Today I've mostly bin...

[Bunnylump]

I know I sound like a big kid, and booking a holiday isn't exactly exciting news for anyone else, but I'm SOOOOO chuffed and excited. Now all I've got to do is lose enough weight so that I will be prepared to get myself into a swimming suit! In fact, I think I'm going to set up a new thread so that anyone can post any good low fat recipes or top tips. (Not that I'm saying you're all a lardy lot who need to lose weight, but you can all encourage me anyway!! )

[Wulfruna]

Have just spent a frenzied few days doing a load of German translation into English - something I much enjoy doing, but this time was rather a lot all at once!
That's because I am off tomorrow(Monday) on a trip to Munich to spend another few frenzied days as part of a small translating team - we're all good friends, so work well together... The work I have already done is part of the process.
Not that we shall get any time to see the city, but it's still a nice place to go.
So I shall be out of action for the rest of this week, in case anyone wonders why I have gone silent.
However, I do have to travel via London (flying from Heathrow), so I have promised to take Scurra out to lunch tomorrow on my way...... making the most of my private hint-line, whilst keeping him away from his computer for the rest of you

[pebbles]

I know I sound like a big kid, and booking a holiday isn't exactly exciting news for anyone else, but I'm SOOOOO chuffed and excited. Now all I've got to do is lose enough weight so that I will be prepared to get myself into a swimming suit! In fact, I think I'm going to set up a new thread so that anyone can post any good low fat recipes or top tips. (Not that I'm saying you're all a lardy lot who need to lose weight, but you can all encourage me anyway!! )

That is really exciting Bunny! I'm so pleased for you. I'm sure I have heard of a diet that works. I'll try to find it.

[giraffe]

I'm exhausted! I've just got back from a day out in London with Kingsley and Lally. We did Westminster Abbey this morning (via Nelson's column and horseguards parade etc) and Madame Tussauds and the London Eye this afternoon. Poor little Lally could barely walk when we got back to Euston. Anyway we had a great day out.

[clvrlad]

you mean you didnt show them a certain photo give them a map and tell them to go find it?

[kathlyn]

I got another premium bond £25 win, how about you bunny?
OH got £25 too.
It's nice to know that ERNIE can find our numbers once in a while but two months running is a bonus.

[gill216]

Maybe this should go on the jokes thread.

Today we went to the garden centre and I bought a rhubarb crown- cost £3.99.

OH disappeared with another trolley and came back with 4 bags of farm manure (cost £18+). I asked him why we needed £18 worth of manure and his reply was "Its for the rhubarb plant". Given that we bought 4 bags about 3 weeks ago that has already been dug into the veggie part of the garden already I didn't quite get this .

So I asked the question again. This time I got the answer that you only need to do this once and its good for the soil.
My next question was "so why is this the second lot you want to buy?" The girl at the till was helpless with laughter- and yes- the second lot came home regardless.

[LAT]

....... in London
Visited the lovely new Medieval and Renaissance galleries at the V and A. Took a quick look at some Cicely Mary Barker Flower Fairies prints and also looked round the exhibition of the Mets investgation into Fakes and Forgeries which featured several pieces by Shaun Greenhalgh which was fascinating.
I spent the evening in a wine bar with my sisters. The best moment of the day however was when one sister asked the other if she had thought of getting a hearing aid yet. "what?" says she. So the question is repeated and again she says "sorry, what did you say?" By which time I am sitting there nearly collapsed with laughter. After the third asking she finally heard what was said, and also saw the funny side of it.

[clvrlad]

eeeeee you all visited london this week
where were you two weeks ago?

[giraffe]

Well it was half term this week, so that's why we went. Also with Fernando away I wanted to do something nice with the girls.

[LAT]

And I went because it was one sister's birthday. We meet up at least three times a year and take it in turns to be treated by the other two.
Why, oh why, does one sister have her birthday in half-term? Everywhere was heaving yesterday.
I would often be game for a day out in London but can never take time off on the first couple of days of the month. So if you time it better next time and with a bit of warning...........

[giraffe]

It was heaving on Wednesday too. Most of the tourists seemed to be French!

[clvrlad]

So if you time it better next time and with a bit of warning...........

welll ok whens good for you lot?
btw ill start a new thread
calling it

pic hunt 2010

[fernando]

Just got back from ski trip and had an amazing time!!

Fell over more when ice skating on one evening than skiing in a week. Did loads of cool stuff like watching ice hockey, skating and two 26 hour coach journeys

[Laura]

Eurgh! I hate the long coach journeys. I've done quite a few music trips in my time that have involved very long coach journeys, and I absolutely cannot sleep on a moving vehicle of any kind, which usually means that by the time I get to wherever I'm going, I'm a psychotic sleep-deprived wreck!!!!

[clvrlad]

well i can sleep which means im just a pschotic wreck...but fresh and relaxed

[Scurra]

also looked round the exhibition of the Mets investgation into Fakes and Forgeries which featured several pieces by Shaun Greenhalgh which was fascinating.

Thank you for the heads-up on this LAT - I went along this afternoon and finally got to see a couple of pieces that, um, I had previously only had a cryptic acquaintance with
I especially liked seeing the things like the fake provenances that made them seem so much more convincing. And I loved the "Hockney" which he had signed, saying "This is not my work"!

[Bunnylump]

I like his style!!

We got back from Cornwall yesterday. Yesterday I was sitting on the beach having a picnic!! We went down to see my "baby bunny" ( it's his birthday next week). Well OK so he is going to be 20 and is about 6 foot 4, but he WAS really pleased with the giant carrot cake with marzipan carrots on the top!! He's in a good place to visit where you don't have to drive a lot once you're there (which is a good thing because our car doesn't fit 6 people in it). It's about 2 minutes walk to the harbour and lots of nice restaurants, 10 mins to Gyllyngvase beach. We walked round to Pendennis Castle, which had nice views.

It's a helluva long journey though. 6 hours one way 5 hours back (and that was even WITH me driving part of the way!!).

[fernando]

Eurgh! I hate the long coach journeys. I've done quite a few music trips in my time that have involved very long coach journeys, and I absolutely cannot sleep on a moving vehicle of any kind, which usually means that by the time I get to wherever I'm going, I'm a psychotic sleep-deprived wreck!!!!

I can't sleep on planes usually but I managed to nod off a bit on the coach. It wasn't helped by the fact that the suspension on the coach broke so it was a bumpy ride

[tricia]

Not a happy camper - after a fortnight of temperaturea at minus eight - the snow comes and my car decides to develop a fault which prevents me from locking it . MY car is a megane with one of the flat keys. A message on my onboard computer thing keep telling me my driver door is open when it is not!!!!!!!!So it keeps souding an alarm each time I drive off or slow down
tricia