West London (rest of) Sept 2007 thread

[mellow2]

For when the August thread runs out.

Oh Lord. So you play bridge and you knit??? Next you'll be confessing to lawn bowling.

All this talk of crap food is making me hungry.

LOL Kew!!!

DH and I are about to start a beginners' bridge course...

[ducks head and waits for outpouring of scorn]

I can't knit, though (well, my grandmother taught me roughly how to knit but I never learned how to cast off or finish off or whatever it's called).

lemon - are you doing the asndrew Robson bridge course in Fulham? If you are they are brilliant.

sorry, kew, didn't know you hadn't come out of the (knitting) closet
nothing to be ashamed of. hold your head high.
ps. yes, i should be working.

My day is not getting any better, ds woke just after I last posted and was in a foul mood (which lasted until he final zonked out 10 mins ago). I took car for MOT in the pouring rain dragging sick ds along to be told that the MOT guy had failed to show up for work, but they were so inundated with "stuff" they didn't have a minute to phone me and save me the trip it can't be rebooked until next Tuesday, meaning I can't drive the car after friday when it expires as the insurance won't be valid, unless I find somewhere else local that can do it before then. Have had to call in help from friends for the school/nursery run on Monday and Tuesday

lemonaid - you can hold your head high, too. i think bridge sounds very sophisticated...

a very posh (not saying you need to be posh, btw) ex-workmate always played bridge on monday nights and kept trying to rope me in.

on her poshness...one day in the office we were having one of those "do you say tea or dinner" conversations (yes, we were all great minds...)
"Oh, we have supper, dahling." she said in cutglass tones that make celia johnson sound as common as muck.

actually I have been feeling the urge to knit again

don't fight it it, kew

CoV, just take it to a While You Wait place. They normally don't require any booking in.

Or, if you're me, drive without insurance for 6 months and no MOT for 3!

Steppie, I am in the process of trying to stop dd saying "dinna" at lunchtime!!!

Well, actually at any time really as she sits herself down on any available spot and demands "dinna" whenever we're out and about.

Thank goodness she's clearly not under-fed otherwise people would think she was being starved!!!

Trouble is paddle it needs to either be pretty local or gauranteed to be done in a specific time slot what with school drop off/nursery drop off 30 mins later than nursery pick up shcool pick up etc etc. Giving me 3 hours at a time to get there/mot/back.

COV, I think the Kwikfit in Hounslow does them on Saturdays.

I need knit and can do needle point embroidery too all part of a fine nun led education
' idle hands and so on, they really had dirty minds.

mind you I am well out of practice.

MIL is a very keen bridge player, I seem to remember she fell out it her bridge partner, the vicars wife

I mean really how can I not stop the conversation dead at Christmas dinner with so much material...

I can knit I don't need to

Actually scrap that, I just looked at the paperwork and it expires next friday (trust dh to give me the wrong info). The question is do I tell him, because I have now said car will be out of action for the weekend (and have sorted school/nursery runs) and he will have to walk to the station on Monday and Tuesday (I will have to drive the car on Tuesday purely to get it to the garage of course), meaning we have to cancel going to his parents' on Sunday for lunch ?

It's someone from the Andrew Robson place doing it, but it's in Central London. Glad to hear it's a good course.

it's the best Lemon - trust me.

(was a pretty shit hot embrioderer in my day too - made my sister an embroidered silk horseshoe out of the same fabric as her wedding dress) though obviously I didn't just admit that publically

I knit & cross stitch - dh says I'm in old woman training . Though my knitting isn't anywhere near as sophisticated as Kew's, scarfs & squares that's about all I can manage!

Ds has had a huge nap, just woken up so best go get him...

I used to cross-stitch, but haven't since I met DH, really. I don't have the time, really (I used to do all my own designing from scratch on bigh sheets of graph paper... have to admit that the actual sewing bit was the least interesting for me) and I strongly suspect he'd regard it with mild horror...

I couldn't knit a string if my life depended on it. I can, however, sew a button onto a shirt if desperate.

Do you guys quit, too?

Quit what?

quilt

I can knit

my eyebrows together in consternation that is