West London chat winter & beyond

[tillyfernackerpants]

Hadn't realised we were so close to filling up the last thread, hope you all find it!!

now I want to go camping, maybe not possible for us until July, when it will likely rain at least once I am sure

I never want to go camping

Hello

Hope everyone had a nice wkend.

We would like to camping but the tent we want seems to be now sold out everywhere and new model not released til March & more expensive

Copper - where are you going camping?

Sfx - maybe she has seen the ice skating at Hampton court ads?

Night out at prohibition place was excellent, maybe one up from squat lite, felt like being in some old lady's living room

old lady parlour? intriguing have replied

tilly no camping is nice

went to hairdresser this morning still have far too much to do, as usual on Mondays

hope everyone is well

Camping? April!

wanders off to book psychiatrists appt for copper.

Yes book somewhere with inside entertainment, places with beds and hot water indoors are particualrly good in April.

Our school is having a camp in teh school field in May which is as early as I will ever camp.

OK perhaps not April then. [bgrin] We are going end of May with friends.

Kew - no casting asparagus on my sanity.

vbus - night out sounds a bit surreal.

Just back from work and off out again. So tired. DS1 woke up at 3am being scared ...

that library thread is doing my head in, apparently I have 'suckled at the bloated teat of the state' [bhmm]

as you were

sfx, sounds interesting [bhmm], I'm on a different library thread which is just everyone listing their local closures etc

Copper - place was surreal but lots of fun

Will check out lib thread at some point

Sfx/Copper - need some polenta for biscuit recipe as have friends over at wkend, which polenta to buy? Are different brands the same consistency/cooking time? Never bought the stuff before, TIA [bsmile]

vbus for coating I am cheap and use instant sometimes the one from the south American or Portuguese shops can't recall name but says Farinha de Milho (PAN I think)for fancy stuff I go to the Italian Deli but sorry not much help as I can't recall name

watched this little programme last night about about Catholic priests in the Outer Hebrides, must remember to watch the rest, was charmed

since we talking Scottish is some Burns

[bgrin]

Sfx - thanks I just ordered some stuff off Ocado, hoping it will be ok. Lovely voice [bsmile]

Tilly - nice to see you both earlier, hope DS1 has a lovely birthday!

DS1 enjoyed cinema night at school yesterday, he is tired today so early bed tonight I think

Hello!

Re polenta - I had a packet of instant that I really really hate the taste of, but the posh-looking packet that DH got from Waitrose is nice. Not instant though. Makes a nice lemon cake too.

Grey and dismal day.

Copper - I got this will be ok for biscuits? Just to add some crunch really

vbus - don't know. Probably fine. What can go wrong?

vbus that is the high end of instant me thinks
btw got tickets for March hurrah

dh tried yesterday to get theatre tickets for my birthdayhe is an optimistic soul

I am getting soft in my old age, last week I was having difficulty with course materials because it was specifically about child development and mental health services,
this week the material is something I have personally read many times over about people I knew, accounts of people institutionalised since childhood/ teens in the old asylum type places for the 'mentally retarded' , but it is still getting to me.

want dd back home asap might try to get friends over too

copper regarding what you said on dining tread
at last coffee morning a mum said she would be taking her kids to the royal wedding, to town I presume she does not have invite, I said I would do not such thing as I am a Republican

they were also discussing who should be King next, I said Charles should be entertaining, none of this went down well oops

Taking kids to Royal Wedding? What sort of example is that?

LOL Copper - we're trying to escape Royal Wedding if we can! Still got to sort out hols

Right better go and get child, toodle pips

I know I know I shall never fit in

'here daughter let us go and see the girl getting married becoming a princess'

"they were also discussing who should be King next" umm, they do understand that it doesn;t work like that? Its not a democratic monarchy - it will be Charles next unless he pops his clogs first.

I am neither Royalist nor Republican but Apatheticarian.

sounds like a good coffee morning, sfx and kew!

...royalist or anti-royalist views aside,
prince william seems a decent person...
anyhow, will be watching for a butchers at the frock (kate's not his..)
but then again i'm shallow like that

hope all well
it's that time again, dreaded tax return. sigh.
hence me on MN.

had a whirlwind trip to ireland for my uncle's funeral. luckily, due to logistics and time constraints, missed the two-day wake in house and people gawping at him in his coffin and just went to the crematorium...eyebrows raised and tutting from some rellies as cremation still (relatively) rare in ireland.

lots of mad cousins i haven't seen for donkeys years rolled out of woodwork. apparently i am the spitting image of my mum/dad/great aunty/grandmother/who all look nothing like each other by the way and i haven't changed a bit since i was a baby [bhmm]

No no no. Not William, not Kate. Not any of that lot. There is a choice for individual - they can abdicate.

What's a butchers at the frock? [bconfused]

Sorry to hear about uncle, steppie.

oh I like frocks too, during awards season I buy trashy mags and looks at gossip sited for the frocks [bgrin]

steppie I don't think there is a crematorium back at the island, not while I was there at any rate
oh the wakes lordy gossip central when all the busybodies can come into the house and have a good nosey
I am starting to think this is a Catholic thing rather than just Irish/ Portuguese

I think the objection was with Camilla being queen, things that I don't think about

this government is blessed, Royal wedding. Olympics some Jubilee or other wave the flag and be happy

Objecting to Camilla being queen when much more objectionable person is king? I will never understand. Phew!