what is everyone doing?

[Sideshow Meg]

What's everyone upto?

At the moment I'm listening to my playlist with all the songs that could make a teary girl like me cry:

This includes:

With or without you-U2

I don't wanna miss a thing-Aerosmith (can't get through this song without a tear)

[Harriet]

I'm talking to friends on MSN, and updating iTunes with a Nirvana album that I'm being bullied into listening to.

[Claire]

I'm hiding from my children....until their Dad puts them to bed :o They've gone completely hyper this evening for some reason, and I'm just going to get cross with them if they find me, cos I'm not in a patient mood at the moment. (Sorry, kids!)

After that, I'm supposed to be doing some work for the church I go to....but I'll probably spend most of the evening procrastinating and faffing around instead :o (I'm an expert!)

Naughty Claire :eek:

Very pleased to have found such a fab website to visit while I'm skiving, though :D

[Mad Dog and Glory]

I'm settling down to watch my team, the mighty Reading, play Swansea City in an FA Cup replay on Sky Sports 1.

[Opal]

I'm doing some very last minute revision for a "Mathematical Analysis" exam at 9am tomorrow that I can't afford to fail. It's a subject I hate with a passion usually reserved for tractors on A-roads, Saturday morning TV presenters, tractors on lanes, miniskirts, tractors with hay bales that keep losing bits of their load, and art students.

Needless to say it is not going well. :mad:

[Deinonychus]

I'm watching a doc about Gram Parsons lent me by MD&G...

...which has just finished.

(And bloody good it was, too.)

[Claire]

Good luck with the exam, Fiona_1984 :cool: Do let us know how it goes when you come back....

[Sideshow Meg]

Hope it went well Fiona. I have just finished my mock exmas and now have a shiny day off ;)

[Fred Ricketts]

MD & G: Why couldn't Reading do it in 90 minutes? I had the princely sum of 95p riding on them. As they won in extra-time I didn't win the bet.

[My Friend Jack]

I, too watched the Swansea v Reading game.

Right now, I am sitting at my desk in Leatherhead, analysing some supplier offers and trying to decide which offers the best deal.

[Mad Dog and Glory]

MD & G: Why couldn't Reading do it in 90 minutes? I had the princely sum of 95p riding on them. As they won in extra-time I didn't win the bet.

95p eh, Fred? With us being odds-on, you must have missed out on winnings of as much as 57p. ;)

[Fred Ricketts]

Me and a mate are having a game to see who can win the most on bluesq.com by putting feeble bets on favourites. See his web-site here:
www.youbetter.net

[Opal]

Good luck with the exam, Fiona_1984 :cool: Do let us know how it goes when you come back....
Thank you! :)
It went ok, could have been better, but not much I can do about it now! Anyway, I've only got one left now, so I should really be working for that, but I have a man replacing my kitchen in a day today, and he's making a lot of noise, so I can't concentrate!

[Claire]

Glad it went ok, Fiona - hope the last one does too :)

[Harriet]

Sitting in an ICT lesson...........it's so boring I'm thinking of ripping of my arm just for something to do.

[Jassie]

Sitting trying to read and edit a narrative on the Diversity of Ships.. but in reality browsing Amazon whilst listening to Snow Patrol and wishing I was outta here.

[Rootytootytoo]

Funny, thats not far from what I'm doing... reading a thing about propulsion for work whilst checking emails every 30 seconds wishing someone would please distract me!

[Opal]

Revising. Still. Only 19 hours and its all over... for a few months at least.

And wondering if I'll ever find an internship for the summer. :(

Why can't it be Christmas again?!?!

[Deinonychus]

(Just wanted to say that Rootytootytoo, you have, by a fat country mile, the best handle on this entire forum, IMHO...)

[Rootytootytoo]

:o Why thank you very much, its my real name actually!

[Aixelsyd]

I'm sitting in my high school library because I do not have a first, seccond, or third period class. Go running start! I am also taking classes at the local comunity college. Damn Saturday U.S. History class, 4 1/2 hours long!

I am also on www.rumandmonkey.com reading some absolutly hillarious articles and posting on their message boards.

[Harriet]

Sending e-cards 'thank you letters' for Christmas presents...

[Pirate Kate]

I am in IT, supposedly doing a slide show for my Key Skills coursework......
Oh well!

[Tess]

I'm trying to design an experiment but keep finding that the compounds I want to use are too expensive, its not a nice Monday morning :mad:

Ah well not long till lunch...

[Nats]

Awww, poor you... I'm sure it'll all work out. Hopefully :D

Having lunch at school, yum yum ;P

[Seraphina]

I'm sitting in work trying to concentrate but am hindered by a massive hangover which is making me feel like i want to die! Tea and sympathy are welcome. Oh well, hangover means chips for lunch, yum!

[Ian]

I'm searching for old threads to try and rekindle some interest

[Flingo]

I hadn't seen this one before, interesting (thanks, Ian!).

Unfortunately, I'm not doing anything very interesting except waiting for the bath to finish running.

[Barblue]

I've just finished making an Invitation for a friends 80th birthday celebration. Now I'm catching up on BGO before I go to bed and read some more Wilkie Collins.

[Momo]

I've had a long day and sit in front of my PC reading these threads. Then I hope I will go to bed. ;)

[MarkC]

Today I went in to work, forgetting that I'd booked a day's holiday :rolleyes: - I had booked Friday as well but went in as one of our customers was having a problem which might have been a code bug that I needed to fix (it wasn't, he had not understood how to implement our software properly and I was chasing a non existant problem). This rather threw off my "long weekend" plans and this morning I got up as normal, got in to work and my boss said "what are you doing here?":scratchhe ...

This evening I worked on the racing car which is not playiing nice and wont run properly. Sounds like there is an air leak from one of the carbs so I need to do some dismantling :(

Tomorrow evening it is the motor club AGM, only notable as there will be a free buffet for those that make the effort to attend so I won't need to cook myself dinner :D

[brightphoebus]

I'm snatching a few minutes at the computer before having my breakfast, making my lunchtime sandwich and getting the bus to Hackney.

I try most mornings to see if my daughter in the U.S. has emailed me whilst I was asleep (she hasn't) and then console or reward myself with a look at the BGO postings. I like this thread too! :)

[lipstick_librarian]

Enjoying 5 minutes peace before I'm deluged with teenagers wanting books to read...

[FirelightSpirit]

Cool thread.

I've just arrived into work, late, again (stupid trains and busses). Just logged in to say hi, but I need to get some actual work done today... :o

[Hazel]

In my attic, doing my morning BGO check before I go and have my breakfast. Already gone for a run this morning, taken eldest to school, arranged for a joiner to come out. Contemplating the vast amount of studying I have to get done today.

[Grammath]

I am, as I often am when on BGO, trying to have a lunch break and avoid doing any actual work for about the next hour or so.

[Krey20]

Ignoring the pile of work that is causing a shadow on my desk, highlighting the lovely sunshine outside, contemplating the amount of work I've got to do when I leave my day job and descend into the new insanity that is my new, personal business venture. Glutton for punishment!
That's why I haven't been here much lately - if anyone noticed?

Ho hum, nose pressed firmly back against the grindstone. It's nice to check in on you all again.

[Cathy]

Not been here much myself Krey20 so 'fraid i hadn't! I'm in a computer lab, between finishing one assignment and starting revising for a dewey decimal exam so trying to have a break. I'm tired!

[David]

That's why I haven't been here much lately - if anyone noticed?.
I'd missed you, Krey! Mind you, once you waltzed back in to solve the Movie Quiz in an instant which I'd been dimly faffing over I was in two minds....

