Afternoon Chris - nice to get an early blog again!

Difficult one that you posed............people don't tend to welcome advice in this area and it's so hard to see you own mistakes - when others' are blindingly obvious!

Am waiting for my BB book to arrive from a well-known retailer - think you may have started something here!

df

CLP

sometimes you just have to let a friend know how you feel and then let them make their mistakes. remember to be there if it all goes wrong!

I don't think you can look for Mr right - i found a man by pure chance but then maybe I'm just lucky

Glad you liked the BB book - i enjoyed it too and found it most interesting! It was very accessibloe to read as well which helped.

super bp x

Afternoon CLP

Thanks for the good tatt wishes! Still not found a tatt pardner .... so if anyone fancies a Friday afternoon in Feb holding my hand .... ! ! !

To tell or not to tell. Hmmmmmmm. I have a very good friend who is with someone and is very very happy. BUT one of her other friends (who has known her longer than I have, and is male) thinks her fella is totally wrong for her. This has caused upset and they are not on speaking terms at the mo, which has made said friend very upset to say the least.

The thing is, because he's male, does he have ultirior motives for saying they are not good together ..... ?? Hmmm???

Well done for finishing the BB book - you could have loaned it to be and saved me a few quid! Gonna start my copy tonight.

btw: have you ever been to The Globe on the South Bank and seen Shakespeare is it's meant to be seen? Absolutely awesome! But hire a cushion - the bench seats are a little hard!!

Right, off to place nose back up against that grindstone .... will dip in as the afternoon gently lopes towards 5.00 pm.

Chezza la Diva x x x x

Hi sbp - I too met the 'right' one when I wasn't looking at all and was at the tag end of a bad relationship - these things happen for a reason!

I have some friends who have continually chosen the wrong men - who cheat and hurt them etc etc - but when they're all loved up at first they won't listen to any negatives from anyone else - so as you say, being there for them when it all goes wrong is about all I could do.

df

Hi Chris,

Well ...... she is just trying too hard, isn't she? She is so desperate, she's bound to make any guy run in the opposite direction!

Is it possible to tell her that unless she relaxes, and starts to believe in herself, she'll never get anywhere with guys? Very difficult, this one!

And unfortunately, if she is with someone, and you know it's the wrong someone, you just have to bite your lip. Only two exceptions: 1. You know he is violent; 2. You know he's being unfaithful.

Other than that, you have to hope for the best. How about she tries to improve her self-esteem? Surely if she has you for a friend, she would listen to your advice?!

Good luck!

C xx

P.S. Yes, you do have to tell your friend if they have bad breath! Friendships are seldom easy!

Afternoon

Always difficult giving advice this is why after wanting to do a few shifts for the Samaritans I had to think twice.
You are only there to listen and I don't think I could stay silent.

However a friend of mine once approached me for advice when she fell out with her then boyfriend. Fortunately I stayed very non commital. As she later married him I very glad I stayed on mutual territory. People can quite literally lose their heads over relationships.

Clodagh- The hair thing well thanks for asking. It is growing but still what I call a boring bob with layers. The salon has awarded me a free hairdo in Feb but somehow I don't think I will be going back.

Gingembre bet you can't wait for the post. I too am awaiting a parcel not as exciting as yours though. It is 40 candle light bulbs from an Internet company and I may yet even stock pile more.


have a good day all


PP

Ah, fi, are you really me?

Christophe, what posers indeed! I'm always around to pick up the pieces...well, I like to think I am...having got (and had) some lovely friends who do the same for me...but you can't tell people really...they only end up shooting the messenger...so unless you never want to see her again, I'd keep a bit schtum...I'm sure you've tried to change or re-route the subject when you've been out with your friend but it'll all be babby talk soon enough...(yes it will) so you never know, that might give her another focus...or get her knitting...nowt like knitting to sharpen the mind...I just wish I could knit...

a bandage on your piercing
love
hazel
x

never put a plaster over a new tat .....

