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Crepey coalition of chaos

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herbaceous · 15/06/2017 19:04

Roll up hags, for all things Hotter.

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motherinferior · 14/07/2017 12:06

I like to have something nice lurking in the freezer for our return. DP always v sniffy about this in advance and appreciative in practice.

MsMartini · 14/07/2017 14:51

I always mean to leave it tidy but rarely happens...never mind clean. When we had a car (aka mobile shed), we had to start most holidays by taking everything out of it and putting it in the living room, added to the gloom of returning.

We've only once done an airport pickup. I don't understand the maths unless people are infirm as it seems to take at least twice as long...

Just had lovely walk with old friend after full on day volunteering yesterday and facing down cool teenagers! Need to do something about paid work.....

MrsWobble3 · 14/07/2017 18:12

I am sending this from the hotel poolside on the last day of our holiday. It has been truly awesome (local parlance) and surpassed expectations. We wanted a holiday of a lifetime and got it (which is just as well as it would bankrupt us to do it again). Now for the re-entry to real life.

Hope everyone else has equally restorative holidays.

Cremolafoam · 14/07/2017 18:13

Blimey London airport pickups are hell on earth. I used to get dbro to collect me from Hounslow Central .
Theres no excuse here, given that the city airport is 10 minutes drive.

One of those days in work today that felt like 6weeks and not 9 hours.

Trump and the Macaroons are making me nauseous. Let them eat cake...

MrsSchadenfreude · 15/07/2017 07:50

What sort of cake should they eat, though, Crem? I don't think Mme Macron eats cake at all. I imagine she has the Parisian woman's lunch of un express, a fat free fromage frais and half a dozen fags. I see Melania with a religieuse. Macron with a macaron (what else?) and Trump with a Twinkies bar - same colour as him and vomit inducing.

MsMartini · 15/07/2017 09:22

I have missed what Trump has been up to since commenting on Mme Macron's physique. Urgh.

MrsW, that sounds amazing, I want to hear more! Are you heading off to you know where this week for dd's thingy? My dd is on Monday afternoon.

motherinferior · 15/07/2017 11:26

I've forgotten where you've been, MrsW!

Cremolafoam · 15/07/2017 16:56

Mrs W , your trip sounds amazing. I have been in Trailfinders today researching Cuba for next year. Dh is obsessed with going , so I am jumping on the notion to pin him down.

It does seem a waste to deliver pastry unto Trump in any manner except a pie in the face. Madame Macron is a crepey at heart and scoffs gin cocktails while secretly pulling out her chin hairs. Go Team Brigitte!!

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MrsWobble3 · 15/07/2017 17:07

We've been to NY and Canada, including 4 nights in a luxury wilderness resort. And this place has redefined good customer service for me - we were a bit late back from our last morning activity so they held the plane so we could have lunch! I have never felt so pampered in my life as I did at this resort - and it was all genuine enthusiasm and niceness - or if not genuine then an oscar winning performance. Being guided by nice young people (average age mid to late 20s) who are delighted to share their homeland and as excited as we were to watch a mother bear teaching her cub to find crabs is a joyful experience. And one I'd love to repeat if I ever win the lottery.

Dd2 is on Monday pm too MsM so will look out for you.

MsMartini · 15/07/2017 17:57

MrsW, that sounds joyous indeed! Great, tis a pity our dds know we know each other or we could play a little trick on them Smile.

MrsSchadenfreude · 16/07/2017 14:11

Mme Macron looks like a Nan from TOWIE to me. She is too thin, too blonde, too orange.

But I can't talk. I look and feel about 90 today.

hattymattie · 16/07/2017 19:26

Hi crepies - I'm home - I've climbed many mountains, forded many streams. I am very impressed with myself and my current level of fitness which I attribute mainly to yoga - who"d have thought it!

I need to really sit down and catch up with things - plus prepare our China trip now. I see Beachy is having an amazing holiday.

I'm now going to relax and try to catch up with my missed episode of Poldark - I had to watch a French TV programme beloved of my MiL last Sunday - called L'amour dans les Prés - reality tv about trying to find love for lonely farmers!!

I think Mrs Macron wears her dresses too short for her age and station (I'm a prude like that) and she is also too skinny. Melania has started looking extremely classy. I'm now going to enjoy S&B thread devoted entirely to Mrs Macron!!

MrsSchadenfreude · 16/07/2017 19:36

I have collected DD2 and a huge bag of utterly filthy and stinking washing... I actually recoiled when I opened a plastic bag that seemed to contain pants. (Yes, she did unpack herself, I found these lurking in a pocket .) DD1 is going to take her to the Urgent Care Unit at Guy's tomorrow as she has a very swollen ankle and can't stand on it properly.

Glad you had a good holiday Hatty.

