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I knew it!!! I always thought you had a way with words.

Hah! Did I say proper writer? I meant hack!

right, must go to my doom....
See you all much later when I am jittery with alcohol adrenaline!

Break a leg

Good luck FMV!

I am in a really bad mood

It started early

But I have eaten lots of vegetables today, and been to the gym

Avi your dentistry sounds horrid, but why did you have to have it done so far from home? Hope things are better today.

Now I am going to go and see if I can find something to distract me from general bitchiness

Hello FK, why the mood?

Sorry about your bad mood FK, what's up?

We went to Norwich and met my dad and his wife.

I spent my xmas HMV vouchers on two cds and they're both fabulous and I want to recommend them - Joan as Policewoman - she has a beautiful soulful voice and it's lovely. And Beirut - which is very french sounding with a nice man singing and trumpets and things and is a bit like Sufjan Stevens and instantly soothingly lovely. I want everyone to listen to my cds with me, i haven't bought music for ages.

Hello Boco.
I am v. unadventurous with music these days and just stick with what I know I like. Mind you, I didn't listen to music for years - until I started driving. I never think of it at home.

I love music and need to listen to it every day - it makes me generally happy just having it on in the background.

I am sure FMV will be wonderful - all flicky and jangly and serene and poetic. I am also sure she has gone now so am winging those wishes to her.

How are you boco? How are you all?

I love music too but have rather odd taste.

Was it on here we talked will oldham?

It makes me immensely happy when I remember to listen to it. Most of my stuff is on vinyl though and the record player stopped working

How are you Bee?

I'm fine thanks Bee, how are you? And how are you Toot

Look at us all doing polite asking after each other.

I appear to be sneezing but am ignoring it.
How are you Boco?

Oh you know, pretty good. [shuffles]

How is you dh? How are the dcs?

hello everybody

i am madly into music phase at the moment and have bought loads

i have it on all the time

i have finally had some food

and completed my packing up and throwing out of ds room hoorah but i have done no college work this week eeek

We had sunshine today so I wore a T shirt in the garden. My fingers went a bit numb but I felt it would be ungrateful to wrap up.

Oh, y'know.
Smaller dcs seem to have permanent snot and cough atm.
Dd1 gone to bed with hot water bottle feeling wobbly.
Ds1 loud'n'lively. He marked out an area of garden today where he plans to grow a crop of grain for his hamster. He doesn't have a hamster yet but I admire his sudden energy.

I have no idea why I am in a bad mood. Which kind of makes it worse. Can;t blame PMT. Also DS had a very long protracted sob/wail/sob/hiccup/wail/sob/wail this morning about not wanting to go out with dH while I got on with stuff I needed to do, so they didn;t go out, and I had to do teh stuff with a zillion interruptions, as you can imagine

"But Mummy I want to help yooooooooouuuuuu" every five minutes

So, calming soothing music? That sounds good

And how are the dds Boco? And dh?

Hello Zippi and FK

Hello everyone

FMV you will be fantastic

Boco I share your enthusiasm for music. I was very recently thinking I don't listen to music enough and I should, because it can be very uplifting and good for the soul. I like the sound of your Beirut one

Sorry about your bad mood FK, it's awful when you can't snap out of it. Dp told me to calm down today as I was banging cupboard doors in the kitchen

Yes, put on calming soothing music, and have a nice bath, and a glass of wine. I'm going to do that. Dp is chopping wood fgs.

Dds are very well thanks Tatties. DD2 had croupe last week and the homeopath gave her aconite and i don't know if it was that or something else but the next night it was better and it often lasts for a week. So, that's good. And they both loved the puppet theatre today. Dp is ok, but entering a wood chopping phase.