Where we're at!

You're here and we're very happy to see you! We feel like we are answering the door at a massive party we're having, and we keep getting hugs off fab friends and party people we're delighted have accepted our invite! Get your coat off and have a glass of Jue's special Rum Punch Surprise (HA! the surprise is.......... there's no rum in it! Everything else but no Rum!)

So..... we wrote a book! Therefore we are writers, nay novelists! Hell, we're just about Barbara Cartland, but our eye make-up is less gloopy. We cannot tell you how the writing of a book completely takes over your life. It is actually painful and stressful not to write, when your mind is oozing with ideas and images, and thoughts and descriptions. It becomes a complusion, like needing a ciggie, to be forced away from it makes you twitchy. You need it. If you don't write you'll lose your grasp on the amazing thought you've just had, the memory will fade and diminish and never be as good again. So work, real work, paid work, becomes massively inconvenient, in fact a real ball ache of gargantuan proportions. And to fly is even worse, the weird hours, the time changes, the lag, all getting in the way of writing!!! What's that all about? Days, weeks, indeed months went by where we flew, and wrote, and flew and slept on the settee, and wrote more at ten to four in the morning, all out of kilter, exhausted but driven, but we had to write this book! And we loved it, such a fab laugh, such funny, side-splitting, rib-aching tear-streaming memories. Everyone should write a book!

Well, we're going to tell you a bit about how we got to this stage, and this lovely web site, so many things have happened in such an amazing way. One of the people we want to thank is the divine Hannah Jordan of www.postcardsfromlondon.com who we met on MySpace. As you may know we set up our MySpace account in September, just to test the waters with a few chapters, and see if anyone else apart from us thought they were funny. We were dead scared!!! What if we were shite? Plus we don't know about computers so html codes were a mystery to us, and we worked hard to get our page looking pretty and Air Hostessy. We didn't even know how to get friends, so we did a search for anyone mentioning Stewardesses and asked to be their friends. The very first guy replied "How about you two go eat a pound of dog shit?" It wasn't a good start! But then he was a twisty faced miserable plonker, and who'd want that ugly knob as a mate? So we were a bit stung, but everyone else of the ten we asked really liked us, and we got some top comments on the blogs we'd posted. In weeks we didn't need to request friends at all, they came to us!

Very early on we got Hannah, and as she was so stylish, we were chuffed! On and on it went, more and more friends, all loving our work, till the only problem was keeping up. MySpace could be a full time job in itself. In the midst of all this, we had interest from the only Publisher we approached, but we didn't go with it because it meant totally handing over all control, and them changing what we'd put. No good! But it was a brave decision, to turn down the chance to be published at that stage could have been literary suicide. But even if all this had never happened, we still would have wanted to keep everything as it is, because it is what it is, and makes no excuses for itself. Bit like us really! And we could have shown our memoirs to our Grandchildren, when they were 21!

Yes, so, while all this was going on and loads of decisions, and up in the air quite literally, and lots of faffing about, we received an image in to our comments on MySpace. It was gorgeous, an image of Hosties and aeroplanes, and really, really lovely design. We loved it! And that image came in to us from Hannah Jordan, and unbeknownst to Hannah we had decided to release a CD to go along with the book, and we were dollying around with ideas for the cover. And suddenly, here it was! All we asked is that she slightly change the shades of it, and when we told her our proposal for her work, she was delighted to get on board, and since then she has produced some wonderful images and designs for us. As she is an ex-Hostie herself, she just totally understands the things we love, and her work rate is exceptional. What a talent.

The music side of things has been astonishing too. Early in the year, we made a tentative enquiry with our dear friend Mr Mike, who is a groundbreaking DJ and music producer based in Switzerland. He is known as the Godfather of Swiss House. He has his own record company, Map Dance, based in Bern, he plays around the world, and has a national radio show. This is a man who is a magical journey to be around, never have we met anyone with such energy, verve and sense of fun. He is wonderful! We asked him if we could use some of his music, and he very kindly agreed. We love his work, play it all the time, and always, always take his tunes on trips with us. He is the perfect way to get the party started! Well, very quickly we realised that there are two sides to music down route, we love to party, but of course, we need to chill. To balance out the madness that is the flying life style, we need to rest and relax sometimes.

We asked Mike what to do because we have another amazing friend, but one we were shy to approach. We are friends with Lenny Ibizarre, a divine musical genius, born in Denmark but living blissfully in Ibiza, and he is an Ibizathan chill-out legend. This a man who makes the most beautiful music we've ever heard, dreamscape stuff. He does incredible things like play the sunset down at Cafe del Mar and Mambos on Sun Set strip in Ibiza (of course, where else could be so heavenly) and he makes movie soundtracks. We told Mike about our dreams, and he said "Ask Lenny! Who else does chill-out so fantastic, plus he is very kind." We emailed Lenny so nervous, and do you know, he mailed straight back insisting he do it, and delighted to be asked. Well, we nearly fell over! Two top notch and amazing DJ's happy to help, and sending us music we adore! How is it possible that we could have such incredible friends!!!! And the strange part about it is that although Mike and Lenny have been to the same events, even in the same room on occasion, they have never actually met! So there! The creation of "Jet Lags and Crew Bags" one CD chill and dream, one CD dance and party. What a stunning combination. And of course with a beautiful cover, thanks Hannah!

So, while all this was going on we were setting up a business, and we had to, just had to call it BingBong! It's a sound that instantly alerts us to action, we're like Pavlov's Dogs in the cabin, we hear a "Bing Bonnnnng!" see a pink light in the cabin and spring to life. Plus the Bong part of it reminds us of happy events too, we were working in Amsterdam after all! So we are company directors! We couldn't direct traffic normally, not with our jet lag! We picked our theme, Hannah went to work with her flash brilliance and another friend Daniel, who is a computer superstar, stepped in to put it all together. Everyone helped, everyone encouraged, we got a Manager, Sy, who knows about these things and is a top bloke. We had meetings with important people who know about card fraud, and online stuff, and back end software and servers and things that we sat there bemused at. Once I turned to Jue and said really loudly, "Oooo Jue, the brake on my trolley got really jammed the other day!" she hooted with laughter and said "Yes, and the latch on the locker was dead stiff!" They just looked at us like we were mental.

We got interested in producing a range of fashions, we love the fashions, come on, we're female, it's practically the law! They will be ready to send to the fashion savvy very soon, and we think they will be cult items, especially to those in Aviation. We thought up all the slogans on the t-shirts, and Hannah drew them, we laughed and laughed when we saw them. And it's bags next, and lots of other lovely goodies!! What brill fun to choose styles and fabrics, and go to massive warehouses full of clothes and great items, and get samples! This is shopping on a mega scale! And we realised that we spent a fortune on sun glasses! Bloody sun glasses! Always losing them, breaking them, sitting on them, leaving them on the crew bus, hundreds of pounds a year on crappy pieces of plastic to stop us getting rhummey eyes and wrinkles. We thought we'd pick some dead nice ones and sell them on the site! Not ones that rip you off to the tune of £129 quid though! Stylish and fab but without the laughable price tag. Great designs, really good protection and funky styles, all at a 1/4 of the price we normally pay! Four pairs for the price of one! We looked at loads of ranges but most of them were shite, so we went with Nueu (New-ay) and we loved them! Maybe you'll think they are as good as we do, hope so,

So, that's us right now! A top book, a great CD and lovely fashions. Along with great friends, our own business and a bright looking future, and best of all, we fly! How exciting can life be? Very exciting indeed, when you have love, support, friendship and a great job!