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

Hell no MI!

I used to love Birkenstocks when I had small children but mine walk so darn fast these days....

Is that 'hell no, MI, get a pair once they're back in stock' or 'hell no, MI, get your muttony self to the Hotters catalogue pronto'?

The former .

My reaction is, "wow, they look comfortable"! I think that is what I like about yoof fashion - it's such fun.

Have just worked out that we will be setting off for Derbyshire for the funeral at some unearthly hour as we need to be there by eleven.

Rose, sorry to hear about your friend.

MI, as DD would say, YOLO!

I have left the family to their burgers and chips and come up the beach to a little organic veggie restaurant. And the connection is better here
Think I deserve it after all the horse riding along the beach this morning!

MI, as DD would say, YOLO!

I have left the family to their burgers and chips and come up the beach to a little organic veggie restaurant. And the connection is better here
Think I deserve it after all the horse riding along the beach this morning!

Ouch, BTM.

In case you were wondering, no sign of the you know what. Apparently all 'they' can do is 'email the Glasgow office again'. A fiver says it's just lost somewhere. I really can't believe this - it's becoming genuinely possible we won't be able to go on holiday.

Wow BTM, your holiday sounds better and better each time you post! Love the fb pics. It all looks amazing. Can you still walk after all that ahem activity?!

Having managed to have injury to both calves this year - one came from nowhere & the other one (other leg) came from trying to 'skip' up two steps in Turkey(whilst in my lovely red Birkenstocks) I am GUTTED that the physio says a big NO to birks & any other footwear with no back as it places a strain on calves.

FFS - I wore my lovely, trusty birks through thick & thin, with socks & without, withstood DS's v. NPC comments about them making me look like a German lesbian vegetarian & they come back into full fashion this year & I can't wear them.

Talk about a first world rant & whinge & possible tantrum..................

And, BTM your hols sound amazing.

PS - What footwear are you wearing??

Bloody hell MI. That's crap.
Not that it's any consolation to you but I'm embroiled in a RIDICULOUS standoff with some faceless organisation that administers the hideous online test that ds1 has to sit next week if he wants to apply for medicine. The guidance re identity documents says valid UK passport with photo and signature or photocard full driving licence or EU identity card... then a few paragraphs on says something vague about child passports not being acceptable as often they are not signed.

I hate vagueness in official things so I rang them up. Asked would ds's valid uk passport with photo and signature be valid id as I wasn't sure what they meant by a 'child passport'. Apparently not - they mean a passport issued after your 16th birthday.

WTF?? How many just 17 year olds have a full driving licence? A EU identity card? A passport which happens to be issued in the past year?
I have had to spend a lot of today arranging for some bloody letter from school with his photo, signature, school stamp, signed by head or senior member of staff which VERY LUCKILY school are able and willing to help me with. How can that be better as ID than a fecking passport???

Madness. VERY ANNOYING madness. I am saving my bile until after he has sat the fucking test.

And breathe...

QQ - my cousin went through this stupidity with her DD. It is madness, isn't it.

We had a fabulous time in Scotland and could have done with another couple of days, but they are fully booked until September (not surprised). It was very relaxing - we did a bit of mooching along the beach, went in the sea, went to see the house that our friends are doing up, had the best curry lunch buffet I've ever had (£5 a head - but I passed on the "sweet rice" which is rice with sugar syrup poured on top to eat with my garlic chilli chicken), drank lots of tea, and almost no alcohol. Was a bit at a woman on the train who filled her baby's bottle with Irn Bru - it was quite a small baby, not walking and around 8-9 months old, I think.

Ta for the soothing sympathy Mrs S and v pleased to hear Scotish jaunt was such a success.
at Irn Bru swigging infant. Hardcore!

LOL! Was wearing my hiking boots on the horsey, but Birkies/flip flops the rest of the time. You wont be of what we are doing tomorrow - meeting guide at 6am to climb volcano. It is aparently very muddy which is why we brought hiking boots... Have just bought 10 litres of water for it - thank god DS is hench enough to take turns carrying the rucksack with DH

QQ and MI for both of you.

