Waiting For Zombie To Rejoin Her Phalanx

[mummylin2495]

This is where we will wait for our leader to rejoin the DBF team !

Nice to see you Mummylin the real one

Have had lots of fun not getting online here.

The coffee machine is doing stirling duty making alchoholic hot chocolate

cin cin phalanx

Are you away BBB ?

Wotcha B3!! Nice to see you back. A nice time away?

Lin - I've written a strictly thing just for work colleagues in the sweep we do, nothing like this though.

I am in France, yes.

It's very nice thank you.

Will be nicer if we ever manage to stop our roof leaking, haha, I mis-spelled that as foof! Which is notleaking.

clincalissimo!

Oh no BBB, no-one wants or needs a leaking foof at our time of life

That should be the name of the Phalanx bar - The Leaky Foof. I'm not designing the logo, though.

I hope Zombie is having a lovely time on her jollies.

I'm not particularly impressed with myself. I've been given a walking stick by the balance clinic to help keep myself steady during my current wobbly time. Not happy. Feel old & useless. Determined to go back to work mid next week though. Sick of being off sick.

Whinge over. Anyone got any ?

Better a walking stick ikl than a simmer frame. It will just be temporary until you improve, and I'm sure you could find other uses for it >

Right now Lin I'm toying with twazzing DH round the head with it or shoving it where the sun don't shine.

In 15 years of our relationship we NEVER have family from either side round on Christmas Day. He's always loved this as it avoids squabbles, falling out & stress.

Tonight he phones his mum & blithely invites her round to go for Xmas curry with us. When she says her fella will be there (who neither of us get on with that well) he just says 'oh, that'll be fine. No worries. Good idea. No, no. We'll pay'.

I love MIL to pieces, but MY folks will be extremely put out at not seeing DS on Xmas Day. And they WILL find out - DS can't lie. We can't afford to take everyone out and whenever my mum & MIL are in the same room it's a competition who can get DS's attention or put me down in subtle ways. It's bad enough when they come round for the usual Xmas Eve buffet.

It's not like MIL would be on her own in a damp hovel. She has 3 other sons and a daughter as well as DH. And she's always said Xmas Day is for us (same for siblings) and we get together other days around Xmas. It's always worked.

I know I'm being childish but I know I won't enjoy Xmas afternoon as much now. DH has this idea they'll meet us at the curry house & leave when the meal is finished. I know for a fact it'll be 'all back to ours' where I'll end up waiting on everyone hand & foot and getting no chance to relax. Which was the whole point of us having 'lock in Xmas' for the past 15 years.

Ah, well......I really am whining today aren't i?

Oh my! Sorry that was so long!!!

I think it's unfair if you will be expected tp wait on everyone else. Can you tell your dh , that after the curry house you just want your own family to be there. Or can you change the curry day until Boxing Day ?

No, it has to be Xmas Day cos he wants to be Golden Balls . It'll be fine. I'll make sure I set some ground rules between now & then. Now I've slept on it I reckon MIL won't let DH just sit on his arse & do nothing.

I was just a bit grumpy cos he didn't even discuss it, just blurted it out on the phone to her while I was sitting there next to him.

Well if you can't change it, I would be freezing stuff and do as much as possible beforehand, after all it's your day too. I usually have a houseful on Boxing Day, I simply put everything out, slow cooker on with new potatoes in and they have to help themselves. I usually do Christmas Day as well, but last year we all went to my dd,s and my ds and his wife did the dinner, it was lovely. And I think that this year we are going to my ds providing he has got his kitchen in ( he is living here at the moment whilst gutting his place and practically rebuilding it ) we will see ! I'm sure it will be fine ikl !

And then you can write about it in your blog !!!

Good call Lin

Hi honey, I'm HOME!

I had a fabulous time. I'll update later but right now I'm both very tired and very wired (LOTS of coffee on the drive from the airport to home). I did manage to sneak in a MaccyD breakfast at 0600.

Hi Zombie, glad you're back safe and sound and had a good time.

Just off out for lunch, look forward to update

Have a good sleep.

Welcome home Zombie - glad you had a great time. Can't wait to hear the details when you're relaxed & ready.

Hi Zombie. Glad you had a good hol and hope you have been able to have some rest, good food and a tipple or two. I hope your chemo side effects stayed away fir the duration x

And while we're waiting for the holiday rundown from our dearest leader, here's my blog of this week's Strictly. Hope you like this one Lin.

Strictly week two - which dancer was most poo?

Brilliant ikl. I tried to visualise a three legged donkey ! It was also noted that once again there was a sexual reference when you wrote about someone having lead in their pencil !

I try to slip one in if I can Lin - see, there I go again . It gladdens me little heart that someone is enjoying my ramblings. No, really, I'm very grateful that you enjoy it. It's taken a long while to pluck up the courage & getting lovely comments is amazing.

Welcome home lovely Zombie. Enjoy cuddling those Zcats. xx

Good morning, Phalanx!

Kos was brilliant. The weather was perfect: brilliant sunshine every day, temperature in the upper 20s in the day and low 20s at night. I slept late most days (only made breakfast once). When I eventually got up I'd shower, dress and go down to the bar for a couple of cups of coffee before going to the pool bar for brunch. I spent the afternoons reading and napping. In the late afternoon I'd walk into town. The biggest decision of every day was where to have dinner. I'd also spend a couple of hours sitting in my favourite bar on the Dolphin Roundabout having a drink or two and watching the world go by and catching up with the waitresses who have become good friends over the years. I'd then wander back to the hotel for a session in the bar before bed. It was exactly what I needed. Warm weather, warm welcome and total relaxation.

Other highlights. A couple I'd met on a few previous visits arrived on Saturday so we had a chance for a good catch up as well. I had an argument with a broken paving slab one afternoon on my way into town. The paving slab won and I went down like a sack of potatoes. I escaped with a grazed shoulder, grazed and bruised elbow and sprained middle finger which became very swollen and turned amazing shades of purple. All is nicely on the mend now.

The effects of the refugee influx are still obvious. It's been a very bad season for the island. Tourists have stayed away in droves. Businesses have suffered badly. It's a crying shame.

I'm so glad I went. God and health willing I'll definitely be there again next year.

That sounds like a lovely holiday apart from the tussle with the paving. Hope you weren't hurt too badly Zombie - tumbles like that can really shake you up.