Around the Cadac with bunting, tealight chandeliers and fairylights on the EHU

[notwavingjustironing]

Gawd, the minimalists will kill us.....

It was Someone Else's idea, all right?

Carry on where you left off, be it owls, bins, sharks, tins of vodka, karaoke etc. [grain]

If we lived round the corner (if you're anything like me) you'd be chatting to other pixies on the computer because (delete as appropriate):

-too tired to go out and meet rl friends
-dh away / working late so have to look after children so can't meet rl friends
-working late so can't meet rl friends
-too lazy to beautify self so you won't scare random strangers and small children to meet rl friends
-rl friends are doing one of the above so can't go and see them!

You get the picture! Thankfully I work part time and boys are old enough to amuse themselves while I practice neglectful parenting and catch up with my rl mates then! Don't seem to get out much in the evenings at all. So lovely to have you lot here!

Cross posted bramble.

'To me wim wom waddle, to me jack straw saddle, to me Johnny fair faddle, come a long way home.' no, no idea at all what you are on about!!!

Baileys though - great bloody idea

I'm having an alcohol free evening

Well, as I sup my Baileys I am ponderingt he face that I am a lazy slattern. And I am going to do nothing about it because I would rather talk to you lot! You are a very bad example you know, I had a list of jobs I was DETERMINED to do tonight.

There is a big pile of very well organised shoved in any which way they will stay there bits of paper tat on the top of our cooker that dh hates (he is the tidy one out of us) and I was going to reorganise into many smaller piles sort out.

Sitting not 2 ft from my feet on the floor is an omnitrix, a toy story wheely case, a strange long plastic stick with a 'ribbon' of turquoise patterned fake fur attached to one end an 2 pull along wheely toys that I am sure the boys haven't played with in years but they must have done as they are here! Can't be arsed to pick them up (my 'tidying up your own mess' rant obviously sunk in there then boys).

Washing up. No chance.

Still, Dh in Brum tonight with work so I'll sort before he gets back tomorrow evening!!!

I give you 20 mins notwaving

Put it all in a box in the garage mate. It's a tried and tested notwaving technique.

I have no Baileys - I laughed at the custardy song reference but am racking my brains as to what it could be

[grain] yep. I have brought with me a suitcase containing notes on dyscalculia and working memory strategies. I was going to write a lengthy email to a colleague. It can wait. Colleague won't mind.

Being home is giving me flashbacks to being in the folk group. Strums air double bass in a folksy way.

Awww, I love you all too

Notwaving, that's the song that DD always joins in with too - perhaps they can duet if we ever meet up? :o

pmsl @ "all around my arse" :o You made that song your own...

Yellow, I cant even begin to imagine what those Take That song lyrics really are...

I have had an evening of domestic goddessery and made several loaves of chocolate banana bread and a shedload of apple & blackberry crumble for the freezer, following a roast dinner. I'm trying to follow this meal plan thing, but the quantities seem enormous, so I'm freezing loads...

Brambles, great news about your Dad.

This thread moves too fast! I went upstairs to tell DD to go to sleep (again!) and it's gone a page already!!

I've just finished the last bacardi-in-a-tin that I had left over from camping. Am now eyeing the bottle of something called "Cornish Lust" that we brought back off holiday. It purports to be strawberry-flavoured Baileys. It seemed like a good idea at the time...

Hello again! I finally managed to read the whole thread today your pictures were lovely and did you really only learn to ride at 30? I'm very impressed.

to top up your glasses with-sorry I've missed the campfire sing along, but I've been trying to get paperwork done and it's duuuuuuuuullll!

oh and can some add me to the meet up list-yup I'm Poole, now if you are stalking me please wave and keep 10m away we would prefer south of m4 south of Birmingham :)

and I love you all too! Posting not from a field but my own house as my lovely mates toddler has come down with a grim cold so she is being kept at home to get some good sleep so she is better in time for the next camping expedition. We were even contemplating going somewhere else quite possibly a whole 10 miles down the road!

Strawberry flavoured Baileys, what fresh hell is that, sounds utterly revolting. I am much more of a straight spirits sort of girl (although I never did get the hang of Grappa on holiday, I can still breathe fire!)

