Laid back but taking no shit, only Schnitzel...

[SeaShellsInTheMoonlight]

sorry, my phone ground to a halt on the other thread this morning!

I hope you found me :)

That's good to hear, thanks scary. I wish for Monday night - I just need to get this over and done with now as I keep worrying how it will go down. Probably fine, I think it's just a spectacularly bad match. Am very fortunate to have dh who supports me completely. He has his moments. :)

Yes, echoing notwaving, are you coming Scary? Would be great if as many as possible of us can come!

Think of gin us

By the way everyone I do have a life but have spent all today lying around the house with my phone, having worked myself to death all week which is why I've been around all day

Pretty sure I can be there, although DH did say, "what if they're all axe murderers?" My rather weak response was,"I'm fairly sure they're not, I've seen a picture of Lost's boys, of bramble's chicks and Slubber's feet." He now thinks I've lost my mind!

Your problem is, Scary is that if DH does his research, there is probably more talk of axes on our threads than any other, therefore axe murderer potential is statistically higher. Do we have any actuaries in the house ?

I'll think of you all drinking gin and that would cheer me up indeed!

Had to move everything out of the kitchen last night as having kitchen painted today and tomorrow, and I realised one thing: We drink too little or buy too much . There are loads of bottles of whiskey/gin/tequila/random liquors that we obviously thought we needed, but only really drink when we have guests. It's using up all my precious cupboard space, and in a drive to be more organised, I feel it is my duty to drink more. Not because I want to, of course. It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

Oi Yellow where are you ??

Totally forgotten about the axe talk.

Yes yes, keep your dh away from threads, it would make the poor man worry even more.

Sal, you're certainly selfless. We seem to be running out of nice liquor. Hurry up Ocado.

Come over here scary, I'll give you a headache.

See, my problem is I buy too little and drink too much!

clinks tins and glasses all round.

Morning all.

Losty I just looked at the pictures of your boys. Oh my goodness they are GORGEOUS. Rofl at the teva/sock photo. So did all of you fit in the quechua pop up on your trip?

Sal we had one of those crazy booze cupboards. All sorts of weird shite that I was keeping 'just incase I am making a cake that needs banana liquor in it' . We had our kitchen redone last year and out they all went. Now I have gin(s), vodka and brandy for the Christmas cakes.

Scary I can personally vouch that Chippy is not an axe murderer. Not only have I met her in proper rl, I have also slept in her princess bed and she made me honey on toast.

So last night I watched my first X-factor all the way through. I cannot abide Simon Cowell or Cheryl Big Hair but saw there are new faces this year. It was quite watchable. Mystified by the families in the wings with matching 'We Love on. What if their family member doesn't even get to audition on the stage? Then they'll have a whole load of shame t-shirts left. Most odd.

So who wants to start placing bets as to when my tent will be dry. I could quite joyfully kick myself for my stupidity. It was absolutely bone dry when we rolled it up at Rheinmunster. But there was a bit of dry mud and grass on the groundsheet that troubled my anal sensibilities. Got home and unrolled it on the patio for a final air and to sweep off the grass...AND THEN WENT OUT TO GET THE DOG.

Yes

And the bastard British rain fell down.

And now it is sopping.

Cor that was long

This is what happens when I am not forced to post on the arsing kindle and when someone wakes the dog up at 6.15am.

Slubber, my raindar tells me it will piss it down merrily all day as dh is filming locally and has employed sound, camera, actors and everything. I am tempted to go find him and keep shouting 'run vt' but will be professional and stay at home on mn

really bramble?

Oh fgs. Have mopped up all the puddles inside and got the curtain divider dry. Maybe we should just bring it in now and I can dry it on the table for the next week.

The downside of canvas tent friends.

V tempting to shout "run vt". I would love to shout "get me 10mls of adrenaline STAT" at dh. he never says this at work but I like to imagine him in scrubs running around purposefully and shouting orders.

Thank you slubbler, I think they a pretty lovely myself but there is probably quite a bit of bias on my part. Although they were not so good at 7am this morning when we all had to get up to get them ready for a football tournament which I expect will be cancelled due to the fact that it has been pouring all night. I decided that for DS3's sake he and I had better stay home so that he didn't get wet and miserable sits on DS3 so no one can hear him complain that he wants to go too We did all fit inside the pop up, it's quite spacious so some pitches Dh slept in the middle compartment and the DS's and I in the speeping pods, the rest of the time DS1 had his own pop up one man as he takes up far to much room with his long legs.

Dh is totally unphased that I might bugger off to meet a bunch of axe murderers strangers. He did ask if I was sure you were all women but stopped listening before I could explain that I don't think men would be able to write such a funny thread!

In RL no one runs around shouting 'get me 10mls of adrenaline STAT' because everyone knows what to do. All the arrests I have seen have been very calm and quiet, it would make terrible TV.

I think Yellow was on call this weekend wasn't she (running around in scrubs shouting for adrenaline?) and lovecat's production is on atm.

Morning!

What a shocker Slubber I imagine wet tent in your house is about as welcome as wet dog (only bigger).

Losty yes you're right about Yellow I'd forgotten about her being on call.

DH is playing golf this morning and ds1 and 2 are playing nicely so I can't quite bring myself to get out of bed yet because then I would have to do some washing and cooking

Good morning all.

Bramble, am fascinated by your family, you sound all very exciting.

Painters came in at 8, and dh has been utterly brilliant in getting up at 7 with ds, messing around with him and bringing me breakfast in bed. Door closed, and I've been hiding with a book in bed for the last two hours. Have to get up now and wish for a miracle in my wardrobe - going to a friend's show at the V&A later, and I very much doubt if I own anything suitable to wear. I have two very distinct types of clothes: formal work and completely scruffy.

losty, I know, only in ER do they run and shout. I asked dh if he was ever tempted to try it when he did his A&E bit for his GP training and he said 'if I did I would either just be shouting it at myself or an extremely mardy nurse'.

I like imaging though. I once shouted for a chair (in a professional capacity for a patient). No one came. I got the chair myself with a stretchy out foot.

So i have uploaded a few holiday snaps and also for the first time made some of them private. Ooooh. Hopefully only the select few will be able to view me in my full beauteous magnificence.

I think I have listed all the regulars on here

did it work? can anyone see them?

Wow, that looks amazing, thanks for sharing. Love the view near Bodensee one - just beautiful. Oh, and if it wasn't for the fact that we've now established you'd need to be a millionaire to stay longer than 3 days in Lichtenstein, I would have loved to go there just for the views and open space.

Your tent looks very similar from the front to the De Waard we stayed in (it was a Stormmeeu (sp?) ). I think you'd like north Holland, btw. Big on tents, obv, great for cycling with the whole being flat thing, and some lovely areas to walk in through the woods. A bit of a drive, but we're definitely going back next year.

Can see three new pics, Lichenstein looks lovely, can't see you anywhere though, unless you're hiding behind your tent!

That sky is a beautiful colour.

Same here - assumed you meant tent in all its glory. If not, I demand access. Or beg, whichever works best.

Thanks Slubber-lichenstein looks amazing! Beautiful sky :)

Dh is not concern about you being axe murderers or men-I think he just thinks we sound mad but fun