Tuesday 21 June 2011

Day Five: Burnt

Sun tan lotion and holidays go hand in hand like cocktails and cocktail umbrellas, left shoes and right shoes and newly formed couples.

However, it will always puzzle me that no matter how much lotion you apply you are guaranteed to burn at least one part of your body.

As I type this blog I am currently nursing a burnt ear, two feet (both my own) and a pair of elbows (also belonging to me). Call me Charlie but the above body parts are not normally first on the list of anatomy to brun!

When my brother and I were kids I remember being constantly drenched in sun tan lotion and to the point where we resembled a couple of arctic creatures as opposed to children on a family holiday.

This importance of lotioning up has stuck with me throughout adulthood and my own children will become little lotion monsters too, so it remains a mystery as to why I have fallen victim to burnt skin.

On a positive note at least it's not the soles of my feet that caught the brunt of the sun- that would take some very special tanning skills!

Thankfully I've been blessed with the ability to tan very easily, this is something that the recessive ginger gene in my body is not a fan of.

So that's another reason why I'm baffled by this burntness and I'm refusing to let Corfu ruin my 22 years on non-burning.

Corfu may have distorted my speedo innocence, it may have throw numerous boobs at me (and a few male Greek dancers. Mum and I had to pretend we were lovers and than ran off- but that's another story) but I will not be beaten by a few frazzled body parts!

1 comment:

  1. Ha, the lady I work for told me that parents are putting so much lotion on their children that they're getting a vitamin D deficiency which is causing them to get rickets!! So you can apparently never win!! x

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