Public service announcement

Hello.

If you are family and you are reading this blog, I apologise now for anything that might be a bit shocking or offensive.  I should have noted this sooner, but there will most certainly be some:

details of occasional rudies

bad F*~k!ng language

talk of pee pees, poo poos and lady gardens

but no names.  No, no, no. (Well, maybe…….. one day)

sexy talk

shenanigans involving alcohol (although not so much now it would appear), bananas, lampposts and the occasional chihuahua

utter crap

tears

tantrums

out and out b#ll*cks

hormonal rants

drama

and a VERY healthy dose of artistic license………. (she’s not real)

Lots of love

Annie P.  xx

NNnnnnnnooooooo………

Well……………………… actually; a short, sharp YES!!!!! + fist pump (I suppose)

Finally, in my 39th (official age for the rest of my life) year, it appears I have grown up, become boring and sensible and will soon be acquiring a pipe, donning the weird, tartan slippers of old men and wearing Fair Isle cardigans.  All while 1. stroking a cat (not necessarily my cat, just a cat), in front of a blazing open fire.  Actually, I have to admit, I have done all of those already, except the pipe.  Cigar yes, but pipe…… oh, and the cat in front of the fire.  And the Fair Isle cardigan. So ignore everything and go back to my original sentence, ‘……acquiring a pipe, donning the weird, tartan slippers of old men and wearing Fair Isle cardigans 1. while stroking a cat (not necessarily my cat, just a cat), in front of a blazing open fire.’

I have well and truly lost the will to drink.  It’s happened.  I think I want to be fit, slim and healthy more than I want to be fuzzy.  Which completely messes with my ‘latter day Joan Collins’ fantasy.  See ‘Reasons why I don’t have kids #1’.   I tried last night, I tried really hard.  I had a glass of red wine with friends in a pizza place, and I expect the sensation I felt was exactly how a junkie feels with the first hit of heroine – OK, maybe that’s a little over-dramatic – but I genuinely felt wasted after three sips.  I straightened out with some food and had a vodka and tonic and a couple of beers more after that at the gig and a bar and this morning, I feel horrible.  Not terrible, just horrible.  Now I remembered the hot flushes in the night, the racing heart, (I expect this is my body trying to expel the demon drink), the inability to sleep and today, the worst dry mouth I think I’ve ever experienced; which feels like a *camel might have marched across my face in the night and cacked in it.

It almost messed with my plan for the gym, and truthfully, I’m a bit apprehensive about going in case I cark it on the machines.  But I will soldier through.  For lovely, ‘running all over the place’ Victor.  What a martyr I am.

So, I think I have to thank Dry January here, for the giant kick up the arse I obviously needed to rein it in a bit, and I will from now on, take it a lot easier and reduce the amount and frequency of the alcohol I have, because I genuinely, honestly and truthfully, feel 80% (current statistic which I predict will rise to 100% in another month) better without it.  Thank you Dry January.

1. Alternative text, “while stroking my p*ssy” – but I gracefully side-stepped the overwhelming urge to write this.  Well done me.

* Weird camel reference for connection with desert, hence dryness, therefore dry mouth.  Although I expect camel cack really isn’t as dry as sand at all and is actually as wet as the cack of any other large animal, e.g. cow, elephant, polar bear.

So, about those pen*ses

OR: The lengths men will go to (eerr herm)

These days it appears that sending a photograph of your penis by mobile, to a woman you’re trying to woo, is more than common place (if you are a man of course, and have one to photograph).  And that if, as a single woman, you don’t have at the very least one in your mobile – a photo, not a penis because that would be weird – to show and compare with your mates’ photos, you are not allowed into the inner circle.  A kind of ‘c*ck trumps’ if you will – © copyright AnnePank 2014.  That’s a game just begging to be made!

Us girlies, have a friend who is the reigning champion of c*ck trumps – who we will never, ever in our lifetime beat at this game, because she is the proud owner, and only person I know in actual real life, or otherwise, who has ever been in possession of an actual entire gallery of such photos from different suitors.  Madam, I salute you and this post is for you.

**sigh*  How times have changed!  What happened to plain old flowers?  I like a nice bouquet of flowers to be delivered, they’re much prettier than p*nises and for sure, nicer in the centre of your dining room table.  A big bunch of pen*ses does nothing to brighten a room, nothing.

It seems that men will also go to extraordinary lengths (I’m sorry, it’s the only suitable word to use here too) to impress us to do this, and invest a massive amount of forethought and effort to get just the right angle to show off the very best of their meat and two veg.  I guess you’ve heard of ‘Puppetry of the Penis’ and ‘shadow puppetry’, well combine the two for the next case in point.  Another chap had made a huge effort in constructing a shadow pen*s to send to another friend of mine.  The photo showed the shadow of said member standing erect and quite admirably large and apparently……… attached to his shoulder, as the shadow of his head was clearly visible just centimetres away.  When we looked again more closely and in more detail, all in the name of scientific curiosity and research you understand, we realised that it was impossibly, impossibly straight and much too perfect to be real.  If such a specimen really existed it would be such a shame to even think about using it and I think, personally speaking, I’d prefer to have it removed, preserved and mounted in a glass cabinet, for appreciation and admiration only.  A bit like a work of art.  Then we placed bets on what it actually was and the winning answer was a thermos flask.  Bless him, the poor soul had obviously spent time elaborately recreating his entire body reclining on a bed with a thermos flask in place of his manhood and then, standing back admiring his work, proudly pressed send.  Snaps for creativity my friend.  Snaps all round.

