls who were a couple of rows in front of us. They were stood up ready from the moment the last support act finished, and throughout the half an hour set change, before the Gods came to rock our worlds….

…Now that’s love and dedication…(Jen why weren’t we standing?)

It also, wouldn’t then be right to forget the girls sat behind us, declaring during the set change that they really didn’t want to be there, had no intention of standing up, were bored and would rather have stayed home…until Jared and Co took to the stage… then they were off down the front loving every second…
I still can’t quite believe how close to Jared we actually were, and just how brilliant they are live…. ‘A Modern Myth’ will never be same again….

Ok, so they're not quite up there with Charlie's gunners but EVERTON ARE ABOVE LIVERPOOL!!!!!!

Champions league here we come!

Recently we asked for volunteers to put themselves up to the challenge of being a fluxbabe. I've been one since the dawn of time....... well, back in 2003, where I distinctly remember being in a bikini in a barn in the middle of december with no heating. It wasn't a pleasant experience and I think Ellie and Laura, both original fluxbabes, would agree that the photos are best forgotten!


Anyway rounding up the volunteers it seemed a very large percentage of them work on my department...... so I've become mummy fluxbabe and have been doling out advice for the last couple of weeks! As the girls all work for me on a daily basis dishing out advice on how they can look hotter is quite bizarre....... but having seen the pics I'm very proud of them!


So.... go service girls Keely, Sarah J, Sarah G, Kelly, Kayleigh H, Emma, Jade, Megan, Sam, Gemma, Kayleigh S, Ann and Leanne!

Us flux babes don't just hang about at shoots and shows together, some of us are chums outside the world of lycra as well. Jem and I share a mutual love of music and so last week found ourselves trekking off to see 30 Seconds to Mars at Hammersmith Apollo. The michelin man hasn't been returning my calls so I've had to face up to the fact that I'm just not his type (bright white and rubbery?) and move on ..... sigh .... sniff........ and can now officially confirm that both myself and Jemma are in love with Jared Leto (lead singer and GOD).

You can see us above waiting with excitement in the queue - which we were quite frankly lucky to join after Jem's shockingly bad time keeping skills - she realised whilst we were running for a train that we should have been there over an hour earlier. Maybe she is just a pretty face after all?? Our legendary mascot and honorary fluxbabe Bruce came along for the ride as well, music lover that he is!

So what can we say about the show itself? Amazing! We came back bruised and sore from all the jumping around - but that's nothing compared to Jemma's other half who managed to get hit by a car on the way home after a few sherries in London town! Hope the magic left foot's better now Liam.....

Altogether now....come... break me down..... bury me bury me..... I am finished with you!

Last weekend three of us 'babes' did a spot of moonlighting for the Bikesure section of Adrian Flux at the Motorcycle Expo 2008 at the NEC - if you like your bikes (no pun intended) go to http://www.bikesure.co.uk/!




Here's a pic of us in our Bikesure get up...l-r is Michelle, Jen and Laura.




A great time had by all, and a big hi to all of the lovely people we met there. Special mention must go to the Michelin man, who I now plan to stalk and marry. Is that legal? Who cares. I'm in love.




Til next time.............