Morning/Afternoon everyone, interesting blog today. I suppose it's like the "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" philosophy. They might not like what they hear at the time. But in the cold light of day the next morning, most agree it was the right thing to do. I think in this instant, some brotherly sort of advice would be warranted. Something like, " I know you're keen to find someone. I have some suggestions on how you might find/hang onto Mr. Right" Or something like that. It's still a tough conversation though.

Hope everyone had a good weekend.

CtD, that sounds like one of those modern day sayings...... LOL

Oooh, CLP be careful in that minefield there!!

I would say no, don't interfere, as there's very little chance your friend will be grateful for (what she will probably see as) your negativity.

How about gently trying to steer the conversation away from romance once she starts. Maybe if you do it often enough, then you'll have other things to discuss when a "beau" situation does present itself.

Hello to everyone by the way, hope you're all keeping well, afraid I haven't been keeping up (bad flower!) as been very busy at work (only 7.5 working days to go!!) and shattered by the time I get home.

AF xx

ps had the smelly feet conversation with a friend once, wasn't pleasant. But not as unpleasant as the feet...

ps CtD, are you still going for Alice, or am I way behind here? xx

PP, having read your post again, after having thought 'well, if the leccy and gas go on strike and it all turns into 1974 again, we can all go to the Prof's house because at least she'll have light' then I saw the word that says 'bulbs' which I take it will need leccy.

am now in corner wearing the I'm Stoopid hat

Hazel - nope, definitely 2 of us - I was away doing some work when you posted!

Afternoon to everyone else - how's it in the good ol' US of A Bondy? Now it's grey and wet here and I rather miss the bright, cold weather. No pleasing some folk..............

df

hello flower!

#12 - not going for Alice now - something my mum said late last summer along the lines of "you never know what he may be up to until it's too late ..." (i think she was referring to rock star scandals, which are plentiful!)

So, I'm having stars, joined on a vine, cascading over left shoulder and down upper arm area.

Cited!

Ooooh - and 7 days til Russell Brand!! Hope he's gonna be ready for me .....

x x x

Sentimentations Of Elloness Ter CLP And Most Indeed Ter ALL Of The CLP UK Blog!!!!

Bingo Star ere.....

CLP - woooow... wow.... CLP... this friend of yours.... give me more details!!!!
I understand what it's like when yer continually single and forever failing... falling in the game of..... love but noot falling in love, just falling. (my goodness there's a song idea in there!!!)
On top of that no offence ter you and Tash (noot the song idea bit) and all other romantically linked romantics. But yer know when all your friends, relatives are getting married, aving babies aka in love and all is going well.
As much as yer very 'appy that yer friends, family are 'appy and in love etc, etc, etttttterrrrrrrrrrRA.... it just rubs it in abit and makes yer feel a little more a failiure in love when your the only one sitting around the table who's on yer own, who's going 'ome terneet alone.... who's noot gonna get any wild jig, yer can only feel but moan!
Maybe that's why she might be feeling a little insecure or talkin about 'er love life aloot.
Plus us singletons always go for the wrong ones don't we. We're like a magnet for the lyers.... and a Britsh built Saddam 'ussein super gun for the reet ones aka fire them away... at 'igh velocity - know what am sayin'!!!!!
CLP, feel for 'er man.... feel for 'er... I do!!!!
PS Am available... a need details.... 'eight, age, inside leg meassurementations.... 'air colour... star sign... BMI index..... resting pulse rate.... blood pressure.... etc.... etc... we could be made fro each other..... or maybe noot.... life ain't easy, life.... LOVE ain't easy!!!!
All a can say CLP man... be easy on ere.
PPS At least yuv goot some friends too - know what ams ayin'!!!!!
PPPS Also CLP, remember if she is boring you with 'ere love life stories.. at least you ave Tash and can count yerself glad ter noot be as Beyonce put it 'A Singlette'!!!!!

All the points ave raised on the above matter a.....'ope this 'elps!!!!!!

PPPPPS - A feel am abit like your friend writing on the blog too much about my failed love life!!!!!!!

