I live on a little island off of America. Ask me anything.

[Stimmyplip]

Due to living in a small island I'm frequently bored. Hence the thread.

We have friends in Boothbay so are there quite a lot. Our nearest town is Camden. I love it. A bit crazy this time of year but still beautiful and nice food.

Is Wiscasset the place with signs proclaiming it the prettiest place in Maine? I’m afraid we spent a lot of time asking each other whether every place we drove through was prettier than there.

Haha! Yes that's the place. I strongly dispute that. (Especially when stuck outside that fucking lobster place on route 1 for an age.)

Wiscasset had no such signs when I was there, but that was a very long time ago. They do seem rather brilliant because people are now talking about Wiscasset even on MN and it's really a rather insignificant town.

Stim, Route 1 is absolutely infested with lobster places, so you'll have to be more specific.

Is it the lobster place with the 40 foot inflatable lobster on the roof?

@MissConductUS Reds Eats. It's been voted the best place to eat lobster in Maine and the queue will be an hour long down route one even on a rainy bloody Monday. Pretty much everyone that loves in Maine wants it moved!

@chemenger No. That place cracks me up. I've never eaten there. I just want the big lobster.

Pretty much everyone that loves in Maine wants it moved!

newmainenews.com/2017/10/23/reds-eats-adds-new-location-in-north-bound-lane-of-i-295/

I had the lobster stew at Gilbert's Chowder House today. That WAS amazing and almost worth the cost to park in Portland.

@Semster I put that up on my Facebook a few months ago and some of my, um, older friends from Maine took it very seriously and totally lost their shit.

I haven't been to Portland for ages! I love a good chowder/stew. I had one the other day which clearly had frozen lobster in not envy.

@Stimmyplip do you have a preference between Sephora and ULTA?

@macattack52 the only Sephora I've been to was in London and I've not been to an Ulta!

Stim, does that mean that you don't do full makeup everyday?

@Stimmyplip the uk doesn't have Sephora...

mac, I've never been to an Ulta but Sephora in the US is lovely. A bit pricey, but great products and selection.

@MissConductUS you are so lucky. It would be a dream come true to have access to a Sephora.

mac, well come over and see us and shop Sephora! I'm in NY and we've lots of them.

Can you order on-line?

I just took my 15yo DD into Ulta for the first time - it didn't have anywhere near as much make up as Sephora but did have lots of other stuff for hair, etc, and lots of cheaper cosmetics ranges. It didn't seem that different to a drugstore except with a wider range. It did look like it was on the verge if closing down.

It did look like it was on the verge if closing down.

As in empty shelves, rubbish on the floor, that sort of thing?

@macattack52 they used to have one near me in Islington years ago.

As in empty shelves, rubbish on the floor, that sort of thing?

At least half the shelves were empty, and there was a fair amount of stuff deeply discounted. No rubbish though, and the staff were helpful. It was a bit of a weird atmosphere.

@macattack52

www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/could-sephora-be-coming-back-to-london-161027125.html

Yesterday our ferry broke down so there were no boats off all day until the end. The queues to get on the ferry were backed up for over a mile each way on to route one. Utter shit show.

Today we have a tiny ferry instead and at 7.30 this morning there was already at least 5 ferry loads of cars waiting to get off the island so mine and ds's fun plans of going off to stay with friends and go to a reggae festival are shot.

Instead we will be staying at home and going to a lawnmower race.

Island living really isn't all shits and giggles.

Sorry about the ferry troubles. The summer people must have been fuming, swanning about and threatening to sue everyone in sight, I'm sure.

The lawnmower race sounds like fun! Do take a picture or two to post.

The poor guy that works the line on the mainland was getting serious abuse from some jumped up summer assholes. He's the sweetest guy in the world, so didn't deserve it.

I think the county sheriff ended up coming out as route one was becoming impassable, it's amazing there wasn't an accident!

My poor friend had travelled 10 hours with a newborn and 2 year old in the car only to be on the ferry that broke down, turned back to the mainland and then had to stay in her car for another 7 hours to get on the first ferry that ran!