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There you go lovelies

Do tell how you managed to drop Mugwump in... did you also say 'wif-waf'?

I am so enjoying not dyeing my hair.

Thanks for the link, Lalsy. I have high and low lights, and tend to go a bit lighter in the summer. At 69 I am still not ready to go grey. What I really want is long swishy hair, but it's not going to happen. (And a body like my DD, but that's just wishful thinking, too).

Thanks for the offer of a meal, MI. One day ...

Hatty, I was tempted to bring the coat home and have a try, but I wasn't brave enough.

I think I'd like to go grey. I'm getting whiter and whiter with my blonde anyway I doubt anyone would notice. It's the in between I dread. Can't (refuse to) go short and get it over with quickly, so dunno. Dm has threatened to disown me if I or dsis go grey as she is still a blonde at 75. My poor sister would love to do it as she's a proper redhead and her redness has to be topped up or it looks slightly crestfallen. We re both fed up with the keeping up with it.

Have a lovely evening BD et al.

I am aiming for long swishy silver hair. Inferiorettes all v keen. DP less so.

I am almost totally grey at the front, gradually turning to an F&B 'dead mouse' at the back. I currently have it dyed 'menopausal dark blonde' by Garnier. To add interest, I out some Vaseline in a few grey strands before dying, to create highlights. I have had compliments! And for under a fiver...

Petit Famille Herbs are currently enjoying the delights of 'standard premier' in the Eurostar, including a free meal and wine. Well worth th v small extra cost. In the way home, however, it's pure cattle class.

The free wine is manifesting itself via spelling mistakes, it would seem.

The thought of you speeding to France on a train (with wine) & posting here really gives me a thrill.

Have a wonderful weekend & make sure your mascara is waterproof for the concerts.

I'm a dye refusnik, as I can't bear the thought of being on a treadmill of root-re-dying. Although I am getting a bit pepper-and-salt at the back, the front is still nicely brown, and that's the bit I see in the mirror. However, as a little experiment I bought this shampoo-in hair colour in Boots last weekend - it's supposed to last three washes, and it will be interesting to see if it covers up any of the grey. Remember Shaders and Toners? I guess this is today's version.

BD - glad you are feeling positive about your interview, and trust you are putting the world to rights over a cocktail or two at this very moment.

Herbs - have a lovely weekend with your little angel chorister.

Hatty - I too sometimes want to stick my head in a bucket where tech is concerned. It dawned on my yesterday, when our WiFi Booster was playing up, that I cannot remember how on earth I set it up in the first place. I'm pretty sure it was trial and error and I've no hope of replicating what I did. Today at work I was wrestling with setting up a new mobile phone for one of the directors - he really is a technological dinosaur so I had no choice but to sort him out, but it took me ages, and there was much swearing and stabbing of touchscreens.

Actually, a pretty crap day at work all in all - mental busy, everyone stressed, and I seem to be coming down with DS's cold just in time for the Bank Holiday. I also had a call from DS's HoY asking politely why DS wasn't in school today. He was sat at home in his PJs; for some reason he thought his Media teacher had told him today's lesson was cancelled, whereas in fact she had told the class that today's lesson would be replaced by a mock exam. But old Cloth Ears was clearly engrossed in something other than listening to the teacher. Anyway, I have given HoY free reign to apply his Size 9s to DS's rear when he sees him next week, not just about this but about his general lack of "commitment to learning". Less than three weeks to go before AS, and he is averaging about 30 minutes study a day, as far as I can tell. Not remotely enough.

Watched the dress rehearsal for DD1's GCSE Drama performance last night, and she did very well. She had to slap someone round the face, and later on assist with an abortion. I can't remember my school plays being quite so gritty....

Heavens CV! 'assist with an abortion'. Crikey!
Hope the cold doesn't develop though.