PPPPPPS - 'eard the new Beyonce tune 'Singlette'.... the chorus goes (FAST REPEATED LYRICS).......
"if you like it.. you should ave put a ring on it,
if you like it.. you should ave put a ring on it,
if you like it.. you should ave put a ring on it"
If a waz doing a Beyonce duet my bit would be (in capitals)...
"if you like it.. you should ave put a ring on it, (A DID)
if you like it.. you should ave put a ring on it (A DID),
if you like it you should ave put a ring on it (IT GOT ME NOWHERE) (A SAY BEYO... IT GOT ME NOWHERE)"

Damn it.... doin' git, sorry it again talkin' about me failed love life!!!!!!

GOURANGA 09!!!!!!!!!

#16... the best a can get - With blogs this damn long am never gonna getta #1 blog postion!!!!!

That will be a no then Christoph - once told a friend - wrong man chuck - didn't speak to me for the 2 years they were married!!!

Afternoon Mr Bond.

Quiet here today? Thought I'd have loads to catch up on!

Beesmum xx

Hazel don't give me ideas.. might start my own wind farm next.

But without sounding like Mr Ludlight. Bulbs for light fittings with dimmer switches cost about £6.00's each for two of my candlelabra light fittings alone that would be £72.00.
As it is I have secured 40 candle bulbs for £21.00 inc postage and packing.

Electricians are having to take retraining courses at their own expense.
Can you imagine this happening in Spain... no they don't take the EEC seriously like we do here.

Makes me wonder what the Government will ban next.

plum

we have investigated energy lights as we got 5 for a pound and found they do fit the sockets we thought they wouldn't fit - which is a relief as I didn't want to shell out for two wall lights and two over head ligths right at this moment!

PS All - A 'ear Stevens Wright aka well known broadcaster/ DJ 'as 'ad ter go sick terdee.
I 'eard Rich Al say 'e's gone ter the dentist ter ave 'is abs assesed?????
Abs assesed... surely yer would want a personal trainer????
Must be a Wrighite new year resolution, ter get the washboard look.... me too!!!!! (Whatta coincidence).

PS Just 'ope Tash ain't drop before 5 or Rich Al's gonna be the only one on a emergency 5 'our stretch!!!!!!!!!

GOURANGA 09 .... snova!!!!!!!

Super B And PP - The energy saving bulbs... get yersen down ter B and the Q.... they've gotta a selection of energy saving bulbs of all sizes - yer know for all the different sizes.... like lamps, picture lights, the dangling small lights.... etc!!!!!

'ope this 'elps your situation in question!!!!!

GOURANGA 09..... yet... snova!!!!!!

Afternoon everyone . . .

A winter sun is hanging loosely over a Belfast sky - threatening thoughts of summer through to our office desks - yet all I can think of is an impending ski-break!
The weekend was a blur of parties, dancing, comedy, diy, self composure and solitary confinement (not in that order, though . .)

I've come across your quandry manys a time in my circle - the lazy way out is to let nature play its curse - eventually said friend should catch themselves on, wake up and smell the coffee - the problem is that this may indeed take some time . . .!!
Its the yin and the yang of the wonder of friendship . .

Take it easy everyone . . .Happy Monday !!

DtM x

Bingo - you hit the nail on the head. It is very difficult being single when all your friends are married and have children.

I went to a 50th Birthday party on Saturday night of a very good friend who I've known since I was 11. At one point during the evening I nearly burst into tears (and believe me I don't do public displays of affection).

It just suddenly struck me that everyone was a couple, his kids who weren't even born when I first knew him had their boyfriends and girlfriends there (which made me feel really old) and at one point he was dancing with his 16 year old daughter and I thought to myself I'm never going to be 50 with a 16 year old!!

If I ever get round to having kids I'm going to be too old and knackered to appreciate them.

And if one more of my married friends says "you're better off single" I might dock them one! Yes it has it's perks, but it also has it's downsides and sometimes they are more than the perks.

Sorry had to get that off my chest.

AliB
xx

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Lost Ali Baba - I am with you, I am with CLP's single friend!!!!!

But am also with CLP too, I understand all areas!!!!!

PS Thanks for the compliments about 'itting the nail on the 'ead!!!!!
Normally a 'it me thumb!!!!!!

...akshully Christophe...I've just had another thought.

How about a nice cup of tea.

