Crepes and Mulled Whine in your pants

[Auriga]

Somebody had to do it

Much sympathy in various ways to Herbs and MI. Hv tiny tiny aunts and MIL who serve large portions of food to men but look disapprovingly at women who are seen eating - despite offering them food. you are supposed to turn it down apparently. it's 'have the men had enough' over and over

Am fine for 17th or 24th so far

BTM - did you go to meeting at school last night? if so, could you PM if anything interesting?

I won't know about 17th until after Crimbo (got a weekend away pencilled in that may or may not happen). Will be there if I can.

Stropps, I think your ds and my ds2 would get on, he is also never knowingly underdressed. He would LOVE a red jacket.

Herbs, sorry the poas was not uplifting news, the games our bodies play with us, eh?

I am trying to have a big tidy here, not doing very well, but I have unearthed the coffee table, which I haven't seen for a while [slattern emoticon] .

Aahhhh, mothers......Mine doesn't have an ounce of fat on her and eats seriously healthy food, but she doesn't expect the rest of us to follow suit, thank goodness.

An evening of rushing about beckons. I have to feed DS and DD2, drop DH at the station so he can enjoy a boozy night out sans car, then collect DD1 from her dress rehearsal. Quick whizz around Tesco, some present wrapping,then staying up late to collect pissed-up DH from the station in the small hours. Sigh.

I had a Christmas card from my best pal in Australia. I last saw her 18 months ago, and was extolling the virtues of Couch to 5K (she's as much of a gym dodger as me). Well, she did the 5K, then the 10k, now the blasted woman is doing triathlons.

God grief, isn't a sedate Ladyjog enough for her? Mind you I must say, it's done wonders for me.

Herbs.

MI, my DM's pretences about eating like a bird faded away when she came to live with us. Turns out she eats more than DH .

She drives me nuts with all her comments on everything DD does and doesn't eat, though I'm still striving to train her out of it.

Addle I love Have the men had enough?.

Right, Jan "do" - sounds like 17th is favourite so far?
MI
Stropps
Herbs
Auriga
BTM
MrsS
Beachy
Ruby?
QQ
BD
Addle
Wilbur?

Addle, it's next Thurs, AFAIK! See you there?!

And y, y to feeding the men more - MIL does this no wonder FIL and BIL are massive thankfully we don't go that often!

My mother always says to me "I wonder why you're fat. No-one else in the family is." Nice.

Herbs -

I was supposed to be working from home this afternoon but as I only had one email all afternoon and nothing to do at all, I wrote my Christmas cards. Sod it, they've screwed enough free overtime out of me over the years.

DH is out tonight, so the DDs and I are watching Arthur Christmas and having a pizza delivered.

My mum is tiny but has never made comments about the rest of us.... I really do need to lose some poundage and will try on return from hols...
MI - I think your mothers comments would just make me pour an even larger glass of wine and cut a bigger bit of cake...

"Feeding the men more" is definitely not one of my mother's failings. The first thing she did when she married my father was to put him on a diet and get him to lose 3 stone. :) She was/is an equal opportunities fattist.

Stropps

BTM, are you at my comment or that photo I've just put on FB?

Spirits rising. In highgate, in frock, having pre-party stiffener.

You are looking most splendid in that frock, Ms Herbs, if I may say so. :) Have a fab evening.

Comment. The hat is great!

Herbs, you look fab in your frock BUT DON'T DRINK TOO MUCH

You look great Herbs.
Stropps, maybe you could make us all hats for the meet up?

Yes, yes, don't spoil the dress with a big splashy vomit. When I was about 18, I had bought myself some red killer heels to wear to a party. They had little bows on the back and little holes punched in them. I looked fab. Unfortunately I partook of a little too much of everything at the party and vommed all over my feet. I couldn't get the lumps of sick out of the holes and had to throw the shoes away.

YUK Mrs S. I feel all queasy again now.
Went out with dh for birthday dinner last night (using vouchers which were a christmas present from my dad last year and were about to expire) to a very swank poncy Indian restaurant in Mayfair beginning with B. The bastards poisoned me! Woke up at 3am feeling dreadful and spent the early hours puking like it was going out of fashion. What a treat!

Nooooo, MrsS, I will not be able to get that image out of my head for a while: lovely red shoes with little lumps of sick sticking out of them. (Surely if you had left them to dry, the vom would have shrivelled up and dropped off? Not that I have experience of that kind of thing, obvs.)

Ah no, x-posts, QQ. Poor you. I hope you complain to the restaurant.

How does everybody know how Herbs looks in the dress? Other than mental pictures? Which reminds me, do we not have MN profiles any more? (Limping behind here)

QQ complain and report them. Public health etc. and get well soon

Facebook, Auriga.

Hi Auriga. We have been admiring her on the devil's own work that is Facebook... (at least that's what I've been doing). If you are on FB pm me and I'll point you in the direction of some crepeys...
Is it really worth complaining do you think? I think it'll just make me very cross when they deny it being anything to do with them. I certainly won't be going back there or recommending it to anyone else that's for sure. Even without the puking it was not my idea of fun... far too stuffy and full of loud knobbish men and a few very thin women.

Or like what Stropps said somewhat more succinctly...

Seriously, complain and report to Public Health (via council I think). What if they're doing it all the time?

Everyone hide from Wibbly Pig in your pants