Crepeys/Hagsnet - the moonlight beckons!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

Because moonlight gives you a nice glow and doesn't show up your wrinkles or grey hair.

Oh, there you are Wilbur!

Right, so definitely going

Strops
Herbs
Cointreau
TillyMint
MrsS
Wilbur

come on the rest of you!

No idea what I'm going to wear yet. Your bargain dress sounds lovely Herbs - I have never seen anything particularly lovely in our Sainsbos, but as I try to avoid the place like the plague, it's not surprising!

And MI is definitely coming and also Orangina, I think.

I have also put on weight this weekend, not, sadly from living it large like Herbs, but from being force fed shortbread by elderly relatives in Scotland. Oh, and I didn't have my scheduled packing meltdown on Friday, I was able to postpone it until Sunday night when a train snafu meant I missed my connection (with my reserved seat) at Carlisle. I was then put on a train that stopped everywhere (EVERYWHERE! Kendal, Preston, Crewe, Milton Keynes, you name it) and got me home 2 hours later than planned.

I will be there. I am drinks only so please don't let me be on my tod from 6
Who else in early crew?

OK,

Strops
Herbs
Cointreau
TillyMint
MrsS
Wilbur
MI
Dukes
Orangina

I am aiming to be there for 6 - will PM you Dukes with my mobile no so you can text me if I am not!

Dukes, I expressly forbid you to leave before I get there. Someone tie her to the seat please!

NO problem

I am also going to be there for 6, as I will be all art-exhibitioned-out by then.

Yes, yes, I will be there! Thought I might wear my orangina badge left over from the last MN bash I went to..... (many moons ago now). Probably won' make it before 6:30-ish, hope that's ok?

Great - hope the writing's large or I'll have to get my glasses out!

Actually it's vair discreet...... (I can't really bring myself to go out in public dressed as a huge orangina bottle........!). Hoping MI will be there before me!

I am in the 'depends how my week pans out' camp. I feel we need a question we can use to identify ourselves. Sidles up to strops, 'Do you bongo?' or something of the sort. Otherwise I have an image of several women of a certain age spread out in the bar eyeing each other up and thinking 'is that bigtillymint?'. Otherwise back to copies of the FT or something....

I'm not sure that sidling up to someone to ask if they bongo is better or worse than eyeing up lone hags

Hope you can make it, though!

you see my point though - the only one of you that I might possible recognise is MI....

The only two I will recognise are Herbs and CV who will not be there at 6!

Maybe we should do a secret wink?

MrsS and I will turn up together: she is the tall one, I'm the short one. We are a strikingly unmissable pair on account of this.

I will recognise Orangina, Wilbur and possibly Dukes.

Oh no.

I have had two successive evenings of phone calls from friends in crisis. Yesterday's was one lovely friend to say her MIL is dying.

Tonight it was one of my oldest friends. A mutual friend of ours (I wasn't close to her since having children - she didn't like kids and in fact it was the only friendship I've ever had that has really foundered on that basis) has died. H had a degenerative condition. But still. We all spent Millennium NYE in Sicily together.

So sorry, MI. Life is really shit sometimes, isn't it?

It seems pretty obvious that she killed herself. Which is completely not surprising and is also a shock.

Oh MI, how sad. Put's all our little moans into perspective.

Sorry to hear that, MI. How very sad.

Thank you, my lovely Haggettes.

MI sorry to hear that.

Sorry to drag this thread into the style and beauty territory, but does anyone know how Kew's sizing comes up? I quite like a sweater in their sale...I am an M&S 10 if that helps (standard point of comparison hopefully!)
Ta.....

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