Lets wax lyrical!

My Zumba peeps!

You walked into my life and now you’ve taken over

Zumba's  beautiful 

Oh yes its beautiful

I have run around the park

I have done the treadmill thing

But now we’re beautiful, 

Zumba made us beautiful

I don’t need the gym anymore

Because zumba gives me more

Cant you see, it’s the chemistry

I’m sure you’ll see together we are beautiful 

We are so beautiful…

So this is my little ode to my zumba peeps or according to the definition on yahoo, waxing lyrical (it means to speak enthusiastically about something with carefully chosen words) well a poet im certainly not, but yes i do go on and on about zumba! I started zumba back in November I think now after it was things fall apart at street dance! I have to be honest, I have not looked back, don’t misunderstand me, I miss the guys I hung out with at street dance we clicked and  all got along fabulously well and to be honest I was gutted when It all went wrong, because it was youthful bunch of people and well they  appealed to the inner young me. Ha ha yeah funny I know!  So it was with in trepidation that I set out to ‘act my age’ after a lovely lady on another forum I like to wax lyrical about told me about this zumba class, so there I turned up all on my lonesome on a cold November night and that was it, one bite at this cherry and I was hooked. I did not see the lady who invited me as (I did not know her personally) until the following week, and I have to say this is was the most welcoming and fun  exercise class, oh excuse me, I say  forgive me  the party I’d been to outside of a party! I remember I used to watch zumba infomercials before it took off in the UK, and I thought It was a bit cheesy and would take a certain type of character to carry it off her. It was ages before I found one to try, which was ok on a Monday night but in the end the attraction just was not there and luckily I found street dance.  Well enter stage right this group and something that appeals to my vivacious nature was discovered. Any one who knows me should be able to tell you that when i like something and get into it, that it i start to live breathe and eat that thing, life becomes one long anticipation of the next instalment!  It really does tick all the right boxes, one of my friends says i'm certifiable and need help after I posted this picture on Facebook! 

Just to let you know I am a well rounded person really and i also wax lyrical about slimming world, tae Kwan do, football - Liverpool FC to be precise, books and films I've read or seen, so what gets you going, do you wax lyrical about anything in particular? 

A few of my favourite things

Boiled eggs and butter and fish fried in batter,

apples and crumble baked in a tin , while cheese and chocolate are served on a platter!

Mustn't  forget the wine and the cake, and baking the of lovely things,

These are a few of my favourite things that make me feel oh so bad!

So this is my parody on the wonderful song sang by Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music one of my favourite films of all times. Reminds me of good and innocent times, when I honestly did not know what the word dieting was! i was free from guilt generally ate what I liked and did not really worry. i cant honestly say that i can recall the moment did become diet aware, but once I actually went on one, that was it, i was changed forever, because I then i knew without a shadow of a doubt that there was a whole heap of stuff that i was not supposed to want let alone eat!

So what is it that you miss the most when you are trying to follow a healthy eating regime otherwise known as being on a diet! It was thinking about these good old days in school that led me to thinking about the food we had there.  It was through my time in boarding school that I got a penchant for certain foods! 

At this school we had a massive dining room where we would assemble 3 times a day every day at the behest of 'the bell' lovingly referred to as the tin tin bell ( a duty that most if us coveted but few had it) anyhow I digress - the point is as bad as the school food was there were some good bits and they were firm favourites of mine anyway!

So one of the best things in this world is Nigerian bread! It is soft and has a very nice and distinct flavour to it, so we used to have this in the mornings, sometimes with beans but every so often with hard boiled eggs. We would mash the boiled egg with butter and by butter i actually mean blue band margarine from a tin and use it as a sandwich filling! it was my favourite breakfast and to be honest still is, although on a very good day i would substitute the butter, ( having graduated to the real mccoy) for fat free fromage frais or Philadelphia light. 

i was in my later years known to make this mix with sardines, and this I am very shamed to say is what I had the other day, it was so nice with butter, i really enjoyed it. As I ate it, i could not help but think how i'd missed it, like it was some long lost friend with whom i was having a reunion!  Imagine feeling that about food, and there in lies the issue, how is one supposed to move forward with feelings like that?