It is three pee emm (m) ish so it must be about then. A lovely cuppa char to take the mind off worriting and fretting about telling your friend or not. Am also wondering if she has the bad breath too, or if that was just rhetorical..?

Plum...a wind farm...wonderful idea...I'm wondering if I can harness the power of the Badger Snore somehow, but that's probably not for here...

...and a Singlette. Is this not an M&S vest?
love
hazel
x

Mmmmmm difficult one that! It sounds like your friend needs to chill a bit and what will be, will be!

As for the bad breath bit - Yes, you have to tell - diffficult but has to be done! Bad breath's a terrible thing and has to be dealt with

Happy Monday

Liz x

Po'beau - what a brill expression!!!!

Tis very difficult, I think I have to agree with what some of the others have said - just be there for her when it all goes wrong ... It's very difficult to tell someone else where they're going wrong - especially in a situation like yours, when you're all loved up and about to have a babby! Or maybe I should say it's sometimes very hard to hear stuff like that from someone in your situation when the other person is still single and searching!

From experience, the best friends I have are the ones who love me no matter how many times I make the same stooopid mistakes, they are always there to pick up the pieces and make me feel better again, and wish me better luck next time!!

T xxx

Hi beesmum and derbyfi, hope you are both well and had a good weekend.

We had another 6 inces snow at the weekend. Another storm coming this week mid-week along with sub zero temperatures. Of course that's sub zero fahrenheit....brrrrr.

Took pic of the snowy course from my office this morning. I'll post it to FB soon.....

Seems like it's never ending cold weather for you Bond - is this typical or unusual for your area?

df

dunno bout you lot, but it's stoopidly dark here. really dark. i mean, dark! and its only just after half three ....

weird!

Yup Diva dark and miserable - thought it was time to go home!

Look forward to the pic James.

Bees xxx

derbyfi, snow and cold yes, but sub-zero temps, not windchill, are rare. It's not uncommon to have snow in April.....

Dark, dank, and miserable where I am too. At least it's warmer and I am not freezing my nether regions off in the church office this afternoon!

AliB
xx

aww AliB - I do so hate it when one's nether's freeze off! most uncomfortable! xx

CtD, There is indeed nothing worse than freezing nether regions! It was so cold last week, they nearly did fall off!! xx

ouch!

;-)

what's everyone having for tea tonight? i'm treating Mr Diva to liver and bacon, with fried onions, mash, peas and thick gravy.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

#24 AliB - so totally know where you're coming from!! Big hugs to you!!

T xxx

We're having fish fingers, chips and beans. YUM.

Hello Chris,

All body parts have checked in. :)

Friends: to have a good friend- you need to be a good friend my friend, and good friends always stab each other in the chest when required. Having plunged the knife as deep as it can go; you can both see it - and pull it out together over a pint/lunch/walk/ or whatever floats your boat.

Some people see finding Mr/Mrs Right, as the road to happiness, but that doesn't work. There is no journey to happiness. Happiness comes to you. Nobody can make you happy - what they can do, is bring out the happiness within you. It's already there- so just be.....

Understand happiness and you will be happy.

TVWx

PS. How is that Power Plate thing going?

Danish Stew....

what's Danish stew? i'm thinking bacon .... ?

CtD, that sounds lovely!! Have toyed with the idea of a 2nd tattoo myself (sorry to join the conversation so late!), but I wouldn't like to go to anyone I don't know, and the last (and first...) one I had was when I lived in Belfast - it's a bit of a trek for a tatt!

Good luck with yours!

AF xx

PS Lost Ali Baba - ope you didn't think I waz making light of your blog comentation.
Thought afterwards maybe it sounded like a wasn't taking your situation/ and at the party serious - but I am!!!!!
Am in exactly the same boat as you!!!!
A waz just trying ter be light 'earted about the nail on the 'ead bit!!!!!

Sentiments of 'ugs to you from me.. now ter make up for earlier {{{{'ug}}}} xxx

Chow!

Thanks Tinsel xx

I'm having spag bol - should be nicely defrosting as I type.

AliB
xx

Bingo, No offence was taken at all, thanks for the 'ugs, right back at ya with bells on xxx

Bingo, AliB, can I have an 'ug too please?

