The Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave (expats)... All Those in the US!

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I just finished the old thread by accident

lol cali

Maybe Anorak didn't go yet then? Or maybe I am misremembering things or have made it all up.

You couldn't be vegetarian anyway, could you Cali? Even if bacon was a vegetable?

People tell me that when they were veggie, they lost lots of weight. The opposite seems to be true here. I now weigh as much as I did when I was 8 months pregnant

Those Tunnocks wafers I have been eating have not helped.

Did I ever tell you the story of how once, I'd say about 12 years ago, I had a veggie friend who somehow convinced me to be vegetarian for a week? Everyone at work kept asking me when it would be over, because I was so impossible to deal with, and even my veggie friend told me to stop doing it a day early, because I was driving him crazy.

That was a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, though, and I'm exponentially less picky, and a much better cook than before.

MadamDeathstare, I love your name. If I could steal anyone's name on here, it would be yours.

Hey Thanksgiving recipe people, This recipe for mashed sweet potatoes looks really good. I am really biased, though, as I have an unending love for carmalized onions.

Hello all, thanks for looking me up Superbunny.

I go to Boston on the 17th - and will be more than ever available to play word games by the way. I am taking my laptop with me. I'll be in hospital from 21-25 Nov if all goes to plan, so offline then, but after that I have to spend 10 days drinkingcocktailswithkimi resting in the hotel before my final meeting with the surgeon and then home. Will have my laptop with me in the hotel. And will very likely be bored shitless too

Hope you and the children feel better soon, dooneygirl.

Anorak!!!

I have a slight purse addiction, MD. About 1/2 of the purses I own are Dooney and Bourke purses. Realistically, though, I guess I should be named dooneymiddleagedwoman.

Hello Anorak! Am glad you let us know. If I were still in new England, I'd have come to annoy keep you company but Boston is a bit far. Hope all goes well. Will you have an address while you are there? Is someone going with you? Cocktail drinking sounds good.

A vegetarian gave you food allergies, califau?

Cold here today. DS had his 3 yr check up. Why does he need a flu shot? Do British children have them every year? Can I refuse? and, if so, on what basis? Other than I am not convinced he really needs it?

Shot? Colin and Caitlin got a puff in both nostrils instead of a shot. They don't have to get them. I get it because of Colin turning everything into croup.

They really aren't that great anymore, MD. The last purses I've got haven't been D+B at all. I've been really unhappy with what they're coming out with, and have decided to turn my obsession to kitchen gadgets instead. Maybe I should change to kitchenaidmiddleagedwoman.

Kitchen gadgets are great! I want a pink kitchen aid mixer but they are huge and it would take up too much space. So, until I find a millionaire with a huge kitchen in which to house me, I cannot have one. A fake wooden spoon is sufficient most of the time.

that Dinner could have had a squirt up his nose rather than an injection. He's wittered on about it all day. I felt really bad, especially as I don't think they are really necessary since he almost never gets sick.I'm going to regret saying that, aren't I?

I'm off to wisconsin tomorrow. 4 hr drive, leaving at 6am, to go and sing for 5 hours, then drive 4 hrs back. Thankfully someone is giving me a ride but I am thinking it was perhaps not the best idea. And I will be driving with 4 slightly eccentric people who I barely know.

Ooh, ooh, I've been to Kenosha. (preen)

They got it when I took Caitlin to the Dr. the day after we got back from Chicago, and DH made me take her for her lip, even though it had been 4 days and was healing great. I made it very clear that I thought going was a waste of time, and after the Dr. looked her over, she asked if I would feel like it was a more worthwhile visit if they got the flu vaccine.

I had already promised her there would be no shots involved, because we had just been there for their check-ups, and she didn't want to go because she remembered shots. She said it wasn't a shot for children that age anymore, and I agreed. I guess the puff thing protects them longer than the shot, too.

It is only about 70% effective, anyway, as they are just guessing what kind of flu to vaccinate against, as they have to make up the vaccine before it arrives. And sometimes it makes the person a little bit sick after they get it, and something about if they get slightly sick, it doesn't work as well, either because the body doesn't have enough time to build up as many antiflubodiethingies.

I'm back from singing in Wisconsin. Was fab! I sat between the only 2 other people under the age of about 60 and we were rather loud (you're meant to be loud in Sacred Harp). People kept grinning and shouting, "Go Altos!"