Our writer bemoans her work ethic when it comes to blogs.

Well ok I have obviously stopped blogging. What can I say, I suck.

Anyway, what is going on now?

Job: working at the BBC as a Genre Head for Future Media & Technology. I work at the BBC...crazy!

Home: moved to Hammersmith (Brackenbury Village doncha know) - back in West London and a 15 minute commute from work. And we have a garden...nice.

Status: Tom and I got married in June in London!

Tom's Job: Tom quit PwC and started his own partnership!

Kitten: we got a cute little chocolate british shorthair cat named Lulu

wedding pic -


kitteh pic -

A loss must be discussed

Right, so the Steam Rollers lost.

Oh well.

It was a VERY physical game, and it just felt like a blur of hits and fastness and reaction. It was our first game as a team, and I think it showed. The Suffra Jets have had more time skating together, not to mention a lot of them had been on teams together before, so they worked better as a unit. We’ll get there though. For the first and second period we were up to 40 points behind, but by the third period it started to come together. We clawed back slowly to a 14 point deficit, but unfortunately just ran out of time. We have plans for the future though. As Slice says, the backup plan is always world domination.

Next game is against the Ultraviolent Femmes, with the winner going to the championship against the Suffra Jets again.

And meanwhile we have a month off derby. Unbelievable….a whole month!! I am kicking it off by going away to Zurich for the weekend – a little surprise trip that Tom booked. Very excited as its another country to add to my list, and the city will be full of Christmas markets and snow!

Bout Footage:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=y9GIyvW6Xno (I am in dark red top with white knee caps)

A Glorious Tale of Steam Machines

In February I will have been playing roller derby for 3 years. That's a pretty long time. And yet, this Saturday is going to be the VERY FIRST time I am ever going to play a game with my own permanent league team! Why is that? It has a lot to do with my moves and my leagues.

When we started ACDG we just didnt have enough girls for league teams, so for a long time we just played black vs white or whatever. And then just when we split into teams and I became a Berzerker I ended up moving to London. I never did get to play a game with my Berzerker crew.

And then in London we had a whole expo season of Pink vs Black. Now FINALLY I have a league team! I am a STEAM ROLLER - and this Saturday sees the debut of the team I am co-captain of!

It's gonna be a tough game. We are up against the mighty Suffra Jets - a team that has half of their roster on the LRG travel team, and who on paper have a pretty powerful set of lineups. They have already played one game this season, and they beat the Ultraviolent Femmes pretty solidly. We figure this is a must win game for our team in order to make sure we get into the finals, so its gonna be a hard one.

Oh, and half our team is injured or ill. :)

But we are going to look damn cool.

Steam Rollers - the steam punkin bad-ass rollergirls of the LRG.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

http://www.londonrollergirls.com/zero/teams/steam-rollers

The subject experiences a slight change of location

Oh yes, I forgot to mention it, but I moved! Now that I am an engaged woman, it was time to play house properly with Tom. I really did love the flat in Notting Hill and the great flatmates, but it was just getting way too cramped. Basically it got to the point where if all our laundry was clean, there was nowhere to put it.

So one day we took a little trip up to Hampstead village and said “wow, let’s live here!”

Then we had a reality check on the prices/availability and decided to walk down the hill a bit and see where it led us.

It led us right to Belsize Park. So that’s where we are now. Around the corner from the shops and café’s of England’s Lane, down the hill from the Belsize Park tube, close enough to Chalk Farm and Camden, and a short jaunt to Primrose Hill and Hampstead Heath.

It’s great to finally have space! We live in one of the “…modern developments from the 60s and 70s with underground parking and spacious spacious layouts…” quoted here.

We have been exploring the leafy neighborhoods and checking out the pubs for our new local. It’s great! And now I have two sets of furniture (one US, one UK) cause the flat was unfurnished and we had to buy everything.

Pic: view of central London from Primrose Hill park

A new map of London is presented

HA!

A woeful lack of updates are shared

Just been sooo busy. No time to update the old blog. Had a crazy summer of work, and in desperate need of a holiday I ran off to Rollercon 2008 in Vegas. I took Tom with me, and he actually had a pretty good time. Probably because it turns out he fell in love with Vegas. We also went to Los Angeles for some family visit time, and also had a few days of wine tasting in the Santa Ynez valley. Now we are back in London, and looking for a new flat just of our own. London Rollergirls has finally split into permanent teams and we are getting ready to kick off our next season. Good stuff! Check out this latest derby portrait taken at the last LRG expo game:

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Photo by Samuel Hicks

A cacophony of celebration

Yes, inevitably, there is a shaky video of the proposal. Be careful of your ears, there is lots of screaming...



(thats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swj7k9JosYM)