Am another singlette with many married/parent friends. Although I do have a couple of friends who are in a similar position to me, so it's nice to be able to call on them for a drink after work (my married/parent friends seem to need two or three weeks' notice to get together!).

I am a believer that it comes along when you're least looking for it though (love that is!!), so I try not to dwell.

You never know, 2009 may be our year!!

AF xx

{{{{{}}}}}} For you Flower xxx

ps leaning towards fish 'n' chips hee hee!

mince (they call it hamburger here?), leaks, carrots, other veg that I can't think of right now. Serve over creamy mash potatoes.

I should point out that no danes (great or otherwise) are hurt or injured during making and cooking of said Danish Stew......LOL

'Leaks' James???????!!! I really hope not - won't ever be eating chez Bond if so!! LOL

Reminds me of that old film 'The war of (or between?) the Roses' - Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner I think! Also liked the bit after the 'leak' scene when she crushes his beloved car!

df

Odd isn't it. The comment about married and parent friends I mean. Le Badger and me aren't married (or parents unless you count the cats - last time I still had two) and we seem to manage to make and keep to arrangements...but other friends of ours, who are married or engaged, not necessarily parents...can't organise a p up in a brewery without having to change the date fifteen times, by which time it is now the summer or the winter and everyone else has forgotten why we were getting together in the first place.

Planning is where it all seems to go wrong. The baby is usually, and very inconveniently, poorly, and it couldn't possibly have been poorly during the last three months we've been waiting to see eachother! Oho no...the iddle widdle darlings save it up! Although Christophe...I do have an odd feeling that this won't happen to you.

Me and Chezza - fell down in the planning.

planning is the square route (sic)
love
hazel
x

Flower, you're s'posed to get ugs in a size smaller so that they can stretch, but you'll just have to wear more socks for these I think! 'UG!

leaks, I only eat them in this stew. If you cut them up really, really small it's fine. The stew is missing something if you leave them out though.......

Woohoo! Just realised the time! YAY YAY and thrice YAY!!!

I hate to break with my new tradition, so I shall have a soft boiled egg, some toast and a cup of tea for my repast this evening.

did have a rather substantial lunch y'see...happy Monday indeed
love
hazel
x

AliB, try the cold water method if you can face another egg yet!

...and following the Beijing Olympics, the British committee have decided to name the sporting venues after food (remember the Birds Nest?).

The athletics stadium shall be known as the Yorkshire Pudding, and the pool area shall be called The Leak(again sic)...

You heard it here first
ciao bananas it's been lovely
x

Ah CLP therein lies a minefield. Tread carefully.

I can honestly say I've never been on a mission to find Mister Right; from the evidence I see all all around me, when you start foraginin' for Mister Right you end up with Mister Right Eejit. Or worse.

It's like Liz Jones' Diary in the Mail supplement. Is that woman for real, or what? I'm compelled to read it with the same compulsion as picking at a scab. Oops sorry, if you're eatin' Bran Flakes.. What a twit she is. Unless she's completely fibbin', in which case she's a genius.

Any road, Last tale about Renee then that's me for a while.

I may have mentioned that I made the GD and BF a haggis lasagne. Well, I also made one for Renee and put it in her freezer so she can help herself when I'm gone back to Ireland.

I've just returned from Liverpool to see said lasagne, or rather, half of it, out on the side.

"Ere," says she. "That lasagne tastes a bit funny, I haven't eaten it all."

"Funny how?" says I, a tad puzzled.

"Just funny. That cheese sauce tasted a bit sweet, maybe it needs a bit of salt."

"Cheese sauce? It's already in it, mum, you don't need to put it on..... Er, (thinks), what cheese sauce are you talking about?"

"That jug of cheese sauce in the fridge."

Oh-oh.

"Mum," says I. "That's custard."

Bless her. Well she gave it her best shot.

Haggis and custard, anybody?

Clodagh.xx

That's funny Clodagh......

