The website is finally back on track! Lots of updates - new Standing Interlude articles and photos, and bits and bobs done including this! ARGH! I have to write a letter form the Web Editor. Here we go...

Yesterday I had one of my worst fears come true. I had to enter Pikie-Land. I play tennis, so unfortunately I have to wear sports clothing. My only tracksuit bottoms died on my a few months ago...so instead of going to a dreaded sports shop I just wore plain trousers. Only now has someone important, i.e. my coach, realised they are "not suitable for tennis wear" and I was instructed to buy a new pair. EEk! Enter...the sports shop. On a Saturday. Afternoon. I went into PikieLand. Lo and behold, Pikie's trying on new trainers even though the ones they were wearing looked brand new...they were trying on designer sportswear and kicking a football round the busy shop whilst evil Pikie R&B music was playing, wearing bling that was so shiny it was hurting my eyes. Nrgh.

I grabbed 5 different trousers and changed into them. What I find most annoying about Sports shops is that they don't sell sports clothing any more. Out of the 5 trousers, sports trousers, and in the tennis section, 3 didn't have pockets. So umm...where do the tennis balls go? It's insane. 4 of them had huge logos all over them. *sigh* I eventually found a boring, plain, un-logoed, pocketed, tracksuit bottom to which the cashier kind of looked at me in the "omg are you insane?? these will actually do the job they are supposed to but there is no logo here..." kinda way. I got out as quickly as I could. Bring me Legends and Brilliant any day. How traumatising.