Crepeys/Hagsnet - the moonlight beckons!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

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

BD, IME would be similar to M&S, though it's a while since I tried anything in there!

Blackduck I think Kew is normalish. I'm a 12 (sometimes 14) and I have a couple of kew mediums. Mind you, this is V.1 Kew...

At the meet up, for the purposes of the initial meeting up, shall we subtly hold tissues? We don't have to wave them like nutters. We can just have them in our hands and dab our noses with them. The whole effect can be quite low key and easier to style out than holding a packet of pombears . We would have to not get confused and eat the tissues though.

Herbs, sorry, forgot to say, no-one will need to tie me to a seat, I will deffo wait for you!

I will be the confused one eating a tissue

I'll be the one wiping her nose with a pombear

I'm the fat one.

Sorry to hear that MI.... all v unsettling I imagine....

I'll be holding a tissue whilst wearing a small but perfectly formed orangina badge....!

Egads! Just discovered that my day of singing with my mum on 8th October starts at 10am! In Suffolk! This may affect the amount of booze I get through!

Most looking forward, though still have no idea what I'm going to wear.

The tissue thing will be right up my street as I have a stinking cold. To the point where I am currently watching ds1 in a football match and have brought myself a thermos of lemsip.

Really sorry to hear about your friend, MI.

My mum always said that you don't feel old until your friends start 'falling off the twig'. I didn't really understand what she meant, but am beginning to. Sorry for all your woes, MI.

I have food poisoning - spent the morning on the loo, the afternoon throwing up, and now have temp of 39.8. Please tell me I am going to be well enough to get on Eurostar tomorrow morning. No longer squirting or honking, just have high temp, which am treating with paracetamol.

Oh no - poorly hags. MrsS, I hope you feel better very soon. Do you know what poisoned you?
Hope you didn't get drenched whilst watching football, wilbur - and that your lemsip will do the trick.

Yes, steak tartare.

Oh NO!! MrsSSSS!!!!

Old friend - the one who rang last night - coming round tonight for wine and uncomplicated veggie meal (ie what we've got, involving hallumi and couscous, plus salad she's bringing). It will be nice, if sad.

In other news, cor, Tilly, your trumpetty head doesn't half go on and on and ON about the sheer fabulousness of his academy of fabulousness, innit? Although I rather loved the kids who took us round, one of whom reminded me irrestistably of a nephew who is exactly the same age.

Dukes, see you in the crush tomorrow at Horace. Can recommend the head at Sidnem Low, who is quite wonderful.

I have to come back - I have a full two days of meetings. Food poisoning is generally only 24 hours, no?

Yes, he does - we beat a hasty retreat before the staff had their turn to speak I wonder who your tour guides were - DD might know them - ours were 2 boys from her stream of whom I have heard many tales!

I thought the old head at Sidnem was great (deffo the best we saw on our tours 2 years ago) - glad to hear the new one seems to be just as good.

NOBODY is allowed to get sick before Friday night

Steak tartare. Bleargh. Would make me bloody ill even if it weren't an off one. I remember wanting to order it the first time I ever visited Paris. I was 7 and thought it meant a steak slathered with tartare sauce. My very elegant Parisian aunt (not a blood relative - no elegance in our family) gently corrected me and ordered it for herself. Gack.

Sorry about you illsters.

Mrs S don't read next bit if you're feeling fragile.

I had a gacky ango-pleb moment in France as a youth 'n' all. For my 17th birthday, my dad took me and a friend to... Dieppe? I think it was Dieppe, for the day. I ordered snails and tucked in with gusto as really hungry and then it all went wrong because I did some thinking about it. Snails. I mean... snails fgs. Mind won and matter was ejected.

I sad something mortifying to the Syd low head. Will spill after a glass or so.

I think I will be OK - temp has gone down a lot now, and feeling much better apart from pulled muscles from throwing up. Have not thrown up since this afternoon, but bottom still squirty (and noisy).

Fingers crossed for a complete recovery for MrsS by tomorrow.

Itching to know what mortifying thing you said to the head, Dukes. I am spared the whole visiting schools business as we only have the one.

I have just despatched one of these I am not much of a one for exterminating beasties, but I read that article and thought, oh no mate, you have to go.

Or did I dispatch him? Erk, I feel like I may have poisoned myself as well with the evil spray stuff. I never use it otherwise. I only have it because I bought it the last time we had one of these spiders move in and you can't splat them because they are about a zillion times faster moving than yr average Brit spider - and unpleasantly aggressive as well.

DD once got bitten by a spider in the back garden - on her thumb! It drew blood

Luckily my friend works in dealing with the effects of toxins.
Unluckily she did not pick up my message till hours later.
Luckily DD did not experience any ill effects!

sending get well soon vibes to all those feeling ill....
We are this close to getting a deal on house we want to buy - only have to sell ours then....I am remarkably calm about this (unlike previous occasions), is this age (and wisdom) or age (and I am too bloody knackered to get stressed about it)?

Oh BTM thanks for PM!

Oooh how exciting BD. Are you moving far or just bigger and better?