BACK TO THE EIGHTIES....
On the weekend my lovely sister-in-law Jo had a 40th birthday party. We went back to the eighties...dressed appropriately..and to make it more fun (will use that word wisely) it was held in a roller skating rink. Yep, eighties music, eighties clothes and roller skates. Do you know how long it has been since I've been on roller skates? Long, long time... But I did it. I won't say I was poetry in motion----that I glided and swerved....that it all came back to me. Not a chance. The first few, okay about five laps, I held on to the rails and putt putted my way around. By the end of our session I could...slowly....make my way around the rink without needing the rails or wall to clutch on to. I have bruises...loss of dignity (which I really don't seem to have much of any more- that's what working with children will do to you)...but it was great fun. The eighties were an interesting time- for me personally it was a decade of great change. I got married, mo...