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Samphire's Gotten Hold of My Chard - 10 / 10 club

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FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2007 08:19

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FrayedKnot · 26/10/2007 23:03

Gosh is everyone lost in the wild world of scrble tonight?!

I have been eating grapes but now I'm off to bed..

Tomorrow I have to clean my house and it's going to rain

DH is taking DS swimming as I too have the fear of changing rooms

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FrannyandZooey · 27/10/2007 08:36

God I fkn hate swimming pools

I once got our money refunded on a course of lessons (completely and utterly against the rules, I had already phoned and pleaded with the manager) by crying very snottily and wailily (dripping water in wet cossie) at reception until someone came to help me and hold ds while I got changed. The changing rooms were FILTHY and there was nowhere safe to put a young baby, at all

I have been ONCE since then when ds and dp begged me to come and see how lovely it was and after 10 mins even dp took pity on how miserable I was and said 'you can go now'

I hate the noise and the splashing and the echoes, and I must be a prude, but I hate seeing lots of bits of people's bodies that really shouldn't be seeing the light of day in mixed company

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FrannyandZooey · 27/10/2007 08:38

NOW

THE MEET UP

are we having fab sparkly t-shirts or what? Because TooT needs to know only she is too polite to harrass us

I think it is a great idea and will eliminate all confusion about who anyone is. Also will be entertaining. However I don't think will work if half of us do and half of us don't. So everyone say what you think. Please. Soon.

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zippitippitoes · 27/10/2007 08:45

i'm a wimp about dressing up
i will combats with extra numerary zips on if yopu like..
what book about boy ewho grwew flowers on his body

i came home and foun d absolutely no food here the charmers hadn't even bought milk

BBBee · 27/10/2007 08:46

you know what I hate more than taking them swimming is the swimming party where you have somehow been recruited to be a 'parent helper'.

Recalling one particular instance where I was introduced to the father of a child in my daughters class (I hadn't met him at all before) him in black speedos and me in comedy pink heart bikini - made small talk about the school playground whilst not acknowledging out state of (un)dress.

BBBee · 27/10/2007 08:47

do do the t-shirts - please do. I will stand outside in dark glasses and a leather coat looking sinister.

zippitippitoes · 27/10/2007 08:51

if you do t shirts then it will play on my fear of being in a group of women I've never been out as a group of women in my life..i thought there were partners at this too

BBBee · 27/10/2007 08:52

zippi - you will look fab. Loved your pics of the tate BTW.

zippitippitoes · 27/10/2007 08:58

what colour are these t shirts...i am too cool for this sort of thing

i have never been on a hen party

if franny wants to see the crack at the tate then i think she can go through the bank entrance not the bridge one and not go to the bourgeois..ie don't approach from the thames just through the piazza

BBBee · 27/10/2007 09:27

i saw the crack wihtout seeing the unmentionable through the route that zippi mentioned.

zippitippitoes · 27/10/2007 09:32

interestingly i didn't read any of the reviews of the crack or see who the artist was before i saw it and so just viewed it for itself...which i liked but i don't think it resolves well as a cultural marker or divide...so for me it works as an aesthetic piece but not particularly as a conceptual idea

MrScarRot · 27/10/2007 10:11

er, I vote for no t-shirts, sorry, but I've always hated fancy dress type things. If I am the only spoilsport could I please at least have a v-neck because I feel very irritable in a normal t-shirt, I don't like things round my neck very much.

DD is ill now - this is so annoying, I hope the rest of us are safe. I put TONS of garlic in all our food as well.

I am a bit bored of my name already. No wonder you got fed of yours in September, Franny!

MrScarRot · 27/10/2007 10:17

though of course it is a practical and fun idea and very kind of Toot to do it

ahundredtimes · 27/10/2007 10:38

Ciao! We are back.

Had a wonderful, wonderful time.

DCs very good given that they were dragged around art galleries AND the Venice biennial (modern art v. good for dcs IMO, better than all the lovely Titian's in the Accademia). Very funny conversation with ds1 in Tracy Emin's pavillion where he said 'I could do this' and I said 'But you didn't, that's the point' and he looked at me very sternly over his glasses and said 'they are drawings of willies, if I did that I'd get expelled or something.'

