Where were we? Flipping those darn flat pancakes again

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Hello, damn quick work there by MNHQ

Yeah, I know Crem. Ruth Davidson to the rescue though?

I, too, have been drinking at local drinkies party in big house

I discovered our lady vicar in her highly patterned jumpsuit, and started a Q&A about how she got the damn thing off, to go to the loo. Which then led onto stories of trying to get those bodies poppered up in the loo when you'd had too many. She then added that with short arms and a long body, she really struggled to reach 'down there'. At that point we laughed so much we fell into the neatly coiffured lavender.

If you envisaged Dawn French about 10 years older, with red hair and glasses, you'd not be far off.

I do love a vicar with a good sense of humour. She even continued to talk to me when I fessed up that I was a Catholic.

(Who said earlier that the DUPs mandate was The Bible crossed with a fortnightly bin collection? It's made me smile all evening.)

Rosen those jackets are a real find. May get one. Or two.

Oh Rosen love a bit of Mistrel - they are around my next of the woods so we have actual shops :).

I got to the end of the week in one piece, but next week will be 10 times harder as we have GMC in on new job and my replacement in old job has to go home for fathers funeral - so I really will be covering two jobs.......

Ds off to Dr Who experience in Cardiff. I need to de-fur the house - I never knew labs moulted quite so much....

I have a cat who busily and unhelpfully leaves small clumps of fur everywhere, BD. And two DDs with long, thick hair, who clog up showers with it. I feel your pain.

In non S & B news, I am culling the bedding today. Why does bedding never wear out? We have duvet covers that were wedding presents 24 years ago and are still going strong.

MrsK you need to apply the Marie Kondo sorting system to your bedlinen.

Does it Spark Joy?

If not, say 'Thank you' to it for its stirling service, and get rid.

I am looking forward to waving DS off to uni with a whole heap of bedlinen I'd rather never see again.

I also am that DP bought us some very lovely but not fitted sheets. Our mattress is huge and heavy.

I really have to get up and do the writing I didn't do this week and I am wiped.

I didn't know who the DUP were - had to look them up. Thanks for explaining Crem. It sounds as if a hung Parliament with them will actually be worse. I was hoping for a Tory/Labour compromise and some common sense. Maybe we should have Bono. Apparently there is an article circulating that Boris is a Russian spy!

Airborne, that has made me giggle thank you!

I don't think common sense will come into it. Labour has gone for no free movement insofar as one can make sense of their statements and it seems to have paid off electorally winning back UKIP voters (tho I think a disaster) so I don't see how they can work with the other parties and they won't work with the tories.

Hope you can get a bit of a rest this weekend, BD. I wish I had a Mistral near.

DH "doesn't do" fitted sheets, MI. But has he never changes the bed, he has no say in what goes on it.

DH was complaining the other week that we have almost no bath towels. He appeared to be right, so I bought three more bath sheets from TK Maxx. DD1 went off to France and I found five (v, 5) under her bed (along with six mugs, myriad spoons, four plates, two bowls and half a Mars bar and three empty yogurt pots). So we now have too many towels to go in the cupboard. I will cull towels too, as we still have some that were wedding presents and they are looking a bit sad.

I love a nice towel. I still have a very rough old towel from uni which is still going strong. We don't have a tumbler here so everything dried a bit crispy which is great for troublesome rough dinner lady arms. Every cloud, eh?

Taking of Cloud, you did make me laugh with your description of the party. Sounds great fun.

Opera last night was fab. We are supposed to be going to a party tonight but it's in town and I am not sure I can be bothered. I have got bog loads of work on before hols, plus we are spending loads on babysitters as the teenagers are doing gcse so it's the spenny nanny. I might dispatch dh (not literally, alas) and enjoy the sofa.....

We have towels from when I first met DH 21 years ago and forced him to get some JL ones as I was staying at his!

And last night the teens put on a DVD of when Ella was 1 and I was heavily pregnant with Ben. There was much jeering when the saw me in an aran jumper that i still have 17 years later

Monty, DD1 is around if you need a babysitter (as of Monday). She can come to you on the 3. She is v good with older kids (your house will be overtaken with origami animals though) and has a first aid certificate.

I have towels which were wedding presents first time around (long time ago...)....they were from Harrods and they are in mint condition.

Flat sheets....DM taught me to do "hospital corners" but we have only fitted ones now....

Which opera did you see Monty?

There aren't very many Mistral shops and I do agree its a bit like East in a lot of it seems frumpy on. there a market for it, though as I have sold several on Ebay recently. I visit the shop that is in the place where I have MU's with Wellieboots but otherwise go online.

I had a fruitless jeans trying- on session in Next yesterday...where I normally do quite well. They were all hideous...and I put my foot through those wretched slashes constantly, whilst trying to get them on making them considerably bigger . I have however ordered some from M&S which looked like they might accommodate my substantial thighs and arse. here, ordered in blue tint and the grey

Mistral started in my neck of the woods and we have several shops (altho not one in the town where I live - but it is a small town and we already have White Stuff and Seasalt within 30m of each other). I bought from them a fair bit a decade ago but have since chazzered it all as I decided it was all a bit frumpy. Have therefore not bothered with them for sometime.

I have some antique bedlinen and blankets that used to belong to my gm and ggm. They have embroidery in the corner saying things like "housemaid" and "1899".

I don't actually use those flat heavy cotton sheets. They just sit in a storage bag. Not very useful. But throwing them out would make me feel guilty. The housemaid's blankets are in use as mattress protectors.

The linen sheets sound fabulous Stropps. I find Soak and Sleep very good for buying nice sheets.

Opera sounds lovely Monty, which was it?

Have been to gym - half empty -not sure where half the town seems to have gone - maybe to their second homes in Normandy as it looks like it's going to be a scorcher. Have BBQ with friends this evening although will have to look after DH as he doesn't know anybody.

In honour of MI I went into one of the nicer Charity shops here and tried on a linen dress from Toast - nice but hung weird on the boobs - and some linen trousers that I couldn't do up. Officially I am a porker and need to lose some flab.

I am still lusting after this in Toast <a class="break-all" href="//:www.toa.st/uk/product/womens+denim/c1gal/denim+leila+dress.htm?categoryref=%2fcategory.aspx%3fcategoryid%3dwomens%2520denim%26seoterm%3dwomens%2520denim%26&pcat=womens+denim&adimage=&clr=C1GAL_Indigo_sw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">However, I bet it would make me look like a Ten Ton Tessie

Love the jacket, Rose. There is a Roman nearby, I will go and have a look. I have just bought a top from there today.

We have blankets which DH bought from Birmingham market before we were married; they come out occasionally. I also have a towel which my DM bought via my uncle who was a miner, from the Coal Board. It must date to when I was a teenager, so at least 50 years old and still perfect. I can't bear to get rid of it (as I can't the frying pan which I bought my D Dad when I was in my 20s).

It has at last stopped raining....

I learned to do hospital corners in Brownies in about 1972. Came in useful when DS was in hospital last October

I have just pressed the button on some silver Birkies

So Crepesters, it's Summer MU time!

Dates possible so far:

Sat 1st July
Fri 7th July
Sat 8th July
Fri 14th July

After that, it's the hols, so not good for many?

I have pillow cases that my elderly neighbour gave me when she moved into a home. They are pink striped, terylene and cotton and the old M & S St Michael brand.

Re MU - I can do any of those except 8 July....

I can do 1 or 14th. And not sure about 7th or 8th (depends on dd birthday kerfuffles).