Time to Shine

I managed to score some tickets to a live recording of 'Time to Shine' finals at Hackney Empire. Time to Shine in simple terms is Gospel X-factor. It is the UK's number one gospel talent search and all I can say from the experience is - people can siiiiiing!!!!!

I won't bore you with my rambles but will leave you with some pictures I took. If you know anyone who might be able to benefit from this opportunity, please give them a shout. I already told my friend about it.....because he can siiiiing! Lol! Also, my hair's growing quickly and I now wear it in a puff/bun depending on the occasion. It's been what? 6 months since I cut it? Sounds about right for length retention.  Although I am not 100% on my moisture and protecting my edges, I am getting there :)

I was #TeamMillie

They are all brothers! #BrothersWithVoices

Top three - Vessel, Abiola & Esther (from the left)

I stopped taking pictures at a point to focus on the judging and singing. I also made loads of videos but here's the link to the website for you to view the professional ones. Lol. Get registering people! And let me know so I can come watch and cheer you till my throat gets sore!

Meanwhile, in other news, behold my birthday cake #chuffed!....the celebration went on for two weeks! What can I say? #Grateful

And finally!......*drumroll! I got my birthday cake! Although I didn't get to eat it! Lol!

Speak Soon

LW xx

Gourmet Burger Kitchen: Impatience is a virtue

I am in a relationship with GBK's milkshake. Even though a milkshake is inhuman and therefore incapable of reciprocating my love, I am still in love. Isn't that the true test of real love? That it remains even when it gets nothing in return? *ahem! I digress.

Where was I? Oh yes! I am a GBKer. I've had some really good burgers yet GBK has managed to hang in there through the years. A bit of background - I am very picky with my food at lunchtime. I think it's because I am spoilt for choice. I kid you not, Lady Womble at lunch time equals confused.com. Most days I spend all the time wandering around trying to make up my mind on what to have then I head back to work empty-handed (bellied).

On one of such days, I saw a GBK guy handing out fliers and took one. Once I read what the flier said, I took a few more! Lol! GBK was challenging me! I mean, the food's enough to get my attention. Yet they had to go along and give me a food-related challenge. Bring it on!

According to GBK, if I order my lunch and it's not with me in 15minutes, then I get a free lunch on my next visit!

I finally got the opportunity yesterday when some colleagues decided on a GBK lunch. Off we went and I ordered a Classic Beef Burger with Small Chunky Skin-on Fries, paid and set my clock.

Guess who won......*drumroll

Yes indeed! I did you all proud! LOL!

When you get the chance, do take the challenge and tell me about it! Right now, I am struggling to keep my eyes open after eating just half of my ******** .Watch this space to find out what ;)


Speak Soon

LW xx

October's for beb'OSA

Yesterday, someone posted a request on my facebook wall - 'Bring back Beb'OSA'.

So here I am! A lot has been going on in Womble world but all in all, still surviving! :D

What have I been up to? Well, I spent July attending 3 weddings *phew - in Birmingham, Bolton and Essex. And a 4th wedding in September. The last one was in London which was good! Less travel! I have to say that before this year, I had only attended 3 weddings - a neigbour's, my sister's and a colleague's. That's it! And in one year I managed to beat that record! #Epic!

I've also done loads of cooking and volunteering. I completed a sponsored walk from Heathrow to Islington, helped organise a charity football tournament, volunteered for Cancer Research UK's Shine Night Walk and I am currently working on 2 events in support of Breast Cancer Campaign.My mentee also graduated this summer (mega proud) so I have another one.

On cooking, I surprised my brother on his birthday plus I stocked his fridge and freezer with his favourite meals. Also hosted a few people to lunch last month which I think went down a storm - am I allowed to say that? Lol.

And of course, the highlight - it was my birthday a few days ago. I went to see John Legend live at the Apollo on his 'All of me' tour. If you ever get the chance to see him live, do it! Lol! Then I went to see a movie and dinner the next day - I should do a review on the place! It was amazing! I also went shopping at Oxford Street. Basically, it was a week long celebration which is yet to be over......

Guess that's all folks. The highlights since I last came here. I'll leave you with one of my fave tunes at the moment from my girl Simi.......
 