;)

Nah, just kidding! Good to see you around. And I've been sorry not to have you around so much, Cathy, for a long time. We used to have some good, hearty, animated discussions in the past, but I guess you're too tied up in your new studies? I hope it's going well, but you're a former regular poster whose contributions are greatly missed by me!

[Cathy]

Aw thanks David that's really made me smile :) I come back and lurk and enjoy reading everyone's debates & your posts are always worth a read, of course, David! But don't have so much time to post at the moment between studies and moving house (though all settled now but the computer's being moody since we moved so internet access is an issue) but hopefully when this course finishes I'll have a bit more time.

[David]

hopefully when this course finishes I'll have a bit more time.
I hope so too! :)

[My Friend Jack]

It's been a long but productive day in one of our London offices. Am just having a quick look at BGO before I go off to join the rush hour.

[megustaleer]

After a busy day in the garden, and nursing a rotten cold (probably picked up on Saturday) I am too tired to do anything but sit in front of the TV or computer...and there's nothing I want to watch on TV this evening, so its BGO, then feed the cats, and an early night!


There seems to be a whole website (http://twitter.com/) devoted to answering this question!

[Barblue]

It's my writing group today. I am supposed to have written something about strange happenings in a house/kitchen ... something to do with pots and pans moving around in the cupboard! We are currently working on Literature of the Strange or Other Realities. :confused: Confused - so am I. I have written nothing.

I tried sitting here waiting for inspiration, then gave and and went and made the bed, put on a machine load of washing and watered the garden (we have been without water for two days because of new mains being laid in the road outside the house and it hasn't rained here for over a week). Still no inspiration. :thinking:

Back at the computer I thought I would trawl through BGO and try to get the grey cells moving. I may have to admit defeat on this one.

[brightphoebus]

I'm at my desk in the office eating a sardine sandwich and trying hard not to get any of it onto the keyboard. The office is open plan and VERY noisy so I am getting psychic quiet space around me by visiting BGO. Pretty soon I will be stepping out into the mean streets, a bag of toys on my back.

[FirelightSpirit]

Toys? I'm intrigued, brightphoebus!

I'm about to take my book into the garden at work for a little quiet reading time. Back soon. :)

[brightphoebus]

Toys? I'm intrigued, brightphoebus!

I'm about to take my book into the garden at work for a little quiet reading time. Back soon. :)Oh, I work in the home with babies and toddlers with special needs / disabilities and their parents. Sometimes I feel I am really a bag-lady.

How nice to have a garden at work. What do you do?

[Lady Lazarus]

I am doing my piece for the Writers' Circle while my daughter has her nap! Going ok so far, although it's turning out to be a bit weird :rolleyes:

[FirelightSpirit]

Oh, I work in the home with babies and toddlers with special needs / disabilities and their parents. Sometimes I feel I am really a bag-lady.
Ah, I see. Sounds like such a rewarding job.

How nice to have a garden at work. What do you do?
I work as an editor for a small publishing company. Our office is in an old Georgian building, which has a communal garden out the back. Not very exciting, the job or the garden. :)

Lady Lazarus, hope the writing goes well. I'll be working on mine this weekend. I have an idea, just need to get it down on paper. Looking forward to reading yours!

[Momo]

My kids have returned home and declared they finished their homework. Do I believe them? Well, I guess they are right.

[lipstick_librarian]

Eating olives - girding my loins to go and mow the lawn...

[brightphoebus]

After a busy day in the garden, and nursing a rotten cold (probably picked up on Saturday) I am too tired to do anything but sit in front of the TV or computer...and there's nothing I want to watch on TV this evening, so its BGO, then feed the cats, and an early night!
Meg, I hope you are feeling perkier; or has your cold still got you in its grip?

[megustaleer]

Meg, I hope you are feeling perkier; or has your cold still got you in its grip?I hope that taking mountainous quantities of vit C at the first sign has tamed it, but I slept badly and felt really rough when I got up this morning. At the moment I am just suffering congested nasal passages, a scratchy throat, and a brain like boiled cauliflower.
Thanks for asking :)

[Flingo]

I'm sitting on hold to an insurance company and have been for the last 23 minutes so far, but I can't hang up now!!!

[Billybob]

I am watching Man United vs AC Milan and AC Milan have just scored again.

[megustaleer]

Welcome to BGO, Billybob... I look forward to hearing more from you when your attention is not divided ;) :)

[Jen]

I hope that taking mountainous quantities of vit C at the first sign has tamed it
I have just got back from the pub and maybe my wine-induced mood makes me point out that the whole Vitamin C/good for colds thing is the best example of Bad Science known to modern man. Linus Pauling won a Nobel Prize for the 'discovery' in the Seventies (forgive me not being more specific) but his research was discredited soon after. Sadly, his message had already permeated public consciousness and holds strong until this day. I refer the reader to Quackwatch (http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pauling.html) for further details.

(I'm certainly not having a go at you here Meg, I just have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about Vit C specifically and supplements in general. And Bad Science.)

[Momo]

Haven't had the time to read the whole article, yet, but it looks like it's not just a case of a wrong decimal point (as with spinach). :D
Anyway, something really nice and hot is always a good thing to drink if you have a cold whether it's a nice cup of tea or a hot lemonade. So, I guess it will do you no harm.

[Barblue]

I should be sleeping, but am finding that difficult tonight. A hot peppermint tea and a browse through BGO might help, so here I am.

[Greenstreak]

Im with you tonight Barblue - the cat has just woken me from my slumbers.

[megustaleer]

the whole Vitamin C/good for colds thing is the best example of Bad Science known to modern man. Be that as it may, I find that it does seem to work for me...as long as I take it immediately I recognise the first symptom of a cold and as long as I take much more than the recommended dose (it's a fine line between boosting my immune responses and scouring out my digestive tract!).

I've never been very impressed by the 'supplements' lobby, but as old age & infirmity advance with ever increasing rapidity I find myself popping more and more pills & capsules. Most of them (prescribed medication & over-the-counter) seem to be ineffectual, apart from the vit C...so this 'old wife' will keep taking it :D

ETA: I'm here procrastinating. Putting off spraying a fortune in noxious chemicals on my patio and other hard landscaping. I wish I'd done it last year, I now have a garden full of couch grass to weed as a result of letting some go to seed among the paving :mad:

[Momo]

I have a cake in the oven. Going to my parents this weekend as they are having their golden wedding anniversary. I told my mum I'd bring a cake for the festivity but I'll also make a surprise one that she doesn't know of, one in book form with their photo on. Now I just have to wait until the cake is done and I can decorate it tomorrow.

[brightphoebus]

I have a cake in the oven. Going to my parents this weekend as they are having their golden wedding anniversary. I told my mum I'd bring a cake for the festivity but I'll also make a surprise one that she doesn't know of, one in book form with their photo on. Now I just have to wait until the cake is done and I can decorate it tomorrow.
What kind of cake? (I love cake). I hope you have a wonderful weekend with your family, Momo.

[Lady Lazarus]

I'm just back from a trip to Borough Market in Southwark. Not been before, but being a bit of a foodie I've always wanted to go. We ate wild boar sausage sandwiches for lunch (highly recommended! and that's from an ex-vegetarian :D ) and bought chocolate brownies, some nice bread and cheese from the Neal's Yard Dairy shop there. Yum! Also managed to get back home relatively easily despite some b*gger stealing our TomTom last month :mad: Who says women can't read maps?!

[Grammath]

I went to Borough Market for the first time last year and I agree its great. I know a lot of the product developers here at my beloved employers spend some time sneaking around there looking for ideas so they can produce cheap and nasty versions of what they find.

It is a great shame it is under threat.

[Flingo]

I've just voted and am proud that I managed to resist spoiling my ballot papers this year.

[Jen]

I have just got back from Pilates so I am an oasis of calm and serenity.

