Bwak bwak bleurgh (the sound of a hen night)

Finally! I know you've all been desperate to hear about it. So, Sarah is one of my oldest friends. I met her and her sister, Susan, outside Matt Goss's place about 15 years ago. I was singing Bucks Fizz songs, they joined in, and the rest is ... er ... history.

So Sarah's getting married at the end of this month and so, at the end of last month, I headed to the Big City (London) to give her a send-off. Due to the hopelessness of British train travel, we only had time at the hotel to get changed, slap on some slap, eat a couple of doughnuts (London = Krispy Kremes) before heading out into the night late afternoon.

The bride to be is in the middle, working the cleavage. :)

We went first to the Absolut Ice Bar. This is an, um, bar made of, um, ice. No, really. All of it: the glasses, the seating, everything. It's minus 6 and you get a lovely thermal cloak and gloves to wear.

I know this pic is a bit blurred, but I love it because of the background. We look like some sort of dementedly happy secret society!

It was really good, but I couldn't have stayed there much longer than the allotted hour. I'd only managed to take one sock with me to London (?) and one of my feet was freezing (don't worry, I had boots on).

From there we went out into the surprisingly warm air and to Pizza Express. On the rest of the photos I look drunk and demented - even though I wasn't! It's so unfair!

From Pizza Express we went to a ... nightclub. Yes, a nightclub. Me! It was full of sickeningly young and attractive bastards who lucky Sarah got to kiss and have her photo taken with since it was her night. Pah.

On the way home, there was a guy walking alongside us and he started chatting to Katy. I glanced at him. Looked. Looked again and then said, "What's your name?" "Roger," he said. "You used to be a model!" said I. "And your brother was too! And you had a single out!" He agreed to it all and seemed rather excited to have been recognised. "Susan and Sarah will know you too!" I said before shrieking, "Susan! Sarah! Look! Look who it is!!" They ran back and were just as excited as me (and Roger).

"We saw you at the Fast Forward Funday," said Susan, brilliantly. Roger was so delighted that he almost came home with us. I almost let him. I mean, look at him. Woof.

I'd really like to Google him, but I'm not sure "roger the model" would get the results I'm looking for... (Due to more sensible Googling I found him! Look! I forgot he was in The Lion King - that would have been a cooler thing to mention than the Fast Forward Funday... Check out his modelling portfolio. Lisa, I bet you recognise him, don't you?)

So back at the hotel, Sarah was more than a little the worse for wear and we had a chat and some more doughnuts before heading for bed. I'd like to say I had a good night's sleep, but I was woken more than once by violent retching. And, for once, it wasn't me. Sorry, Sarah.

So, as Susan said, we met a famous person, got in after midnight and someone was sick. A top night all round.

Comments

[Lisa]

I absolutely do!

Ohmystars, how funny that YOU recognised him - bet he was chuffed as nuts, he is still rockin' the hotness isn't he - what's he doin' now?! I saw him at Fast Forward Sunday too - fun, fun days!

I'm lovin' the pic of you at the ice bar too - purple is totes your colour missus!
Where's that? I wanna go, I love me the cold!

Big love x

[Suzi]

He's more famous than I thought, I'll have to tell Tracey that he played Simba in The Lion King, she went to see it when it first came to the West End.
I'm still smarting about leaving those two Krispy Kremes on the front desk of the hotel, I also wrote a suitably scathing review of the staff on tripadvisor.

[Sarah]

What a fab write up! Sorry about the vomiting! I'm old!! xx

[Moe]

I've never seen him before. But I'm not disappointed that you've introduced him. Divine! :)

[Suzi]

PS - It was 1990 when we met so its been 17 wonderful years! :)

[Danielle]

Ha, I have the same blouse as you in the first pic! Am happy now.

[Keris]

LOL, Danielle! New Look's finest! I bought one last year but it had a hole in so I took it back and ended up buying it again this year (only in a bigger size... working from home's v bad for the figure).