Ah Mr Bond - chopped leeks are fine. Just don't like the other kind!! LOL x

Sorry............product of generations of teachers you see, and am rather pedantic about spelling! [Not that I can type 3 words without an error - thank goodness for automatic spellcheck!]

df

LOl derbyfi, I just realized the point you were trying to make....LOL No leaking, just leeks....LOL

When I was younger I couldn't even see myself with a nice boyfriend, let alone married with a little one by now. All my friends had boyfriends (at least, that's what it felt like) and I sometimes think I just joined in, just to feel like them, wondering if I'd ever actually like my boyfriends. Anyway. Mr Jumpy found me and fell in love - I don't know who was the more surprised! The rest is history, as they say.

It amazes me though, some of my single friends - how on earth they haven't got a steady b/g-friend is beyond me. Some of the lads especially, if I wasn't married, good grief I would be after them. A couple in particular.....

But as for telling your friend. I don't know. A friend (who I'm not really in contact with anymore) used to ask me frequently what I thought, she'd ask me not to lie, to speak my mind, etc etc - and when I did, after persuasion, she didn't like what I had to say - and I know that she knew I was right and she just didn't want to hear it. But because it was somebody else saying it, instead of her saying for herself, she could direct the anger and upsetness at somebody else (namely, me) and once again brush the problem under the carpet. I still don't know if she's acknowledged the answers she knows for herself. As lots of you have said, it's up to her to wake up and smell the coffee, so to speak!

Anyway, onto other things. Dinner. I was going to make casserole, I might make that later ready for tomorrow at this rate. So it will be leftover cheese and onion pie, with gravy yum yum yum... and coffee and yumyums for pudding! Mmmmm :)

Right, off to put the shopping away while the little man is distracted.

xx

me
and the jumpybean

Clodagh - ah, bless Renee! Easy mistake to make I suppose...........and it could have been worse - chocolate pudding and cheese sauce maybe?

df

Clodagh- haggis and custard!! Well done Renee :)

Phew!! Thanks for clarifying Bondy....................

I may be showing my age referring to that film - must be 20+ years old. But he did take a ....... in her dinner you see..........!

Maybe no-one else remembers it or maybe I am finally losing my last remaining marbles?

Will go quietly into the corner now and chunter gently for a few hours.

df.

Hazel: you are so right. In general, people when they get married/have children just stop making the effort with their friends.

In my case, I became what I thought was a sister to my best friend when her marriage was over. She came to our house twice a week, we went everywhere with her (not holidays, but lots of socialising) and just in general looked after her.

When MsS came along, I made sure I still saw my friend after work every Friday, the way we had done for many years, I saw her every second Saturday and I called her every night.

After kissing a lot of frogs, she did meet a lovely guy who we liked so much, we were both so happy for her. Within four months, she had changed beyond recognition, had become so distant with me and eventually I confronted her with it. She said to me "I'm sorry, but my life has moved on now and I can't put you before Adolf".

Nice, eh? End of friendship!

As you can see, it doesn't bother me. Much.

C xx

(P.S. His name isn't Adolf, but you get my drift!)

Blimey. I toodle off for the 4.30 meeting and you lot go bananas!

Hmm. We still make an effort! But I know what you mean. At our church in Manchester, we seemed to be the only married couple that still regularly went out with the young adults - because we were young adults. We hardly knew the other young married couples because they were all off doing married couple things on a Sunday afternoon instead of hanging out in the pubs and bars in Manchester! We just happened to make friends with a couple with a baby when we moved down South before I got pregnant, which is nice now we both have little ones and our other friend/couple have a little one on the way. Just the way it seems to have happened...

Blinkin' blimey though. I'd be wondering about Adolf, if he was really the right person for her if that's how much she changed in four months.... But then, what can you say :(

Swooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon!

I've gone all unnecessary, thanks to the awesome Steven Tyler crooning to me via the R2 airwaves ..... now there's a man with tatts to write home about!

He just wants to hold me close ...... awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

hey
hey
hey

whoooooooooooooooooooooooosh!

Thanks CLP! Made my day!

Chezza x x x x

Not enuff Aerosmith on R2, IMO !!

Hi all, just trying to catch up.

