At last we're home and work and aeroplanes and the pongs of a rancid galley are fading from our minds. Our minds maybe, but not from the vile and manky serving pinny's we've just pulled out of our crew bags, they absolutely reek of cooking, smelly aircraft food. They'll need a good scrub to remove the absorbtion of greasy steam that has infiltrated the fabric. (Jue thinks we should explain that a pinny is a type of apron or serving waistcoat thing we wear inflight, we went a bit North East there for a second!) These sexy, flattering garments also smell of pumps. Not from us, but from one of meals we've been serving lately, a bean salad thing that six hours later makes a hideous re-appearance in vapour form from everyone who has digested it. Yes, its been very smelly on board lately, when walking up and down the cabin we often smell fart, not good in an enclosed space and we're going to have a word with the caterers about this. It's not like they themselves have to endure it, and a rapid change of menu is required. Something less likely to cause a stench later on!

Hope you all got a chance to see the little film we made of the Zurich Street Parade, we're not Steven Speilburg and haven't a clue when it comes to technology, but we were sort of proud of it! Alright, we know it's crap really!!! But it gives a good idea of what a top time we had there! You may know about the stress before hand with our competition winner Kevin, from Milton Keynes (think of a famous Kevin off Corrie and you have his surname!) and how he didn't make it back from Thailand in time to get there. We were gutted, but we know he really tried to change flights to be home on the Friday and travel out to Switzerland to meet us. His friend Dan also missed his flight due to an emergency at work (something to do with computer servers he looks after) so in the end no one came, and we are trying to arrange something else for them instead. If we had known a day earlier we could have arranged someone else to accompany us, as the flights and hotel room were wasted, so the whole thing was a real shame, but also a great amazing weekend too. We met some great people, and partied hard and loved our trip, came back knackered and happy, and can't wait for next year. We saw Paul Van Dyke too! He had a great float, but it wasn't as much fun as the WE LOVE HOUSE one! It was rocking, all yellow and pink, fab!

Anyway, loads has been happening lately. We have been so busy! Thank you all for the birthday wishes for me, Lizzy, so chuffed with all the messages! It was actually a brill birthday although dreaded of course, who wants to get older at our age? Fab friends arranged a nice birthday get-together in The Cloud 23 Bar in the new hotel on Deansgate in Manchester, and we stayed at the hotel too, which was fab, even though it was only ten minutes from home. We got executive rooms on the 19th floor, and we then were able to get access to the exec lounge, free bar and everything!!!! We bloody rinsed it in there, they put out snacks and nibbles, the view across our city was great and we had a fab time lying on the glass floor looking on to the street hundreds of feet below, it was a right laugh, good job we're not scared of heights. Jue even got her knockers out and laid on the glass to give anyone looking up a view they didn't expect. Wonderful Hero was with us, and lots of friends, and we dressed up to the nines and had the evening in the trendy Cloud Bar drinking cocktails, and posing about pretending we were already rich and famous authors, which would be nice if it were true! David Guest even showed up with about twelve people in his entourage hee hee, and yes everyone, he does actually have a face like a melted wellie. And he's very small, but still a funny fella although quite scary. We wanted to say hello but we knew we would stare openly at his see through hair do and couldn't be trusted not to comment on that wedding tongue snog with Liza.

So the birthday lasted about four days with lots of lunches and visits from pals, and drinking champagne and chuckling at various mad stuff and happy times, and flowers and gifts, all good stuff and life enhancing. Then it was back to work and a busy roster and no leave in sight for ages, and no sign of an Ibiza trip anytime soon, and the season only with five weeks left. What agony! Can we fit it in? It's not looking likely now and we are both gutted. Mr Mike is playing Pacha in September, but we don't have a good block of MBT's round it (these are our days off, "minimum base turnaround" as they are called, "days off" sounds much better by far, more snoozer friendly.) We can't go sick at the same time as each other for it, (not that we would Mr Airline Manager, in case you are looking in) they would get very suspicious and investigate and we haven't got time off to use as the rules state. BUGGER! Don't companies know that Ibiza keeps us happy and make us behave! Why should we miss out on life experience? It's too much, it really is.

Oh yeah! A funny thing! We had this group of slightly pissed up women on our flight a few trips ago, they were alright but getting annoying on the free bar we serve, greedy bitches. Very demanding with the Baileys. (hark at us, after we raped the exec lounge drinks counter in the hotel!) One of them stopped Jue as she passed by, and asked if she knew whereabouts they were flying over. Jue was confused as we were over the Atlantic, the sea could be clearly seen out of the windows, everywhere for miles. Jue asked what she meant, and the woman pointed to the screen in front of her, and asked if that was where we were in the map. Jue, for a split second thought our computer generated moving map was on, then she faintly heard a tune coming out of the woman's removed headset. "Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler, if you think old England's done!" The woman was watching the titles to "Dad's Army" with the little arrows over Europe!

Oh yes! The book! It's doing very well indeed to say it's only available online yet! Although we've had such praise for our lovely site, yes, it's gorgeous even if we do say so ourselves. The book had a great review from a very important man in literary things, the big book seller shops are on to it, you know the ones we mean (WH and WS!) and saying they will stock it, but we must wait for a definite order before we believe them, it seems too good to be true, nah!!!! Could we really be for sale on book shelves! But they think it's dead funny and want to meet us! We're both on diets, just in case. This has delayed the CD launch though with legal bits and pieces and thank you everyone for being patient about that, everyone who is waiting will get a gift from us for being so nice about it. But it is fab music, sounds amazing and is worth waiting for we promise!

So now we're going to do the new friend requests, they have mounted up and we're behind, sorry. So love to you dear MySpacers, you are a great bunch of loonies, and we do love you.

Love,

Liz & Julie