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

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Do you have a long journey?

Can i just butt in to say...what a brilliant title thread!? Just noticed it...had to comment!

Should be an hour, now 1hr30...it's just a v. easy journey usually, but my experience of engineering works means things often go pear shaped.

Need to make contingency plans I think.

Ours is 2 hours 20m there, 1.5 hours back. Have just looked at tickets and realised my lunacy. Our train doesn't leave Paddington until 8pm. What the heck are we going to do until then? In the dark and the cold?

It's very quiet in here this evening.

Oh dear...well we might be joining you wandering the streets, if all trains cancelled, which would never surprise me.

DH is laughing at my contingency plans, because they involve him

Lionheart, I got up to fifty and then it just stuck at 50 for ages, I thought it would continue to go up towards a 100 or something, I'm confused. Anyway, heaped up a load of rice for hungry people

TooT, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of pellets used is not ok. (even illegal?) To put the saga into context (rest of you have a barley coffee and and snooze and skip this bit),

Oh wow. There should be protective laws, like there are for listed buildings. He sounds like a horror. Still, he can't be healthy and may expire over his whisky.

Mind you, I think there should be laws about fabric conditioners and air fresheners too, and aerosols should be absolutely illegal in public places. I daresay some people think me a bit extreme.

You have peaked, Possum: "There are 50 levels in all, but it is rare for people to get above level 48".

I'm on 43 atm.

Where does the rice come from anyway?

TooT, I too abhor fabric conditioners/air fresheners/aerosols. I think there are smell-free zones in the US, my brain is addled, were some women deemed smell-polluting due to their strong perfumes? Or did I just dream that?

Lionheart, "I have peaked" ??? Too damn right, I am haggard and grey and look about a hundred and three. I think I reached my peak icirca 1947, the way I feel.

Really? Smell-free zones? I hate it when people use aerosols in swimming pool changing rooms and you just can't go anywhere else all wet and undressed. I hate that my dcs have to breathe it in.
And the chemical smell on people's clothes scares me. I worry particularly about babies.

It comes from the advertisers.

1947 is an excellent vintage.

I wish I wasn't so tired, yes, I think in some states overly pungent personal hygeine products can be deemed offensive in legal terms but I may, as i've said, have just imagined that.

DS has never been bathed with soap nor had his hair washed with shampoo, only a bit of my Weleda rose wash for a shitty botty, and yet (now aged 13 months) he smells amazing. He smells like a corn field, it's mysteriously wonderful, an incredible scent, really clean and fresh smelling. I could breathe him in all day.

I am avoiding soap products more and more. Ds2 is particularly sensitive to any bath additions and he and dd2 only really use shampoo/conditioner (Urtekram) when there are nits about.

DS is howling, must dash, night TooTs, night Lionheart...

Night Possum

Daren't spend money though. Am wondering, possibly unrealistically, about evening museum opening... on Sundays...