[Momo]

What kind of cake? (I love cake). I hope you have a wonderful weekend with your family, Momo.Yesterday, it was just a sponge cake that still needs decorating. We ordered one of those picture covers which I am sure my parents will love. I have a book form and will add the picture and some other additions. Have just frosted it so I can carry on. This morning, I made the other cake, it's called a Russian cheese cake. It's a chocolate covered base with some of the dough on top but the filling is crème fraîche. It looks like
this (http://images.google.de/images?q=zupfkuchen&gbv=2&ndsp=20&svnum=10&hl=de&start=0&sa=N) . If you are interested, I can send you the recipe. (But not before Monday.)

[brightphoebus]

This morning, I made the other cake, it's called a Russian cheese cake. It's a chocolate covered base with some of the dough on top but the filling is crème fraîche. It looks like
this (http://images.google.de/images?q=zupfkuchen&gbv=2&ndsp=20&svnum=10&hl=de&start=0&sa=N) . If you are interested, I can send you the recipe. (But not before Monday.)I would love the recipe whenever you have time, thanks Momo! :)

[My Friend Jack]

Today I am working from home. Started work an hour earlier than I would have otherwise; the morning has flown by; being Friday, I've only had 3 phone calls (countless emails, though, including one that confirms a book I ordered off Amazon in the US in January has been despatched).

[Barblue]

My youngest son and his wife are with us for the bank holiday weekend. Consequently it's been a morning of housework and shopping. Just finished both, so I'm taking a break before I get up to date with the ironing before the weekend starts.

[FirelightSpirit]

Have just made a cup of tea after coming in from the shop with a bar of dark chocolate - mmmm :)

[Hazel]

so I'm taking a break before I get up to date with the ironing before the weekend starts.

Exactly what I am doing, and about to do. I plan to watch Clerks 2 whilst I do the ironing.

[David]

I plan to watch Clerks 2 whilst I do the ironing.
Shall we lay odds on which will be the more interesting?

[Hazel]

Shall we lay odds on which will be the more interesting?

I'll let you know...mind you some of my undies are quite interesting...10 pairs for £3 in Tesco - can't beat them.

[David]

some of my undies are quite interesting...
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[megustaleer]

Catching up on this afternoon's BGO posts between having my hair cut and cooking our evening meal.

[lipstick_librarian]

Defrosting the freezer.
:mad:
I have these mad ideas when I get home from work on a Friday (that's if I haven't gone for drinkies), and now I'm going to be up all night, on my knees scraping ice.

[Jen]

Waiting for Husband to get home... Hungry... :grumble:

[Lady Lazarus]

Jen - me too! Have pasta cooking so an easy supper. Baby asleep or hopefully soon!

[Hazel]

Bathing kids just now, will get them in bed and await hubby's return from London. Then have to wrap all the birthday pressies for eldest. I am on the cusp of a long and busy weekend, and right now I am waiting for that tidal wave.

[David]

Bathing kids just now... and I am waiting for that tidal wave.
Are you filling the bath too deeply?

[Flingo]

hehe!

I picked up my new car this morning, and then drove up to visit His Lordships parents (4 hour drive = baptism of fire for new car!). As the out-laws have been working nights this week, they have finally made it to bed, so I have escaped to the PC to allow HL to spend some quality time with one of his brothers.

[brightphoebus]

Woke up too early again, 5am. After reading my book for an hour under the covers I've sneaked up to the cubby hole we laughingly refer as the study to log on and see if there have been any new posts since last night. And to see if my daughter has emailed me, unlikely as I got one last evening.

We're off to my brother's in the midlands soon where we're going to have a cookery session tackling some of our mother's more tricky recipes so that we don't forget how to make them. And I hope we will be eating lots of lovely English asparagus, and going for walks.

[megustaleer]

We're off to my brother's in the midlands soon where we're going to have a cookery session tackling some of our mother's more tricky recipes so that we don't forget how to make them. What a lovely thing to do!
I miss my mother's cooking still, and I've never tasted faggots as delicious as the ones she used to make. I'm not sure I could get the same ingredients down here...real butchers are scarce, and a proper pork butcher is none-existent.
I'm waiting for my husband to give me a lift to the supermarket, I won't be able to buy 'kell' (caul fat, to wrap round faggots) there :rolleyes:

[Jen]

I've been gardening, potting on seedlings, to be precise. In my head, I'm a keen and enthusiastic gardener. In reality, I can't really be bothered. :o

[lucyb]

My windowsill currently has:

7 very tiny tomato plants
2 even smaller squash plants
3 french marigold shoots and
4 humungous runner bean plants

oh, and 1 unidentified seed that snuck in when no one was looking. Not too worried - even if it turns out to be a triffid, I'm fairly sure the runner beans will come out best in a fight.

I'm watching tv when I should be revising for my final exam in June and I've just booked tickets to a comedy club night for my birthday.

[FirelightSpirit]

Sitting in the dark on our family computer choking on my brother's strong cologne - it's stinking the house out. Off to make a cup of tea now and do some more writing. See y'all tomorrow. :)

[megustaleer]

I have not long come in after an hour watering the garden (note time of posting) in my dressing-gown and boots. I've had some toast, and am on my second coffee, trying to get warm, and debating with myself whether to get dressed, or get back into bed :thinking:

[Lady Lazarus]

wow talk about early bird Meg!

i'm sitting here shivering as I don't feel at all well (still!)... coughed so much last night I was sick. I'm fed up of being ill! :mad:

[Ian]

Wondering why I continually stray from a the point of a thread; wondering why I sometimes rant when I don't like others doing it; wondering if I'll ever get the hang of this web-site and use it correctly

[megustaleer]

Wondering why I continually stray from a the point of a thread; wondering why I sometimes rant when I don't like others doing it; wondering if I'll ever get the hang of this web-site and use it correctlyWell participating on a message board is a bit like a conversation, and it's not normal for a conversation to stick strictly to a subject without diverging/segueing into something else.

Unfortunately, for the sake of those coming to the board at a later date, we have to try and keep the threads separate as far as possible. Otherwise it's like trying to follow one strand in a bowl of spaghetti! ;)

We all post tangential stuff, it's only when there is a more appropriate thread that posts get moved...and it's not a problem to do that. :D

[Jen]

I'm listening to a pre-release copy of Rufus Wainwright's new album, Release The Stars and trying to resist the urge to force my husband to listen too. He's unconverted. The big decision of the day is whether to go to the pub for lunch. Rainy Bank Holiday... Pub... :rolleyes:

[megustaleer]

Keeping out of the way!
My husband is "sorting out" some of his stuff (http://www.bookgrouponline.com/forum/showpost.html?p=34828&postcount=3) - which means that he is spreading it round the sitting room, before rearranging it into different bags/boxes :rolleyes:

[Cathy]

I'm wondering why this library is always either too hot or too cold (too cold today, brrr!). And procrastinating about starting an assignment!

[brightphoebus]

Wondering why I continually stray from a the point of a thread; wondering why I sometimes rant when I don't like others doing it; wondering if I'll ever get the hang of this web-site and use it correctly
Ian, I rant too, sometimes, and then later regret it. I like to think we're a pretty forgiving lot here. More than that; that people would rather an opinion was voiced than someone kept silent, as long as it is not in any way hurtful to others. A well-thought out opinion honestly held gives others an opportunity to think out a reply. I really enjoy following the long debates even if I'm not always able to contribute. If nobody speaks out we'll have a very dull site!

[Momo]

Wondering why I continually stray from a the point of a thread; wondering why I sometimes rant when I don't like others doing it; wondering if I'll ever get the hang of this web-site and use it correctlyCorrectly, is there a way to use this correctly. Please, anybody, tell me what I've been doing for a year and a half!!!!!!!! :scared:

[FirelightSpirit]

In work eating lunch - wondering why people put sweetcorn in everything - yuck!