Rosenspants · 16/07/2017 20:22

Your holiday sounds so lovely MrsW . I am a huge fan of Canada...been three times which is a lot for me. And Hatty great about your trip but wow, China!

MrsS I am inclined to agree with you about Mme Macron...not my cup of tea at all...although I grudgingly and with very bad grace, admire her thinness. Envy Sigh. Trouble is, it doesn't do much for her face, does it.

I have had the laziest day ever. Got up late having been disturbed in the night by a car alarm so close that I had to get up and check it wasn't one of ours....which it wasn't. And there was me on the front forecourt in my nightie at 3.30 am. A car opposite. And everyone else of course slept though the noise, which I could hear in my head long after it stopped. It was already light by the time I eventually dropped off. Angry

Rosenspants · 16/07/2017 20:23

MrsS you don't think she's broken it, do you?

herbaceous · 16/07/2017 20:27

I've had a busy but fun weekend, which has involved no washing or housework.

School fair yesterday, involving extended stint on the tombola, watching teachers have wet sponges thrown at them, and DS strumming his guitar on a little stage. Then a Lebanese takeaway for tea.

Today - went for ladyjog, picked DS up from choir, took him to a birthday party in a ceramics painting cafe, watched the mens final (yay Federer), and then went to our local festival with our lovely neighbours and had a whale of a time dancing to a Malian band of some note. Now spag bol made over many hours by DP. And wine. And the papers. Pretty much an ideal Sunday, right there.

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MsMartini · 17/07/2017 07:29

Welcome back, Hatty. That's great absout yoga-powered mountain walking!

MrsS river and lake swimming has produced the smelliest bags here.

Off to dd's graduation later after little sleep despite comfy bed.

hattymattie · 17/07/2017 07:50

Have fun Mrs Martini and wear comfy shoes.

Mrs S - DD1 had yellow sheets - they were disgusting and needed two washes!!

Rose -- DD's Finchley flat is a goer will PM you the road as soon as I know.

What do people think of leather jackets? Do they scuff and look bad very quickly?

herbaceous · 17/07/2017 08:27

I've got a leather jacket I bought from Whistles in 2003 and it's still going strong. I think good quality ones last and get better with age.

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hattymattie · 17/07/2017 09:12

OK Herbs - I'm gonna give this a whirl - it's minus 40%. I've never had one before.

Cremolafoam · 17/07/2017 09:40

I like a bit of buttery leather Hatty. Very useful season transitional wear, and stylish over most outfits.
Glas you found your fitness improved by yoga Hatty. It interesting what all that stretching can achieve.

Yes, the white shift dress/coat with the zip didn't really suit Mme Macron and was too short. But yet Malaria ( as dh has taken to calling her) looked prissy and her skirt was too long and the look too buttoned up for her age. Still both have nice legs and shame about the face in Brigitte's case. What has she done to it?

Mrs S, gah to stinky washing.. several post Glastonbury items had to be burned after that trip. Boke.

Herbs, your weekend sounds just perfect indeed. Love a bit of West African jive. I used to sing with a band where half the band were from Mali 🇲🇱.

Here we had a brilliant day tidying up the garden in the sunshine. I pulled weeds ( mostly damn buttercups) with added fury ( dd still being an arse) (Dad being difficult and losing his memory so it's a kind of Groundhog Day , going to the hospital)Sad added to by DM's deafness of which she is in denial, so everything has to be repeated and then shouted a third time for mother.) Quite head exploding.

Dh has man flu but managed , bravely, to do some cementing ( top-stone of front wall, since you ask)and actual sitting in the garden without being attached to a computer for a whole 30 minutes.

Today I am going off into the countryside with old friend for lunch and rummage in crafty shops and similar. Very pleased about this.GrinSmileGrin

bigTillyMint · 17/07/2017 09:53

Hatty I have 2 leather jackets. One must be going on for 10 years old, other newer. Wear them loads!

Have a good day Cremo!

motherinferior · 17/07/2017 09:56

I did very little yesterday. Am trusting DD1 can shove her own washing in the machine when she gets back from Latitude...

herbaceous · 17/07/2017 10:28

My evening was spoiled rather by DS spewing over his entire bed at 12.30am cue massive vomit management exercise with combined hangover and drunkenness. And then not much sleep.

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hattymattie · 17/07/2017 11:06

Ugh - Herbs - you have my sympathies - I'm glad my days of cleaning up night time vomits are largely over. Have skim read back over the thread - friends you don't like who come with friends - I had to actually drop a friend who suddenly took up with somebody who she couldn't do without - they were glued together and whispery and giggly in a most schoolgirlish way.

Airborne - sympathies over childhood bullying - I've given up analysing why or why not we're invited to things.

Leather jacket ordered - am now pondering whether I'll look like Brigitte Macron (although I could never get that skinny).

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