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

I'm working till Thurs/Fri...

DP is attempting to pick up the new breadmaker (to replace our kaput) one that stoned-sounding vague bloke is flogging for £20. He rang, as I'd arranged, and Bloke alleged we were supposed to pick up yesterday. (But did not, apparently, sound particularly aggrieved, just said stonedly vaguely that he'd assumed we'd changed our minds.) DP is heading over there later. I foresee a Saga

Did you see Judi Dench on Graham Norton last night, MI? She looked fabulous and I said to dh that I would be aiming for her look at that age. Hope the new breadmaker works.

Inspired by eveyone's cooking last weeked, I made a vat of ratatouille yesterday and am just about to make banana cake and dahl. The dahl will be an Experiment as it's not something I usually make - it mainly because we were out of red lentils so I bought a bag. Then I went to the supermarket and remembered that we were out of lentils, so I bought another, bigger bag. Am I the only person who does this? We run out of something and then it sticks in my mind to the point where I buy 6 replacements. I did it with soy sauce a while back and we had about 4 bottles. Duh.

Oh yes, Wilbur, I know that well. And at the same time we remain stubbornly out of other essentials...

Ah yes, the plenty-of-anchovies-no-plain-flour scenario. We have that a lot.

I have a cupboard full of Ready Brek. Kept seeing the nearly empty pack and buying a replacement. Now the DCs have decided they don't like it anymore.

Well, we finally made it out of the house and are now chugging down the M4. It looked as if we might have to leave a child behind at one point; the car is bursting at the seams. We are on track for a late lunch in Bath.

I am quite looking forward to this week, partly because in the absence of computers / WiFi / Xbox etc we might actually have to talk to each other. I have brought some board games and have rosy visions of happy family scenes around a roaring fire. Of course in reality the DCs will have killed each by tomorrow evening.

As well as a cold (BD, you are welcome to have it back) I also have miserable period pains. Typical.

No, no CV, I insist, you keep it :)
I have at least five bags of pasta, and bought another one today.....and as for rice.... However, don't ask for a cup of coffee.

I am making use of the minus temperatures - I am defrosting the freezer and the food is sitting in the back garden keeping nice and cold.

Dh was grumbling just this morning about the larder being over-full of porridge. Because I kept remembering that we needed some. However, I keep forgetting that the fish have hardly any food left. Maybe they like porridge? :)

Oh and re: last night's post about lightbulbs: the bulb got changed but funnily enough I didn't agree that a lightbulb change was worth a shag. In general, it turned out that my attitudes were pretty unacceptable for commune life. My fair-weather vegetarianism, dislike of itchy ethnic jumpers and inability to believe that Special Branch were bugging our phone were all contributing factors in my eventual decision to leave that particular experiment. That and the time I came downstairs with no clothes on early one morning to go to the loo and found that lightbulb bloke had returned early from Glastonbury with about 6 muddy blokes who were sleeping on the floor in the hallway. Obvs, it was a bit daft wearing no clothes, but well, I'll never make that mistake again.

Had a busy day getting stuff sorted and emergency dash to Decathlon to get items for freezing weather (we have only really had blus skies and sun in the past 12+ years apart from the odd snowed-out day, so I shouldn't complain) but I still don't feel organised and we have to get up at silly o'clock.....

Am being a misery-nuts, I'm sure it'll be fine.....

New haircut makes me look quite psychotic which given my level of PMT is quite appropriate.

It is a little...brutal. Probably I should pay for my haircuts. It is well-done, though, in its brutal somewhat 1980s-radfem manner. (And I know that whereof I speak, I was one of those radfems.) It looks OK as long as I wear a bit of slap. And in a week it will look terrific.

MI, I bet it looks lovely. Who did it for free? MrI or one of the Inferiorettes?

ruby, can't imagine you with short hair!

I should have said: pay more. I did pay. Forest Hill's finest .

Paying more doesn't necessarily mean a better cut

I had really long hair up until a few years ago - almost long enough to sit on. It weighed a tonne as it's so thick. I'm glad I had it cut shorter - much easier to manage, and it's better to have some sort of a style when you reach your prime, isn't it?

I have my hair cut in a cheap place round the corner. It is, in fact, called "Cheap" (well, "Tchip" if we are going to split hairs). Perfectly adequate cut. Had it cut somewhere poncy and artistic and it looked terrible. The Schdenfraulein could have done a better job.

I am fed up with this weekend - all I seem to do is cook and clean. I feel like stabbing someone, and I am not even due on. I am also tired beyond belief, which isn't helping.

I've had long, short, long, short...this is relatively recent - from a fringeless bob - and is great for swimming and when I eventually admit concede to going grey. I do like it. But feel slightly, er, docker-like especially compared to girlish colleagues.

I very much wish I could wear my hair short, but I cannot as it highlights the wonkiness of my face and makes me look like I ought to be locked in the high security wing of the nearest prison. I had a haircut last week and I just came out looking like Margaret Thatcher AGAIN. Jeez, I know why I have spent years telling hairdressers not to bother blow drying my hair.

I had really long hair as a child, a rebellion against the really short hair I had as an infant (some bats hairdresser told my mother keeping it short would make it thicken up). I had a lovely bob when I met dp and then had it all shaved off, much to the horror of my mother. Have always worn it short ever since, but have to have a fringe as have a forehead like a brick wall.
I have cooked and hoovered. Watched half of The Machinist with dp - cant watch anyone that thin - and am off to bed to read.

Ooh mrs s. I've been in v stabby mood also today. But it was the first day of aunt flo. And we had to go to a four-year-old bday party at a soft play place. I spend my life surrounded by ball pools and sponge steps.

As for hair, I think I've had it all lengths and most colours. I loved having a pixie cut, but it was when I was two stone lighter. With the chin I've got now, I'd look like a terrifying lesbian.