[Momo]

In work eating lunch - wondering why people put sweetcorn in everything - yuck!That's an everlasting question that I would like to have answered, as well. I don't mind the corn on the cob variety but once it's been soaked in whatever and been in a tin for ages what is it supposed to taste like?
Anyway, my boys have a day off school as a study day - since the older kids are taking their oral exams. Must look after them in a minute to make sure they are doing just that. :D

[lipstick_librarian]

Listening to a child with hiccups reading aloud and trying to stifle my giggles :D

[Momo]

Listening to a child with hiccups reading aloud and trying to stifle my giggles :DOh, dear! :D

[Billybob]

Waiting for the kids to come home from school and wondering if the sun will shine again in the near future.

[brightphoebus]

Anyway, my boys have a day off school as a study day - since the older kids are taking their oral exams. Must look after them in a minute to make sure they are doing just that. :DI remember those days well, Momo. It's one of the reasons I took up cake-baking. It gave me an outlet for my nervous energy and helped take my mind off wondering whether they were really studying upstairs. Far better to beat an uncomplaining cake than cross-question an evasive child! Plus we got to eat the cake, so everybody won.

It's my day off and I've just returned from yoga and Sainsbury's. I'm "checking my emails" before making myself scrub the kitchen floor. At least I've timed it to coincide with Radio 4's book programme. What a coincidence :D!

[Barblue]

Taking a rest at the computer and browsing BGO after spending all morning and half the afternoon trailing round the shops sorting out birthday presents for No. 1 son. Now they are in their thirties we find it so difficult to come up with ideas. We seem to have given them everything they could conceivably want and the only things left are far too expensive anyway!

We had just got the job completed when No. 2 son phones me on my mobile from London and asks for help getting something for his brother. That's what took half the afternoon!

Luckily we have had sunshine today Billybob, but the wind is very strong still up here in Lancashire - but I'm not complaining. Anyway, I reckon you need the rain down south.

[Momo]

Waiting for the kids to come home from school and wondering if the sun will shine again in the near future.According to my headache I would have said tomorrow. However, it's shining now already here, so don't worry, it'll come!I remember those days well, Momo. How old are your kids now?It's one of the reasons I took up cake-baking.The trouble is, my kids don't eat the cake. My husband and I, however, love cake and we already have trouble fighting our weight. Oh, dear!

[brightphoebus]

How old are your kids now? The trouble is, my kids don't eat the cake. My husband and I, however, love cake and we already have trouble fighting our weight. Oh, dear!They are 27 and 23. Oh dear. A full six years since the A-level cake-baking days. :(

[Momo]

They are 27 and 23. Oh dear. A full six years since the A-level cake-baking days. :(Do you miss them? I just had one kid returning home, the other one is staying with a friend tonight.
Have been ironing the whole day - well - most of it. And everything is done Hurrah!

[brightphoebus]

Do you miss them? I just had one kid returning home, the other one is staying with a friend tonight.
I miss my daughter who is in the U.S. My little one is living with friends half an hour away so we see him often. I know that either may come back at the drop of a hat, though, the housing situation in London being so difficult for youngsters starting out; so I can't totally relax into delinquent child-free mode just yet. ;)

[Momo]

My older one is going to leave school next year (hopefully, on the condition that he passes) and we don't know what is coming next (well, he doesn't, so we don't either).

[Jen]

I've just finished dinner and I'm about to settle down in front of the telly. I went to see the recording to Friday Night With Jonathan Ross last night and I'm v. keen to see what gets cut and what is left in. It features the blessed Rufus, I commend it to the house.

[Hazel]

I am watching Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth with hubby, laptop perched on my knees. Just updated my iPod shuffle for a run tomorrow morning. Multi-tasking people!

[Flingo]

I'm sat at the Enquiry Desk at work, struggling with a hangover. 3 bottles of wine and then only 4 hours sleep isn't condusive to answering local history enquiries!

[Hazel]

I am sat at the laptop again trying to get the first draft of an essay done whilst popping onto BGO every so often for some light relief. Hubby and eldest are off to see Spiderman 3 and youngest is asleep on the couch.

[Jen]

I'm sat at the Enquiry Desk at work, struggling with a hangover. 3 bottles of wine and then only 4 hours sleep isn't condusive to answering local history enquiries!
Three!!! I hope you were sharing...

We're off to the local Beer Festival with some chums later so I offer you some sympathy now, Flingo, which I may need to claim back tomorrow.

[megustaleer]

I've shopped (http://www.bookgrouponline.com/forum/showpost.html?p=35689&postcount=185), pottered in the garden between showers, and popped in and out of BGO. I'm just having another browse here before settling down to an evening in front of the TV

Now what shall I watch?

BBC1, and the Eurovision Song Contest - or
BBC2, with The Olivier and Fontaine version of Rebecca; then later, Rick Stein doing a Daphne du Maurier & Cornwall documentary, followed by a drama based on Daphne's life...with a break for The Culture Show, and a meal at about 7.30.

Decisions :thinking:, decisions :thinking:

[Momo]

Just went to Ikea. Remind me never to go on a Saturday, what a nightmare! But we needed some boxes and they have a large selection and compared to other shops quite reasonable. Now "all we need to do" is putting the stuff into the boxes that we needed them for in the first place. ;)

[Flingo]

Three!!! I hope you were sharing...
In hindsight, I wish I had been as well!!! I was at a wedding party, and while I know I drank 3 large glasses of wine, and 3 small ones (nearly 2 bottles, I reckon) there were also those sneaky top ups from the waiters which were easily another 3 glasses at least. Eughh!

Just went to Ikea. Remind me never to go on a Saturday, what a nightmare!
Momo - Don't go to Ikea on a Saturday ever again! (there - consider yourself reminded:D)

[Momo]

Momo - Don't go to Ikea on a Saturday ever again! (there - consider yourself reminded:D)Thanks, Flingo.

Anyway, just start watching the beginning of the Eurovision Song Contest. See you later!

[lipstick_librarian]

Moving house in less than 2 weeks :yikes: and diverting myself from what I really should be doing... packing! My blood pressure's going up just thinking about everything there is to do. :(

[Momo]

Oh, dear. All the best with the move, LL!

[FirelightSpirit]

In work with a headache; wishing I was anywhere but here.

[brightphoebus]

In work with a headache; wishing I was anywhere but here.Oh, poor you. :( Is there anyone who can slip you a couple of paracetomol?

[Barblue]

Just finished supper. Settling down to an evening of Speedway on the TV.

[Krey20]

Speedway on TV! The only thing I miss about Sky.

... and cricket... Lost... 24...

[brightphoebus]

Just finished supper. Settling down to an evening of Speedway on the TV.What is speedway...?

[MarkC]

What is speedway...?

Motorbike racing on a 1/4 mile oval track covered in shale. There are four riders in each heat and they run over four laps. A league meeting will have 15 heats and two riders from each team compete in each heat. With seven riders per team, each rider typically rides four races.

The bikes have no gears and no brakes, so negotiate the corners by opposite lock power slides. It can be very exciting and is even better to watch live. If it's like it used to be they use an engine oil called "Castrol R" which is ester based and smells wonderful :D.

Edit to add - I have a committee meeting tonight, else I would be watching as well!

[megustaleer]

What is speedway...?
Speedway (http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/whatis/a9) and how I know (http://www.bookgrouponline.com/forum/showpost.html?p=7893&postcount=7)

[Krey20]

If it's like it used to be they use an engine oil called "Castrol R" which is ether based and smells wonderful
I remember that smell so well. It filled the Millennium stadium last year a treat and is set to do so again in a few weeks.
Foxhall Heath in Ipswich isn't complete without that aroma on a Thursday night...
This is really making me miss my speedway now... Must find the time! :rolleyes:

Edit: Meg, I'm intrigued by your "how you know" link.

