The CrepeVine

[MrsSchadenfreude]

How did we finish the other thread so fast...? Less than a month.

Ah, herbs, how lovely . What a great thing for your mum to have, I can imagine you've blubbed copiously - that's part of the pleasure though too, in some way. I have the most hilarious picture of my mother on a chair lift in Switzerland (also in early 1950s) - she hated heights and looks terrified, but is in full circle skirt with net petticoat, hat and gloves. . Two of my most treasured possessions are the album she made for my 21st (some 6 or 7 years ago now...) and for my dad's 60th, full of photos, silly life stories and her brilliant humour. My 21st one has pics of all my friends at the time, my university house etc so it's the most amazing snapshot of boys I may have snogged that time of my life.

I didn't snog enough boys at 21. It is a source of lasting disappointment to me. Mind you I made up for it with a flurry of ahem activity in my early 30s

The photos from my 18th birthday party are mostly of me with my tongue stuck down the throat of someone who is now the Hon Member for City of London and Westminster. I snogged over 100 boys that year. I know because I kept count.

That aged 18/19 year was a very good year. Frankly I'm pleased my children will never photo book THAT year! It will live on in my memories

Don't fancy yours much, MrsS

Yes, he has lost his looks and his hair, but he looked like Tony Hadley in his yoof.

The Most Beautiful Boy at Oxford - honestly, he radiated gorgeousness, whole rooms of people started to fidget and not know what to say when he walked in - had gone off so dramatically a mere five years later, when we worked briefly at the same organisation, that nobody believed me. He was divine. ANd then it was like a light switch going off.

Oral as opposed to Mime questions, I suppose

I don't think he's that bad.... Bit smiley for me.

Mind you Tony Hadley's not what he was either

He is a bit toothy, yes. But he's a Tory.

I googled and I think he looks not bad for an MP. Mind you I used to love Tony Hadley when he was young. .

It's raining - everybody's bored and stir crazy and nobody thought to tell me to get the washing in grr.

Aww, poor old Tone.

I am off to an informal university reunion in a couple of weeks. This just essentially a meetup with a lot of people I snogged aged 18/19. I was not friendly with anyone that studied the same course as I did, but instead hung about with lots of engineers. This was mainly because I was v. friendly with one of the 8 girls on the electrical engineering course. There were about 92 boys on her course, whereas my course was the exact opposite. About 92 girls and 8 boys.

Wilbur, just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your article on the 5:2 diet. I still won't be doing it any time soon, though.

'Not bad for an MP' should be a special acronym. NBFAMP.

NBFAMP

ooh who's he Crem - should I recognise him? Been in France too long.

He'd get my vote

Ooooh young maaaaayaaaaan!

Oh err missus...he certainly isn't on the ballot paper round here...

Too young to be an MP and not my type at all!

Now where exactly would you like me to slip my ballot paper, young man?

I have to interview a rather fetching young Olympian rower next week.

Lol @ you lot
That's Tristram Hunt
Honourable member for stoke central
(Lab)

He could spoil my ballot any day. Etc.

Had a lovely afternoon in Crepey central south-east London - mainly at the Horniman, with lovely BTM, but quite a lot of it on the south circular on the way home, where highlights included a man staggering about with a huge cut on his head, and a troublesome white van man being 'pulled up by the fuzz'.

DS's highlights were the musical instruments, and the 'nice guinea pig'. I don't recall a guinea pig. I think he might have meant the porcupine.

Tristram Hunt. Is that rhyming slang?