Girl Dates London

Dating London one man at a time

Ranting to Rowdy

I love friends. They are marvellous, marvellous, things.

I arrived at the pub in a foul mood. Full of ranting grumpiness about office politics, ridiculous objectives and frankly impossible people. The girls laughed good-naturedly and cheered me out of my sulk.

So it wasn’t long before we returned to our normal Rowdy Girl good humour (and sans the usual bulk quantities of white wine too - wonders will never cease). As an aside, I was (inevitably) quizzed about Tall Tom and I gushed a little, but didn’t want to tempt fate by outlining in great detail all his wondrous qualities.

Anyway, full of beans, I sang all the way home on my bike. Folk in my part of London are now no doubt telling their families about a nutter they just heard belting out dodgy pop songs, slightly out of tune and out of breath.

17 Responses to Ranting to Rowdy »»


Comments

  1. Comment by Princess Polly | 2008/01/24 at 01:13:48

    Girls are great! I just love how you can be in a crap mood and your mates can always cheer you up!

  2. Boy
    Comment by Boy | 2008/01/24 at 01:16:16

    Singing on a bike? I love it. Combining that with your aforementioned cycling attire leads to a truely enviable sight!

  3. Comment by blue soup | 2008/01/24 at 11:16:46

    What a treat for your neighbours :) x

  4. Comment by Girl Friday | 2008/01/24 at 11:42:44

    So why is it (as I think us girls ALL do this) that we think fate will take away what karma or destiny or god or whatever gave us in a new partner, if we divulge too much too soon? I mean, I am the same and most of my friends are too. It must be a defence, if we stop liking them or they stop liking us and we weren’t TOO terribly open about them at first we can claim we never fancied them anyway. Us girls, we are so complicated.

  5. Comment by Miss A | 2008/01/24 at 12:11:16

    awww nice. That is a happy story. We like happy.

    And the singing? is that another pommie thing? ;-)

    just jokes. We sing too x

  6. Comment by clarissa | 2008/01/24 at 12:22:16

    Ok, let’s hear it: which dodgy pop songs?

  7. Comment by Time Traveller | 2008/01/24 at 12:43:35

    :) nutter!

  8. Comment by treacle | 2008/01/24 at 13:01:51

    Hurrah for girl friends…and for singing badly on cycles?! :)

  9. Comment by London-Lass | 2008/01/24 at 14:24:54

    Hurrah for TT - and happy sing-a-long cycling! Can I be nosey and ask when’s the next date?

  10. Jo
    Comment by Jo | 2008/01/24 at 15:06:43

    As long as it wasn’t a rendition of Kylies “I should be so lucky, lucky lucky luuuuucky, I should be so luckkkyy in loooovee”, you’re probably alright.

  11. Comment by Grace13 | 2008/01/24 at 16:28:23

    what a great visual! I love singing in my car on the way home from work to get myself out of an office funk. I agree with Girl Friday tho - why are we afraid to ‘jinx’ it? I’m paranoid about talking about a crush. It’s like if I say it, it becomes real and once it’s real I can’t take it back… or he disappears from the picture. damn. i think it is karma.

  12. Comment by The Blonde Blogshell | 2008/01/24 at 16:47:45

    Friends are the most amazing creatures! They’re lovely blessings!!

    Hahaha!! I would have paid good money to see you “belting out dodgy pop songs, slightly out of tune and out of breath.”
    LOL!!

  13. Comment by caro | 2008/01/24 at 18:59:21

    oh good, i’m not the only one that was singing mid-90’s pop songs the other night on my cold walk home! ;)

  14. Comment by West London Housewife | 2008/01/24 at 21:28:45

    it’s a true mystery why you haven’t been snapped up…. singing 80s tunes whilst wearing the previously described cycling outfit….

  15. Comment by Wanderlusting | 2008/01/24 at 21:47:23

    I think you can only get away with that kinda stuff in London…it’s part of the city’s charm, you know ;)

  16. hb
    Comment by hb | 2008/01/24 at 22:56:53

    yeah, i’m sorry but i just told my sizzle man that i need to have “eternal flame” by the bangles at my wedding. uh huh.

    i love that you sing on your bike. haha. it IS a mystery that you weren’t snapped up earlier. me too. LOL ;-)

  17. Comment by LondonGirl | 2008/01/24 at 23:39:48

    PrincessPolly. Isn’t that the truth? Though old male friends can do the job too, sometimes.
    Boy. Enviable indeed. (not)
    Bluesoup. I like to think I bring joy to my neighbourhood.
    GirlFriday. I KNOW!!! You’re so right about that karma thing. Eeek.
    MissA. Nah – have never heard another singing cyclist – that might just be a LondonGirl thing…
    Clarissa. Umn… stuff by Blue and Westlife (cringes) and McFly (huge cringes).
    TimeTraveller. Yeah. I think the smokers outside pubs probably arrived at that conclusion…
    Treacle. Yep. I love cycling and singing…
    LondonLass. Of course you can be nosey my dear. Date’s tomorrow. And I’m panicking as usual about what to wear. Plus ca change and all that…
    Jo. No, it wasn’t that, though (see above) I doubt what I was singing counts as much better…
    Grace13. Glad you can imagine it! And singing to yourself is so much fun – I don’t have a car so a bike is my only place. And let’s hope karma’s busy elsewhere eh?
    BlondeBlogshell. Absolutely – marvellous things. And re the singing… seriously, you wouldn’t have wanted to hear it for long. I make some of those people on the X factor look talented.
    Caro. Hurrah! Another nutter.
    WLH. Mystery indeed.
    Wanderlusting. I like to think of it as British eccentricity…
    HB. Right. Humn. Not sure about that. Shall I sing it for you? (I’m joking…)


Leave a Reply »»