School's out for crepeys

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Ooops, sorry, I didn't mean to finish the thread.

My parents had the LP - it is the soundtrack to my early years - I think I know all the lyrics - quite scary really....

I was watching Big Bang last night where Howard and Amy bond over Neil and it reminded me.....

Rudy hopefully they will understand and work with you on this!

Evening all.

Just taking a break from packing - we leave St Ives tomorrow, but are only going as far as St Austell. We are trying to consolidate what we will need for the next three days into just a couple of bags so we don't have to unload the car completely every night, but it's proving tricky. I was more than a little at DD1, who insisted on bringing a massive suitcase of clothes, and she has worn hardly any of it. And the wetsuits are still dripping wet, so will be impressively stinky by the time we get home.

It poured today, so we mooched around the galleries in Mousehole - I bought an insect collage by a local artist - I already have one, and they are gorgeous, so unusual.

Strops - my Loire recommendation is Chateau du Clos Lucé in Ambrose. Leonardo da Vinci saw out his final days there (who knew??) and it's quite a cool museum now, filled with full sized reproductions of his various machines, many of which you can climb into, or have a go with.

Have a good holiday, MrsS. I think the rain is unavoidable tomorrow, but it is due to brighten up. At least you will not be doing your soul-sapping job for a while.

Wilbur - where do I sign up Château Cointreau as the next must-have film set? It sounds hugely entertaining.

Rudy - I'm sure work will be understanding re: flexibility, under the circumstances. And what a pain if you have to miss the opportunity for a free break.

NU before we left, my clraner asked me to get baking soda, white vinegar, lemon and a scrubbing brush so she could do the grouting in my bathrom!

Rudy, I agree with the others - fingers crossed.

BD I'll let you off if it was your parents album!

Nicely roasted on my bum where my bikini didnt cover...

www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/storelocator/storelocator_detail_view.jsp?storeId=566&bmForm=store_details

^ Huge great Sainsbo, vast range of clothing, highly recommended.

Plus there is a nice hippy-ish market complex you can reach by walking 5 mins from the free Sainsbo car park under an unattractive underpass.

www.mertonabbeymills.org.uk/

Maybe we could meet up here sometime so us locals can show you the wonders of the vast Sainsbo of Colliers Wood.

LOL! I have only ever driven near to Colliers Wood en route to DDs gym comps in Cheam!

YOu might never get us out, Molly...

I have never even heard of Collier's Wood ... ponders were there once mines in the area? Sainsbury sounds good, though. DSis in the Midlands buys loads of clothes there; we just have a Local which doesn't even carry lots of stock of anything.

Rudy, I hope work is understanding about your home situation; rubbish if they are not.

I like the tips from South America, BTM. Lakeland do "Blitz that Mould" which is very good, but expensive when you have large areas to do.

Smelly wetsuits in the car isn't an appealing thought, CV.

MrsS thanks for Chartier recommendation .

Last night we found an old favourite, family restaurant off St Germain, & girls adored it. I woke up in the night thinking the bill must've been wrong, surely it was double that, but no .

DM is managing to text me, which is reassuring, though I still worry when texts are blank. Dog walker is checking on her as well. She's extremely resistant to thought of carers visiting, though.

MrsS and Hattie, girls want to shop, I was thinking Monoprix on Bvd St Michel and Samaritaine, what'd 'you think? Never shopped in Paris myself (hate shopping: how did I ever find this thread?).

MrsS hope it just rains while you travel & is done when you arrive.

Happy w/e everyone

I'm going for dark grout in the bathroom for that very reason Rudy!

If Sainsbo Colliers Wood doesn't have what you need, there's a massive one in Cheam which serves as a back-up, BTM. There was a wood in Colliers Wood, but I've forgotten the collier connection.

"Colliers Wood takes its name from a wood that stood to the east of Colliers Wood High Street.... Contemporary Ordnance Survey maps show that this wood remained at least until the 1870s but had been cleared for development by the mid-1890s."

If you tire of Sainsbo's Tu Collection, it's just a short hop to Wimbledon Village, where Matches, LK Bennett, Diane van Furstenburg et al might have what you need.

Molly, can one ever tire of Tu collection?! Today I am wearing my spotty trousers (quite fitted, side zip, skim ankle) and my broderie top. Already been out for a swim and decided I might need a cardigan today. We are going to the oval for some cricket so I will have clothes for every eventuality x 4 (Dh can sort his own). A splendid new rucksack with darth vader on it has arrived for DS so he can carry his own bits, or at least some of them.

Wimbledon village is lovely but a lit of it slightly out of price range.

Happy Saturday everyone.

I really rate Tu clothing, especially the converse look a like sneakers, plain t shirts and hi leg knickers . Our equivalent to this colliers wood superstore of which you speak, is out in London Colney...Colney Fields, I think it's called. Not expecting anyone who isn't in the North London wilderness to have heard of it though
Rudy good luck with your decision. I'm sure work will hang on for you at a later date. You are valued by them, I'm sure.
Yes, Monty it is Rupe. I do hope he hasn't had loads of 'work done.'...I quite like the craggy look in a man.... I'm looking forward to it. I love Chichester and it's only 3 stops on the train from where we are.
Had FaceTime with DS2 last night...good signal for once. He is fine and in good spirits. And thanks to all who 'liked' my hope for peace post on fb last night.

And charity shops (hopeful)?

Rudy, huge sympathies on the Monday meeting dread. I had it all last weekend even though I knew the meeting in question might not be too awful. Happy to report CDiff now dealt with, I hope, till at least September.

DD1 has requested trip to, yes, Sainsbury's to buy her father a Planet of the Apes DVD for his birthday - I sent them off shopping last week and they wanted to get it but had no ID. They also got him Doritos and dip. He will be v pleased. They are in my good books as they both behaved v well at the party last night; DD1 on particularly good form.

In a rare S&B news flash I can v much recommend La Roche Posay's Redermic R for anyone wanting a decent retinol-based product. I had no overwhelming hopes as it's got nowhere like prescription levels of the stuff in it but I bought a tube a couple of months ago and have used it every other night (need to moisturise over) and I can think of no other reason why various bumps and blocked pores on my forehead - which are always worse in summer, not least because I use a facial sunscreen - have cleared up. The skin looks resurfaced. I honesty had to work out what I'd been doing differently so I think this must be why.

And vvvv well done to ds2, Wilbur.

DH was watching that Planet of the Apes film on the flight over. It looked seriously silly! I was blubbing at The Book Thief (good adaptation I thought) and The Notebook. Have just blubbed through reading Calling Me Home on my Kindle - is there a pattern here?

Bizarrely that Colney Hatch Sainsburys used to be our local one years ago, Rosebag. Also huge.

Colliers Wood is not that great for charity shops in fact, MI. But in Wimbledon Village they're the only shops for clothes which are even vaguely affordable, unless you're blowing the budget. And they do have good stuff.