The CrepeVine

[MrsSchadenfreude]

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

You got home OK then?! Glad the SE Londoners kept you entertained on the journey back!

Twas lovely sitting in the sun and watching/listening to your DS's songs and dances Bit worried about his knowledge of animals though - thinking about the "dog" too!

Oh I do like them you g and purdy.
Rowers are usually q hunky , tall and muscley in a good way. ( ref point The Oxbridge Boat race BBC coverage)

@ rhyming slang

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristram_Hunt relaxing with Emma Bridgewater collectable

with Emma Bridgewater

Turns high pressure water hose on thread and retires to drink gin...
Calm down laydeeez!
Tell me when it's safe to venture back?

All interests catered for here I note.
Peri-menopause central enquiry bureau. Check
Perving over naice young male MPs. Check

Is that at me Rubes or at the thread?!

My point exactly

Sorry. It's usually me who lowers the tone

I am doing crafting this evening . Utterly dire job on a handmade birthday card for mum.
There are balloons innit .

I seen you lot hangin' with those wastemen on the teenage slang thread. You and your bare blad blembosses behind the bikesheds innit.

Honestly, you lot. Very frisky this evening.

Sounds like a fun afternoon at The Horniman. My fave exhibit is the over-stuffed walrus.

The walrus is totally wonderful and you can look up its bottom too. I have adored it for decades. Used to live just round the corner.

Yes, another vote for the walrus, although the dodo is very popular in our house too - ds1 had a book of extinct animals when he was little and the dodo story always made him cry - he was a sensitive soul .

MI - enjoy the rower's lovely shoulders, always their best part. Dh used to row and I pretty much selected him for marriage based on his shoulders.

I missed the Stropps waistcoat discussion earlier but wanted to add that I also love a waistcoat (I had a gazillion of them in the past, quite sad I threw them away) but agree you have to be careful in their application. It sounds to me Stropps is that what you need in your wardrobe is a couple of pairs of v good tailored trousers - one black and one brown or grey. Spend as much as you can on them, get them taken in/up to fit and they will pay you back in spades as you can wear them with everything - knits, waistcoats, scarves, brogues, heels - and still look smart. So you can go to parties or work things still feeling like you, but not in jeans. Jaeger sale is worth checking out - you could stalk these] until they are reduced, or [[http://www.jaeger.co.uk/Skinny%20Trouser/730041D,en_GB,pd.html?dwvar_730041D_color=00100&dwvar_730041D_size=8&start=5&cgid=women-trousers these are a bit more on trend and you have the figure for them and they are 20% off this weekend.

Bum - first trousers here.

I grew up near Henley and it was my mission every year to pull a rower during the regatta. I used to "mess about on the river" a lot (won't call it rowing). One memorable Sunday afternoon a friend and I decided to row her rowing boat to Henley, tie the boat up and go and have several jugs of Pimm's in the pub. One thing lead to another (including a lock in) and we ended up leaving Henley around midnigh, rowing back (against advice - we had no lights on the boat), which included navigating Shiplake lock (which we had never operated on our own, as we had always managed to come through with someone else) in the dark, which took us ages. We finally got in around 5 am, cold and stone cold sober.

ruby, thank the lord that DD is too small for my clothes! She already takes borrows my beauty stuff!

Still, at least she is being nice ATM, unlike DS who is going through a very difficult phase. Again.

Am feeling knackered and old today.

MrsS :)

I was a total geek at 18/19 (see earlier in thread) and failed to do much snogging......then I met dp at 22 and that was it...blimey that's a bit boring isn't it? and he was hardly a hunk :) (no rowers shoulders here!!)

I am currently not drinking which is helping with the weight loss, but god am I having bad dreams, or is it just that I am remembering the bad dreams

Full weekend coming on - out Friday (remember the friensd I having been trying to meet for my birthday? We are getting to gether and are now celebrating all three of our birthdays :) ), then old neightbour coming over Sat, singing in the pub Sat evening (may fall of the wagon), chilli festival Sunday, ds's double digit birthday Monday........collapse in heap back at work Tuesday....

I have booked a hotel in central London for my mother and I to stay in on Monday night. It will, no doubt, not be as good as some hovel she stayed in in Benidorm in 1973.

MrsS I don't know why you bother!!

No. I took her to New York for a shopping weekend several years ago. She said it was "just like Bucharest" (trust me on this one, it's about as far from Bucharest as you can get). Everything in the shops was either better or cheaper in Primark. Delicious macarons from Pierre Herme in Paris were "a bit something and nothing." So I am fully expecting the hotel to be not as good as somewhere else she has stayed, and overpriced, the lunch at Claridge's to not be as good as the local Harvester/Carvery. She will find fault with everything. She can't find fault with the location of the hotel, though, as it is about 5 minutes walk from Primark at Marble Arch.