Crepes and Mulled Whine in your pants

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Somebody had to do it

CV, boot tight sound good. TBH, tight waist might be good, as I always have problems finding tights that stay up, and they might discourage me from over-eating (fat chance of that!)

Snap re the cats, CV!

Help me, friends who have at some point owned a 14 year old boy. My nephew wants one of these apparently. Which should I get him? Is charming easy going lad...

Hmm, DS isn't yet 13, but fancies himself as having a bit of swag... I think he would go for something dark, perhaps the skulls, or just plain?

What is this 'swag'?

Looking sharp

Deffo the Ben Fogle MI.
Nothing like a buff Ben Fogle
Fnar

Oh yes - I bumped (literally) into him off Oxford St once!

hello christmas crepeys, back from turkey and a week in which i made no decisions at all - fab. and whoever said crepeys make v good travelling companions - spot on - really interesting, um slightly disinhibited (or at least v clear about who they were and not caring much of opinion) plus amazing landscapes.

for the cat lovers among us, this obscure photo is a sort of cat hotel in a a net cage down a path down to a park in anatlya. there are lots of little 'rooms' plus bowls of food and water laid round the ground floor outside the hotel and a couple of openings so that the cats can come and go as they please. the cats looked very very happy and i saw crepeys who looked as though they came to spend time on their favourite bench and stroke their favourite cat of a morning

Addle! Welcome back!

Hey Addle , sounds heavenly.!
Sun and kitties. (Sigh)
Saw your Bil yesterday when was
malingering in occupational health.

Hi addle, was just about to PM you (will do in a min!) re the English teacher... Your hol looks sunny

Cremo, you know addles BIL? This is a scarily small world!

Wah, I can't keep up with this cracking pace.
Well done MI and Mrs S re various work related triumphs.
Crem, glad you sound on the mend and Stropps glad you sound as though you are reclaiming some ground against the tyranny that is teenagers.
Hi to everyone else.
Re the buff scarf. My very own 14yo ds says "I'm not sure I'd want one myself and it's hard to say which one I'd have but tell her NO flags / animals / words / figures / naff patterns." Hope that helps! He also says to be swag = to be a knobhead Apologies for lowered tone.

Addle, holiday sounds fab. Hope you can find your thermals now you're back.

So essentially some kind of greige blokey number. Gotcha.

Stop me if you've heard this one before, but I am now running out of paid work and am going to starve in the gutter, at least till next month.

MI - well I like the Afghan paisley one, as would ds1, but it depends on whether nephew is hippie-boy or sk8er boy, in which case maybe the skulls are better. I also really like the arctic char fish skin one. In fact I like all of them very much and would like Father Christmas to bring me one for hair wrangling under my bike helmet.

Addle - welcome home, glad you had a good time. How sweet there was a kitty hotel.

Stropps, am also of the fondue - please could you link to magic French cheese delivery service? A very hilarious friend of mine tells the most fantastic story about going to a dinner party and being given fondue, except she was on a diet and had taken, prior to sitting down to eat and seeing it was just melted cheese for dinner, TWO Alli capsules which are the fat blocker ones. The label gives dire warnings about what will happen if you eat a high fat meal after taking ONE of these capsules.... The story about exactly how her bottom subsequently exploded still makes me larf and larf. Although I'm sure nothing like that will happen at your place tonight.

(But if it does, can you tell us, please?)

Eeeeeuuuuwwwww

Well, I went to the dentist yesterday and he filled a small hole in my back tooth and said that it was a little bit unstable, and we would have to watch it - it may need removing in future.

Half an hour ago, my crown on a pin came out. 3 months since the dentist re-cemented it in. I bet that'll have to go - he said if it keeps coming loose....

Hello, goodness that Buffwear site is quite something....I had no idea, am most tempted. I bought some cheap brightly coloured imitations in TK Maxx before an icy family cycling trip. ds invented a way of wearing three at once, leaving only eyes visible. I copied him and we created a bit of a stir as we casually wandered into the Maritime Museum at Greenwich in search of loos, forgetting what we were wearing.

I think my 14 yo ds wd now say no patterns, animals, prints etc too, just something plain and classy.

Bad luck BTM.

My resident 14yo is away at a sleepover, so I can't ask him about his buff opinions.

Talking of DS, he was very full of himself earlier. He went over the road to collect a parcel that had been delivered to our neighbour, and while he was at the front door the neighbour's daughter turned up and parked on the drive. As DS was leaving with his box he noticed the daughter's car was rolling slowly backwards down the sloping drive (she'd forgotten to put the handbrake on), so my big manly son shouldered the car to a halt and managed to shout for the neighbour before it rolled into the road. What a hero!

Oooh well done CV's DS

I don't really understand buffs. What are they, and what do they do?
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I've been broken by the party. It was ace. They'd hired a barman/model called Rodrigo, who kept out lovely wide, flat champagne glasses topped up all night. Apparently for another £100 he'd do it all topless.

I inhaled helium from the balloons.

My old pal didn't come home with me in the end. I left her at 1am slurring about how much she loved everyone.

Party sounds fabulous.

Even thin buff imitations avoid Chilly Gaps, marvellous if cycling in icy winds, walking.

Apparently old pal, plus another even older, stayed up drinking until 7. Impressive, if unwise.

My lovely friend saw my plight on Facebook and came round with her 4YO, so they entertained themselves trashing the kitchen while we drank tea. She eve bought cake. And she's 40 weeks pregnant.
Off soon to one of the many shop local things going on today, then into the loft for Xmas decorations, then dress the tree. Then, please god, DP will be home and we can have a curry.