New balls please! The BESH are hanging out the cunt bunting for Wombledon and saddling up for the Tour de France!

[FizzyFeet]

Rules of entry: must be ttc #1 for over a year, be suitably evil and hag-like, and submit your BESHtionnaire for our approval. If you are a baby duster or a hun, this ain't the thread for you.

[Blue2014]

Ooh Hags, does the BESH questionnaire need updating to include a love of Prosecco???

[EricaJ]

Blue I think we should invent a gin + prosecco based BESH cocktail!

[Blue2014]

Erica - well that's my plans for the evening sorted

[EricaJ]

It's a bank holiday tomorrow here...so no work... there is prosecco in the fridge! Just saying!!!

[Blue2014]

It's not bank holiday here but I'm not in work and there is also gin and Prosecco in my fridge (not much else though!)

[EricaJ]

I have some sparkling water and tonic and limes...and feta cheese? And some yogur?

Otherwise it's all booze.

[barkingtreefrog]

How long does prosecco stay sparkly? If I opened a bottle tonight and did the spoon thing would it still be ok tomorrow?
Quite fancy a glass but DCW is on his work Xmas do and I don't intend to drink the entire bottle on my own on a school night...

[EricaJ]

Barking Mimosa for breakfast??

[Fabuluce]

Sounds lush - I'm well jell of all this booze talk!! For the record there is definitely a gin and champagne cocktail (I've speed drunk them and got utterly trollied!) so I see no reason why it can't be amended for prosecco rather than champagne . I shall try and find it....

[Fabuluce]

Gin shaken with Cointreau and lemon juice and topped up with champagne. Guaranteed to mess you up but thoroughly enjoyable

[barkingtreefrog]

Fuck it. I'm home alone putting photographs in frames. I'm opening the prosecco .

[Fabuluce]

I'm sitting in a freezing house procrastinating watching a grand designs that I've seen before busy not doing a, the ironing, b, baking some biscuits or c, going out to pick up the sodding cooking apples that I forgot to buy so that I can mix up some mincemeat. Can I get away with some royal galas instead??

[Fabuluce]

I gave in and had a custard tart that happened to be hiding in the fridge. Sooo bad!

[Blue2014]

Fab - that sounds like a very grown up evening (aside from the custard tart!)

[Blue2014]

Barking - mine has been in the fridge all week sans spoon and it still has a tiny bit of sparkle.

[Blue2014]

Erica - I gave the feta cheese a miss - version one by chance is not too unlike Fabs suggestion - Hendricks, aldi prosecco and fresh lemon juice. Honestly? I'm not currently convinced but let give it time ...

[Fabuluce]

Good on you for trying it though! Maybe it really needs that Cointreau??

Procrastination won and I spent far too much time looking up random crap on mumsnet instead. Idiot! Now still have them all to do tomorrow when I also have to add in cleaning the house, doing exercise and baking a cake plus finding some Cheap mason jars as ikea no longer do them. Grrr. I did however manage to write some Christmas cards. Phew!

[barkingtreefrog]

At this rate I won't need to know how to keep prosecco for another day.


So, I opened the photos that arrived today. Long overdue order of snaps from amazing holiday last year + wedding + honeymoon. Have been putting off sorting them out as I was pg in the holiday photos, supposed to be 7 month pg on my wedding day and the most beautiful photos taken on honeymoon were on my due date. So. Anyway.

[barkingtreefrog]

They're SHIT. I also ordered a couple of photobooks, one for the holiday, one for the wedding/honeymoon. The photos in the book are fine, the same photos in prints are dark and shadowy. A couple of photos of the two of us are so shadowy we're pretty much a silhouette. But I just thought my photos weren't as good as I thought, so framed them anyway. Then noticed the difference between the ones on the wall and the ones in the photobook. Arse. To send them back I'll have to take them all back out of the sodding frames and make a trip to the post office.

[barkingtreefrog]

So, moving on. I also ordered smaller prints, to put in the frames that hold multiple photos. The smaller prints have all been cut to stupid random sizes, none of which fit in the photo frames. Apparently when you ask them not to crop the photo, rather than printing with a white border like any normal photo place they cut them to different random sizes . All fucking useless.

[barkingtreefrog]

And then we get to the photobook for the wedding/honeymoon. Given the unconventional style of our wedding ceremony/vows, I included the text in the photobook. It looks shit. The letters are touching and look bold, even though the text isn't. It's practically unreadable. I sent them a photo (at their request when I said it was substandard) and they said they didn't see a problem. There's a bloody obvious problem, I've put text in a book and you CAN'T FUCKING READ IT. I'd say that was a problem.

[barkingtreefrog]

Bloody hell, my glass is empty again. Must be the dog.

[cherrycoconut]

Houston Barking that would def be a problem in my house, anal fucking graphic design freak that I am. Hence we haven't done our wedding photos yet (from 4.5 years ago) because I want to do them properly. Which probably means there will never be time as freelance work or sitting on the sofa always wins out unless there is a deadline or a bunch of cash for motivation. Last minute .com queen me. So I admire your doing ESPECIALLY given the circumstances and the feelings it must be dredging up. Hope the Prosecco helped!

Wow, we're motoring this fred at a pace, good work fellow BESH. So, who's writing the shiny new BTTF?

[Fabuluce]

I did our wedding photo book through photo box and i was very happy with it (we got all our pics on a disc from our photographer) and I did loads of text too as I had books done for some other members of the fam. Poor quality pics, poorly cut pics and shoddy text all add up to a shit shit service!! How fucking annoying! How did you pay? If it was by credit card you might be able to get it cancelled and get them to fight it for you? How horribly bloody frustrating though. I'm for you. What company did this? Can we name and shame??

[Fabuluce]

Just 24 messages to post before new thread time! Yippee! Now what do we need to cover off in the new one?

Mcfly?? (Knock knock knock) Hello?