Crepes of Froth

[MaybeBentley]

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

Prosecco- goggles ruby perhaps.?
I must say every time we are in France we say the same thing about going to live there. But as mrs s says it would be the bureaucracy that would finish us off. That and the lack of free health care . My folks live in France for half the year and I am relentlessly sent emails from them about tax and insurance that are like entering the seventh circle of hell to comprehend. Not sure i really want to spend my autumn years jumping through hoops.
However when we lived in Australia life was very simple. But it was too far away really .

MI l t b. seriously a hissy fit over a tshirt? Give him the money in an envelope and take to afternoon drinking

I have entered into a frenzied text disagreement with the mum who is taking dd to Chamonix this summer.
She has decided that they want to pay for lift passes for practically the whole holiday and is quoting me winter prices . I have checked and summer lift passes are much cheaper.
She is insisting on me giving her € 400 for same. Now how often will my big lump of a dd want to walk down a mountain. Grrrr I imagine they'll want to sit in bars and look at boys in reality.
Also coming out financially as THE MOST expensive holiday ever.

Crem - that doesn't seem reasonable. Sounds like she's pulling a fast one - is it possible for your daughter to pay per ride? It's not like she's skiing and is going to be constantly up and down. I'd Imagine lift up and long walk down - which is one or two sessions per day. If they do that every day.

Agree about holidays and living in places. I actually think we're more like the French than the Americans (based on two holidays in the states plus 7 years of an American school here). However - agree with Mrs S that Paris is now in lock down - war time rationing queues for bread and meat as all the shop owners have gone on holiday.

It is 36 here today - I'm going to shut all the shutters and read my book in the dark.

One day I'll maybe be able to come to a meet up

Deffo pay-as-you-go on the lift passes, Crem. Sounds a daft amount of money.

Ruby - tbh I wanted to stay forever when I went to Santa Barbara - it's just gorgeous, isn't it? Was DH's comment something like "oooh, I'd love to live here one day...." or was it more of a "cancel the barn NOW, and pass me the phone number of the nearets Realtor" ??

Anyway, if you ask my DH what his abiding memory of Santa Barbara is, it will be the appalling sunburn he suffered there. All of our post-SB photos from 1999 photos are dominated by his tomato-red visage and blistered forehead. And this was in late April.

I am going to walk through the heat to hear the Inferiorettes' 'performance' from their free course, which is the pay-off

My abiding memory of Santa Barbara was a sign in the bus we took

"your bus driver today is Jesus". Never have I felt so safe on a bus ride.

Ruby :)
Dp just wants to live in the middle of no-where. I spend my life fighting these tendancies...

BD - I want to live in the middle of nowhere but with handy access to M&S food, a John Lewis style of department store and a Sainsbo's. I'm a bit conflicted.

Wel have phoned the mum and emailed her a link to summer prices. She now tells me that her husband has hurt his leg so perhaps they won't be doing much hiking now anyway, and she apologised for the misquote but blamed not being able to read French . Ahem
The tourist office website is in English , so that's bollox.
We have agreed what well pay her up front and I've said ill top that up if there are other local expenses .
I m afraid I didn't hold back by telling her that out hols last year including dh dd and her dd cost the same as what dd alone is costing this year.

Good for you Cremo!

Hatty - :) I think where we are is in the sticks enough (but with a handy Waitrose, Sainsbo will deliver and some nice local shops....)

It's bloody 'ot here and I'd like to be sitting in my garden.....

We have the shutters down too, Hat, and it is relatively cool indoors. I have just had a disagreement long conversation with the boy man in Nicolas (our caviste is en vacance) about wine to go with curry. He finally sold me what I wanted, with a sulky face. I have gone for quantity, not quality, given that we are feeding 16 tonight. I thought most people would be away and unable to come.

Hatty, we should meet for a glass of wine before I leave Paree.

I would quite like to live in the US for a few years, but it is much too foreign for me to want to settle there for good.

I feel the urge to point you in the direction of .

well don't just tell us it was the best meal ever...what was it?

yum! Am religiously low carbing at the moment ... so yum!

I'm gearing up for a week of cornish pasties.

Best picnic food ever, eaten on the beach, out of a paper bag in the drizzle, while being bombed by a seagull

DD1 has gone out with her friends; they were going to have pizza but the pizza place is shut. There is a mixed group of them, hanging out at the house of one of the boys (a fellow-mum said to me recently 'oh yes, your DD1 and XX are reputedly a bit of an item). Suspect they're actually being rather wholesome and jolly

Shall I tell you what I used to get up to at 12, MI?

A friend has just invited herself to dinner. I am furious. This is a leaving dinner for my team and she isn't in my team. I purposely didn't ask her (or let her know anything about it because I knew this would happen). She met up with some of my team who are having a drink in the office (she works in the same building) and has texted me to say "FYI I'm crashing your dinner." The fucking cheek of it! DH has helpfully said "tell her to fuck off, she can't come."

yeah, really do tell her, the cheecky chancing mare.

"Sorry X, you would usually be welcome to join in but this is a leaving dinner for my team mates and I would prefer to just entertain my team this evening..."

As you're leaving gay paree soon who cares if she gets the hump...

Mrs S - are you around last week in Aug (we get back 24th). If you can fit in a quick lunch that'd be fun. I know you're massively busy so haven't pushed to meet up.

Feeling gloomy as DS in law is coming tomorrow for 4 nights - just before we go on Holiday (great timing as usual). She is an accountant and doesn't drink and is totally from another planet to me. Also we can't even Watch English telly whilst she is here as she can't speak a word. I might have to sneak of for solace to friend round the corner although that would be very rude of me.

Mrs S - don't know how you can cook for 16 esp' in this heat. I agree with DH. Tell her it's team only.

No, MrsS, I would prefer that you didn't

I feel that for once your DH has hit the nail on the head with the crasher.

Mrs S worra liberty! Tell her to go forth and multiply. Do share your Canicule menu tho

Hatty - no chance you could segway a uni tour or something and come to meet up?

Have just realised DD1 took her swimsuit for a water fight.

I am hoping that the prospect of stuffing herself on pizza will distract from other misdemeanours. She is enjoying her new independence a lot.