Crepes of Froth

[MaybeBentley]

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

Lol ruby

Me too for a meet-up, but we don't get back till the 20th...

Went to see The Curious Incident last night - very good and the DC even seemed to enjoy it!

Also saw an old friend yesterday who is on her annual visit back here - had a trip down memory lane in Clapham, complete with wino's at the bus stop

Count me in for wine in Sarf London... Not sure any more wine will be needed after this holiday. We have found a man who fills up your empty 1.5 litre orangina bottles with rosé for 2 euros... Cheaper than water, so would be rude not to.

Back on Saturday!

I personally am never drinking again after a very pleasant curry'n'wine evening with a friend yesterday...

Am away from 10th for two weeks, then back and raring to go.

Blimey, that's a lot of enthusiasm!

So how's about a meet-up for my last-stop birthday before the biggie - beginning of September? Will you be here by then, MrsS?

Hey, MI, I see your local hospital has been saved

Yes, DD1 and I were remarking we can stab people in total peace of mind now

I will be in London in second week of September.

Yay! Would Friday 13th be a good date?

No! A week later... or how about you souf londoners do the 13th and then we quickly have another... in N London? Herbs?

I think a week later maybe: just thinking mrs s will hardly have set her suitcase down
I can do either as long as dh doesn't do a meltdown ( he won't )
Later better for me I think

Love to meet up. I will try to work any date around checking up on mum :)

Yay to meetup.

Norf or Sarf London; I'm not fussy.

September sounds perfect; once the monkeys are back in full-time education my diary empties considerably. I was just reading one of my blogs, written by someone in the US, and they are just getting ready to go back to school.

The DDs are back, with all their accompanying messy habits. I cannot believe how tidy the house has been since they left! They have had a high old time with Granny and cousins - zoo trips, swimming, shopping....far more attention than they get at home.

Ooh how exciting. Something for me to look forward to!

I have people coming round for dinner tomorrow night, and have just worked out that we will be sixteen. Only have 14 chairs to sit round dining table, so it might have to be a buffet. I have made a chicken phall so hot that it will be like a reverse chilli fisting. (At the explicit request of two of the men, I may add.)

Ah great . Ill book my flights when we settle on a place and definitive date .
Yay!

Oh cocktail - get her :)

I am back at work - Barca seems a lifetime away!

Ds at my parents - Tower of London yesterday - he was mucho impressed...

Oh ruby! How do you feel about that?

BD, I could have waved to your DS - we were in City Hall with friends

Week after in Sep is fine by me - have not booked anything for Sep yet!

Do either of you have US nationality, Ruby? Any chance of him getting a transfer to the US? If not, I think you can relax a little - immigration to the US is notoriously difficult. It took a friend of mine months to get a visa for his wife - he had a stable job, somewhere to live, no financial difficulties. And what looks lovely on holiday can be very different once you're living there. I've had some lovely holidays in Paris, but can't say I particularly enjoy living here much - the bureaucracy is grinding, there is dog shit everywhere, all the bakeries and restaurants shut in August. It sounds trivial, and most of it is, but it does mount up. I've been trying to get my ID card renewed since March - the French insist that I have one, and now the person dealing with it has gone on holiday...

Oh Ruby - maybe rose coloured (holiday) spectacles?
Agree with MrsS holiday's are one thing, the day to day working thing is something else.... (although I do sometimes want to live somewhere it doesn't rain so much ;) )

Barca was fab Ruby - the Sagarda was awe inspiring and ds was just amazed by it....

Bring him to Catford next time, Ruby. I guarantee he'll go home with a song in his heart and a smile on his lips

DP is sulking because I didn't order his birthday T-shirts - after he got all @rsey at me about How Exactly He Wanted Them, to the point where I didn't dare order the Wrong Thing - in time for his birthday. I ended up in panicky tears at the computer this morning, convinced he would throw massive strop on his birthday . Am inclined to LTB but think I may feel better once we have gone on holiday. (If I don't drown him on the Normandy beaches, of course.)

I am writing about osteoporosis. Four separate articles for different publications. It is doing my head in!