The first guest host post is Natalie.........

Over to Natalie and here's a lovely pic.......

So I agreed to write a piece for Angela’s bloggage.. The pressure to try and be funny and entertaining! I just canee bear it.

Okay so first of all I will tell you a nice little story about ‘meeting new people’ or not rather. I was recently contacted by someone on Facebook whom I had known of from my hometown of Matlock, Derbyshire. He was the younger brother of someone I used to go out with. He is totally gorgeous and we have nothing in common, but hey, I decided to reply to his incessant texting, and little by little he kind of charmed me and we were speaking on the phone regularly.

So he was booking his ticket to come and see me this Saturday coming, and the last time I spoke to him was Saturday night. Anyway on Sunday last week, I open up FB to have a small peruse of what is happening in the world, and there is his status, we shall call him Mr B .. Mr B had such an amazing night, and I met you!!!!!

I knew it wasn’t me of course, unless he has travelled forward in time Marty Mcfly style. No word from him.

Then it's Monday, Mr B and said girl are ‘ in a relationship’ and I haven’t heard from him since!!!!

The shame, I have been blown out by someone I have never even met. Of course I sent him a nice curt verbal post mortemesque text in a not bothered kind of way!??! I tried to refrain from Jeremy Kyle references, and kept my dignity.  Lesson learnt. Being shallow does not pay.

I am trying to be healthy at the moment, except a certain somebody who we shall affectionately name as Aube keeps buying me Brioche bread, I love it so much, but I could literally open up a stall with my supplies. I have also put on a stone in a week!!

The trying new things is perhaps my play that I have been rehearsing for in the last month. I play the Model (cue the jokes) in the Blue Room. It is basically a play about encounters and relationships. I found out on Wednesday that I am to have a ‘When Harry Met Sally in Katz Deli ‘scene. Arghhhhh .. More on that another time… that’s the first instalment from me folks. I will make a video next time.. :) Nat

P.s .. Aube has also been buying me fruit and in an effort to make things more interesting,  I melted a bit of a  bar of Galaxy in the microwave to dunk my strawberries in and it burnt!!! So I am losing weight, the weight that I would of put on with that family sized Galaxy bar :)

It's time for the New Guest Bloggers Post's

As I am beevering away doing my 3 assignments for my course this week, I though i would share the blogging love with 2 of my very good friends who are keen to tell you what new and interesting things they have been doing this year.

Firstly let me introduce Niall, who's 35, married lives in Herne Hill with his lovely husband Will.

Nial has been working at the University of Westminster for a good few years now in the events team and has recently been seconded to work at a venue which has recenttly been hired out by London Fashion Week!

Here's a video

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/videos/TMG8339441/London-Fashion-Week-Erdem-autumnwinter-2011.html?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d64312d49f208ee%2C0

This is an amazing opportunity, so over to Nial to talk about what he did.

And next is Natalie, 32, Northern, been my best mate in london for about the last 7 years.  She lives in Blackheath in a flatshare.  Here's a photo

Natalie has had the acting bug for a couple of years now and has been attending acting classess and courses whilst also working.  Her persistance has paid off and she has landed a role in a play called 'The Blue Room' soon to be shown.

Here's a quick video clip of the play

http://vimeo.com/3060655


and over to Natalie to talk about her experiences.............

Wednesday 17th February

Hello all - so the week so far there have been up's and down's literally!!

Monday 14th February - alas I had 0 cards, perhaps the postman was sick or had an accident on his bike before he got to my flat.......?

Anyway I have been quite active on a certain dating website this week (POF) and have been conversing with a select few potentials, so watch this space for a date update :)

I also lost 1.5 pounds at WW, not sure how as I have not stopped eating, although I have been going to the gym more!! I do have a video but tehre seems to be a problem uploading it!!

On the doing new and different things, I attended the CIM Integrating Digital Media course (the reason for this blog) which was great I even learnt something!!

