I've Got...The Bug

Did I tell you what a dreamboard was...is?

Well, when my life was a bit shitty after the 'best, worst friend, husband thingy stuff going on, my brother bought me a bit of white board about 3 ft by 2 ft. He told me to stick up cuttings of stuff that I wished, liked, wanted on there. Try it yourself, if you're ever feeling a bit low or want to feel inspired. So, off I went to the supermarket and bought the following magazines: Classic Car, Yachting World, Country Living, A Place In The Sun, GQ and Men's Health. I picked out all sorts of stuff and began my collage. ranging from tropical shores, an Oyster Yacht, Jaguar XK150 'S' 3.8 litre Roadster (cream with red leather seats), 1958 2220S Ponton Cabrilolet (silver with red leather seats), a hammock between 2 palm trees, a log cabin, bunting, cool wedding cake, a families legs and shoes in a line on the beach, cool kids in funky, shabby chic clothes playing in the woods, a wall display of family framed photos, an indoor swimming pool, a luxurious bath, some poetic quotes, some stripy and dotty cutlery, a picture of Uma Thurman and a pic of a Great White shark. Hmmm....now...

Ah, missed some stuff out. 2 pics of 2 different, random men whom I found whilst flicking through those mens mags, as the only 2 that I half fancied.

So..why....?

Well, Uma Thurman looking bloody fit and fabulous, healthy and slim would be how I would like to look! The cars, well, they are lovely. The yacht at full tilt, full sails a modern machine, the cutlery cute and picnic-key, as with the bunting, the cake...would I ever again, well these little cakes are cool, so if I did, the pool (I love swimming), hammock, love relaxing on the beach, the kids..would love my own one day..., log cabin looked cozy and the shark....always wanted to dare myself to get close to these amazing creatures but safely as in a cage.

I did add a cheque to myself, post dated (supposed to be for a book deal for my blog...where are you Mr and Mrs Publishers) and a Madness concert flyer and finally a fake £1,000,000 note.

Well let me tell you that these were up here above my desk for the year. when I sit on the phone I look up at them. Within the year, I have the cutlery, just one piece, but it's the same as on the board and I didn't buy it deliberately at the time, I just saw it and bought it. Downstairs I have for the first time lots of family photo's framed and looking quite arty up the stairs. I also have the bunting up the stairs and on my boat. I didn't get the tickets for Madness until on the night, I drove to Plymouth, got tickets from a tout, and danced like a mad 2 tone nutter at the front shouting, ''I love you Suggs'', to my favorite 'growing up' band.

I stuck Fat Boy Slim and Jack Johnson up there and I have tickets for both. I've been looking up the cage diving but haven't booked up ...YET!

OK, I haven't the man, the kids, the million and a lot of other stuff, but I'm working and trusting on it. I do however have......

THE BUG.

The VW (Mann Egerton Exeter thank you) Beetle Cabriolet. Thats convertable in plain Englais Delboy...the one where the roof comes down...innit!!

I. Ordered this en route back from a nanny job in London and after the Tony Robbins in London course. I was going for the colour grey with cream seats and cream and black roof, but it wasn't that simple you see. VW would have had to have put that on order and it would take upto 4 months to arrive. i had to have it sooner. it was going to be my symbol to myself for selling the business, moving on... Wo, but the colour. They came back to me with 2 colour choices. Grey, black top, black seats, blue, cream top, cream seats. Nope. Can't have black interior again what with Mills and her white hair. Just doesn't go well. Have to be the blue i said, but what does it look like together I asked. the salesmen tried to get the combination up on screen, but it wasn't working. I paid my first £1000 deposit and signed some stuff. i then drove home thinking, I must be mad. I'm about to spend more than I ever have on a car and it wasn't even the colour I was after, I didn't even know what it looked like.

Now, dear readers, i haven't told you, that in the slap bang, middle of my 'dream board' was a VW Beetle with the words 'Mine' written across the side. as I drove back along the A38 a light bulb came on. Not the warning lights for my car or the street light but one of the comic type 'out of your head style'. I wondered what colour Beetle was up on my dreamboard. No. Surely not. three quarters of an hour later I arrived home and ran up to the top floor to my hear with desk and looked up. Well, blow me down, if the VW wasn't only the exact same one I had just un intentionally ordered. Laser blue, cream leather seats and cream hood...without the 'mine' down the side.

So, me here is a thinking, I should be covering the whole bloody wall with dreamboard stuff and not just material possessions by the way. Do it. Go on, it's super cool. It's inspirational, let your kids do it, let your Gran do it, maybe I'll let Millie do it..yeah imagine her board....food, meat....balls, nuts (?!), standard poodles (she strangely seems to like them..hense the Labradoodle perhaps?), rabbits...

On the final leg of this marathon blogging session, I have finally named the VW in question. He is a boy, not a girl and he is called.

BUG.... as in Herbert the Bug. Whether or not he will be a Love Bug remains to be seen. I have however began a beautiful relationship with a very cool driving machine that goes like the clappers. I will put the roof down ever available minute that I can. Even in the rain, wind and snow and I think I will also take Bug not only the length and breadth of Cornwall but also to St Tropez and Cannes with his top off....

but not mine too!!