So after last weeks flippant comment that I just had a simple cold…..karma waved it’s magic wand and turned it into flu , anyone would think I had shares in kitchen towel, it shouldn’t be possible for a nose to run THAT much. Unfortunately being the caring sharing daughter I am, my mother has also joined me in the world of flu-dom

We look a right pair with our swollen red noses and upper lips but thanks to todays Comic relief & red nose day we’re blending  in rather well, and anythings got to look better  than the  fishy trout pout that seems  all the rage….

Watford Observer:

I’ve  written about it in the past because it’s something that drives me nuts, so help me out here if you can?  What is it with all these young women and girls pouting in every picture and thinking they look good?   Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or another site, they’re  awash with youngsters puckering up.  What on earth’s  beautiful about pushing your lips out and up as though you come from the same gene as Daffy duck?  To me that just smacks of  Looney toons.

I react to Pouting pictures the same way as  I react to nails down a chalk board,  I’m extremely uncomfortable, not just because it makes these young women/girls look psychotic  but because pouting to that  extreme has sexual connotations  and when they’re very young it sits uneasy with me. Pouting has for decades been synonymous with photo shoots, glamour models and top shelf mags.  But even so, a pout was something that was  quite subtle  certainly not to the ugly extremities its done today.

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Another  craze with no end in sight is  “Pumping Parties” where women get together, and have silicon, or botox injected into various parts of their bodies to plump them out. But highlighting just how dangerous it can be, at her trial in Philidelphia this week Padge Victoria Windslow  was convicted of  the murder of London dancer Claudia Aderomtimi. Padge was self taught, unlicensed and dangerous, she’d meet clients in their hotel rooms and inject  Silicone into their buttocks to give them that big booty look  .  Having had half a gallon of silicone injected into her, Claudias heart stopped. She was a beautiful twenty year old, whose life was wiped out in the name of vanity and the pressures of the entertainment business.

Having a large pert bottom is essential for some jobs, especially in rap/hiphop where the girls can make a lot of money from appearing in music videos and a lot of them are prepared to risk their lives with these injections until they can afford buttock implants.

Personally I’m a fan of au naturel and working with what you’ve  been given …and besides, I’m sure there are plenty of those that would say I’m already a big a**  .  So girls, there are many other  challenges that deserve your time, there’s nothing beautiful or worthwhile about  losing your life unnecessarily.

Talking of challenges, meet very proud mum Michelle Nunn with her daughter Makayla.  she was just  eight years old and  like any other little girl she  loved dancing,  swimming , horse riding and meeting up with friends, she had a life of hopes and dreams  ahead of her  and then she was struck down with ME,  that was three years ago and  Makayla is now unable to do the things most children take for granted. As an adult with ME its hard to cope with the grief of a life lost and the limitations, so how it must feel to a child I can only imagine.

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But despite the pain and exhaustion  Makayla suffers with, she is determined to raise money for Charity invest In ME and has accepted the challenge to join others for a  sponsored horse walk on May 10th.     you can check out  her Just Giving page and see how much she has raised so far https://www.justgiving.com/michelle-nunn1/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=fundraisingpage&utm_content=michelle-nunn1&utm_campaign=pfp-share-mobile&fb_ref=Default 

Ending on a local  music note, on the 22nd of March ,Denise Parsons and St Albans music promoters The Live Music Project are having an  acoustic showcase of some of the best local talent at the Trestle arts base café from 2pm to 5pm, it’s a Free event, woo hoo!,  families welcome and there’s a licenced bar, not only that, one of the performers confirmed is the very fab Tom Craven , so why not grab the kids head down there and have yourselves a great Sunday afternoon?

Right, I’m off  without a pout in sight, to grab another roll of kitchen towel and then cough and splutter my way downstairs for some breakfast,

                                   So til next week, Stay blessed

                                    Back Before Elvis XXX

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