I Started Pumpkin I Couldn't Finish - 10 / 10 club

[FrannyandZooey]

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Bourbon could be vanilla. Or a biscuit. Would thinking of it this way appal you less?

100x, I say things like that to her but I suspect she needs somebody else to say them. It might make her think. She keeps being pitiful and it drives me MAD because I know she can snap out of her tiredness/misery/whine/minor injury distress at will. I am probably a bad mother.

Bourbon is whiskey

I am having people over for some drinks next weekend and I thought we might have cocktails. I am not very adventurous though, we might just have margheritas because I like them.

Well tbh TooT, we'd probably be fine because I'd just whine and moan louder and MORE and eventually she'd be stilled into silence.

Don't make anything nice FK. Trickortreaters should not be encouraged. Thank goodness we don't get them here. Dd1 and ds1 think I am very mean for not letting them do it.

LOL don;t be silly "talking about drink"

I just thought amaretto sounded swoonsome and I love lime and then BOURBON [ugh] very odd

I am sorry you are feeling down 100, i should think you must be exhausted after the party and Venice and everything, never mind a load more stuff to do

Franny, I have found this and this and this for you to read. Now sit down with your feet up here have a cushion Shall I bring you a drink? Or some green leafy veg?

I have lots of stuff for trick or treaters. They are mostly littlies from the school and we wave at the frozen parents at the end of the path.

Oh I love trick or treaters! They are so sweet round here and they stop when I put a sign on the door saying ds has gone to bed

I always give them healthy boring stuff like fruit and then odd things like glowsticks and they are terribly polite and try to look pleased

We have just carved our first ever pumpkin, he looks very smiley and has been glowing in the window all evening

And we toasted the seeds with cumin and they were lovely

Ds says we are all going to dress up as fairies for Hallloween

I'm going to wASH MY hair before bed, please think of grusome baked things and I'll sneak on at work tomorrow morning

It's years since I ha d a cocktail.

PSW I must go to bed [ywan]

but will look tomorrow

F&Z
xxx

Why can't we talk about drink?

Oh gawd, that sounds awful Franny. Being down after the terrible strain of going to Venice.

I sound terrible. I don't think it's that. It's just the phone goes all the time, and I have had uncomfortable email correspondence with interested party re 'work' and then the phone goes, and then something else happens, and I'm meant to have done this and that, and I feel like exploding or crying, or both, possibly at once, when I have finished this cocktail.

Oh, we can, it's um, medicinal!

Night Franny, sleep well.

It's only our neighbours, and I make DH answer the door if anyone knocks later than 7

Now I really am going to wash my hair

Can't you make another one?

Nobody liked my 'sling woven from lentils' idea

I'm going to bed

100x, you need a rest. Early nights, hot water bottles and good books.

I did, PSW, I lke patchwork

She doesn't need bed, Toot, she need more cocktails..

and then she needs to tell me how to make them

Everyone's going to bed MrsC.

I'll make you one too, you have to admire the slice of lime though.

Pink, I dream secret dreams of discovering lentil fibre.

I love lime