I admire his artistic bent (oh, they just keep coming.  And Again!!)  Boom!*

Some men however, make no effort. No effort whatsoever.  I would love to write his name here.  But I won’t.  I received a message a couple of years ago from a chap I was dating, and when I opened it I must admit, I was a little confused for a while trying to work out what exactly it was he had sent me.  What was he sending me?  Should I be sad for the small, bald creature, that had apparently died mid transit across the lap of it’s loving owner?  Should I be horrified that a disturbingly ugly, unidentified species of vermin had tried to viciously gnaw off his bits while he was having a siesta on this hot August afternoon?  And had he woken mid gnaw, killed it and sent the photo, a bit like a big game hunter (in a much smaller way), to show me his razor sharp reflexes and killing skills?  Had he had a lucky escape and lived to tell the tale?  The photo was swiftly followed by a message that said, ‘thinking of you’.

And THAT was the result?!

His flaccid, lifeless p*nis, draped ever so carefully across the top of his left thigh was a one giant slap in the face.  Well, obviously not really.  It was clearly incapable of slapping anything.   But, he thought of me, and his c*ck died and that thought in turn killed any attraction there was.**   No good for the soul, no good at all and I think at that moment a little, tiny piece of my heart died.  I didn’t see him again after that, it was too much for my ego to bear.

NB:  Men, sometimes we are impressed, obviously, we like the pen*ses – but more often we show our girlfriends and giggle like teenagers.

Please, please, please send flowers.

* I think I may have been momentarily taken over by Barbara Windsor.

**  (Well, a combination of that and the fact he’d shaved off his cool tache!)

and the countdown begins!

to loTs of ThinGS!  OVer ExciTED, ME!??!?!?!  YAY!  Whoop….. (just a little)

So, tomorrow is the final day of Dry January, firstly.  During this month I have been out a couple of times with the girls and had nothing-but realised I still feel 100% perfectly comfortable and at ease talking about penis galleries, flaccid penises and shadow penises (more on that later).  Always interesting stuff and good to know we just like to talk about them, with or without the lubrication of booze.  I had my first ever date in the entire history of time (since I was old enough to drink and have dates), without being squiffy enough to take the edge off the nerves.  I have sniffed the rim of a mojito glass, a cava glass – twice, at two separate events – and endured one whole day where the thought of cava didn’t leave my mind for one, single unbearable second.  I may have even dreamt about it that night.  It’s only now I’m starting to really feel any difference, just when I’m about to start drinking again!   I’ll probably keel over at the gig on Saturday night at a mere sniff of the barmaid’s apron, but I will buckle in and give it my best shot.  Miss T, you have been warned!

I will NOT be going here apparently


Then
, I have my trip to Gay Paris.  Oohh la la!  I’m so looking forward to the little break out of town, I’m looking forward to going back after 20 years, I’m looking forward to laughing, a lot, I’m looking forward to the sterling company and more important than all of that?  CHEESE people, and WINE.  and LOTS of it.  (That ‘people’ is referring to you lovely readers and not actual people made of cheese, although I do believe, there is a small community of such people living in the 8th Arrondissement near the  Petit Palais).   I already have my entire weekend wardrobe planned with military precision and I’m hoping there’s enough room on the moto of my charming host for the 20kilos of choice I’m bringing.  A girl’s got to be prepared for every eventuality. No?

Priority for young ladies

………..and finally, (insert drum roll here), FIRST. EVER. PANK. DAY OUT.  I’m thinking first, a little cupcake-age in a charming café in a leafy street, then some quality girl time shopping, in a great crafty shop where you can buy boggling eyes and pipe cleaners and glitter and glitter and glitter, (this is probably more for me than my delightful charges, truth be told) and back to mine for some art time.

And the day after that, I’m taking to brunch, one of my loveliest friends all the way from Blighty to one of my all time favourite places to eat here, Marmalade.  Actually, I take most people here, I need a stake in that place!

So as you might be able to imagine, I am an impossible ball of excitement, (multiply by a thousand with a glass of fizz) as the next few weeks are absolutely rammed with the good stuff, and I can’t wait!

Take a moment – Psalm 23:4

“Even though I walk through the valley of elliptical trainers, I will fear no pain, for you are with me motivation; your rod (phnar) and your staff – lovely helpful, ‘I run everywhere, even if it’s just 30cm and do press-ups while chatting to you’ Victor, they comfort me.”

**You’ll find this particular psalm on the website under, ‘who we are’…….