(Dear IPOATthe Fourth, that a happy ending is altogether unlikely?

[Hullygully]

Or not?

Hello CY, lovely to see you

Lovely to see you all as well! I would love to join you in India. I do have a delicate constitution however and will have to retire if the heat gets to be too much.

I'm sad I missed page 20 or so when we were discussing our DC...mine is Sam, he's 2 and a half and is the funniest and most frustrating person I've ever met. I'm working on DH for more, but he is so far unmoved. Hmmph.

Just looked at him on your profile. he is gorgeous

Why thank you Gibbon! I think he looks a bit ghostly in that pic, but still precious of course! You're quite fetching yourself, love the hair adornment.

So what's on the agenda today, ladies? Eurythmy?

Hello all.

I am feeling rather excited because Umami has been all over the meedja, and I now know what it means (you tasty thing) !

(was on QI night before last and on Breakfast TV yesterday)

Sadly not able to take part in this thread, but available for Thread Steering on request.

Jamie you must explain I am most confused who was on where?

Me. I was on QI last night. Didn't you see me?

I thought it was a bit tasteless.

Cheerful...27??

Gibbon

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami

Umami is apparently rather meaty and savoury, rather like a steaming cup of Bovril.

That is me exactly. Steaming Bovril.

On an entirely unrelated note, as I get to work on yet another blocked duct/ milk blister, this painting has cheered me up somewhat.

Oh those joyful days...I still remember one particularly poignant meal en famille when my dear son pulled away from la breast suddenly and a perfect arc of milk shot across the table and into my mother's dinner.

And breast pads..what larks. Watching one of my last remaining breast pads sail out of the window (had washed it and put it on the windowsill to dry) when I went back into the hotel room in eastern Europe somewhere as a storm blew up.

Ah, good times!

Ahhh I see

Ouch !

Have been unavoidably distracted with boring RL, but tracked down you lovely ladies once more!

T'was hearing about the flavoursome Umami on TV that spurred me on to umm ... a maharaja's palace, I think. Am I the only male to have appeared on the scene?

You'll need a better name than SPL, Lester dear.

(But nice to see you)

We may have Abercrombie in a trunk..

Umami always leaves you wanting more....

Why the sobs, Hully my darling? Is my age too vast or too inexperienced? (If you're thinking I'm a mere pup, at least that would explain my unsophisticated taste in campfire treats )

Not necessarily inexperienced, Cheerful, just so enviably young. I believe you make even dear Umami aged...and as for me

I am hear to prick her bubble and tell umami that she was also in The Daily mail
[da da daaaaaaa]. That makes her right wing, possibly untruthful and likelyto be retracted tomorrow.

I read it on a train as I went on a by myself shopping day to Westfield . Tis huge!!!. I tripped around posh shops for a whole day. Respite care may prove more expensive that first though....

Don't sob Hully dear. I suspect I am older than you. Let us feel compasion for Cheerful and umami - they have their best years yet to come and have not our wisdom and saggy arses maturity.

Paggy - I suspect we are v close in age and sagginess, but compensating with sagaciousness...

I must swoon and bid you all queenly kisses for the week as I am called to foreign shores for arf-term..

Hope am in time to wish Hully happy hols.

Pag: glad you had a good time out and about!

Bet you're not! But agreed re who cares, just would like a few more years now that the ghastly first part is done...

Thanks for wishes, am actually off first thing tomorrow (supposed to be packing now), but computer was sulking all morning and didn't want to risk not being able to say au revoir and have you all sick with worry about my unexplained absence..