I miss not having to think about what i was going to eat, yep, that old chestnut the irony is that even when i was not participating in SW its not as if I was always down the take away, although my lunches were not very considered, so greasy spoons  were high on the agenda, good places for work time lunches. 

I have to be honest on this occasion  i went with it, so there i was eating white bread, butter, chocolate  you name it. not measuring my heathy extras, cos you need to know that sometimes i was doubling up, so imagine that. 

in the end, i had to dig myself out this hole i had dug for myself, and my saving grace came in the form a text message from my SW consultant, just asking me if i was coming that week.  The impact was immediate, that friendly prod, made me feel all encouraged. So the next time I get an attack of desire for nostalgic food, i think i will have dig deep, know that I should only do it if I must in moderation and be prepared to deal with the consequences.

Oh my beautiful team

Oh what a beautiful season, oh what a wonderful league, i have  got a wonderful feeling it gonna come LFC's way!

So this has been a fantastic season for my club and also for the premier league as a whole, it twisted it turned, it ravelled and unravelled! I mean at the beginning of the season everyone knew chelsea was going to win the league, that Man UTD would be giving them a run for their money and LFC would be lucky if they got their goal of top 4 to secure champions league football and these were the so called experts, the been there done that crowd the bookies had us down at 33 to 1 at the beginning of the season ( better than 250 to 1 i suppose)

So now LFC came 2nd  but we fought hard for it,  with the scars to show for it too, but all adding up to a  buoyant and   exciting fight,  we dared to believe but in the end, the dream was cruelly shattered!

In no particular order, my highlights

1. Doing the double over Man UTD. the second half was on my birthday weekend, could there be a better present?
2. Beating Arsenal 5-1 at Anfield enough said!
3. I can't remember the exact moment but i do seem to recall that it was almost overnight that they realised that we could be in with a chance so they kept asking Brendon if LFC was going to challenge for/ win the title- oh really???, did the logs fall out of your eyes people? You all keep pandering to Jose's foolish ways ok. leave us under the radar
4. The realisation of how improved Jordan Henderson and the other youngsters have become. I mean what workhorses they are,and boy can they run. They all make the LFC future look bright!
5. SAS! well documented no  need to say too much And they have equalled the partnership tally of the great Roger Hunt and Ian St John. There are more highlights than this but hey, these are the ones that I wanted to note. 

Lowlights

1. Blooming Lee Mason, yes I said blooming Ref and they can do their worst after all  the blooming FA cant fine me.  I don’t care, the fact is these people need to get it right. The order of events on a pitch can have an impact on the game  and if Raheem Sterling’s goal had been CORRECTLY  given we may have had a different result and don’t get excited because I am in no way saying that we would have won the league or indeed that match, I am simply saying that its annoying.
2. Poor Stevie G falling down at that crucial moments in THAT Chelsea Match, I did a whole blog post on that one already……..
3. Our defence.. Not sure I should bother going into this one everyone can see it, they leak unnecessary goals, , lose concentration and we have the record holder for the most number of own goals by a central defender in 1 season lack of leadership.. well sort of..
4. The continual reference to ‘its been 25 years since we won the league’
5. Do they think as LFC fans we don’t know that?  They just keep saying it over and over we BLOODY KNOW IT! You don’t have to keep saying it, that is what my gunner friend keeps throwing in my face! His exact words saying ‘you’ve not won the premiership’

One day very soon we will prove the doubters wrong! YNWA….

So Why not Pontius Pilate

So I don't usually write about religion, but a friend of mine posed what I thought was a very interesting  question so she said, "why didn't Jesus show himself to his doubters like Pontius Pilate? With it in mind to prove them wrong, in particular she felt that Pontius Pilate was quite clear that he felt that Jesus had not done as the crowd had said and a beating may sufficed?

