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The John Thornton School of Reflexology at the University of Milton North

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DumSpiroScaro · 20/10/2011 23:15

The Principal

Get well soon Maud!

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TransylvanianVampiress · 23/10/2011 20:03

Less than an hour.....! Hope it's not a disappointing ending in any way ie Lucas had better come back alive and express undying love for a group of academy admirers!Grin

TheSmallBloodiedFingerPrint · 23/10/2011 20:13

The SmallBoys know nothing and have never asked. I sometimes talk to SB Major about having a baby but not about how it happened!!

TheSmallBloodiedFingerPrint · 23/10/2011 20:15

RP who do reckon is out of XF tonight? I think it'll be Frankie, I cannot forgive him for murdering Get Your Rocks Off, it's one of my fave songs from my student days.

TransylvanianVampiress · 23/10/2011 20:20

Personally small I think they should all go!! Including the judges except perhaps gazza as he's a little bit pretty to look at and start again!! The colonel just told me that apparently the mirror is reporting that Simon Cowell wants to sack the whole judging panel as they are rubbish!!Grin

Have to admit to not really caring this week as we missed last night's. I still can't believe that this is really the best the auditions had to offer!ConfusedGrin

TheSmallBloodiedFingerPrint · 23/10/2011 20:29

I know, it's hard to believe isn't it. I can't stand Tulisa now, I thought she was alright to start with but she's so defensive and keeps making snipes at Our Gary being old and past it which is really Not On Hmm.

pARGHssTheTwiglets · 23/10/2011 20:29

Spiro, why don't you tell MissS anyway, if you'd like to get it over with? I don't think you need to wait for her to bring it up. Tbh, I didn't find it embarrassing or weird at all though I thought I would. I told MissT about it when she was about 5 and she was completely disinterested and promptly forgot everything I told her! Told her again a year or so ago and I still think she has no idea. I had to LOL the first time I told her - I mentioned "a hole in the lady's body" and her response was "Urgh! What, like in your elbow or something?!" :)

Massive, the 3 tbsps was just the rum though - there was about half a pint of syrup poured over it!

SupermenacingLBD · 23/10/2011 20:46

What, like in your elbow or something

Now that would be urgh. Imgine how the fics would go.

Maybe the cake wanted more rum, so it refused to soak up the syrup.

TransylvanianVampiress · 23/10/2011 20:50

Twigs that's how DD was. Told her straight out from an early age and she forgot. Told
Her again and she said oh yes I knew that! So must have gone in! Just want to be sure she knew from me before anyone else got to her with wrong information just never thought that person would be my own mother!!

LOL at cake complaining there wasn't enough rum - sounds like my sort of cake!!Grin

SupermenacingLBD · 23/10/2011 21:03

Good luck with Spooks everyone,

TransylvanianVampiress · 23/10/2011 21:12

Oooh Dim's looking rather tasty tonight!Grin

TransylvanianVampiress · 23/10/2011 21:33

Good thing my job doesn't allow me long nails!!Grin

TransylvanianVampiress · 23/10/2011 21:47

Don't they teach mouth to mouth in mi5 training?!Hmm

ComeIntoTheSinisterGardenMaud · 23/10/2011 21:59

::staggers in::

Can we keep the Spooks stuff on the other thread, please, as I won't be watching it until tomorrow?

Despite being the world's most neurotic/repressed/embarrassed and embarrassing parent, I don't actually see the harm in saying "it feels very nice" as that is also the gist of the sex ed film that they see in school at about that age (and if we want to avoid another neurotic/repressed and embarrassed generation it's better to say that than to suggest it's something gross and awful and one has to lie back and think of England). The problem, I think, is that VampyGranny took it upon herself to impart the information.

::Looks for Polish cordial::

SupermenacingLBD · 23/10/2011 22:03

I rather like thinking of England...

I agree though, the problem is the usurping of Vampy's choices as a mum.

TransylvanianVampiress · 23/10/2011 22:10

You're right maud as usual!!Grin. Feel calmer now and had a few glasses of gizzy's finest!!

How was your cultural evening maud?

ComeIntoTheSinisterGardenMaud · 23/10/2011 22:14

Ah yes, Menacing, but thinking of England should be a choice and not a duty.

My cultural evening was lovely, Vampy. All rather impromptu, which is why I have missed Spooks. Your mum sounds very different to mine. Mine still tries to pretend that my sibling and I were found under gooseberry bushes.

I am listening to Ommadawn. It's Menacing's fault.

pARGHssTheTwiglets · 23/10/2011 22:16

Maud, I don't think there's anything wrong with telling them it feels nice but you don't want to hear that from your own mother I'm also not sure that I'd want it presented at such a young age as being a sort of "hey this sounds fun, let's try it!" sort of thing, which is why I've kept it purely biological so far.

TransylvanianVampiress · 23/10/2011 22:17

My ma is not British and therefore maybe not quote so straight-laced as your average mother!! Sometimes I wish she was!! Maybe one when if I meet you all in person I'll tell you what she said when she first met the colonel I'm amazed he's still around 15 years later!!Grin

Glad you had a good evening. I'm up alone watching Downton abbey on itv plus 1!!
Smile

TransylvanianVampiress · 23/10/2011 22:21

Imagine hearing your mother-in-law say it twigs!!! Poor poor colonel!!BlushGrin

SupermenacingLBD · 23/10/2011 22:22

Fancy you being an Ommadawn fan too, Maudie. Did you ever work out what it was meant to be about?

SupermenacingLBD · 23/10/2011 22:25

Mind you, you would think military men were made of sterner sttuff, Vampy. Look at JP and the inkblot test, after all Grin

TransylvanianVampiress · 23/10/2011 22:29

Ah but that's JP!! Much as I love my
Colonel I think we're all in agreement that PR is the answer to our dreams!!Grin

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DumSpiroScaro · 23/10/2011 22:59

I rather like thinking of England... preferably around the late 12th century?!

My mum is bit of a prude so I don't have any worries in that respect, although she was actually very good at The Talk. My dad is far more open minded, for instance, my mum knows I write stories and post them online - my Dad knows about the subject matter Grin.

I have only just finished watching Spooks - will look forward to a full and frank discussion about that tomorrow Hmm.

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SupermenacingLBD · 23/10/2011 23:16

preferably around the late 12th century?!
Got it in one, Spiro. Wink

ComeIntoTheSinisterGardenMaud · 23/10/2011 23:20

Twiggy - Yes, I'm agreeing that that sort of information should come from parents (if at all) and not from grannies (however groovy), but if you've seen the PSHE film they show in school when they're about 8 there's something in that about sex being enjoyable if you're doing it right. I would count that as factual information too and I think it's better to include the emtional aspect of sex rather than make it sound like a mechanical process. Nor do I think "it feels nice, which is why adults enjoy it" means "it's so fabulous you need to sneak off behind the bikesheds as soon as you're old enough". I don't think any child of The Girl's age would understand it that way, anyway. But this is all academic as my mama, as previously stated, would die rather than discuss sex with The Girl or anyone else.

Menacing - I discovered Ommadawn after I got bored with Tubular Bells (which was, after all, inescapable for a few years and did pall after a while). My favourite bit is the second half of Part One, with all those female voices warbling wordlessly.

::Adjusts hippy kaftan and dances Woodstock-stylee::