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Crepeys/Hagsnet - come to the candlelight!

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MrsSchadenfreude · 18/06/2011 11:33

As the last thread is now full...

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bigTillyMint · 22/06/2011 12:27

Sports Days not for 3 weeks yet. Will be a bunfight as they are both horribly competitive, like their father Smile

Dukes, am very Envy - wish I was going to TK Maxx instead of stuck at work with just paperwork to do!

Blackduck · 22/06/2011 12:34

sports day tomorrow here and then some inter school compertition thingy next week...

CointreauVersial · 22/06/2011 13:01

Just popping in to say hello, but I must be brief, I've vowed to use today's lunch hour to get the agenda written for our football club AGM which is fast approaching. It's one of those tedious tasks that I can put off no longer, and I just can't muster the energy once I get home from work.

It all falls to me; although our Chairman is great to look at, tree surgeon, ding dong! nice enough, he doesn't do a lot.

Herby, do go to the doctors!

Linseed - yes, very good, and low carb too. Apparently if you eat the whole seeds they just whoosh through, so you are better off giving them a quick zap in a processor just to break them up. Or you can buy it ready-ground in the health food shop (also called flaxseed). It was described by Custy on the low-carb thread as tasting like a "badger's wet fart" but as Stropperella says, stick it on a yogurt.

We have Sports Day on Monday, so I'm hoping for a nice weekend to dry out the school field. No excuses this year - they are all at the same school for once, so I can kill all three sporting birds with one stone.

Right - agenda! Shoot me if you see me back again before this evening.

DukesOfTripHazard · 22/06/2011 13:02

Blackduck, what is weather where you are? Don't know why I'm sounding so bothered actually.... don't really like sports day much.

I am decided. Leaving for TK Maxx trip in about 40 mins.

Blackduck · 22/06/2011 13:08

currently raining....they are doing it at the local sports stadium so not sure what the track will be like...I am not going. Dp is waiting for an amazon delivery and the garden fence men so may make a bit of it...(bad parents...) Most annoying thing is it is five mins from house, but ds HAS to go back to school and be collected from there!

DukesOfTripHazard · 22/06/2011 13:11

That is annoying Blackduck. Not surprised you are boycotting it Grin

motherinferior · 22/06/2011 14:29

Oh, thank you for enquiring - I am dragging myself forcibly upwards. Have given myself a week off pitching feature ideas, and have finished a chapter of the textbook I'm co-writing (and moved myself to tears with one - ahem - fictional case study) and am doing marking and then hope to work on my Own Book tomorrow.

Finishing chapter makes me feel much, much, MUCH better.

MrsSchadenfreude · 22/06/2011 15:31

Hello Fellow Hags! I am back from Disneyland! Absolutely shattered. It was full of Spaniards, all talking very loudly and quickly and standing in the way all the time. But due to the inclement weather, not at all busy, and didn't queue for anything at all, except the loo. My Disney Strategy worked well and we managed to do pretty much everything we wanted to. The rockandrollercoaster is the best. Grin And Disneyland is obviously the place that taste forgot.

Also went to outlet mall at Val d'Europe (v weird place), but resisted. DH standing behind me saying Do You Need Another Bag probably helped.

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motherinferior · 22/06/2011 16:19

Did taste ever remember Disneyland?

MrsSchadenfreude · 22/06/2011 16:38

No, you are right. Not even a fleeting visit!

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Stropperella · 22/06/2011 16:51

Congrats on surviving Disneyland, MrsS. Did you wear your "special" earrings? Grin

Stropperella · 22/06/2011 16:56

I am feeling particularly old, crumbly and dim, having spent today invigilating exams for very brainy 17 and 18 year olds. Plus I ate my lunch too quickly and drank too much coffee beforehand, so my stomach made v. unladylike noises for the first half of the exam, which actually disturbed some of the students. Blush

bigTillyMint · 22/06/2011 17:22

CV, you are not selling the flaxseed to me!

MrsS how long were you htere? We did the full 14 hours in one day last year. Did everything, some rides twice. Job done!

MrsSchadenfreude · 22/06/2011 20:12

DH is on silly special diet that requires flaxseeds. He was explaining it to his mother, and she interrupted him and said "I know why you're taking them. It said in my magazine that flaxseeds give you bigger erections." GrinGrin

I have set myself a target date of September for writing a synopsis for my novel and Doing Something With It. And end of year for finishing the second one. I think if the first one ever made it to the publishers, and I was allowed to publish, it might be Career Ending though.

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bigTillyMint · 22/06/2011 20:36

Definitely not selling it to me Grin

motherinferior · 22/06/2011 20:45

And, er, do they????

(Someone had to ask)

Stropperella · 22/06/2011 20:52

I don't think they've ever stayed inside dh long enough to make a difference... (poss TMI, as they say).

MrsSchadenfreude · 22/06/2011 20:52

I hadn't noticed, MI...

(Have snorted my wine unattractively, as you have met DH, and just thinking of the mental picture you might have!)

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MrsSchadenfreude · 22/06/2011 20:57

But then it is dark, innit? [hag emoticon]

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motherinferior · 22/06/2011 20:59

Incidentally DD1 has just asked me, 'When your baby is coming out, if takes ages like I did, do you just sit there reading a book or something?'

I feel terrible for disillusioning her Smile

MrsSchadenfreude · 22/06/2011 21:04

I was reading The Tin Drum when I was in labour with DD1. The bit where the dwarf is born, to be precise. I had to put it down at that point...

I spent the whole of DD2's labour throwing up.

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thenightsky · 22/06/2011 21:16

I read Stephen King's The Stand when in labour with DD

wilbur · 22/06/2011 21:52

MI - you can tell dd1 that I make a cake in early labour with dd (before the swearing and mooing started). That might make her feel better.

I am sitting here with a facepack on, having accidentally seen my pores in harsh light on the way to school this morning. Shock is all I can say. It says on the back of the tube that my face will be tighter and brighter when I'm done, which sounds good.

I am currently sprinkling oat bran on everything as apparently it is one of the three pillars of the Dukan diet, and I am hoping for a Pippa Middleton bottom without actually having to do the diet. Although, having read the book, it doesn't seem too bad, and I may do a proper bout of it before hols to lose the lbs I plan to put on eating croissants and cheese 24 hours a day while on holiday. I would settle for a PMid and a half, actually.

motherinferior · 22/06/2011 21:57

I knew I was in proper labour with DD1 when I couldn't concentrate on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

MrsSchadenfreude · 22/06/2011 22:08

I caught a taxi to Guy's when I was in labour with DD2 and having regular contractions. I wore a nice loose coat and flagged one down immediately. I squeaked very quietly to myself in the back seat, and said yes, when the driver asked if I was going to visit a friend.

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