05.09.07
Posted in Cambridge, Dance, Lotte, Photo at 3:57 pm by admin
I not only ‘like’ dancing outside. I LOVE it!
I was reminded myself when a friend of mine took this photo of me at the Cambridge Lindy Hopper’s first ever Lindy Bomb! A ‘lindy bomb’ basically means you choose a place and time, you bring some fine jazz tunes, you invite your dancing friends and you DANCE 
Don’t ask me what I am doing in the photo. It must have been one of my famous improvisation moves. They are all truly amazing, original and like nothing else!
So, proven here, Lotte is in her element when:
She is with friends and family,
outside in the sunshine,
in a nice location, like a park,
dancing Lindy Hop!
YAY
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05.01.07
Posted in Cambridge, Lotte, Photo, Punting at 4:46 pm by admin
So, when I work, I punt on the river. When I get visitors and I take a day off, I punt on the river! Me and the river are getting to know each other really well
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04.26.07
Posted in Cambridge, Lotte, Punting at 9:42 am by admin
Phew – it is easier to tell you which muscles are NOT hurting, because there are not so many of them. Ouch!
Everything hurts, from typing to laughing. Holding the pole and pushing it makes my hands and arms sore. I can also tell you for sure you are using your stomach muscles — I feel them all when I laugh and just when I move around.
4 days of work in a row in my first week as Chauffeur. I am proud of my survival. I have had fun and learned a lot about how it all works. I have had people from many different countries in my boat and I am enjoying that. I also made friends with many of my colleagues and we have a fun time together. I did not fall in the water. Not yet…
I don’t like the current, the wind, the muddy bits and the noisy ducks.
I love the people who are punting for the first time, I love the wind if it goes my way. It is great entertainment when poles get stuck in the mud and against bridges, especially if it is not mine, haha.
Most tours punted in a day: 4 (for me that means about 4 hours of punting – soon I will have to be able to do it in 45 min)
Highest tip: 5 pounds
Next day I work is Sunday — first time to work in the weekend. It will probably be busier.
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04.19.07
Posted in Cambridge, Lotte at 9:23 am by admin
A little update on my training to become a punt tour guide.
I have been practicing the technique of punting and it is improving. I am slowly remembering more dates, names, history and facts. What I really mastered in the last week is to know all the dangers that are ahead!
1. Falling in the river
2. Losing the pole and having to wait for someone to help me out of trouble (as there is no paddle in the tour boats)
3. Hitting other boats due to someone else’s fault or my own
4. Talking too much on the way there, so there is nothing to talk about on the way back
5. Forgetting information or not knowing enough
6. Getting very quiet, boring people in the boat, so the atmosphere is making the time drag along
7. Getting injuries
I am making friends with colleagues now and they are very relaxed and friendly. I feel very unsure still about being able to go ahead, but everyone tells me they were all like that when they started. I know they are trying to be nice and helpful, but they keep telling me:
“the best way for this job is just to throw yourself in the deep!”
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04.01.07
Posted in Dance, Lotte at 3:18 pm by admin
Check out my new Charleston dress!
I am so happy. I have been looking for a proper Charleston dress for years now and yesterday I got three in one go thanks to my good friend Ros! See here, one of them.
Ros is a Lindy Hopper and for her living she designs and makes costumes as Rosalind Evans Design. Ros is on the left in the photo below wearing a white shirt. She just happened to have a whole heap of wonderful Charleston dresses that she ‘wanted to get rid off’, because they were taking up space. When she said this, it was like a dream come true for us!
So, me and my dance friends were visiting her at the first possible opportunity. Thanks to your mum Ros for the wonderful freshly baked scones with jam and cream. Yummie
Altogether, one of the most exciting Sundays in a while!
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Posted in Lotte, Photo at 3:03 pm by admin
Before….
…and after!
I look much happier after, don’t you think so? That was not planned. I think 20 photos later I just got better at taking a photo of myself and so smiling was a bit easier! But, I am also happy with the result.
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