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I MUST go and put them to bed.

Don't go and see that Bucket film. It looks dire. [bossy and tyrannical]

Next week? My word, that has come round quicklY.

Fennel is carminative to the bowels and expectorant for the lungs, 100x, so they say, as well as being a sedative.

London

I can't link to the Odeon without it doing that

I watched the Savages trailer, I am not sure
I think I want something funny
just funny
possibly stupid and funny
I am easily pleased

"carminative"? what in the name of....?

ooh that Jack Black film is directed by the Eternal Sunshine man

yes the Bucket one looks bad doesn't it
I think the Owen Wilson one is the only one with any pretensions of being even vaguely intelligent
however as I would only be watching it to lech at OW and as previously mentioned he spends it looking like an escapee from a burns unit, it may be ill advised

right I'll just sit here and do post after post

sorry

I still can't catch up! HELLO!

hello Tatties
sorry lots of it is me wittering

carminative

Oh I loved little miss sunshine, i don't care if it was a fake, wasn't at all moved by production values or indieness or quirkiness, it made me cry laughing with the very basic slapstick humour, like the horn getting stuck and the dance and the farce. And because we were watching it in the village hall with the entire WI, who weren't impressed, which made it so much funnier. Was with friends and sister and we were all mascarary and hysterical.

Spoke to Wiz. Was very brief. She changed rememdies. Didn't see your request 100 so dunno.

I can't catch up either Tatties. They all talk lots when we're not here.

Why oh why is it so cold? My fingertips and toes go numb in the mornings and I hate it and I can't warm them up because the kitchen floor is penetratingly cold and people keep wanting more breakfast. Am also slightly worried we will run out of heating oil before proper spring.

I have been eating more fruit than usual. We have the most divine Dutch apples. They taste English.

How is everybody?

How does an apple taste English, Toot?

Boco - I didn't dislike it for any intellient reason, I just didn't find it that funny, but I think I was in a strange mood at the time. DH was rolling on the floor. I imagine a room full of stiff-lipped jammers would have intensified the joke.

Ooh hello MrsC, I was just emailing you.
English as in that wonderful fresh, crisp, sweet and tangy autumnal heaven that is apple.

Oh, and so juicy.

Not just English I suppose but I associate it with the apples in the garden, picked warm from the sun

oh dear, it's bedtime and I haven't asked for titles

I have a feeling we did a few funny ones lately that haven't been used yet?

feel free to nominate your favourite or make up new ones

our apples are still rotting on the floor under the tree, we ate a few but they weren't that sweet. The birds eat them. They make the most amazing patterns in the apples with their beaks.

I am feeling slightly low, ds and I haven't really got anything nice to do this week and last week we had loads of fun and sociable activities on

I realised this earlier and rang about 6 people and asked them if they would like to come over but got very poor response am feeling paranoid and anxious about ds's social life and my social skills

It's Boco Bonnie next week

I will renounce my membership if we can;t have Turn Around Stir Fries

oh yes LET'S FK, shall we?

There, you see, bossy streak shining forth

at apples rotting under the tree!
Do you not make pies? Stew them? We had hardly any last year and it was galling to watch other people's apples rot.

yes but bossy and oh so right

Franny, come and meet us somewhere. We have half term this week.