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so you bought a boat.. a canl boat and does it move or is too decrepit

We had a boat though, two boats, when I was little. We went up a river on one of them and my father shouted at a chef and he pursued us down the tow path with a knife.

The other boat was taken out in freezing seas near Skye. And we had to catch mackerel, with lines of fish gut wrapped around a board. And when you pulled the line in there was always jellyfish on it and it used to sting my fingers. And then the bottom of the boat was full of fish, flapping because my father said there wasn't time to kill them.

It was quite traumatic.

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lol fmv I know exactly what you mean - I used to go fell walking with a tent and three days' worth of rations on my back, didn't really enjoy the walking (but worth it for views and camping was fun) but I could come back and be insufferably smug at how hard I was.

Come back Franny and tell us of the boat

we had a boat when i was little a cabin cruiser on the thames ..it lived in a boathouse under the living room

ah no Zippi, we didn't buy it - my dh's mad but lovely business partner gave it to us as he can't afford to pay him off...

Oh yes I remember, and I told you how my father got a bus once. That was true.

He didn't keep the bus, but we did have these boats. Once the one in Skye lost it's mooring and my brother and I were sent out in an inflatable to rescue it for some reason. Only it was rough, and were washed down the coast.

I must go to school now. I'm not sure I should actually drive. I am a little erm, unmoored myself what with the flu and the rather marvellous Day Nurse.

[weaves off to the school gates shouting WHO HAS A BOAT?]

We nearly had a boat once. We had it for 3 days. When we lived on the norfolk broads, we found one after a storm, a big one with lots of seats, like a pleasure cruiser that had washed all the way from Great Yarmouth. Someone claimed it though.

We've been swimming and to the park. I really don't like swimming pools.

Hello all

I have been eating lovely fat juicy blueberries (which have probably travelled too far...)

Swimming pools are devil's puddles full of wee and fungus. I never go.

Today has been crap. A big fat letter from the hospital arrived and I knew before I opened it that my smear was dodgy again and sure enough it is and I have to have a colposcopy on Wednesday. I am a bit worried that the appointment is so soon but I imagine its a cancellation rather than me being about to peg it.

Dc's were doing various clubs so we thought we'd have lunch out at St Peters Brewery where we got married. We realised on the way that we had timed it so we could order but not wait to eat the food before we had to leave to collect dcs so we thought we'd go somewhere a bit closer just outside town. That place was fully booked so we thought we'd come back to Norwich and go to The Eagle where there is always good food. The menu looked so revolting we left immediately and tried an old favourite as a last resort and the menu looked great but was sadly something one might expect a spotty teenager to bring their poor unfortunate mother from a home economics lesson. I had two snifters of tempura salmon suspended on a such a colossal mountain of shredded vegetables that even a 10/10 er would have trembled before it.

Then DH announces he must fly to Dublin unexpectedly this weekend and frankly I feel a bit pissed off at this very moment. There rant over.

As you were.

how amazing finding a boat and fat blueberries

how horrid trudging round not finding a nice place to eat mrs c

that used to be my thing with exh

funnily enough it seems easier now i think i care less

Oh MrsC Have a hug

Sorry MrsC, about your day and especially the colposcopy - what does that involve?

It is quite stressful trying to find somewhere nice to eat when you don't often get the opportunity ifswim. It doesn't have to be perfect but you don't want egg and chips or a Red Leicester sandwich with a iceberg and cress garnish do you? Well, i don't. In fact I wanted exactly what I had yesterday, quiche and lovely salads in Diss so perhaps it was doomed to fail.

Boco - the colposcopy itself is just the telescope thingy so it means examining it further. Then it is likely that you have a biopsy, or, like I had last time, if its quite bad, an unexpected 'see and treat', except this time it won't be unexpected. They remove the pre-cancerous area under local. It's not nice.

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MrsC oh dear, I'm sorry to hear about your smear results. I'm sure it is really good that they are having you in so quickly - will they just be having a look or will they be treating anything they find at the same time? And pants about your search for decent food and Dublin

I've never had a boat, or a bus, unless you count an infaltable dinghy..

Avi hope dentistry goes OK...

I don;t know if any other 10/10ers are particularly into any current music but I am unfeasibly excited about the fact that the Radio 1 Big Weekend in May is going to be happening 5 minutes from my house and is free...if I can get tickets, that is

i am into music

yes i hope your oinvestigations are all negatoive mrs c

i'd be excited about that FK!!

MrsC, I am so sorry, how worrying and stressful for you x

MrsC I am very sorry about that. Medical rummages up the fanjo are just grim. I hope it is over quickly and that all proves well.

The boat arrived just as ds and I were setting off for work - I saw the trailer pulling up, and as it is his birthday surprise I had to shout in manner of crazed person "oh ds I have just remembered something we have forgotten upstair in your room, and you have to come and help me find it quickly!!!!" I drew the curtains so he couldn't see them hauling it into the garage out the back. He then wanted to go and fetch something from downstairs which I thought would be safe, as all the action was now out the back....except that the trailer with the remaining boats on was still out the front...however with his remarkable observational skills he managed to spend 5 mins in front of the window with a dumb show of boats being carted back and forth outside, without ever noticing.

I was in such a fluster I have not actually seen the boat. We had to leave for work straight away and I have just got back and I am so tired I cannot even be bothered to walk out to the garage. I have asked dp to go out and take a photo of it but he is being most unreasonably unco-operative about it

Avi we have bought an old pedal boat from our park boating lake, to fill with sand and give to ds for his birthday. Neither of us had actually seen the boat before buying it and I still haven't. Apparently it is blue, and tatty, but pleasing.

Avi oh blimey I hope you are alright.

Does anyone want to guess which part of me aches the most after walking 6 miles yesterday?

Six miles

Diss isn;t that big surely

We have so much F&V in the house that I am panicking about eating it all, I forgot about veg box today

I was supposed to not be cooking tonight, but I have felt the need to be making both pointy cauliflower soup and ratatouille. We are out for lunch on Sunday as well...

LOL @ taking a photograph of it in the garage. How exciting. When is the birthday?

Oh MrsC how annoying. I suffer from this. I call it Egyptian Cotton Syndrome. I'm not sure why. I can never go to the first place we find, because it means I might not find the perfect place. Because surely there is a perfect place, with a tree out the back and charming food and a walled garden, and beds upstairs with egyptian cotton sheets. I am particularly bad when on holiday, and when considering Guest Houses. As you might imagine.

I hope the hospital visit will be okay? It's not a nice prospect either way.

we used to trail the kids round

eg french campsites

drive in and drive out again the kids would get all thrilled at seeing playgrounds and pools and then we would say o god it looks awful and drive anopther five miles and another five as it got later and later

i have stopped this now

restaurants i have been to recently have been this one that one this ione in quick succession and ive enjoyed ti regardless

i am not going back to the no where is good enough syndrome

birthday not till April, so we have lots of time to

erm

paint it with something toxic to weather proof it? fill it with sand? regret the whole ill advised idea god I don't know

Diss was not big but the walks to and from the station, at each end, added up

we just had mashed celeriac and swede, with brussels, green cabbage and some really unpleasantly peppery sausages

had hummus and a ton of mange tout for lunch

oh and orange juice

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