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Crepey continuum

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Cremolafoam · 18/03/2013 15:12

Grin Over here!

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Cremolafoam · 03/04/2013 20:33

O desperate to view everyone now.
Managed a last chance saloon haircut before high tailing to airport.
Its a TERRIBLE haircut. I look like my mother HmmHmmHmm

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beachyhead · 03/04/2013 21:53

hattymattie, I'd just like to empathise on the shower situation.... I have to turn on the bath taps to get the shower going. I know what's wrong with it, but after extensive arguments with the plumber the first time round, I can't be bothered to get it sorted.....

I am tiring of the holidays.......all the planning involved....

Stropperella · 03/04/2013 22:24

My first attempt at a quiche has gone down very well. Must get me some of those baking bean things, though.

I have suddenly started feeling toooo old for my circuits class. They have started doing something vile called "High Intensity Training" or somesuch and halfway through last week's class I suddenly thought "Why am I doing this when I could be at home on the sofa with a glass of wine?" I am bored with all the lycra and high-fiving. I think I may take up knitting instead. I am not sure I really care about whether or not I have a muffin-top. I will just embrace the squidge - and buy my jumpers a size bigger. Feh.

Cremolafoam · 03/04/2013 23:57

Hear you Stropps . Me and Lycra never really had a proper relationship , more a holiday fling. Hmm
At this point I just have to be happy to be alive frankly. Everything else is a bonus.
Am in a naice hotel with dd. we are in bed with chocolate and wifi. I have started reading the latest Joanne Harris which continues the Chocolat story. Anyone read it yet?

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bigTillyMint · 04/04/2013 01:56

MrsSEnvy in my dreams I have one filling Envy

Oh yes, definitely want to stay here - much cosier than FB!

Stropps, you can do knitting and lycra (though not usually at the same time) - suits me fine Smile Am beginning to worry a little about my return to work though - team fancies boot camp after work run by a colleague who is Personal Trainer and I will have done nothing for 2
weeks and I am the 7th oldest there!!!

Hope Cambridge goes well Cremo. Didn't know there is a followup to Chocolat - am reading Tiny Sunbirds Far Away!

Blackduck · 04/04/2013 06:26

Cremo good luck in Cambridge.
Yes FB good for putting faces to names (except in mine and Ruby's case!)

Stropps your circuits class sounds tiring....:)

BTM how long are you away for?

MrsS how's AB - is he behaving?

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Blackduck · 04/04/2013 08:26

Morning Rubes.....
Leaky loo here too - cup also doing the trick as long as I remember to empty it on a regular basis....(add to list of daily chores)

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Blackduck · 04/04/2013 08:46

oh yes Ruby - tell DH you do not have a monopoly on leaky loos ;)

Blackduck · 04/04/2013 08:46

or hard bits of cheese in the fridge for that matter

Cremolafoam · 04/04/2013 09:39

Thanks rubes. It's actually trying to snow. Haven't we had enough of that already.Angry
It's as well I brought a woolly hat.Grin
Dd slept like an angel - I did not. Spent the whole night fretting about mothers 70th birthday. Why why?
BizarreShock

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hattymattie · 04/04/2013 09:45

Our gym teacher - being French and male shouts encouragement such as "you won't regret this when you're on the beach in summer" or "only three more months to go till bikinis". Lots of grunting and protesting. Not too much lycra in this gym I'm happy to say mainly jogging bottoms and old t-shirts.

We have leaky loo as well but trying to ignore it as shower and roof much bigger problems. I am never letting DH near any plumbing ever again. It is never successful and always results in lots of swearing and bad temper.

bigTillyMint · 04/04/2013 10:35

French gym teacher Envy

We are in Tailand for 2 weeks - one more night here, then off to Koh Lanta tomorrow for 4 nights, then sleeper back 2 Bangkok then 2 nights there and then home. If we haven't killed the DC by then. DH is currently shouting at DS...

Have done nothing today but lie on the sunlounger reading Tiny Sunbirds Far Away. Luckily noone noticed all my tears as they just mixed with the sweat running down my face!

Stropperella · 04/04/2013 11:16

Ruby, I do the same as you do: I walk the dog once or twice a day (dog always gets 2 walks but most of the time I force dh to do the evening shift - for his benefit rather than the dog's) and do sit-ups, press-ups, weights etc as and when. I've been doing circuits for 18 months now and wouldn't have done it unless I was enjoying it, but have suddenly started not enjoying it so much. I am the oldest in the group, but there are some extreme fitness types in their early 40s who are beginning to make me feel really bloody decrepit. I was competing with them, but as of last week suddenly can't be arsed any more. It was a "20 press-ups, 20 star jumps, 20 burpees, repeat 3 times in x minutes or get shouted at" that suddenly caused me to turn. Also the realisation that I seem to have developed an "I've burned it, I've earned it" attitude that means I'm probably eating more than I used to. Hmm Time for a change to doing something else, probably.

BTM, oh to be lying in the sun .... :)
It's bloody freezing again here and I am taking ds, dog and a bunch of friends to the woods this afternoon. Brrrrr. Dh is in a big, fat grump because he has once again cocked up on the time management and is up against it with 2 deadlines. He is of the opinion that I should suddenly magic up childcare and help him out.

Now dragging limping dd off to get her eyes tested. Am a bit worried she may have become short-sighted and am not looking forward to the whole fucking drama if she turns out to need glasses. Her life will be as good as over, apparently. Hmm

Stropperella · 04/04/2013 11:17

Hey, Crem - hope things go well in Cambridge!

motherinferior · 04/04/2013 11:26

I am dragging my two, plus friend, out this afternoon to the museum of London. Involving a walk Shock from Cannon Street Station unmediated by public transport as I personally need the exercise and I do think that Lying On The Sofa doesn't really do much for them either [cross]

Blackduck · 04/04/2013 11:34

lots of walking here too. We did a hill on Tuesday and thought 'pah that was easy' :0 I am used to the one near us which is nigh on vertical....

Ds is being dragged round the V&A as we speak (with my folks in London). It is still pretty cold here too, and they are threatening more snow (sigh)

bigTillyMint · 04/04/2013 11:35

Stropps/ruby totally agree on the exercise front - just want to be reasonably fit and healthy for my age, not competing with young things!

Bloody Tesco have put a block on our credit card again, despite me telling them we were going to ThailandAngry

herbaceous · 04/04/2013 11:59

Oh, MI, I'm contemplating the MoL tomorrow, as the blasted nursery's shut and I need to find an activity with DS that isn't buggering soft play. Or swimming. Or anything else with lots of other people. Sadly, that just about rules everything out other than staying in the house, which would drive both of us mad.

Do tell how hideously crowded it is!

bigTillyMint · 04/04/2013 12:10

MoL is crap to get to in public transport, but thankfully our "dragging the DC round museums" days seem to be over as they arrange their own entertainment now!

DH is now twittering if the hotel that he was about to book in Bangkok is the "right one" Dammn Tesco!

herbaceous · 04/04/2013 12:16

Fortunately, DS is still at the age when going on the train, bus or DLR is all part of the fun. Or, indeed, the only part of the fun.

bigTillyMint · 04/04/2013 12:41

I remember when my friend's DS was small and taking him in the 176 to Penge and buying a small toy car was his favourite outingSmile

herbaceous · 04/04/2013 12:44

I'm contemplating the bus, tube and DLR to the Museum in Docklands, where they're doing a jam-making exercise, lunch, then reverse the process. Then a cold compress.

I'm also contemplating tomorrow being a 'fast' day, however, which does not accord with such an activity.