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It is ridiculous how much effort goes into trying to make something run smoothly and how much you will inevitably forget and will fall apart on the night, but the key to everything is to how you deal with the things that go wrong.  and this is my new ethos.

I hope that people will come along and have a good time, that we will make a lot of money for the team and that everything will go off without a hitch.  But in reality i would be satisfied if it didn’t end up costing us money and nobody died.

Hopefully i will see you all saturday

Vi O’Lence and Miss Elmyra ran the practice and had the girls doing plough stops, t-stops, derby stops, baseball stops and knee drops.  It was amazingly good fun and we all managed to work up enough energy to forget about the cold.

Lots of conversation went on in regards to the shortage of stock of Riedells in the UK and the girls are clubbing together to bulk order which will be so much easier for us in terms of being able to use different venues who don’t have skates for hire and so on.

Girls are flying practice without me this week as hubbies birthday has stopped play for this roller girl – but its only for a week and turning 30 deserves to be honoured

Names and membership are coming along well and once two evils gets through the backlog and okay our requested names we will be all set!

Well Christmas and snow have conspired against the Notts Roller Girls and last weeks ‘back to the track’ skate practice had to be cancelled due to freeeeeezing venue and dicey, death like roads.  But we deciede to have a committee meeting instead in the Sir John Borlaise Warren and it was actually really useful in giving us some off track time to chat, sort out Derby business and generally have a nice drink without the derby induced skate pain.

But that aside i am sooooo pleased that tomorrow we are back to practicing.  I feel i have forgotten everything i had learnt and it will be nice to be back on wheels.

Venue wise – I am really keen to get to a position where we will be able to move venue to a place with a better floor than our current one.  Whilst Take 1 had been amazing for us at the beginning, i think clean shiny floors would make a lot of difference to our skating skills.

And in respect to Derby Names, some of us have come up with some great ones.  My excellent name of Queen BodaSeeYa! unfortunately fell at the first hurdle, when i was contacted by another derby girl to say she had been using the name for a while and had registered it a while back – ah well, great names are hard to fine and seemingly even harder to come by

But a weekend is a long time, and i think i may have a new one already……. will keep you posted.

Well, third practice tonight, forming a committee, sorting out a constitution, opening a bank account and generally sharing out the load between the ladies who have come and stayed

we are quite a formidible bunch of girls at the moment, the skating is coming along well and everyone is excitedly coming up with their derby names….

Tonights practice is going to be run by some of the other girls – should be cool.

Am trying to sort out Insurance for the team, but the quotes are either no or really expensive, but we need insurance, a committee, bank account etc, in order to be able to apply for funding, get access to practice venues and so forth, so it is all a balancing act.

Anyway, must fly, work to go to (and that is really hectic at the mo, which isn’t the most helpful) christmas is flying into view and hubbie is in the US for a conference, so pet survival and house not burning  down responsibilities are all with me – yikes.

will try to blog more often….try……

had a bit of trouble sorting out the cash after the practice (seemed to have dropped a fiver at some point – arse).  but on the whole we managed to cover the cost of the venue with the subs (just )

have been in contact with the council sports sector about getting us some help, funding and hopefully access to venues, they have been really slow at getting back to me, but hopefully something good will come of it – either that or it will be a complete waste of time – but i will only know by going through the process.

Need to sort out a proper committee and consitution in order to apply for sports grants and the like, so that is going to be job number 2……..

Trying to sort out second practice now, hopefully they let us have the venue again, but am still waiting for confirmation.  Keep getting contacted by more girls interested in getting involved which is amazing.  It was great fun (although i did feel muscles i haven’t felt before the next day )

looking forward to next thursday and then carnival of the strange at the weekend……

I am halfway through writing a team constitution and hopefully sorted in terms of the paperwork needed.

It seems like there might be some issues with the original practice day and making sure we can pay for venue hire and skates.  But have tried to persuade some people to give us some money, so will have to see if anything comes of that – but in these credit crunch times i am not so confident.  Hopefully our fairy gothmother will come along and wave her magic pointy stick

If anyone out there is reading this and has some great ideas for sponsorship, grants or just wants to donate some funds to get your local roller girls on their way, please give me a buzz  nottinghamrollergirls@googlemail.com

off out to look at sparkly explosions and say ahhhhh, oooohhhhh, mmmmmmm now – bye bye!

as a result, i have a venue for the first notts roller girls practice sorted – 12th Nov, Take 1, Nottingham.  I have invited most of the ladies who are interested via facebook.  I have looked into different organisational structures for the team.  Considering Not for Profit, Limited Company, Community Amateur Sports Teams and now i am going to write a constitution and apply for some funding.

I also need to figure out how i apply for a bank account and get some formal books sorted before i start collecting subs off people for practice.  Do i need receipts to give to people when they pay me subs?  (will collect them for money paid out)  oh the nonsense involved in setting this thing up is crazy – the skating seems to be fading into the background! .

Well, at least once the practices are established, then it will all start to get a bit easier (i hope).  So, the whole thing kicks off next week.  Bit worried about how little time i have spent on skates of late, but if regular practices are put in place this will help (also the fear of looking like a complete tit in front of all the others, will inspire me to spend some more time with slippery wheels strapped to me).

Wish i understood more about everything involved, it takes so much time to research and find it all out.