[Barblue]

I loved your succinct and informative description of speedway MarkC. It never occurred to me that folk would not know what speedway was. Tonight's meeting was a good one. A close encounter between Coventry and Swindon in the Elite League. Scott Nicholls was on good form and there were some close and exciting heats. A bad spill in the first heat held up proceedings for a while but luckily nobody was hurt badly. They are tough, these speedway riders.

I used to watch occasionally when I lived in Canterbury back in the 70s. My nearest now is Belle Vue, but I have yet to get to a meet there. Every year I hope to go to the Millennium Stadium, but every year something thwarts those plans. Luckily Sky cover the sport very well. It's the Swedish Grand Prix this Saturday.

Meg: Like Krey20 I too am intrigued by your 'how I know' link. Do tell us more, please.

Edit: If anybody has noticed the time of this posting; I'm having a wakeful night and the dawn chorus isn't helping.

[megustaleer]

If it's like it used to be they use an engine oil called "Castrol R" which is ester based and smells wonderful :D.
Not saying it actually smells like it, but it makes me think of burnt bacon :D

Edit: Meg, I'm intrigued by your "how you know" link.
See here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Frogley)

[Barblue]

Thanks Meg. I can't honestly say I knew the name, but am thrilled to read about your illustrious in-law. :notworthy Does that make me an anorak? :hmm:

BTW - I've been back to bed for a few more zzzzz's and now it's time for breakfast. Off to my local reading group this morning.

[megustaleer]

Thanks Meg. I can't honestly say I knew the name, Hardly surprising, as his brief period of glory, in a very tiny corner of a world-wide field was 75 years ago!
BTW - I've been back to bed for a few more zzzzz's I can't do that...once the sky is light and the birds are singing, if I'm awake I have to get up. Mind you, an afternoon siesta is a necessary consequence, but I'd rather sleep in the heat (??) of the afternoon than in the clear crisp morning light.

Off to the garden shortly, the weeds are growing apace.

[lipstick_librarian]

Filling in an application form for a new job, closer to where I live. Why is it so hard to fill in the 'any other information' section???

[FirelightSpirit]

Oh, poor you. :( Is there anyone who can slip you a couple of paracetomol?
I have some in my drawer. It's stress more than anything, and hormones. I need a good cry.

Good luck with the application lipstick librarian. Fingers crossed.

[Billybob]

Have just come back from Waterstones with A Thousand Splendid Suns and I am now off to work.

[Minxminnie]

I'm unusually at home this afternoon. I'm marking exam papers - ie for the exam board - and today was the briefing meeting. It was close to home, and I could make it back to work for the afternoon. But I'm not going. How wicked. I will start the marking to assuage my conscience!

[brightphoebus]

I have some in my drawer. It's stress more than anything, and hormones. I need a good cry.

It's miserable being at work when it is the last place you want to be. You have my sympathies, FLS, and I hope the stress lifts asap.

[FirelightSpirit]

It's miserable being at work when it is the last place you want to be. You have my sympathies, FLS, and I hope the stress lifts asap.
Thanks brightphoebus. At least I can come here to destress.

[megustaleer]

Having done a couple of hours work on the garden I've come in to have a shower, and am sitting at the computer in a towel, waiting to dry.

[lucyb]

I have an exam in June and I'm currently trying to persuade myself that my break is over and I should get back to revising. It's the last one I need to pass this particular level and I'm finding it really hard to get any feel whatsoever for the subject matter. Which is why I'm currently tapping away on this forum!

[Barblue]

Spent the morning cleaning the house. Had my local writing group meeting early afternoon. Now awaiting the arrival of visitors who will be with me over the bank holiday and beyond! I may not get much time for BGO for the next week. :cry:

[megustaleer]

I may not get much time for BGO for the next week. :cry:We'll miss you, but I hope you have a good time with your visitors :)

I've just returned form a short ride in the country. I registered some more books with RiSi this morning, and got a swap request straight away. As she had a book I wanted I agreed the swap, and when I got her address it was in the next village...so I've been over and popped it through her letterbox :D

Am now going to work on an idea I've had for the current Writers' Circle exercise :rolleyes:

[Krey20]

I'm playing around with my new digital camera. I've taken the plunge in an effort to broaden my creative horizons.
Cameras seem to have come a long way in the few years that I've been neglecting this particular interest of mine. I learned using an old 35mm film, manual SLR, this new one is a dark room in a tin!

[MarkC]

I've been out in the garden measuring up space for a shed and trying to decide if I should stick with 8' by 6' or can squeeze in a 10' by 7'. The latter had the disadvantage that it is 7' high to the peak of the roof so will go over the height of the dividing wall to my sole neighbour, but it wont block any light into their garden as my house does a far better job of that when the sun is that side, as do the 30' high conifers they have along most of their rear boundary.

The main purpose of this exercise is overflow storage for my garage, all the parts for my cars take up too much room :D

[megustaleer]

The rule wih sheds, as with greenhouses is, get the largest size your garden can accommodate. :D :D

[MarkC]

The rule wih sheds, as with greenhouses is, get the largest size your garden can accommodate. :D :D
Oooh I'm pleased to hear someone else say that! :D

[Jen]

I've been clearing everything out of the kitchen and utility rooms prior to having the windows and back door replaced with double glazing tomorrow. Wish me luck...

[Flingo]

Filling in an application form for a new job, closer to where I live. Why is it so hard to fill in the 'any other information' section???
I have this down to a fine art now - I save all the previous ones that I have filled in, and then cut and paste the points relevant to the current job. A bit of rewording, and hey presto!

Good Luck though lip_lib. Is it still a children's library job?

I've been recovering from giving blood this evening. Not feeling so light-headed now, although my arm still aches when I stretch (it's got a lovely bruise coming up!).

[Jen]

I've been recovering from giving blood this evening. Not feeling so light-headed now, although my arm still aches when I stretch (it's got a lovely bruise coming up!).
I remember the time I gave blood and felt that the best way to console myself was with a hot bath and a glass of wine... Bad idea...

[Flingo]

I remember the time I gave blood and felt that the best way to console myself was with a hot bath and a glass of wine... Bad idea...
Well, I've just finished running the bath (not too hot!), but will be skipping the wine!

[brightphoebus]

I've been clearing everything out of the kitchen and utility rooms prior to having the windows and back door replaced with double glazing tomorrow. Wish me luck...
Oh, gruesome. Hope it all goes to plan, Jen.

[lipstick_librarian]

[QUOTE=Flingo]Good Luck though lip_lib. Is it still a children's library job?

Thanks, Flingo. Yes, it's another school library post. I'm used to the holidays now - not sure I could go back to a 'proper' job!

[Lady Lazarus]

Where IS everyone? I know it's a bank holiday weekend, but the weather's rubbish... am I the only one stuck indoors on the internet? Surely not! :D

[gg106]

No you are not alone. Just been to tesco to stock up n goodies since it looks like we are going to be stuck indoors most of this weekend. But you're right, there don't seem to be many of us around.

[mac]

Isn`t the weather awlful. I was going to see my son in Brighton today, but went yesterday instead, because of the weather forecast. I`m glad I swopped, we had a lovely day with just a few spots of rain. So I`m now enjoying a quiet, lazy day.

[Jen]

I'm here but I'm meant to be decorating the kitchen and utility room following the (very successful) double glazing installation. So in a way I'm glad it's raining.

[chuntzy]

Daughter up from London so have had Sunday lunch out - very rarely do that as it means driving to eat anywhere worthwhile and that means either me or MOH can't down a half bottle of red.

