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Shiny Happy Crepeys

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Blackduck · 28/03/2014 12:44

Over here all........

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NearTheWindymill · 22/04/2014 22:25

Enjoy your day. At last Wine. Dropped one in Kingston and two in New Malden! Don't think their parents are on here.

Ooh and recorded Jamaica Inn - I did something right today Smile

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Blackduck · 22/04/2014 22:30

Oh pleaseeeee MI --- hair of the dog or something .... Just a quick one and we'll shove you on the tube (grovel grovel)

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CointreauVersial · 22/04/2014 22:33

Bloody hell, Windy, we've met, have we? Are you a name-changer that I already know? Presumably I'm being really dim (not for the first time).

I've just watched the first episode of Jamaica Inn. Blimey, it's a bit.....torrid, isn't it? Lots of passion and mud. I can imagine my 16yo self would have found it desperately thrilling viewing, but I really can't be bothered with another two episodes.

I think I'm a "no" for Friday. I am only just starting to get my head around the new term, and I haven lots going on at the moment. But have fun!

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Blackduck · 22/04/2014 22:34

:(

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QueenQueenie · 22/04/2014 22:57

I might be able to come out to play on Friday!
Whereabouts are you thinking of going... centralish or deepest Sarf London?

QueenQueenie · 22/04/2014 22:57

Don't be so Sad BD!

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Blackduck · 23/04/2014 07:35

Windy are you in academia? We must meet and swap stories...... Profs are frankly the worst as they have an over inflated opinion of themselves..

QQ - yay!!

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NearTheWindymill · 23/04/2014 07:42

Not as an academic - just as one of their professionally qualified servants Smile.

bigTillyMint · 23/04/2014 07:49

Yay QQ! Come on MI!

We were thinking about Waterloo, but could do somewhere else if thats bettet?

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Blackduck · 23/04/2014 08:17

Windy likewise - we definitely need to swap stories!!! (And to make matters worse I live with one!)

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motherinferior · 23/04/2014 08:35

I might make it out lateish...

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NearTheWindymill · 23/04/2014 09:41

There's a specialist fish and reptile vet in Mortlake if you are near SW London Rudy. They gave me drops once for swim bladder disease and kept the blighter going for a week or two.

motherinferior · 23/04/2014 09:55

That's the sort of job I would really hate.

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Blackduck · 23/04/2014 10:01

Which one MI? The fish specialist or dealing with arsy profs?

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motherinferior · 23/04/2014 10:25

Fish and reptile vet. Arsy profs I could probably manage...

I am wearing my sunny yellow cardigan today Grin

Stropperella · 23/04/2014 10:27

I am toooo tired today and must work my way through a dull corporate text. Dd was at least mightily appreciative of the concert that we went to in Bournemouth last night. She didn't bother to ask anyone else to come (typical), so I ended up having to use the other ticket. What a blardy racket - why do they have it so loud that you can't actually hear anything? I don't remember the concerts I went to back in the day at the Marquee Club etc being just an ear-splitting wall of sound. I'd think it was just my crepey old ears, but dd had the same complaint. Mind you, dd also complained about one of the support bands looking as though they weren't "old enough to have spots" and said it was probably past their bedtime. Grin (Blimey, I've just looked them up and she wasn't wrong)

herbaceous · 23/04/2014 10:33

I too am totally bushed. Was knackered when I got up yesterday, then dragged myself through soft play and swimming, then into Shoreditch for drink/dinner. Which was actually v good fun. Went to the Tramshed, which has a pickled cow and chicken in a tank a la Damien Hirst. Bit pricey for what it was, but had delicious pudding - salted caramel fondue, into which you dipped churros and/or marshmallow.

I reckon I've put on at least three pounds over the Easter hols, and have yet to start on DS's Easter eggs. I have thus just done a Davina workout, and am in a state of collapse.

motherinferior · 23/04/2014 10:49

I conducted a Ladyjog this morning...

bigTillyMint · 23/04/2014 10:51

How do you know when a goldfish is dyingConfused

Stropps, glad to hear your DD loved the concertSmile

Herbs, I'm feeling blobby too, but have done 45mins in the gym and have walked about 3 1/2 miles so far...

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Blackduck · 23/04/2014 11:00

I'm on a train to London which is rammed with day trippers etc (don't forget up here the children are still off) collecting ds who is most irked that his build a bear desire was firmly squashed by his nana.
I feel a tad tired too, but that could have been second night out with dp yesterday (that's it for the next 12 months I reckon)

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herbaceous · 23/04/2014 12:18

A new physical ailment to ponder. After I wear any kind of heeled shoe (such as last night), the next day the junction between my foot and ankle, at the front, really hurts. Bizarre.

Currently trying to work out my route into Bloomsbury next Wednesday for my interview. Naturally, it's a tube strike. Normally it would take me about 25 minutes. Now it's going to take more than an hour, and be something of a stretch...

bigTillyMint · 23/04/2014 13:01

Well on the theme of ailments, I have just been to the GP and she has confirmed that I have very high blood pressure and has given me a docket for a load of blood testing and a prescription for tablets. Feeling even more crepey, but at least it's being dealt with.

Stropperella · 23/04/2014 13:05

Grin @ carrot goldfish

Ah, herbs, I have been wondering about your interview. Damn bad luck about the tube strike.

I am completely freezing and am having to put the heating on. I need to go out and walk the dog but it is absolutely tipping it down. Ds is off on a 2-night residential trip doing lots of outdoor activities. I hope that the weather over near Southampton is better than it is here. :( I once had to spend a whole day kayaking on a school trip in the pouring rain. In November. I always think kayaking looks quite fun now, but back then it most definitely wasn't. I'd quite like ds not to be put off, really.

Thinking back to last night's concert, I now realise (doh!) that the reason I found it rather bemusing is because I was never the sort who went to "boy band"-type concerts in my youth. The whole "screaming girlies" thing is complete anathema to me. I don't get it.