Thread 10 - TalkLair: “The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.”

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of previous threads (thread 9).

Although the nights are gradually drawing in, the new lair of JTT escapees is all cosy and homey inside. The hearth is glowing, the walls covered in dubious artwork, books by non-approved authors line the shelves, rugs are down on the floors (and assorted pets curled up on them).

We just won’t mention the gnawed bones of our prey over there in the corner of the cave…

Theoretically we have a “yellow flag” law that is supposed to cover that, but despite the fact the guy spent two weeks in a psychiatric hospital this summer, claimed to be hearing voices and threatened to shoot up the military base where he worked, he managed to get hold of an assault weapon anyway. And now 18 people who were just unfortunate enough to be in a bowling alley and a restaurant at the wrong time are dead, and another 13 seriously wounded. First it will be “too soon” to do anything about it, thoughts and prayers will be offered, and then it will be forgotten about.

Just checked and it is up. The new 'old' place is a .co.uk domain, Johnny kept the .com

Doh! Just realised you meant FU. That's also kinda still up, but the hosting is a problem and the https certificate/tls version is causing some browsers to fail to connect

That sent me to old FU and it’s fine for me @duc748

I hardly ever post there these days as I usually find the conversation’s moved on long before I read stuff. I should make more effort to visit regularly.

Today I've painted my weird Barbie dress ready to wear tomorrow night. I need to do some cutting up of the wig, scribble on my face and I'm good to go! I'm really looking forward to it.

@artant

I only occasionally pop in, but the last time I did, I got the sense that the regular posters are very much TWAW.

@MouseMinge do you mean actual scribble? That sounds hilarious.

Yep, but with face crayons not pen because I want it to wash out. If you haven't seen the film Google weird Barbie and you'll see the look.

That looks great! Curious to hear what the reaction is.

Weird Barbie sounds like a character from The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders where there's a club for dolls that have been scribbled on. There are a number of Barbies in the club, most of them very cross.

Oh Mouse, having googled Weird Barbie, that sounds right up your street! You’ll look so great. Is she a Barbie film invention?

Weird Barbie looks great.

I really meant to get to the cinema to watch both Barbie and Oppenheimer. Failed on both counts.

I’m waiting till they’re on Sky Cinema, my sciatica rules out most films at the cinema.

She is, Mavis.

I saw both, artant Oppenheimer on a Monday and Barbie the next day. I liked Barbie and probably would have come close to loving it if it wasn't for seeing Oppenheimer first. That film blew me away.

I've cut my 80s multi coloured wig so that it looks even more of a hot mess, taken up my friend's black dress and I'm just waiting for her to turn up to do a - hopefully not too awful - sugar skull on her face. I bloody love dress up. Next month we are going to a party where we have to dress up as a character from a children's book. There will be mixed ages going so I'm expecting a lot of Harry Potter costumes. I'm probably going to end up as some Victorian character or other.

Or maybe Eloise!

I forgot the clocks were going back this weekend and was confused when I woke up at my "normal" time but my phone said it was 5am. I do not like it when the clocks go back Me personally I much prefer to have dark mornings rather than dark evenings.

DD2 gave us a scare yesterday. We'd gone to the local library to choose some books. DH and DD were at a table together reading, when suddenly DD said "I feel strange." DH said something like "Oh, should we leave?" but when DD stood up, she just crumpled to the floor. She regained consciousness almost immediately, DH was completely freaked out and carried her over to me, where I was browsing a shelf. Poor thing was pale as a greenish ghost and much in need of hugs. We must have made a strange picture, all huddled on the floor in an aisle. (DD1 wandered past, did the teenage shrug thing, and went back to her book like meh, so we sent her to the cafe to buy a hot drink for DD2).

Eventually DD2 recovered enough for a very slow walk home. Turns out she was on her period, which may have had something to do with it. Weirdly, I recall (at the same age) fainting whilst on my period, when I was out somewhere with my dad (and him freaking out). By the time we got home, DD was completely fine and chatting away about how strange the episode had been.

Oof, that sounds scary @Kucinghitam (although clearly DD1 thought otherwise).

I like the clocks going forward and back but I think we should be on proper European time (so our existing summertime in the winter and double summertime in the summer). Dark mornings confirm that getting up early is stupid and lighter evenings make everyone happier.

When I was little there were a few years when the clocks didn’t go back which was a good start but it would have been even better if we’d had summertime as well.

@Kucinghitam poor DD2. I’m glad she made a swift recovery. Periods are dreadful things.

The clock change caught me off guard. I somehow hadn’t heard anything about it, even though I think it’s always the last Sunday in October? It just hadn’t clocked (!) in my head. I struggled to get to sleep last night and was horrified when I saw the time on my alarm clock said 10am, and thought I must’ve dreamt it when I looked at my phone and saw 9am (this does sometimes happen).

About 15 years ago I went to IKEA the day the clocks went back without realising that they had changed so arrived an hour early and had to stay in the car until it opened. I then did exactly the same thing the following year.
I generally go to IKEA about once every two years on average, so what came over me I do not know.
Glad your daughter is OK Kuc.

How scary Kuc - I glad DD is ok now.

“About 15 years ago I went to IKEA the day the clocks went back without realising that they had changed so arrived an hour early and had to stay in the car until it opened.”

At least you were only an hour out. One year my former flatmate started the day unreasonably early by knowing that the clocks were changing but being confused about which way. I wasn’t amused at being woken at stupid o’clock on a Sunday morning.

I’m at my Dad’s and didn’t arrive until after midnight (old time). Then he went to bed and I didn’t know if he’d turned all his clocks back, so I looked at my ipad and it agreed with Dad’s clocks that it was 01.08, but I didn’t know if maybe it had already hit 02.00 and gone back to 01.00, so thought I’d better go to bed too, as we had a 12.00 (new time) table booked for lunch… I absolutely loathe the clock change twice a year, wish we’d stop doing it and when I am World King I shall put a stop to it.

It’s not quite as bad now that I don’t have to go to work, but this is still the worst week of the year for me. I’m so irritated by people who say “Oh I love it when the clocks go back and we get that extra hour in bed!” and I think (or say) “Oh FFS, you can always have an extra hour in bed on a Sunday morning without plunging the whole fucking country into winter”. Bah!

And hasn’t the EU decided to stop all the clock changing nonsense, just as we Brexited?

I've been down to Bristol this weekend to see my BFF, who is very dear to me. She wrote and illustrated some wonderful stories for her grandchildren, I can barely imagine how wonderful they would be to a seven year old. One for a granddaughter about a princess, and one for a grandson about a boy finding a spotted egg. My crap photos go nowhere near doing them justice.

I was very confused about times today because my fitness watch needed to be changed manually but not my phone, laptop, etc. I was tired anyway so nothing made any sense to me.

The party was fun last night. My costume was bloody brilliant even though I looked like a heifer in it. We didn't stay long because Snoop wanted to get home to Seamus and I was tired. We played a game called Autopsy and the host made the most delicious pumpkin soup with rosemary and oodles of garlic. It's unusual to get soup at a party so it was a real treat for old Mrs "stay off the solids" me.

@Kucinghitam I'm glad you dd is okay. I used to faint a lot when I was having my periods as a teenager. Luckily because it happened a lot I recognised when one was about to happen so could get myself in a position where I didn't go plunging to the floor banging my head on a table as I did so, that was nice.

I have a few more, but it's late now. But I think they are lovely.