[megustaleer]

Elder son 'phoned yesterday to invite himself and family here.
As the house is a tip (I've spent the past week gardening, on here, or sleeping), and I'd just had a row with his father I was in a bad mood and said they couldn't come before Monday teatime as I had to tidy the house, clean, shop and cook first :mad:
It's the first time ever that I have not rushed to kill the fatted calf, but the outcome was good, as it resulted in the first ever invitation to have Sunday lunch with them :) It was interesting to see the little ones on their own turf, especially the toddler, as he was much more relaxed, and we enjoyed the afternoon.

It was great to have a meal that I haven't had to prepare myself :yumyum:

[lipstick_librarian]

Well, I finally moved house yesterday and am now ensconsed with my beloved in Worcester. Laptop is online, books are on shelves, clothes and other essentials still in boxes... And yes, the weather is dreadful. Thankfully it stayed dry while we were unloading yesterday.

[megustaleer]

Laptop is online, books are on shelves, clothes and other essentials still in boxes... .Glad to see you've got your priorities right. ;)

Hope ypu are happy in your new home. Worcester is a lovely city.

[megustaleer]

I'm listening to Farming Today and waiting for The Today Programme (from the Hay festival) to start.
It's been a wild, wet and windy night, and heavy clay pots of plants have been blown over on the patio. The wind is still thrashing the branches round on the shrubs and trees, and the taller plants are going to be completely flattened.
central heating back on today, I think :mad:

My little grandson is supposed to be spending a day here in the week, to hunt insects as his half-term 'homework'. Can't see any day being dry enough :(

[Lady Lazarus]

Raining here too, so I've been pottering in the kitchen all morning. Made my daughter a 'hidden vegetable tomato pasta sauce' in the hopes that she might eat more! Off to the Turkish shop later as I'm aiming to make a 'meze' dish of roasted veg with (another!) tomato sauce, and some filo cheesy pies...yum!

[Flingo]

Where IS everyone? I know it's a bank holiday weekend, but the weather's rubbish... am I the only one stuck indoors on the internet? Surely not! :D
I don't know where the last few days have gone - I don't seem to have got on line at all. I seem to have got my reading bug back (thank you Carnegie shortlist!) and we have been trying to clear some of the hundreds of hours of recorded TV we have on DVDs. We have mostly been watching the "Prison Break" series that I have had the DVD player and freeview box record over the last couple of months, and are now all caught up with Channel 5.

Other than that, today, I have been trying to tidy the house a bit in preparation for going away in less than a week....(need a bigger recycling bin!).

[MarkC]

Where IS everyone? I know it's a bank holiday weekend, but the weather's rubbish... am I the only one stuck indoors on the internet? Surely not! :D

Yesterday I got up at 0540 to get to Llandow (west of Cardiff) as the two motor clubs in Bristol were jointly running a sprint event at the circuit there and I was clerk of the course (which means in overall charge and having overall responsibility). We were lucky with the weather as it stayed dry all day but I was completely done for by the time I got home (need a sleeping smiley I think) so I didn't even look at the PC.

With the amount I worry about these events before hand I always wonder that I end up volunteering to do them again.

Elder son 'phoned yesterday to invite himself and family here.
If I invite myself to my parents I normally give them several weeks notice and wouldn't mind in the slightest if the place was a tip. I've been told I live in one so I'm hardly likely to be upset seeing one elsewhere ...

[megustaleer]

If I invite myself to my parents I normally give them several weeks notice and wouldn't mind in the slightest if the place was a tip. The problem is that I mind.
I resent it being made into a tip, and then I resent being the only one who clears it up, so I don't, and it gets into a worse tip and I get even more resentful...etc. etc. :mad:

[Elfstar]

The problem is that I mind.
I resent it being made into a tip, and then I resent being the only one who clears it up, so I don't, and it gets into a worse tip and I get even more resentful...etc. etc. :mad:


Yup know that one. Kids away at the weekend, house looked reasonable, been back a day house is tip. And then my mother nags :rolleyes: Still had peaceful weekend with the washing machine and lawnmower :) Currently waiting for drill to charge so I can finish hanging mirror!

[Billybob]

I'm about to try and make a dent in my ironing pile. What an exciting life I lead. :)

[megustaleer]

Yup know that one. Kids away at the weekend, house looked reasonable, been back a day house is tip.!There are no children in my house :rant: :angry: :banghead:

[FirelightSpirit]

Sitting in work, mulling over an epiphany I've just had, which is that since my surgery a few months ago, I now like what I see in the mirror. :) I told family and friends recently that it was like looking at a different person, but now I see me - a better me. :)

[megustaleer]

I'm so pleased for you, FlS.
Not many women like what they see in the mirror, don't let anyone ever take that feeling away from you!

[FirelightSpirit]

I'm so pleased for you, FlS.
Not many women like what they see in the mirror, don't let anyone ever take that feeling away from you!
Thanks :)

I won't. It took me twenty-eight years to get to this feeling: I'm not about to let it go now.

[Momo]

Great, FLS, that's very nice.
Meg, don't worry, a lot of us live like that and have those spells where everything seems to be in disarray. Just watch one of those "Houses Behaving Badly" shows and you will see that your house is still spick and span. :D

[chuntzy]

Today was my volunteering day at the Citizens Advice. All human life is there, especially debt.

[lipstick_librarian]

..wondering why all my local Citizen's Advice Bureaux seem to have disappeared! For the first time in my life I needed to visit one this week and had to go all the way into town.

[megustaleer]

I'm filling in time between putting our tea/dinner/supper in the oven to cook, and getting it out to eat it :yumyum:

[brightphoebus]

I have been doing jury service today and I am feeling a little spaced out. Strangely, the day in court felt as if I were on a film-set, yet posting on BGO feels like real life :hmm:

[Lady Lazarus]

ooh brightphoebus - i did my jury service when i was 17 and loved it. Hope you get something interesting! lots of hanging around there tho, so take a good book (as if you wouldn't!)

[Flingo]

Carrying on the domestic theme - need to do a load of washing, and then cook myself some tea (His Lordship is out pubbing at the mo, so no dinner cooked for me tonight!). As I am now the wrong side of half a bottle of wine on an empty stomach, this could be interesting!

[lipstick_librarian]

Trying to resist the temptation to put Big Brother on. I know, I know... but if I don't watch I'll have nothing to talk about at work for 3 months. :rolleyes:

[brightphoebus]

ooh brightphoebus - i did my jury service when i was 17 and loved it. Hope you get something interesting! lots of hanging around there tho, so take a good book (as if you wouldn't!)Well, I thought I might get at least a morning's reading having heard the stories of other people who had recently done jury service, but I was picked almost straight away! :grumble: Better that, though, than hanging around for days, I expect.

[Momo]

I have been doing jury service today and I am feeling a little spaced out. Strangely, the day in court felt as if I were on a film-set, yet posting on BGO feels like real life :hmm:I think this is when it becomes dangerous, The Matrix is looming. http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/evilgrin/evilgrin0010.gif (http://www.mysmiley.net)
Well, I thought I might get at least a morning's reading having heard the stories of other people who had recently done jury service, but I was picked almost straight away! :grumble:That always happens to me at the doctor or hairdresser or any place I get to with my book. If I forget it for once, I have to wait for ages! :rolleyes:

[Barblue]

Visitors have just left after a sojourn of eight days - luckily we missed most of the bad weather in Lancashire until yesterday. Having started the washing machine to clear the backlog of laundry, I am catching up on BGO and then intend to catch up on my reading in the glorious warm sunshine now bathing our back garden. :) Housework can wait.

[megustaleer]

I'm trying out various online book and reading groups. Haven't found any as good as BGO, 'though.

