Plump up the yam, til your beet are stompin, and the jam is pumpkin - 10/10 Club

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We're used to going away with the car loaded to the hilt and I have to figure out how to get down on the train with all our stuff for 5 days [panic] I imagine I will be wearing one outfit til Thursday (with several pairs of shoes!)

Dinner's turned out rather nice - frozen mixed veg and all!

Lull, don't you start with all this bug stuff. Everyone has to come. Or Else.

Yes, i'm wondering how to transport dd and a buggy and bags on and off trains / escalators / tube trains. will be a challenge.

I used to travel all over with ds1 in his buggy and a rucksack. I think I chose times where the tube would be quieter but I can't imagine doing it now with masses more stuff. I am coming in the car anyway.

Is it really going to be cold. Can't believe we're all meeting in 40 hours or so.

I can't believe it's 39 days til Christmas (there was a sign in the window of the chemist!)

{bounce] [bounce] [bounce]

awwwwww fmf....thankyou
but dont all be nice to me today or I might cry

I really dont think I can face/am up to dragging poorly crotchety ds all the way to wretched B%*@$R tomorrow for dh's stepfather's zillionth birthday.
I shall have to smile & be civil & put up with mil's ghastly perfume,shag pile,three hundred ticking chiming clocks & collections of china/crystal etc that she spends all the visit telling ds not to touch/break.
I also do not want to eat yucky roast dinner at yucky chintzy hot floral restaurant
She will ask me questions I do notwant to answer,interogate me about my state of health,lecture me about ds & tell me how tired & overworked poor dh is.

maybe I'm not really ill.....maybe it's mil's sickness?

I think you're right Lull. And the cure for MIL sickness is avoiding the allergen (ie MIL) and also meeting friends to reverse the sickness caused previously

Stay away from MIL.

and cake. Lots of wholesome cake. eaten with friends....

I dont know what's worse...struggling through tomorrow
or not going & facing the wrath of dh

LL, can ds be highly contagious for the purposes of tomorrow? Hooge sympathies!

Wrath? Surely if you're terribly ill (with a 24 hour thing of course) you'll get sympathy? and support in your recouperation programme involving meeting friends on Sunday

TooT, sympathy for bank situation

LL a day resting at home tomorrow will do you the world of good

Someone told me it is going to be pouring on Sunday - I hadn;t dared check.

I was hoping to walk with DS in the buggy as we are arriving at a different station than usual, and I thought it would be nicer.

Pants...that means loads of tube changes and brollies.

Still the cake will be worth it

I'm still trying to match names up - it's v. weird....

I am probably wearing...a sou'wester.

Everybody go and pack and stop panicking.

Boco's packing, you should be packing. We've got some tidying up and changes to make here over the weekend. [gets out colour chart, tries to hide cocktail shaker]

someone has a gorgeousd name..or is it not a real name?

100x you go and pack and get yourself to the meet up

Oh no, not rain! I have a split in one of my soles (no new shoes yet).

Wombling has a beautiful name.

100x, please change your mind! We could meet at Chippenham and travel together.

No, no PSW. I don't 'do' meet-ups. I never said I would come, I have ignored the whole thing since day one. [sticks fingers in ears]

Go and pack.

Thanks for sympathy Mrs. Wellies

thanks everyone, yes it is a real name zippi!

I know you don't do meet ups. Neither do I!! It's not too late to change your mind. I just figured that missing out would be worse than the embarrassment of going! Come on, pack!

oh I like it babes

{stubborn sticking to her guns emoticon]