Crepes of Froth

[MaybeBentley]

Bum! Just join a thread and lock it down! So I'll start the next one.

I just went to keep fit, with weights, in a boiling hot studio. I think I may actually be on fire. We have a break for the summer, so I'll be nice and flabby when I go back in September. Sigh. Never ending, innit? Herbs, at least you weigh less than you did and not half a stone more, which is what I seem to put on practically overnight when I take my eye off the ball.

Oh, and I had a brilliant idea for us all. Since we are both lovely (as recently confirmed by an impartial observer) and wise (as confirmed by me) I think we should set up as collective agony aunts. Gawd knows that between us we cover experience of pretty much everything that life can throw at women in their 40s/50s. Obviously I have no idea how we could do that, but I v much like the idea.

Nah, don't think agony aunting is for me. Gone right off agony. Too much like work. Want to sing, watch cat videos, maybe a bit of light cooking, gardening and dog-walking...

I think I have decided, like Beachy, that its the mass of white between the top and the bottom of a bikini that is the problem :)
I do like the short boardies (oh get her) in fat face, but the top simply isn't supportive enough. I used to be a dinky 34b and that was fine, but seem to be about a 34DD these days and that needs more support.

Tres warm here (not that I am complaining!) just wish I wasn't working.....

View from patio :)

I ordered jeans in the Toast sale....three sizes too big

Gosh BD, that is a gorgeous view, I can see why you moved! I have a view of dandelions on my dead lawn.

Alto - you're quite right, following your bliss if def the way to go, I was just amused by the thought of dishing out advice to all the youngsters who have not quite yet reached our state of crepey wisdom.

In other news, I amazed myself yesterday by actually telling the truth to someone (in a nice way) and making myself clear . I had invited a good friend and her son, who is over a year younger than ds2, but they get on v well, to come for a couple of nights to the Cotswolds with me next week. She accepted and then texted a day later to say could she bring another boy with her as she'd promised his mum she would look after him. Usually I would say yes, the more the merrier, but this year, I am so knackered, I just want to hang out with my friend and for once have someone for ds2 to play with and not have to deal with the tensions of 3 small boys trying to play together when 2 of them don't know each other (never a good dynamic, IMO). So instead of feebly saying it was fine and then resenting it, I said I would prefer not to have another child I don't know there . I feel both empowered and deeply guilty.

BD, lovely view. I have a scrubby garden and a building site behind me ATM. And of course, lots of houses I am beginning to dream of moving out to the coast

Wilbur, I think you are completely right - 3 is not always a magic number. Crepey-power

The heat is draining me. And I think I have caught CV's cold. Poor DD was completely on her knees after school yesterday - she had spent the entire day at CP stadium preparing for and doing Sports Day. She won the 100m sprint (for the 3rd year on the trot ) and then had to do a gym display. All in full sun and 30 degrees.
The hols can't come soon enough.

They wouldn't listen, though, would they Wilbur? They know best: they should really be giving us advice, in fact it's amazing we ever got this far without their insight

Alto . Absolutely. In fact, I had a conversation recently with a mother of a toddler and I was, quite entertainingly I thought, telling her about ds1's poor personal hygiene and how grubby and revolting big boys can be. Then I realised she was genuinely, uncomprehendingly disgusted by my story and I had to backpedal and say I do make sure he's scrubbed down on at least a semi-regular basis. I don't think she was convinced, and she definitely went home muttering "my son will never smell".

They certainly never believe their darling little toddlers will ever be grunting teens. I recounted the tale of DS's recent brush with drugs at school, and several of my colleagues went and clutched their desk photos of small perfectly-scrubbed infants to their bosoms.

Bad luck on the cold, BTM. I am finally feeling human again after my marathon period and virus combo. I'm quaffing Spatone to keep up my iron.

I am worryingly piling on the pounds at the moment, even though my diet hasn't changed.

Lush view, BD!

Our house is almost entirely devoid of views, being a long, deep bungalow on a narrow plot. The only decent outlook is from our bedroom window (trees and cows, and next door's immaculate plot); apart from that, it's fence, fence, cars, or hedge.

Oh yes, when you have small children you cannot believe that they will ever fall prey to the teenage evils.

And you can protect them from nearly everything. Those were the days

I was telling my lovely neighbour how embarrassed my girls get by my dancing. She was appalled at the very thought that her four year old could ever be anything of the kind....

I have a job interview tomorrow!

Ooooh Good Luck! Must be the season for interviews

Yes, good luck, MI.

Good luck to all interviewees!
Am so feckin hot and fond this weather exhausting.
Dss have announced they don't want to eat my planned supper, will cook something dull of their own choosing instead.
I am seriously contemplating going to sleep for a bit!

Just had a semi-snooze myself punctuated by DD and DH having a moment about a school trip

my sensible 14yo ds2 wants to go to Thorpe Park with 2 also sensible 14yo friends on Thursday. He is quite capable of getting about and manages most things well. He's been before but with an adult there but in the background. What do you lot think??

I think he will be fine. DC's went with school to Chessington when they were in Y6 and were allowed to go around without an adult. All he has to do other than that is get there and get home!

good luck MI!

QQ - my quite sensible 13 year old went to Chessington with his quite sensible friend last year on their own and had a great time. they were careful to get there v early so that they could do as much as possible as early as possible. x

BD lovely view

Thank you. Ds2 is much more adventurous than his older brother so I sometimes find it hard to use my judgment about this sort of thing... I think I'll let him do it

thinking about it, me and my vvv sensible friend (mother of other boy) were very detailed in advance about trains, phones, what to do if lost, how to keep in touch, etc. i'll try to think if there's anything else. x

oh yes.. he will have many instructions!