Am leaving a link to BGO in my 'signature' on each one :naughty:

[Jen]

...still painting...

[chuntzy]

Uninstalling HP printer, installing HP printer, HP printer still not working, googling for replacement HP printers, checking cartridge prices for HP printers, dreaming of HP printers......

(PS:Barblue: our son asked what do visitors and fish have in common? The answer apparently is that they both go stale after three days. Mmm!)

[megustaleer]

(PS:Barblue: our son asked what do visitors and fish have in common? The answer apparently is that they both go stale after three days. Mmm!)I think the saying is actually that they stink after three days, but perhaps your son censored it for parental consumption! ;)

[Barblue]

(PS:Barblue: our son asked what do visitors and fish have in common? The answer apparently is that they both go stale after three days. Mmm!)
:lmao: :lmao: Love it!

[Flingo]

We were supposed to be going into town today to do some last minute holiday shopping and then to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3 but as the weather has been so good we decided to go tomorrow. Instead we have enjoyed a nice walk through the local woods, and then got chips from the takeaway and eaten them as chip butties in the garden. Not the classiest birthday tea I've ever had - but very enjoyable and we're going to have a nice lunch tomorrow before hitting the shops!

[megustaleer]

Oh Flingo! We Nearly missed it!

:festive: :beerchug: Happy Birthday :beerchug: :festive:

[Momo]

... Pirates of the Caribbean 3 but as the weather has been so good we decided to go tomorrow.Even if everyone else is leaving, stay till the very end!!! There is a nice scene after all the names have appeared.

[Hazel]

Right now, trying to add CDs to my iPod Shuffle, watching Jackass 2 and browsing at BGO!

Happy birthday Flingo!

[megustaleer]

Been levelling the ground for constructing raised beds for veggies in the garden, but had to come in from the heat as I was feeling sick!

Had a nice shower, and am drying off in front of the computer :D

[Barblue]

Sitting in front of the computer; house completely silent (no visitors and no OH who is off playing golf). Thinking of all the things I ought to be doing, but can't drag myself away from reading BGO ... yet!

[Flingo]

Shopping done, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End watched, packing pretty much done, so time for bed. Back in a couple of weeks. Miss you all already!

[Bill]

I'm also on holiday from this morning, but only for a week. No parties while I'm gone please. In case of emergencies, I've left the number on the fridge.

[lucyb]

Oh, help! My last exam is on wednesday - UK Constitutional Framework and I am not entirely confident. Usually by this stage, everything is in bullet points on file cards and I'm industriously doing past papers. This time I'm just reading things over and over again, probably because the questions tend to be more subjective, for example "Discuss why someone should vote in a UK general election." as opposed to "Explain how the concept of vicarious liability obliges employers to supervise their workforce properly."

I know I said it before but Oh, help!

[Momo]

... Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End watched ...So, did you watch the end??? :confused:

Bill and Flingo, have a nice holiday. See you back soon, we hope!!!!Oh, help! My last exam is on wednesday All the best with your exam.

[Ian]

Wondering how Momo manages to post to so many threads in such a short space of time - lol

[FirelightSpirit]

Shopping done, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End watched, packing pretty much done, so time for bed. Back in a couple of weeks. Miss you all already!
We miss you too. Hope you're having fun!

I'm also on holiday from this morning, but only for a week. No parties while I'm gone please. In case of emergencies, I've left the number on the fridge.
Hope you're having a great time, Bill. We promise, we won't crash the site.

lucyb, best of luck.

[megustaleer]

We promise, we won't crash the site.
I now feel compelled to cross every crossable portion of my anatomy :yikes:
Thanks FlS :mad: :rolleyes:

[FirelightSpirit]

I now feel compelled to cross every crossable portion of my anatomy :yikes:
Thanks FlS :mad: :rolleyes:
Sorry! Famous last words, eh?

I take it back. Forget I ever wrote it. In fact, I didn't write it. Wrote what??

[Revony]

Listening to a fantastic piece of music (in my opinon) while talking to someone from New Zealand (apparently it's Winter over there!!)
Mind-boggling!

[Krey20]

Ignoring work. Trying to focus my mind instead of day-dreaming.
Listening to a fantastic piece of music (in my opinon) ...
What are you listening to? (he asked, determined not to get on with his work..)

[FirelightSpirit]

Ignoring work. Trying to focus mind mind instead of day-dreaming.
Snap.

What are you listening to? (he asked, determined not to get on with his work..)
Yes, do tell. I like a good piece of music, I do. :)

[Momo]

Wondering how Momo manages to post to so many threads in such a short space of time - lolVery easy, once I day I get an e-mail with the threads I have responded to (ever). I just go through them and write an answer or a remark, if I have one (usually I do, I'm very talkative in RL, as well). And I'm a fast typist. :D

[Lady Lazarus]

After more weeks of coughing, I went to the doctor today and have been prescribed yet more antibiotics... looks like the chest infection I had before hasn't quite gone. Unfortunately he gave me weird antibiotics and I have to order them from boots!

[FirelightSpirit]

Just about to leave work. Meeting my sister and aunt, getting some food and heading to the George Michael concert in the RDS tonight. And a day off tomorrow. Bliss!

[Jeremy DEagle]

I'm sat here at work stuck down in commercial arguments for all the projects I'm working on.

What fun!

Looking forwards to my cholesterol test tomorrow... :(

[Barblue]

Is this your first cholestrol test Jeremy? I've had so many I don't even think about them now. You have my sympathy if you have to do the starvation one - that can be quite hard. Or is it just the thought of the needle.....? Say no more.

I've just said goodbye to my writing group friends. We've had a good session today going over our work on 'A noise in the night'. I am now planning our evening meal before I dash off to my Borders reading group - which means I don't get to see the England game tonight. :angry:

[lipstick_librarian]

Regretting that I didn't memorise the directions to my new bellydancing class. Spent nearly an hour driving round every church hall in Malvern (it's a bigger place than you think!) and now back home with a ready-lasagne feeling fed up :mad:

[Jeremy DEagle]

No, I've had some when I was younger. I moved doctors recently and they made me have one. My dad had a quadruple bypass in his early fifties. He also had two heart attacks at the age of 29 and 30.

I'm 28 and when I had a test 9 months ago my cholesterol was 8.5, which is sky high. I'm slim and athletic and play football twice a week and have a good diet. I buy local organic produce whenever I can, very rarely drink etc.

I had a count three months later and had cut out cheese and semi skimmed milk and nearly all of the little bit of red meat that I ate and it had come down to 5.2, which is a dramatic reduction in so short a space of time.

Having one again tomorrow to see how I am doing. At the age of 28 I refuse to be on statins for the rest of my life!

[Sofia]

killing time at the moment.

[Jen]

At the age of 28 I refuse to be on statins for the rest of my life!
Good for you Jezza, statins are not the benign cure-alls that GPs seem to think, some people get bad side effects and anything you can do yourself to avoid long term meds is a v good thing. Stupendous effort - and they say diet only contributes a small amount to blood cholesterol levels! That said, if my cholesterol was high and unresponsive to dietary changes, and there was a high congenital risk of heart disease, I'd be on the statins ASAP.

[Lady Lazarus]

Am on the internet at 5.30am... can't be good. Pondering life, love and the universe... feel rough due to chest infection and contemplating a life up north with just my daughter (and waving goodbye to Lord Lazarus).... :(

[Hazel]

Filling a few minutes before I have breakfast and begin the daily slog, and now hoping that Lady Lazarus is okay and sending her my love.

[Momo]

Trying to get through this site at the moment. Couldn't make it yesterday since I was in an all-day meeting and then had visitors in the evening .... :rolleyes:

[Hazel]

Watching Shark, not because I particularly want to but I can't seem to walk away when James Woods is on the box. Oh, and surfing BGO, of course. Contemplating a cuppa and biccy.