AND we made them go to a classical concert one evening. And ds2 kept getting dirty looks off the cellist because he was sighing and leaning about the place, and he gave them right back and growled a little bit. One family sitting near us left because their 8 y-o said 'You have to get me out of here' and his mother said 'But it's sooo good for your violin darling'. Ha ha. DS2 then said 'You have to get me out of here too' and we said 'No, it's not for you, it's for us. You have to endure it.' And he did, just. DD sat perfectly because she ended up sitting next to american college student who kept telling her she was 'cute' and she thought that was marvellous.

Lots of running over bridges and posh shops. One night I dreamt of luxury leather goods.

Now is my Mrs Dalloway day, and I am actually going to buy some flowers so everyone will look at those and not realize they are eating stew with a teaspoon off a plastic plate with a sheep on it and sitting on a piano stool.

How are you all?????

FrayedKnot · 27/10/2007 10:40

I would wear a t-shirt but then I am silly like that. It would be hidden under layers until we get to the place anyway because it will be wintery.

It's not raining

I am cleaning my house [not such a big smile]

I will be pleased when it's done though.

FrayedKnot · 27/10/2007 10:42

100! Oooh it sounds fabulous, you did loads, didn;t you?

lol at the violin parent

When's the party

FrayedKnot · 27/10/2007 10:43

Sorry I think it's obviously today isn;t it

I was so enthralled by Venice description I wasn;t takeing in the rest of your post.

ahundredtimes · 27/10/2007 10:45

Yes is tonight. We got back at midnight.

I feel quite relaxed about it now, because we had a lovely time and I feel all happy about everything.

ahundredtimes · 27/10/2007 10:48

Also everyone wore lovely clothes, with long boots and capes and black polo necks and they all looked terribly 'high end' as dh said, that it was all very jolly just staring at everyone in their matching cashmere.

We did MASSES. Everyone exhausted, but we're all sort of 'filled up' by the things we saw, and v. lovely to do a city break with dcs when they can walk everywhere. DS2 very taken with Magritte painting in the Guggenheim, he bought a postcard and keeps looking at it.

Also had hot chocolates and thought of you FK.

FrayedKnot · 27/10/2007 10:58

Were they like melted chocolate ina cup?

It's so lovely to come back from somewhere feeling like that, isn;t it? It keeps you going for ages. I hope the party goes well, I'm sure no-one will mind teaspoons.

ahundredtimes · 27/10/2007 11:00

And we went round the Jewish ghetto, and had to go on a tour (this was a highlight actually, tiny square with four different synagogues above people's apartments) and ds2 kept asking the man questions and all the jewish people on our tour, from Australia, America etc, kept wanting to answer his questions and he put his hands up and said 'One at a time please'.

It made me laugh a great deal. But I now realize I must stop posting things that my dcs said, and I must just tell my mother them as she is meant to be indulgent of my dcs not you lot, though in truth she isn't very indulgent.

I've had a lot of coffee, can you tell? Okay, must go and do party things. Kisses.

MrScarRot · 27/10/2007 11:05

It sounds amazing, 100x, I am very envious. We are not bored of hearing your dc's comments, they are very funny.

I am really enjoying this baby phase, they are so short and special, but, there is a part of me that can't wait for walking children who can tolerate galleries and shows and enjoy them.

Are you cooking the beef?

zippitippitoes · 27/10/2007 11:07

sounds wonderful..going to venice en famille

well going to venice at all actually
if i ever go to another city it will be alone i imagine

ahundredtimes · 27/10/2007 11:13

Yes it was very special, and we are very lucky because it is the most fiendishly expensive place I have EVER been. The only upside to this was that dh realized there are more expensive places to live, and this is good because he has been talking about moving to NZ for a while now, and I have been ignoring him.

MrsC, by dcs are still short. ha ha ha.

ahundredtimes · 27/10/2007 11:15

Oh bah, MY dcs are still short, because you said 'they' are short and special.

A lame joke, that went wrong with typos.

OK must go. Thank you for listening and being nice.