Post Valentine!

Hi all

Well I was spoilt on our Valentine's night. Steve and I had a lovely evening at Tanners - splashed out on some pink bubbly (cost nearly half the price of our meal again) but worth it and then finished the night off with a couple more drinks at Mo-funk at Annabel's to then arrive home to some beautiful red roses. A lovely relaxing evening, great food and of course with my perfect man. I definately think it was worth going out the night before and not be in the throng on the day plus the bonus of having a chilled morning together and a long walk in the sunshine along the estuary at Tamerton Foliot before I came to teach in the evening.

For those of you that came in last Thursday for my sequencing class - thank you - I had so much fun with you all and it was great to see your outfits. I've had great feedback from several of you both from Thursday's classes (see some of the students performing the routine in the photo) and my Exeter students on the Monday night (you got to test it on the Monday) -so I'm glad you all enjoyed it so much. People often ask about how they can work on the dance element of pole dancing so this was a good challenge for me to focus on this and bring it into a short sequence with a couple of basic tricks. Let me know if you'd like to do some more sequencing as i can maybe look at this as an option for a future master classes.

If you are keen on the dance element then in this month's master classes Nixi is holding a further body isolation/sexy dance moves class at 1.30pm on Sat 1st March. I am also holding a class this day at 12.15pm covering basic inverts/ improving inverting/ gemini/scorpio and mantis - so hopefully see a few of you there. All classes are £10 and if you feel brave enough (well she is the Lordette of darkness!!!) Jo is also holding an advanced/world class moves session at 2.45pm.

I had a busy weekend just gone. I was teaching a private class Friday night and then we had the studio open Day on the Saturday. I came in for a couple of hours to support Jo and Sam and we had a steady flow of people through the door which we were able to spend time with and demonstrate various skills and tricks we all have. I know Sam has taken several more bookings for the Inductions so a great success and boost to the business.

I then drove to Bristol to spend the evening from one of my closest fiends Julia. She is fabulous - 51 and still loves her dance music. I have a lot of respect for Julia - she actually used to be my old boss at BT several years ago (and i was scared of her!!) and we then bacame the closest of friends. We were out at the Syndicate with 4 others - Dave Pearce was playing - a bit heavy for most of us but none the less an enjoyable night. i also caught up with one of the resident DJ's there as we used to work together when i was dancing at destiny's in Plymouth. Of course we had a good girly gossip the next day and put the world's to right - well sort of!

Must sign off now and get some shut eye - not long been in from teaching in Exeter and have a long day tomorrow - travelling to Gatwick as away for a couple of days for a team meeting (lots of minutes to type up I sense!) See you soon or Thursday night if you are in.

xxxxx