BigMoFos w/c 3 August

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I think you're all younger than me, aren't you?

It was the italics, I think - not sure. Don't think I'm doing anything I shouldn't be .

I'm not much younger than you 2 - a matter on months, I suspect. And I don't really think I'm old, it's just that I suspect all the others at the Oxford meet-up will be 25 year old yummy mummies. But I'm still going to go - I don't have to go to another one if I don't like it, and I'm sure they'll all be lovely, even if, darn it, mere infants.

why don;t you just ask - I am very blunt. Before my first met-up I said "I am old and fat, is anyone else" - or words to that effect...

bugger must do some work...

If it's any consolation, dh is 50 this month.

I'm married to a 50 year old. How did that happen??

I know - I'm still about 20 inside.

Oh, me too.

I catch sight of myself in mirrors and wonder for a split second why there's a fat old lady following me around!

I still have a few years left before I'm quite so geriatric as dh though

So how old are you all then?

I am not a 25yr old yummy mummy by any means myself!

Am also getting a bit nervous...

How old?

Too blardy old!

Am 44.

That's not old!

(Am 33, will I be the baby of the group )

It feels old when you're twenty-something inside, but have a body which creaks and groans, and a face with more lines than your average zebra!

I'm 41. One advantage of being fat is that it fills out the wrinkles, I find. Or maybe chocolate's good for the skin.

I'm 39!

JackieNo, thanks for the directions.

WWB, I've e-mailed you to ask if you want a lift.

I have a recipe somewhere for chocolate and beetroot cake. Must see if I can find it.

Fat does fill out the wrinkles. Although these days the wrinkles are so much deeper that no amount of padding hides them.

Chocolate and beetroot cake? Sounds ... different!

Dh is giving me a lift, Littlefish, but thank you ever so much anyway (haven't had the email yet, but hotmail has been playing up over the last couple of days). He's taken a couple of days off around his birthday, and is going to take his new bike to do some cycling - there are a couple of Sustrans routes he's found nearby. He is also thinking about going to worship at the footplate of the Great God Steam at Didcote.

WWB - if the email doesn't arrive, I can always re-send it to the BigMothers account.

(although that's hotmail too, d'oh).

Oddly enough, your email did turn up, Jackie. The one Littlefish sent hasn't got here yet.

(and you'd already said you'd had the email too - sorry - crossed wires there).

is your DH going to come in WWb - so we can see what an old bloke looks like

I'm a bit worried that it'll take him so long to zip up his cardigan and put his tartan slippers on that we won't get there until everyone else has gone.

And pootling along at 32mph; you know what these old blokes are like ...

None of you look your age

I was 33 in APril. And I am so jealous at missing the meet up. if we make it over to the UK next July I insist on a meetup then

Dh reckons you won't be missing much, MrsJC; he says we'll all be sitting in different rooms of the house, talking to each other on laptops!

We do have a wireless network, so we could do that. Bags I have the main computer, as I don't have a laptop...

But your DH has had an uncannily accurate vision of evenings in our house - DH in the sitting room on his laptop, and me in the study on MN, occasionally emailing him things. We do talk occasionally too though, honest.

I could bring my laptop and we could include Mrs JC that way...