Crepeys of a consistently high standard

[Stropperella]

So there. :)

That red trouser link was posted somewhere a few years ago & I swear one of the pics was my BIL. He also wears a beret in winter & thinks he is v. rakish. Actually, dear BIL, I love you dearly but you are a bit of a twat.

Just back from a couple of weeks in France with DS, DDIL & PFGD. Had an amazing time - my granddaughter is the most beautiful baby ever. I am not biased & I am not totally & utterly besotted! I am just overwhelmed by how I felt when I first saw her - never expected to fall in love as much as I have.

Suddenly Mr Inferior's Boden pull-ins "for t'ai chi purposes" look shiny and new.

I have read the best part of three (3, iii) extremely interesting books on different marginal aspects of life in early 19th century India and need a little lie-down. Instead of which I have to go to DD1's thespfest.

How lovely MM. Sounds blissful... Bet you're a lovely GM.

Or "Though She be Crepey, She Is FIERCE"

Love that last thread title, QQ.

Seeing MI post prompted it MM. She bought her dd a tshirt with "Though she be but little she is fierce" on it!

Love it! And MM, weren't you going to buy the babygro?

Perfect title QQ

Mrs S that's so funny, Dh has a pair of mustard strides and my dsis thinks he looks like Dom off of google box too

at all the mustard-trousered DHs out there. We have a great friend who always ribs DH about his fondness for short sleeved shirts (apparently a fashion no-no), so when the friend turned up at our house one day wearing an appalling pair of dark pink trousers DH had an absolute field day. Friend was not amused by the website link.

I have just spent a productive hour on my laptop booking travel and hotels for our holiday, and I feel a whole lot better for having some "plans" in place. We have decided to flick Operation Stack the big V and have booked the Harwich to Hook of Holland overnight ferry. In Amsterdam we have booked the Novotel on the outskirts (reasonable prices, family rooms and decent parking have won over city centre character; if it was just the two of us it would be a different matter). Then we have a couple of days in Northern Holland, as we so loved it last time we were there. Bomb down to Centerparcs for a few more days, then home, just in time for the start of term. I'm less fussed about being delayed on the way home so we'll go via Le Tunnel.

I like the thread title suggestion. Fierce indeed.

at cross post, QQ.

DH's mustard cords are famous - we went to a village fete once, and I said I wanted to pay the entry fee for my DH, who would be five minutes. The woman asked how she would recognise him, and I described his cords and his green knitted waistcoat to her, so when he pitched up, she just said to him, oh your wife has paid for you already, and he was like this . We were also watching Googlebox one night, and he was wearing exactly the same clothes as Dom, which caused much hilarity.

Can we go for the fierce title next, please?

at Cremo's link and all the coloured trouser wearing DHs/BILs out there! We wouldn't point and laugh. Oh no

MM your GD sounds adorable

Table Tennis and pizzas here last night - DS was happily surprised to find that DHs BFs DDs are all as good at table tennis and as competitive as their dad AND able to take the banter unlike his DSis I am in love with their doggy

Off to Hanmer Hot Springs today - the males (and maybe some girls) are going to be doing extreme mountain biking whilst the girls are going to do a walk and then relax in the hot pools. It is DDs 16th today and they are all very keen on he doing a bungee jump to celebrate. I am terrified by the idea and DH saw the price last night...

I am sniggering at the mustard cords, too: fortunately DH wouldn't dare. He does love the colour mustard, though, and I have to gently steer him away from it as it makes his sallow skin look awful.

BTM, happy birthday to DD. I couldn't cope with my two doing bungee jumping so I know how you feel. Was it BD who was going to Mont St Michel? I have just read in the paper that the French farmers are targeting it, so I hope she will be ok. Welcome back, Magi. I so know how you feel about your new DGC.

Pleasant morning so we're going for a bike ride after breakfast.

Ha, no it was me going to St Malo and I'm safely ensconced in my ferry cabin, so foiled any rampant farmers. I can't believe they would bother here at all as there are only about four ferries a day and very little freight....

Lots of shouting on our packing up in the pouring rain looking forward to getting home and knowing where everything is (and no one has moved it). My book has mysteriously disappeared mid read which is annoying with a six hour ferry journey ahead of me.

I've read 'a man called Ove' this holiday and 'you should have known'. Both excellent, but different. Particularly liked Ove...

Well thank God she couldn't do it because we should have booked ahead. However she now wants to do one in Queenstown - will have to pray for bad weather! Had a fab day but have had to say our goodbyes to our friends as we are off again tomorrow. DS has declared that he wishes he lived in NZ (with DHs BF I think!) as I predicted he would

I've read We are all completely beside ourselves which is astonishingly good and now I can't stop thinking about it.

I read that last summer, Auriga - thought it was great. I'm reading Various Pets, Alive and Dead by Marina Lewycka, which has started out well, but not sure it will measure up to We Are All Made of Glue, which I loved.

Copenhagen in today's Telegraph for QQ:

www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/citybreaks/11755491/Copenhagen-a-guide-to-the-best-shops-hotels-and-restaurants.html

I went years ago and loved it. Tis small. And fierce, like Crepeys: another vote for that thread title.

Must be catching as I'm reading yesterday's Times on the ferry and they had a guide to cool places to stay in various Scandi cities....

I'm about to endure Jack and the Beanstalk Brittany Ferry stylee

I had a lost afternoon in Copenhagen in my wild and mis-spent youth, with my Groucho Friend, when we had four hours to kill between flights. I remember that I'd never spent so much money in such a short space of time and that the porn in the airport shop was more shocking than anything you would see in a newsagent in the UK. (I had to tear my friend away as we were in danger of missing our flight, but as he is the sort of person who can talk his way into anything, he managed to get us both upgraded to Business Class - no mean feat for two very drunk twentysomethings who roll up to board a flight as they are about to shut the door.)

Shiny new thread here

@ Beachy and the jack and the beanstalk. Have been forced to watch a peculiar kind of Oirish themed 'entertainment' on Irish Ferries every year too. Nearly always concludes with completely bladdered couples singing "The Fields of Athenry" . Grisly .