Crumbs, CV. That's some school play you have there! I remember a promenade theatre company we used to go to see every year in the parks of leafy south London. They did alice in w, ovid's ms, and lots of other lovely things, and then one year they changed tack and it was all substance abuse and gang warfare. very confusing

NU, twas me with the BBH and i've been v impressed first go out. -Crepeys quite right as always. Although I have now realised if you just do it quickly it doesn't last overnight. Obvious now that a rotating brush-blowdryer is V Good Idea.

I know I keep mentioning it but my Japanese stuff Tokimeki is v low stress and conditions hair v nicely. I rather like my grey streak at the front so try to avoid that when applying. It's turned the putty stuff in shower turquoise mind you and I fear looks green in certain lights. But no faff , that's the main thing

Good news at Casa Addle is that both ds's top choices of universities have agreed to his change of subject and one has even offered him a lower offer on that basis.

Good news Addle - think this passed me by - what has he changed from / to? What a relief!

Blimey CV - sympathy re cloth eared ds - or do you think he was pulling a fast one? School play - sounds, err, interesting. Was it Poor Cow by Nell Dunn? Or the work of the students?

I immediately though of a Joe Orton play or something GGG, but yes Poor Cow.

Addle I have a great fear for our grouting with my bright purple conditioner.

DD1 was a Christian in a dystopic totalitarian state in 2037, being tortured and offering her children's lives. They wrote it themselves...

Have consumed cocktails with BD, MrsS and BTM and am feeling no pain.

He changed from Economics to Politics, GGG. and the even better news is that it's actually a lower offer for his top choice place, which is just a bit less stress, given the anxiety and all

PS, I've uploaded Crem's wonderful info about Vigo to one drive in case anyone is pondering NW spain.

That's fab Addle, 're DS. Is he planning to you the others at the Midlands uni or go to another?

CV the play sound quite gruelling. And sympathies 're DS .

MU was great with DnS's flowing and the bus home seems ultra fast (But maybe that's the DnS's

join the others!

No, they didn't write the play themselves. It was a excerpt from "Playhouse Creatures, a 1993 play by April De Angelis, set in the theatre world of 17th century London". Nell Gwyn and all that.

Good Lord, CV, that is gritty. Mind you, addle and I are still traumatised by watching our little lads in a badly though out primary nativity about...alcoholism and homelessness.

Excellent news about mini-addle. To take the plunge and face the hassle of switching and for it to work out nicely with a lower offer - great.

Thank you for uploading. I thought Calabria was a place I had been to in Spain , Main memory of said region was staying on an almost silent/deserted campsite with one middle-aged couple having noisy sex all the time.....the italian version sounds much better.

Glad DnS went down well. I have also been cocktailing, jolly nice.

Sorry, Vigo is not either Spain or Portugal, I know. Bedtime.....

Herbs, lovely image. have wonderful time

Vigo is Spain, Lalsy! ... martinis?

Cocktail evenings sound marvellous. I've consumed comparatively abstemious cava and am about to subside into bed. All go, me

BTM - it's the SW university that your dd is also thinking of.

Yep, was just coming back on to repatriate Vigo .Gorgeous martinis have a lot to answer for but not my terrible geography....

Herbs and mini-Herbs, have a brilliant time!

Ooh Addle - hope they both get their grades!

Herbs hope you have the tissues ready!

Great news, Addle.

I am going to swim today - first time in some months with all the wretched viruses/virii(sp?) I had over the winter. I don't want to but know how good I will feel when I get back into the routine.

Mind you, addle and I are still traumatised by watching our little lads in a badly though out primary nativity about...alcoholism and homelessness.
Lalsy this made me spurt my ☕️ . I too remember being at one of dd's Christmas 'shows' and another parent leaning over to me and saying 'is this a drama school production or a cry for help?' And me guffawing through the rest of it and not signing poor dd up for another term of excruciating horror.

Ok I failed to upload some travel things yesterday as was completely overcome with tiredness. Will try and do today.

Happy sunny Saturday Crepes .