Right where were we, Vaaaalerie, Valerihihiii, sorry I don't know any folk songs.

notwaving there are already approx 4 bin bags of toys upstairs from my failed 'mission to make the boys responsible for their own mess' mission that spectacularly failed yesterday! Haven't the energy to take these things to join them! the playroom is actually really tidy now given that most of their toys are in bin bags!!! Actually that isn't even CLOSE to being true - they have far far too much!

'Silence ways the custard ways' is the much more innovative and interesting alternative to 'Silence please cos I've got something to say'.

Even I can't remember what 'my armour has toe kneeling' is meant to be!!! But it is from Patience.

Brambles glad you too are channeling my lazy slattern vibe! [grain] Lovecat you are putting me to shame you domestic goddess you!

Lovecat that cornish lust sounds anything bu [vomit emoticon] [grain] Maybe if desperate...

Don't worry Seashells I can chuck a bit more kindling on the fire and take requests

YellowDinosaur - Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Slubber - Forrin (hairy areas)
Bramble & Notwaving - near hairy areas
Funtimewincies - Wrexham
scaryt - Sheffield
Muchostinky - Birmingham, more or less
Lovecat - Greater London (Essex)
lostinwales - south west Wales of course!
Sal - London (SE)
Seashells - Poole

Done seashells! My OCD has made me try and put it in a rough North to South order

cross posted lost - sorry you're at home but glad you're here!

I don't know any folk songs either or any more lyrics from Valeriiiiieeee! but I'll join you caterwaaling with that one

I think we were caught up in a must-buy-clotted-cream-related shite stuff panic in the gift shoppe...

Now, you see, I like Baileys. I like strawberries. I like clotted cream. Theoretically the 3 things together should be nice, no? No?? Ah, I'll leave it. Maybe Friday...

Yellow, you don't want to know what the floor of our living room looks like after DD's spent a weekend playing in... at least your toys are now in bin bags [grain]

Notwaving, yes, I'd always wanted to learn as a child but we could never afford it/didn't live anywhere near a stables so it was a 'relive the childhood you should have had if you'd had the money' kind of thing... :)

pmsl at this lovecat 'I think we were caught up in a must-buy-clotted-cream-related shite stuff panic in the gift shoppe...' Just the sort of thing I do and the reason why we have 2 x 2L bottles of coconut rum in our cupboard!!! [grain]

Agree that each individual ingredient works - just not together!!!

Oh god, I just watched boy in the striped pjamas, big mistake, what a stupid and vile thing WW2 was. Chuck us the strawberry Baileys, I could even drink that right now. I will mostly now be going upstairs to kiss my sleeping (well they'd better be) beauties. In a completely irrelevant fact I know the man that made the film, I have to say I preferred Brassed Off, not sure I'll tell him when I see him at christmas though.

Not heard of boy in the striped pyjamas? Is it a weepy? Don't let me anywhere near it!

I am now on the ribena - tis a work day tomorrow afterall and it really wouldn't do to be smelling of wine in the breast clinic!

I love it when there are a few of us about at the same time, otherwise you feel like you are talking to yourself

< trails off in case everyone has suddenly nipped off to bed>

Don't google it yellow it will make you howl. Especially having small boys.

Incidentally was I the ONLY person in the world who didn't think Slumdog Millionaire was a feel good film?

We took clients to see it and I made a right tit of myself by crying all the way through it. I had to make my excuses and leave the drinks at the end.

It was the fact that those little boys the same age as mine and they were all on their own. I'm soft as really

The Boy in The Strippen Pjamas I wouldn't even read the synopsis if you are not feeling strong, sob.

Nice to be back on the thread properly, it wouldn't let me post earlier. I was starting to worry I didn't even exist. We are real people aren't we?

Yes Yellow, I do think you need to not smell of alcohol, not really something you want from a surgeon, the waft of last nights booze. Not that it used to stop them in the old days IIRC! Oh the bad old days when I lived on site at Addenbrookes and we would go to the hospital bar in uniform at lunchtime, that was when people could smoke indoors too

Strippen Pjamas? Stripped FGS, I need alcohol obviously, posting too sober stops me from spell checking properly! YY to not watching if you have boys, I have just had to go and kiss all of mine (not really a chore). Not sure the 11 year old was that keen though...