The Marcus Rule Correctional Facility for Shameless Gamblers

[DumSpiroSpero]

Ok Rule it is! Can't stop now but will be back later.

Have a good day everyone!

Morning, ma Petite. It was a spur of the moment thing, once we worked out that if we were to see the exhibition before it closed, it was now or never. We're not in the habit of going to Paris just to see an exhibition, but it was a lovely pretext.

Oh dear about the work anxieties. This seems to happen a lot. You have my sympathies ::fellow fretter:: Is there anything practical you can do, like employ someone for a couple of hours a week to blitz some of the admin stuff for you? Personally, I find that comfort food always helps.

Well it's a lovely thing to do in any event, glad you enjoyed it.

I would love some of that Lucas comfort food but fear my waistline cannot tolerate any further expansion without resorting to elasticated trousers!

How about the low calorie option?

::surveys wardrobe of elasticated waist trousers with feeling of impending middle-aged gloom::

Now that I could nibble on!

Sadly Maud, I should be wearing them already but I am hanging on to my muffin top look until there really is no other option.

What do I do with a bolshy client who is insisting I draw something that just won't work? I have tried to explain why but he's not listening. I know if I draw what he wants and then it gets refused he will forget his pushiness and blame me.

Hmm. I guess you've already pointed out to him that a large part of what he is paying for is your professional expertise and that, in your hard-won professional judgement, he would be wasting his money on his hare-brained less-than-perfectly-developed scheme?

I think you need to be more assertive with this client. Have you thought of seeing a life coach, to teach you some assertiveness techniques?

Hello, ladies! Small, I sympathise with your lack of sleep. I was awake at 3. 30 am and I hadn't been to sleep yet. Maybe it's the winceyette nightie that bugs me, though as Maud rightly surmises all the old biddies smart mature ladies are wearing them in bed, here on the Island.

Small ,I can send someone around who can sort out your bolshy client in a jiffy. Just say the word.

(And guess what the word is. Three letters, beginning with 'b')

Hello Maud! Oh how lovely for you, to have an impromptu Paris visite! Glad you had a lovely time. Has nobody linked to

Small, sorry that work is being a worry :( I am loving the pictorial suggestions to help you though!

Spiro, how are you feeling now?

A trying day, here. MissTwiglets was virutally hysterical at the thought of going back to school today, so I kept her home on the condition that she doesn't make a fuss tomorrow. I realise that this sounds like all kinds of stupid but it actually worked last time she got herself so worked up like this and she trotted in fine the next day. Fingers crossed. And do you remember a while back we were talking about headlice I said that they'd ceased to gross me out once I'd discovered the other, ahem, affliction that litte kids can get? I will say no more about it, as don't wish to ickify you all, but just imagine the fun we are now having [vomit]

Bonjour, Twiggy.

::airkisses on both cheeks::

No, nobody had linked to Ella and Louis, but I had linked to on the other thread where I spend too much time like to chat to like-minded chums. Oh dear again about all the school-related ishoos.

::eek::

Good morning, Massive. Your assertive trainer looks like the sort of man to whom nobody especially not a laydee would ever say no!

Hmmm now who shall I take to my next meeting - Porter or Guy? Decisions, decisions!

Massive perhaps we are psychically in tune and I woke to keep you company?

Twigs we have an inset day here today so Smallboys aren't in anyway. I know Major will go back with ease tomorrow but Minor will kick up all sorts of fuss which I am not looking forward to. It's such a pointless week - two days of school!

You also have my sympathy about the icky stuff .

Oh, Twigs, thanks for that link, it transported me in time and space. Those chestnut trees, , biting into a warm croissant, the special smells of Paris. Though I expect the Gauloises are no longer in evidence.

Yikes about ze leetle problemes...

I hope Spiro is feeling a bit better now. Sorry I forgot to say that earlier, bit of a to-do on here but all sorted now.

Small, why choose? You could have a boy at each shoulder. But tell Porter to bring along his big Heckler and Koch, for aesthetic balance.

Doies anyone ever read the comments under the YT clips? Some people astound me .

Which one, Small? I must admit I have seen some doozies. I think some of them forget the whole world will be reading

In the words of Harry Hill..

Now I like John Porter and his Heckler and Koch and I like Guy with his huge broadsword but who is best?

There's only one way to find out....

FIGHT!!!

or is it just me and Smallboy who do that about everything?

The one under the Frank Sinatra one for a start. Good lord.

blimey. I see what you mean. those are just about the worst I've seen.

Gad, Carruthers, those two men are genetically identical. Saying which one of them is the best is.... TOTALLY meaningless. Just embrace the fact that there are double helpings of such a good thing.

Put them down, Carruthers. Why do you always take everything I say so literally?,

LOL, Massive!!

Hi Ladiez!

Thanks for the get well wishes - am much better at last! actually managed to eat breakfast, lunch & dinner yesterday for the first time in a week!

Hope everyone has recovered from travelling, chocolate, colds, to-do's, stroppy clients and school-phobic littlies. Will look forward to catching up with the visual aids later on!!!

On the stroppy clients front - have you shown him an alternative or an illustration of why it won't work? Perhaps he is one of these people that can't visualise and needs to see it in front in him to get his head around the problem.

Hello Spiro! I had a call to say Superboy minor had sprained his ankle.,It turned out to be a minute bruise. Or at least I couldn't make anything out on the photo iof the Deadly War Wound.

So, who else was taken in by the fake webchat with Kate Middleton?

Spiro, glad you're better . Yes I drew the option that would work and that planners would approve but he said No. I think I may have the answer now though. it's still ugly but no where near as bad as he was suggesting.

Massive, sounds like your boys are as wussy as mine?

Drama queens, the pair of them. Especially if a little milking of the situation is a possibility. They'll be home in a while, I can check it out properly then.