                             

Loving you always,

LW

Una Vida

*knock knock

Is anybody there?

I have a confession.....you see all that hair I had this time last year? Well, I cut it 3 months ago. Got back from work one day and half-way through de-tangling I had had enough! So off I went to my bathroom and chopped my hair off.

They say a woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life and I couldn't agree more!

Summer's in full swing and it has been absolutely lovely for the most part. Also, 2014's speeding by so quickly I can barely keep up with the days!

Second confession......I toyed with the idea of starting another blog AGAIN! Well a website actually but something keeps pulling me back here. I'll call it the allure of a first love, unfinished business, an unending story.........

...incase you wondered, here's what my hair is like now. Actually, it's even shorter! Lol!

Photo: curly-hairstyles.org

*cheers to the next half of the year

LW

Lust Have.....

I took a trip down Oxford street sometime in the last week of December 2013. I don't know if I said but I was ill over Christmas so spent it indoors and 'bed-bound'. Little wonder that at the first opportunity, I wandered out of my 'hole' and took a walk to explore one of the main 'shopping districts'.

At this point I must mention I was without a penny in hand. Lol. Not so much out of choice but more out of *coughs, shall we say circumstance. Lol.

Anyway, I went in and out of the shops, taking in the beauty of the streets - full of people, noise and lights. I am quite picky in the things I like so when I fall for a brand, it's usually a lifelong love affair. And in light of this, I walked into the Ted Baker store. Lovelies!!! That store gave me life from the first ,'Hello'. Lol! So many things I just wanted to grab off the rack without trying them on because I KNOW my size in TB like I know I should have gone to bed ages ago! *sigh.

I wandered around on the ground floor admiring jumpsuits, tailoring, the whole 9 yards. Then I decided to check what the upper floor had to offer. I kid you not as I got to the top of the stairs, one of the girls there walked past me in the most AMAZING dress I had seen all day! I couldn't help it, I gushed to her how much I loved her dress and she went on to say it was from that store, asked for my size, handed me one and insisted I tried it on.

Oh dear, I loved the dress when I saw it. But when I wore it.......it was a lifelong union. Lol.
Unfortunately, I did not take it home with me as my senses spoke words of reason and I decided to listen. Till date I still visit the website to ensure my dress is in stock because as soon as I can afford to - WHOOSH! I am so snapping it and making it mine!

I'm actually looking forward to summer you know, Lol. Can't wait for the sunshine to kiss my face everyday (sheer bliss). Here's my dress - I promise it looks much better sitting on me than it does here :P

Speak soon lovelies! Sweet Dreams xx

L.W

THE GIFT OF EMPTINESS

I am many things. I say this because not only have I been called many things, I look in the mirror and see many things. Let me tell you something about me – I love to save people the trouble by calling myself the many names I can be called. I am ditsy. I am giggly. A bit eccentric and also a bubbly airhead. Hold up! Before you go screaming bloody murder at the fact that I am insulting myself, may I highlight that this is not self-degradation. Rather, these are the words of someone who is self-accepting. You see, I am not perfect. And to be honest, I do not want to be. Because my beautiful imperfections ring clear in my ears reminding me daily that I owe everything I have to a God who has been faithful enough to love me despite all odds. A family, gracious enough to put up with my nuances and friends I honestly do not deserve. I do not deserve my friends because they tolerate my ability to go AWOL for long stretches at a time and come back like I smell of roses and they are all bees. Naa! I ain’t rosy and my friends certainly aren’t bees. But for reasons I can never explain, they put up with me and whenever I resurface, pick things up from where we left them. Today I sit and stare at my wall, plagued by a grave promise I made to myself. Today I promised to die empty. I want to empty myself of all that I have. All that I own and all I will become. I owe it to the world to leave everything that I am. Touch a life. Bless someone. Today I say out loud that which I have always whispered in my heart – I will die empty. And before you go off thinking I am having the New Year blues, far from it. I thrive on emptiness. Pouring out and giving myself to the things that colour my world one small action after another. To know me is to know my empty. To love me is to let me be empty. Hi, I am ditsy. Sometimes eccentric, doing the silliest things and walking around with my head in the clouds, and today I give my gift of emptiness. I am empty.