Crepes of Froth

[MaybeBentley]

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

Oh Cremo how sad. That is why I believe in national organ donation.

CV, sounds like they had great fun
And we need a pic of the finished room - I am currently contemplating DD's request to re-do her room...

Crem that's so sad.

Love the idea of bikini and fur coat. Sounds very 1970's!

Still lovely here, thunderstorms every night which are very impressive, but hot through the days. Way too much rose being drunk by all.

We are collecting things as people go home. Excellent haul this morning of umbrellas, boogie boards, naice wine and all sorts from a family flying home today dh panicking about the packing of the car already!

ruby, that sounds fab.

DS used to dress up in girls stuff all the time. We have lots of photographic evidence

Looks like it's going to rain here pretty soon!

Wow ruby that's just sounds wonderful.

BTM yes more thunder and lightening threatening here as well.

Funeral was beautiful. Sad but beautiful. Idyllic country chapel filled with the scent of sweetpeas and jasmine and the haunting sound of uillean pipes.

Am planting lavender this afternoon to finish the garden makeover thing.
Supposed to be done by tomorrow.
Ahem . Been a bit of a crazy week.

It's pouring down here now and I've not finished hedgecutting. Damn. The chooks are looking confused. I don't think they've experienced much rain before in their little lives.

Everyone's hols sound fab. Hope Herbs manages to find some dry weather in Devon, though.

I have just remembered that ds has been invited to a party tomorrow morning. I need to go out and get a present...

I feel very blessed that I have not been to a funeral in years.

Cremo, garden update photo needed!

Stropps, money in a card always goes down VERY well round here (and has done since they were much younger!)

Cremo, glad it went as well as it could.

thanks MI.

ok BEFORE

AFTER!
( nearly there shot)

Ooh Cremo, that is inspiring! I must do a before and after when ours finally gets underway - the building work behind us (and therefore the party wall) seems to have ground to a halt

Wow, Crem, big change! I bet stripping out the old stuff was a major chore. So sad about your friend; comiserations.

I don't have any "before" pics of DS's room (suffice it to say, it was a dump), but I will try to sneak in with a camera when it's all done. I need to put up his pictures (lots of Banksy!) and finish the wardrobe interior, but I ran out of time and energy today. It won't win any interior decor prizes, but it's clean, neutral and has storage aplenty.

I haven't seen the finished bikini-and-fur-coat movie yet; the girls use Videostar on DD1's iPad Mini, and come up with the most amazing videos, with special effects and synchronised music. It keeps them occupied for hours.

And yet again I am contemplating my spare tyre(s) and wondering about running - CV, you do it, don't you?

Oh I'm so flabby. Off the 5:2 wagon
Even with all the extreme gardening, i am eating too much shite.
Meh

I am grimly aware that only the runners I know seem to be truly non-flabby. Certainly the ones of - ahem - truly mature years.

Ach, slimness is overrated IMHO

I have managed to clear out half of DS's bedroom and the loft. The bin is overflowing and DH is convinced we can sell on our tat on the local forum, so the sitting room has a few extras....

I was the only one in a hundred mile radius wearing a one piece...I have been quite horrified catching glimpses of myself this holiday....
I also look at these slim young things and regret I didn't make the most of it!!

Bd if we could only look like we did then, and know what we know now....

Yes, MI, I do run, in an amateur fashion, although various things have conspired against me in the last couple of months, namely a sore knee, followed by monster period, then a cold, then a few days ago I badly bruised my toe..... I'm hoping to get out again this week for my little jog around the village. I'm not sure how much it contributes to "trimness", but it certainly tightens things up, and has some unexpected benefits, such as banishing the persistent backache I always seemed to suffer from (I guess it's all to do with core strength). The best thing about running for me is that it doesn't require any expense or planning, you just leave the house and run. And if I get up 30 minutes early and do it then (painful! I am not a natural lark), then it's done for the day.

You're selling it to me, CV, and frankly you look pretty damn trim to me I get up early to swim. I could swap/add in a run. I am concerned that once DD2 starts going to school on her own I may quite feasibly have days when I don't leave the house, which is not madly good for me.

It is the fact that DP has been saying matily we both have a bit of a spare tyre that annoys me

MI - just get yourself onto one of the Couch to 5k threads for support and motivation - it worked for me (that's where I first "met" Wilbur, in fact).

My scan is this afternoon (eek). If they find something, at least there will be a treatment plan within sight, and if they don't, it is all systems go for HRT. Win win. At least the period seems to have stopped again so I don't have the indignity of an internal scan with all that going on (eurk!).

It's on my post-holiday to-do list. THat and first purchasing firm undergarments . And what do you put a phone/ipod IN to listen to the podcast, then?

Good luck this pm!

Just heard I didn't get the job I was interviewed for recently, which is find as it wasn't quite the right job for me but I do rather hope I get interviewed for something else I've applied for...

Oh MI pants. I really hope you get the other interview .
CV hope this afternoon went well for you. Dontcha just love those scans?
Had so many in my life I couldn't count. Bleurgh:(