MI and QQ how seriously rubbish! I was trying to arrange insurance when we bought the house and need two forms of ID - a provisional driving licence was deemed unacceptable (hmm - that's the point at which you prove who you are, not when it becomes a full licence) and the other three options were tax coding notice (we don't all have them), tenancy agreement (erm I've just bought a house!) and, my absolute fav, a shot gun licence.......

Hope it turns up today MI

BTM I'd have been with you in the veggie place!

An ex-boyfriend of mine once used a shotgun license in lieu of a passport to travel to Ireland. Apparently the stringency of acquiring said license makes it a good form of ID!

Off to see aged Ps today. I forsee a lot of smiling and nodding. My mum told me at least three times in one sentence yesterday that she was making cheese on toast.

Ach MI that's unbelievable. Hoping for you it turns up today. Or was it today you were supposed to be travelling? Have faith.
CV what a fiasco. My DNeph is awaiting a level results with a conditional place to do medicine at st George's. I will ask Dsis if they had the same problem and how they got around it.
mrsS so glad Scotland was good. When I worked in inner city areas, the health visitors used to report that there were families who put Big Macs in the blender and fed it to their four month old babies....

I am off for my spa day at a hotel along the coast. dH is taking DD to Brighton for the day. I feel a bit weird as it's good friends mothers funeral this afternoon. Would you have gone back for it? I feel a bit selfish but it's my holiday. AIBU?

I don't doubt it Herbs, it's just a form of ID that I suspect is not prolific :)

Here I am pleased to announce that our dining room is full of bathroom stuff :)

Photos to follow......

Ood

Good news on the kitchen BD. Let's hope the day proves similarly auspicious for MI's Dd's passport.

Rose, it's a tricky one about the funeral. While I would always try to go if possible, I think interrupting your hol and doing a long drive in both directions plus sorting out childcare is too much. I am sure your friend will understand. I would. Thinking of you.

Herbs, good luck with the ageds. I must admit I put my mother on speaker so I have 2 hands free to do other things while she tells me the minutiae of people's lives, usually people I haven't met.

Am super stressed. Last day at work for 3 weeks but have to do piano and swimming before the nanny takes over at 12. I am feeling a bit bonkers as I have so much to do. Still it will be ok I hope. I can pack on Friday and its only Devon / Cornwall so, as long as we have a choice of rainwear, we shall be fine. Forecast is shocking. Bummer.

I am exiled from my office as DP is doing battle with the sodding office again. Need to get in there at some point to work.

They go off to do t'ai chi today: will come back late next Weds and we set off for France the next day. So there is a bit of lag time as I am here - DP sensibly said we were all going away with no chance of collection from today. In any case they have had the sodding document for SIX (6, vi) weeks.

QQ, that is seriously pants.

QQ, that is equally a

Rosebag - if you had been on holiday in eg Greece you wouldn't have been able to return for the funeral, nor would you have been expected to. I don't think you need to feel guilty, just because you are a couple of hours away.

I read Kirsty Wark's first novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle, while I was in Scotland. She should stick to what she's good at. It was very Mills and Boone, characters were sketchy (and not sure why some of them were even there) and some unbelievable, and it finished quickly, as if she had got bored with writing it.

Rose, I think people will definitely understand - it is, surely, something that happens when funerals have to happen so soon? DP's brother couldn't go to their father's Muslim funeral in Pakistan for similar reasons.

MrsS, find that agent. I myself must now hack deathless prose out of the cliff-face (ie write a newsletter - non glam but pays the bills) and conduct various interviews.

MrsS, I bet she did get bored with writing it. I've had to read far too many novels like that (thanks to book club), by well-known "names" and they are so lazily thrown together. But that's not surprising when their sleb authors are just knocking them out because they might as well, and they will sell in any case so quality is of little consequence.

Spa is the right choice over funeral, in my opinion, Rosebag.