I thought it would have been because Jesus having the perfect nature that he does would not be the sort of man to say i told you so, because that's it isn't? that would be like saying " nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh"  he after all was about turning the other cheek. 

Is that a rather human and / or superficial way of looking at it?  After all, being Easter we heard the story of Thomas, who doubted what his fellow disciples told him. he said that unless he saw for himself the holes made by the crucifixion, he would not believe so hence the phrase doubting Thomas and we also heard about the two disciples while they were walking to the   Emmaus about 7 miles outside Jerusalem, they were talking about the events when Jesus appeared in a different form to them so they did not recognise him and prophesied they were quite surprised that the "stranger" did not seem to be aware of what had happened. He explained to them how it was ordained that the Christ would suffer and enter into his glory! He explained all the scriptures from the prophets starting with Moses!   When they got home they invited him in and it was only wen they broke bread that they recognised him they then set out back to Jerusalem and told the others that it was true that the lord has risen.  And these were people who believed from time. 

Also it could be argued, that these people Pilate and co, did not want him, so what would be the point of going to them? Therefore in my mind its quite clear that Jesus could not deviate from what had been prophesied in order to prove to the haters who he was. He had many other opportunities to do that in particular when he was being taunted while on the cross by the criminal, instead he asked his father why he had forsaken him! 

And here is God’s gift to his people – faith. As Christians I think it may be our abundant duty to spread the word so that everyone can share in God’s gift. I believe too, that by rejecting Jesus in life they were rejecting God and his gift! 

So I am now wondering, what it would have been like if he had shown himself to Pontius pilate what the world would be like today?   

So what if we lost to Chelsea!

This my first footy blog post for ages, such has been the obsession with my grand desire for weight loss and discipline! but I just feel compelled to write it seeing as its the best place to vent my annoyance at a so called fellow LFC fan!

Ok, so we lost to chelsea last weekend, 2-0 it was, I am likely to take the view that sometimes these things are ordained, and are just meant to be, well to an extent, I mean what am I supposed to think when your talisman slips at the most inopportune moment, as in the dying end of the first half- surely its a sign right?  there was some uproar people complaining about him, personally I'm affronted that anyone would dare! but back to my original issue my so called fan- talking to him by the water cooler at work as one does on a Friday afternoon he was already convinced that we were going to lose! imagine that!?? He had  put a nasty picture in my head and that horror turned to a nightmare as I watched Stevie G slip and Demba Ba get the ball and poke it in the back of the net! In that moment ( not the first I tell you) I really wished I was a practising voodoo merchant! when I saw him at work on monday he then really went out he said and I quote " we are not good enough to beat the likes of chelsea!" I was so mad it was one of the few times in my life that I was actually struck speechless and as I recovered was about to launch right into a diatribe of abuse? reasoning? don't ask which one as I  could not possibly say and not to mention my great desire to punch him, well not really because i am not violent, no really I'm not! I just could not comprehend how he has come to that conclusion, I mean I for 1 have come to expect nothing less than a win at all times, its always a shock when we don't win, except sometimes its just in the balance of probabilities but it usually takes me a while to accept that and i believe i am a reasonable fan. he did try to explain it with stats but lets be honest what do they tell you after all we had most of the possession and look where that got us, anyhow the best I could do was not to speak to him for a while - yes a snobbing was definitely on the cards. 

Don't get me wrong, its still paining that we lost and the manner too, to a team that I genuinely believe we are better than.   It just gets up my goat when people say we are not good enough especially from so called fans. yes we could improve on certain things, we dont have to rest on our laurels yes 

we have achieved our aim of Champions League football, so its natural to want to move  on and build on that! 

At least one can still hope, but notwithstanding cant wait till we prove those bloody doubting Thomases  that we are no flash in the pan! YNWA!