There was something in the pear that night, the starfruit were bright, Fernando - 10 / 10 thread

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yes please, it is not there

have done

oh good lord yes it is! and i read it last night and promptly forgot its existence! sorry
if you want anything doing this week ask a sensible person

it's yer age

actually, are you older than me? I can't remember

oh i am older than everyone

cept avi

are you lurking avi? i sooooooo bet you are

Franny you have more mail

mango encrusted and strangely chocolate smeared

I did swimming ,and swamm 32 lengths, and then cancelled it out by standing at the vending machine eating chocolate AND crisps and strange powdery watery hot chocolate. dd2 can swim underwater without her armbands, she's like a fish-girl.

Mmm, crisps.

I am in a prison of points. It's quite refreshing though, strangely.

hello

what is guad talkign about points? what points? weight watcher points? instead of sticker points?

goodness, i turn my back for one second and you change the rules.

my sister keeps telling me to drop my carbs and up my protein.

I am doing well, not listing but lots of vegetables.

well done and bad done boco.

(am in fatty section BTW)

Molly - where is your thread on getting a dog? I have loads of opinions on this.

Hello.

veg has been eaten, quite a lot but I can't keep track, all sorts of things are happening

I have finally nailed why I find dh so maddening when we disagree and it's to do with passive aggressive -- so I put this to him and he said oh I suppose squiffybananamuffin or some other woman on mn put you up to this

me: splutter splutter splutter
because it was, I had never heard of this thing before

hope you are all well, I will read when my jobs are done

(am in thickening midriff section)

I am older than you all even Avi I think. I am so old.

hello 100
i had to splutter my way off that thread muttering about falling standards
am so fucking old

Nah you were quite right, I felt sorry for the teacher though. Misguided sympathy I think. Probably. Again.

you softie

am hard

isn't your launch coming up next week? is there a party

God, I'm so not soft I don't think. But everyone was SO outraged, and other people's outrage does that to me. Is contrary. I could NEVER live in Tunbridge Wells. Imagine!

Yes, is soon.

Hope it goes well for you. Just think, you could be in a Sunday supplement soon. Zut alors.

The fireworks are bad tonight. Like bombs in the back garden.

Is there a festival? Do they make you jump? Are you still managing to get your dc to bed at 6.00? Are they happy there? Are you happier? How is the sterilizing going? Will it get better? Are you and dh arguing because everyone under pressure in new environment?

Stuffit. I have SO MANY questions.

it's a wedding, there is a wedding every night

the fireworks last all evening and night ..we went to a wedding a couple of weeks ago and had to leave as they got married at midnight and the children were floundering

oh boy yes pressure we got pressure -- but we can't complain because, you know, you look out of the car window and it dies in your throat. I can't see Slumdog because it's right there, all the time.. I should be tougher but I don't want or need to see that movie.

Come and visit . Osba and Womble said yes and I'm putting Toot in a carry on.

Actually it's fine. But you feel guilty if you're unhappy and you feel guilty if you're happy. So at some point you just have to decide to accept the guilt and get on with things.

Yes Stuffit, why the fireworks? How are you, you seemed a bit stressed yesterday on he sailing thread?

I have had raisins, dates, pineapple.

15 mins brisk walking, and am going running later, think I will have a look at the couch potato prog too, as my friend has signed me up for race for life.

Yes, take your guilt and accept it. Feeling guilty doesn't make poverty disappear.

Also you know when your mother used to say 'finish your tea, think of the starving children in Africa' - well it never made the tea more appetizing did it? It didn't mine.

You ARE allowed to feel homesick, pressurized, unadventurous miserable and failing - looking out the window doesn't make all those things go away, I don't think the world works like that - it's what's happening to you too. Not that you are any of those things of course, I am merely and probably inaccurately reading between the lines. I get the sense you are disappointed in yourself for some reason, for finding it hard perhaps, despite knowing the country, being well-travelled etc. I think it's very usual and acceptable, and you know it'll get easier, but it is allowed in the meantime, and it doesn't make you spoilt or an ingrate. Hope not too far off-beam here

hi womble! yes I was stressed all over mn, I wanted to jump into the computer and say FFS to everybody and tell them they were all wrong about everything