Crepes of Froth

[MaybeBentley]

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

Watching the TDF live .
Paris looking pretty in the fading sun.
Pleased the t. Acid did the job mrs s.

My husband has lots of pairs of trainers - I cannot for my life fathom the difference between them. Mrs S glad your period problems are resolving themselves.

I want to take the girls away for a long weekend this weekend. Do I book the hotel and then ask AB for Friday and Monday off? There is nothing going on in the office at all, but I am sure that AB will want to have some reason for me not going. And I do need to book the hotel tonight... I think I will go ahead and book it and hope that I can get to see the doctor early next week and that he will hopefully sign me off for a few days to give me some breathing space. (And AB always "works from home" on a Friday, so wouldn't, in theory, know if I was there or not...)

Isn't everybody in France on holiday anyway. I say go for it. It's much too hot to work anyway.

I am avoiding the Champs Elysees and watching the TDF on TV. The thought of all those crowds and the stench in this weather is too much to bear.

MrsS, glad the flow has abated! Just book it and see the medcin - F AB Is it v hot there - "only" 26 here, but 32 tomorrow (when DD is on Theme Park trip, eek!)

DH is watching every bit of sport on ATM - flicking between channels and ipad He only has practical trainers - no remote idea of style (unless I buy for him, of course!) Bizarrely, DS who is very style conscious has recently taken to wearing DH's old footy boots which look c1980. And not in a good retro way!

I've booked the hotel, now looking at trains...

Like!

Ooh, I was living in Clapham and then Wandsworth from 88-90. Then Roehampton until 93 when I moved abroad.

MrsS, just go for it.

We all went to a neighbour's party last night. Didn't get in until about 1.30am. Dcs a bit tired today and ds appeared faintly scandalised. There were mojitos. There was Pimms. I was doing chicken tours of our garden in the dark. I was fine today, dh not so much. Dm came for lunch, which all went surprisingly well.
Ds has school tomorrow, but will be (even more) knackered. Dd is supposed to be getting up at 6 to catch a lift to Southampton, but is currently hanging about yakking to someone outside the house. Possibly boasting about what she got up to last night (ahem, under the watchful eye of her mother, I might add). Ho hum.

x-posts MrsS. Yay!

Good for you MrsS!
Cakes done, early night. Going in tomorrow and Tues, the wfh Wednesday and off to (sweltering) Barcelona Thursday.

In laws worried about hound and threatening trip to vet -- Ho hum.....

I asked DD1 if she remembered the place where we are going next weekend, as we went there when she was about 6 or 7 and met up with my Aunt, Uncle, favourite cousin, her long suffering husband and her daughter.

"Oh yes," said DD1, grimly. "That's where you and your cousin tucked your skirts into your knickers and went for a paddle in the sea, and H and I went to get a drink because we were too embarrassed to be seen with you. You went out too far and got soaking wet. And it was October half term and there was no-one else in the sea."

"But it was a nice day," I said feebly.

And yes, we had had quite a lot of Leffe with our lunch.

Whereabouts in Clapham, Stropps? I was there then!

And much the same scenario with my DD yesterday - she and her friend (who is my friends DD) and her friends friend kept hovering around the drinks and then popping out to the nearby park.... Lots of watchful eyes at the party

MrsS
I love scandalising ds - it's such fun

MrsS You always have the best stories!

Oh doesn't take much to scandalise dd in this house . The sight of me and dh dancing salsa is enough for her to pack her bags and stay with a friend.
Tee hee
Works every time....

Definitely need a Clapham meet up then! Picnic on the common?

Yes, by the Windmill - for liquid refreshments!

I briefly lived somewhere right next to Clapham Junction. The house backed onto the railway line. Then I moved to Geraldine Rd in Wandsworth. My memory of 88-90 is a bit hazy due to the fact that I was, er, overly refreshed much of the time. I was working in a large wine shop on Wandsworth High St and studying hard for my wine exams...

Stropps, I lived in Elspeth Rd close to Clapham Junction 90-92

These boots. I will take the flippy label thing off and wear them constantly and chuck out the several pairs of utterly knackered-beyond-repair ones...

Oh nice boots MI! Love them...

All this sarf london thing, wouldn't it be odd to think you were probably all propping up the same bar back in the day :)

Oh and CAKE!

ooh, that is a thing of beauty, BD.

I was supposed to make cake for various school things yesterday but, er, didn't. I have reached that pre-holiday point of exhaustion where just breathing is a bit of an effort. I really cannot face doing anything, which is a bit of a problem as I ,er, have to

Bum, I can't see your boots MI. It just shows me the DMs homepage.

I wasn't propping up many bars in sarf London back then. I worked funny shifts and most of my drinking was to do with work.

Lovely cake BD. Sadly the choc-raspberry recipe didn't go down too well here. Ds does not do any kind of fruit in cakes or puddings At All, Ever. I kept quiet about the raspberry jam, obvs, but he declared the cake to be not properly chocolatey and accused me of putting raisins in it "to make it taste weird". Fruit-wise, he will eat apples, pears and melon in their natural state, but nothing else at all. Will also not eat any kind of jam. This is after an unfortunate fruit-related incident when he was a toddler after which he clearly made up his mind to never eat anything berry-shaped ever again. This also includes tomatoes. He's a stubborn soul.

I'm also getting homepage MI.

Too hot for cake here. Got all DC's up and made them participate in cleaning the pig stye that is our home before it gets too hot to move. They have worked well I must say. I as usual have got bleach on my trousers. .

Will take DC's swimming this afternoon as compensation.

Have limited computer time today as DH has taken the lead by accident - he'll see when he can't plug in at work.