[brightphoebus]

Having a last look at BGO tonight having visited four times already. Not looking forward to my second day in the jury deliberating room with some very dithery people who CANNOT MAKE A DECISION :banghead:

[lucyb]

Finished my last exam wednesday and now having some me time. I'm on my third book in two days and in two hours am going for a Holistic Facial and hot stone therapy. Also hoping Lady Lazarus is doing ok. :flowers:

[megustaleer]

Driven in from the garden by drizzle, after battening down the hatches ready for the torrential rain we might be getting later (depending on how far north the SE reaches, and how far west East Anglia starts) :rolleyes:

[Krey20]

Just finished rowing into work. ;) The torrential rain is definitely here (Ipswich).

[brightphoebus]

Also hoping Lady Lazarus is doing ok. :flowers:Yep, same here. LL, please let us know how you are feeling...

[Lady Lazarus]

thanks for the nice thoughts.. things are a bit better here. The joys of marriage eh?!

[Hazel]

There's joys?

[FirelightSpirit]

Hey all. Back in work today after a lazy day at home yesterday. George Michael was great - just lucky we went Wesnesday as he cancelled ('postponed') last night's show due to 'technical difficulties'. Well, it was a great show anyway.

Hope the cholesterol test went well Jeremy.

Lady L, glad things are better. BGO is always here!

[Lady Lazarus]

There's joys?
:D

[megustaleer]

BGO is always here!I've already got everything crossable crossed :rolleyes:

[Jeremy DEagle]

Hope the cholesterol test went well Jeremy.



Well, apart from feeling like I had been harpooned I'm fine (the nurse was a little rough). I'll let people now the scores on the doors.

[Revony]

Having a mental breakdown! :help:

[Krey20]

Having a mental breakdown! :help:
You only joined 4 days ago, that must be our new record! Hope you're OK...

[Revony]

It was not the forum but my mind that has caused the problem!

I think ill be alright (hopefully)

[Jen]

It was not the forum but my mind that has caused the problem!

I think ill be alright (hopefully)
Oh dear Revony, this doesn't sound good. Can we help?

I'm trying to digest my dinner. I cooked a curry, inspired by and modified from the one Gordon Ramsay did for Chris Moyles on Tuesday's F-Word. It was delicious. I ate far too much. :yumyum:

[FirelightSpirit]

Came online to transfer files from my email onto my laptop and discovered an email from the co-ordinator of the course I'm hoping to do in September. They're interested in my application (yay), but I have to send on some more information, which I will do on Monday.

Fingers, toes and anything else that can cross crossed! Hopefully this is a good sign.

[lucyb]

Everything crossed for you! fO cousre this dos mea n tat my typting si a bit od.d. :p

I went to Homebase this morning to get 4 pots so I could plant out my tomatoes. Came back with 4 pots, some rosemary, oregano, thyme, sage, tarragon, a chilli plant and a sweet pepper plant. Oh, and the extra pots to house them in. Plus some long troughs as my salad leaves are ready to go out. And then, of course, you need some compost .... probably the dearest 4 pots I'll ever buy!

[lipstick_librarian]

I cooked a curry, inspired by and modified from the one Gordon Ramsay did for Chris Moyles on Tuesday's F-Word.
Uncanny - me too! (Last night that is - my days of eating curry for breakfast are long over...)

[Elfstar]

Everything crossed for you! fO cousre this dos mea n tat my typting si a bit od.d. :p

I went to Homebase this morning to get 4 pots so I could plant out my tomatoes. Came back with 4 pots, some rosemary, oregano, thyme, sage, tarragon, a chilli plant and a sweet pepper plant. Oh, and the extra pots to house them in. Plus some long troughs as my salad leaves are ready to go out. And then, of course, you need some compost .... probably the dearest 4 pots I'll ever buy!


It's a bit like bookshops isn't it. I've just had a confirmation for some books ordered from Waterstones (they were offering an extra 20% off yesterday) and been out and bought some more potting compost, petunias, hanging baskets......


(one of the books was Gordon's)

[lucyb]

His recipes on tv are a bit basic on the information front: 'Chicken...season...oven...cook... Roast chicken....Done! Yeah, right - how much seasoning? How hot an oven? How long for? I'm not saying I can't cook a chicken (others might ;) ) but a little more direction would be nice!

[megustaleer]

I'm procrastinating.

I should be out in the garden, sieving the stones and weedy roots out of a heap of topsoil my husband has 'acquired' to fill our new raised beds. But I've been doing it for days now, and it's backbreaking work. The soil is quite heavy as the rain got into the heap over that wet Bank Holiday.

Instead I am working on something for next week's 'Writers' Circle' exercise, and hopping between BGO and a couple of other forums to make out that I'm 'busy' ;)

Must get back to the garden soon. I'm the one with veggie plants getting leggy for want of a proper home :rolleyes:

[Lady Lazarus]

Instead I am working on something for next week's 'Writers' Circle' exercise

Wow you are well-ahead Meg! I usually do mine in about 30mins and then just post it quickly :o Maybe I should sit in the garden and write too!

I've just eaten some fresh pineapple and you can taste the sunshine :D

[Elfstar]

I did my regret piece last week and I daren't look at it again so I'm washing the kids school uniforms, hanging other washing out, planted up 2 hanging baskets (small ones) showed the runner beans where the supports are, smiled at the tomatoes :D ,put another coat of "exactly what it says on the tin" garden furniture protector on my new picnic bench and am rewarding myself with a browse on BGO.

[Hazel]

I am taking a short break from trying to clear a huge 'To Do' list, which includes catching up on the BGO writers' corner exercises.

[megustaleer]

I've sieved some more topsoil, done 3 loads of washing (and another just gone in the machine), been to the supermarket for a 'big shop', and put it all away, and when I've finished here, I am going to have a little siesta :D

[brightphoebus]

I've just come back from a brilliant day's birding in the Stodmarsh nature reserve near Canterbury. I'm still heady from the sights and smells of June. Now to get my book and stretch out in what I laughingly call the garden.

[chuntzy]

Watched cricket at Clumber Park, a National Trust property, which has a lovely cricket ground and pictureque club house. The opposition today were a team called West Indian Cavaliers from Nottingham and it was the best match I've ever seen there. The visitors got so many boundaries and a fair number of 6's. And my scones were especially yummy today.

[FirelightSpirit]

Everything crossed for you! fO cousre this dos mea n tat my typting si a bit od.d. :p
:lmao: :D

[lucyb]

Just taken the dog for a walk in the park before it gets too hot - looks like it's going to be a glorious day. Can't resist popping into the back yard every hour or so to see how all my veggies and herbs are doing. This is the first time I've attempted more than parsley and tomatoes and I'm going to have to try very hard not to become a bore on the subject!

[megustaleer]

I'm going to have to try very hard not to become a bore on the subject!I s'pose we could start a gardening thread? I could bore quite adequately on the subject ;)

[lucyb]

You could be the resident Guru:

...Dear Meg, my strawberries refuse to flower even though I feed them. Is it because they don't love me any more? Confused of Wirral :D

[megustaleer]

You could be the resident Guru:

...Dear Meg, my strawberries refuse flower even though I feed them. Is it because they don't love me any more? Confused of Wirral :D I might have to confess that I'm not quite the know-it-all that I like to make myself out to be:( ...although I could always look up the answers on Google first;)

[Elfstar]

You mean you don't have a shelf of gardening books? :rolleyes:
Perhaps we should start a gardening thread, I've just checked my courgette plant (never grown one before). I also have 3 tomatoes, a chilli, sweet pepper and lots of runner beans.