I have invested in an audience club card which is £25 per year and means you can see various shows, comedy's concerts etc for a small fee of £2 per ticket - a fantastic investment for seeing and doing new and different things, check out their website http://www.theaudienceclub.com/

On Friday night myself and the girls went to see an armature production of the musical rent - see below a clip on you tube:-

It was really good as musical goes,  I thought the main female character was amazing I normally like a bit of talking but managed to follow it!!

Saturday was supposed to be a day of study, I read a chapter of one of the books and typed a bit of my blog, which of course all goes towards my assignment :). 

Danni, my flatmate found a great new place to go for brunch,  called 'a little bit of what you fancy'.  There is a great review in time out:-

http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/venue/2:27961/a-little-of-what-you-fancy

It was fantastic, great food and atmosphere or perhaps that was the bloody Mary's, prosecco and red wine.  We, the girls and the lovely Matt, then went to 2 pubs in Stoke newington, then we had dinner in Somine restaurant a delicious Turkish place in Dalston, then headed to the junction where we were joined by Matt's boyfriend Joe.  We headed to the hobby horse, then ended up at Zigfrieds for our friends dj night called 'Freitag'.  That's alot of brandy and diet cokes!!!

It was a great place to chat to single straight men and I spoke to a few with a cunning plan, people were wearing stripey tops for a birthday event, so i recruited a few people wearing checked shirts to be in the anti stripes gang, a little bit ridiculous but ended up giving my phone number out and getting a little snog at the end of the night!

Anyway so great night but totally hungover today and now must do some work on the other tasks in the assignment - 2 weeks before the draft needs to be in eek!!

So scores on the doors......

New and differnt things done = 3 - CIM course, new restaurant and theatre show
WW points = I think it's fair to say I havent been doing it proerly and am quite frankly a little bit sick of being on a diet!!! perhaps I'll start again Monday?!
Meeting single men = Top marks :)

Saturday 12th February

Here's an update from the last couple of days..........Firstly I cancelled my date as I  chipped my tooth and had to go to the dentist!!!  So off i went (to be ripped off) they tried to tell me i needed 3 fillings that would cost me £270, i couldn't believe it, then when I asked more questions i didn't actually really need them! I paid £30 in the end for a check up and x rays - time to change dentist!!

Friday was a fun day of doing new and different things. Firstly I met a couple of media clients then went to a French Bistro restaurant.  They decided to share a 'Raclett' between them, and i had a small sample (it would be rude not too).  Here's what it looked like:-

it's basically melted cheese with meat and onions and potatoes - yum!

Later on  it was the office girls bingo night out, all uber excited at the though of doing something new and maybe even winning some cash!  We said from the start that we would share any winnings (obviously thinking of the big prize!)

So here we are about to get started - Mecca bingo joined, dobber in hand and free bubbly given to us by the management.  Well truth be told it was 'champerry' and 5.5% but hey it was a nice gesture......

We decided to order some food before we started, it was a very grueling schedule 6 games in a  row, then another 6 then a break before the national when you could win £25000!!!
The menu was not WW friendly at all; scampi and chips, wedges and cheese, nachos with sour cream and guacamole! i only had a little pick!

So then we were all set to go and the commentator says 'eyes down best of luck'............. 

I had to lay off the champerry and go on to brandy and diet cokes to keep me alert! (bargain £3.78 for a double)

First of all it's 1 line, the 2 lines then full house.  So we played game after game after game and NOTHING! then I got 2 lines 'i've done it' i shouted! and the claim checker came over with a microphone and then I released it had to be 2 lines in the same box not 2 different ones.  'faese claim' she said and the whole bingo hall groaned - how embarrassing!!

So we played again and again even did the 'late game' and NOTHING even between 5 of us!, so all left a bit disappointed, but I would try it again definitely.

So scores on the doors

Number of different things done = 2
Number of straight single men met = 1 but that doesn't count as he was a client and as i canceled the date and there were a few gays at bingo, this probably means negative points!!
Number of calories eaten = 1 million!! although i did do a workout at the gym at lunchtime for 20 mins