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Are you all nursing hangovers or just clearing up the post Christmas mess?

I have to say that MI's helpful tip about buying clothes in a smaller size that fit me has been a revelation. I am wearing jeans that fit and stay up! A top that skims my gut but doesn't swamp me! I look...tidier. Less bag lady, and as if I had some shape. And I have tights that stop at my waist and don't contain so much fabric that I can pull them up to my neck!

My mother sent me another top, having exchanged the size 24 in "Marks's". For a size 18. And it looks a lot better (I don't particularly like it, but that's not the point.)

Oh I know nothing about HP either!

ruby am that your DC's food tech gets home! DD eats it at school, sadly!

MrsS, have you tried Tranexamic acid for the periods? Until I started being a menopausal old bat, I always had bloodbath periods and found that Transexamic acid (marketed as Cyclokapron in the UK) was the only thing that stopped the flooding. Mefenamic was useless - did nothing for me. Poor dd is looking like a likely candidate for the same prescription. She is the one having the 10-day bleedathons, whereas I am apparently drying up Please oh please can I have the link to your dd's doing their J Wilson thang??

@ SuperWilbur.

Very glad to hear things went well for your mum, Herbs. Good luck for the w/e.

Am once again suffering from having done circuits. Ow. Maybe I will tackle your mate Jillian on Sunday. If I have recovered enough.

Was invigilating again today. Have backlog of other work. And tomorrow is ds's party at the Tank Museum. I have recruited two friend as drivers to help get all the guests there. And then the kids do "tank training". And "fitness training" and eat their party lunch out of ration tins. Hmmm. I am vaguely discomfitted by the way both my children are interested in the military.

Ooops, time to collect from karate. And then time for . It has been a long week.

I have not managed to research the role of vitamin D in arresting age-related macular degeneration sufficiently. I am TIRED. I blame the exercise

MrsS - Mercilon is the good old Pill, which I started taking recently in an effort to deal with the horrendous periods and general peri-menstrual rubbishness. It has worked a treat, and I feel somehow..........calmer.

The contraceptive benefits are however irrelevant, although DH and I are having a "liquid dinner" this evening as I can't be bothered to cook, so there is potential for a drunken fumble later on.

Peri-menstrual????? That's the second time I've used that completely made-up word.

I mean peri-menopausal. Blame it on age-related dementia.

Inferiorettes are VERY impressed with the JW trailer.

Jeez, I greengrocer-apostrophied in my last post. I blame that on the peri-menopausal atrophying of my something-or-other.

I need more . Then I will still be atrophied but not care about a misplaced apostrophe.

I reeeeeeeally want to see the trailer. Pretty please, MrsS...

Ruby, you are right about the tricep bingo wings things, of course. But I am not sure my arms are rescuable. Even with tricep dips. They have been tragically hammy since my late 20s.

I am drinking .

DP is cooking dinner for us. I am vaguely trying to sling words at the page but failing dismally.

MrsS - yes that's my email address.

Sorry about period woes - mine are still regular although closer together since starting the progesterone cream. Def heavier though and I have noticed an increase in stomach, er, activity at certain time of the month - v weird, and unwelcome when it involves gas....

Now, MI - when you have done your Vitamin D research (properly, mind) could you share it here? I have been reading a lot about it re heart disease and various inflammatory complaints, of which I have legion, and would be interested to hear your personal abstract.

I have made cod with mustardy lentils, new recipe but looks nice, although lentil are brown and not puy so will prob be a bit mushy by the time I'm done.

Oh, and dh and I are halfway down our first Friday Cocktail. Yummy, will def have a second...

I will pm you all the link tomorrow. We have just had dinner at divine and v cheap Italian resto round the corner from us (MI - we can go there en famille when you come out - I have another place in mind for Grown Up dinner, and will book babysitter).

Will ask doc on next visit for tranexamic acid or pill. Will pill help with beard? Will try and sort out ultrasound next week, work permitting.

all round, it would seem.

DH is making me a hot whisky, the cure for all the ills of the world.

Dp, ds and I went out for a curry and once ds got over no Nintendo he was remarkably cheerful. He also stunned me with some of the things he knows. I have got to the bottom, nearly, of the crap literacy score - didn't write in proper sentences (where's the rolls eyes emoticon when you need it?). Sounds like everyone had a lovely evening!
Ds's only claim to fame was a cbeebies ident many moons ago where he was sporticus.
Happy weekend hags, I'm going to hoover round filled packing boxes.

Sounds like you all had a great Friday night! I had a very exciting night ferrying various children to and from gymnastics and Youth Club and hosting a sleepover for DS and his two mates. They actually went to sleep about 12.30 after a stern word (in best sec sch Dep H style) from DH!

It is now quiet here as they have all gone to school match/gymnastics

Ah, Blackduck - the not writing in full sentences joy. Good to identify the problem, but if your ds is anything like ds1, it will take a while to go from (in a comprehension, say) "Because he doesn't like her" to "Jack hits Jill over the head because he doesn't like the way she shouted at him". It's a real mindset/practise issue. We've got there now, but it was a long, hard slog! And ds1 still does Random capitals in Most sentences. Sigh.

Had a lovely evening, but then was kept awake by people shouting in the street outside our house. Was torn between a desire to shoot them and being a bit impressed that they were still up and partying at 3.30am.

MrsS, upir DD's video is fab! Did they think it all up themselves?

wilbur/BD, that's where good old-fashioned practice comes in

BTM, is your DH Department Head or Deputy Head?

Yes, BTM, all their own work - apart from when they are both in it, and DH was filming then.

I still haven't got all my make up back...

I didn't get linky....going to sulk.....

DH and I went out for beers and watched a woman attack a bloke outside the pub just through the window. Was surreal. She kept pushing him really hard and he kept coming back, then very sensibly he went away.

That curry sounds delicious Ruby. I think I will do something similar with my butternut. Or might soup it...

We have people coming for cake and my lemon drizzle has sunk in the middle. Whatever will they think

Wilbur cackled at your i-pants.

Hes Deputy Dawg and has been Acting Head a couple of times.

MrsS I am very impressed. Must show my two (who will be astounded that the MNers have real children!)

Dukes, its's so ruff in Sidna'am

ruby, we have veggie guests coming next week and I have been pondering what to make - I think maybe a couple of fancy veg curries might do the job