Firstly, Chezza, re. your last post on previous blog, and I am not trying to be funny here, just genuinely intrigued;

What in the name of goodness is a cruit from hell? Am imagining all manner of objects - a scary salt cellar? A putrid pepperpot? Do tell.

CLP, got the book for Christmas, haven't read it yet as I am still Reading "The Other Queen" by Phillipa Gregory, all about Mary Queen of Scots, the alluring minx.

Not around much these days but lurk occasionally and enjoying the funnies, keep 'em coming.

One last thing, I emailed my office the other day to say that I wouldn't be in that day because of "my stinking cold". When I read it back I had written "stinking cod". Which also is a good reason not to go to work I suppose.

Love to all,

A x

Wow ChrissieS, that IS tough. I think we all have been duped by people who portray themselves as our "best of friends" only to find out that's the farthest thing from the truth. For me it almost cost me my job, but thanks to a boss who saw right through this person. I am now very, very careful who I let into the "inner circle"......

Being on this blog and FB is absolutely huge for me. If I ever seem distant, you now know why.

LOL boleyngirl..... I think that just help emphasize the point.....

Jumpy: you are right. I hate to say it, but he turned out a complete nutter. What goes around ...... and all that!

Clodagh: I'm glad I am not alone re: Liz Jones! I read that stupid page every week, and I am never sure whether she is genuine/a nutcase/fabricating the whole thing. But like you, I HAVE to read it!

C xx

Hi Bloggers & CLP- just wrote a really long reply to the blog and it won't let me post anything long :(( Luv Lyndyloo xx

So I'll have to do it in bits soz...

CLP- please try to understand that us girlies don't always need a solution to a problem just a friendly ear to listen to it. Saying that it's not good news if the po/beau is the only topic of her converstaion.

I have to agree with some of the other bloggers here and say it must be hard for her to see you & Tash getting on with all the things she wants so badly.

Secondly
Bloggers in relationships: it's very easy to say how all of us singles should just lighten up and get on with living and how much easier being single is...

personally I have a great single life, have a fab social network, loads of friends both single and married and dating etc etc but I'd love to find a partner to share my life, I'd love to have a baby, I often contemplate another bear...

I just go through my life having as good a time as I can manage. That doesn't mean that I don't sometimes crave the coupledom life that some of my friends have and sometimes find my own solitude the most wonderful thing on the planet.

007: yes, I agree, it makes you very wary. Once the trust is gone, in any relationship, it takes a very long before you can let people in again.

I am not exaggerating when I say to you that the best thing that has happened to me in many years is this blog. Through it, I have met Amanda and Mary - between them, I have discovered that is wonderful to have friends again!

C xx

That's it... thank you for your patience... Luv Lyndyloo & Booboo xx

Hey Lindy Loo, this is like that bit in Love Actually where he reveals his speech, page by page, to Kiera "I look quite pretty" Knightly. Riveting!

A x

Sorry Lyndyloo: I interrupted you!!

xx

Sorry if I went on a bit {{{blush}}} xxx

ps. yes always tell friends if they have smelly breath... it's only polite to do so... after all they might have no idea!! xx

Lyndyloo (sorry I spelt it wrong) I was serious! It was a real page turner, and beautifully put!

A x

Thanks ChrissieS.... I have not made any contact with this person since despite several attempts on their part to rekindle our "friendship".... Once bitten and all......

Lyndyloo, also, I found your comments yesterday about your dad very moving. I lost my dad this year and he was very funny. He has to leave school and work at 14 (! ) and he never got a single qualification but, like yours, he had so many "understated talents", and gave us so much. He was so proud to see us off to university etc.

A x

Ahhh Boleyngirl- thanks for that... it's always good to reminisce about my Dad and I know he'd only want me to be with someone who made me happy :)) xx

Evening all.

So it seems that Monday to Wednesday the blog shall be all but a blur to me. It seems that at work I can't get in here if more that 100 posts.

I don't know if I would be able to tell a friend that they had bad breath because I would be worried about upsetting them. Does that make me a wimp?

Tinsel, bread update. Limited edition Hot Cross Bun Loaf. Very nice, but I don't see the point. If you want a hot cross bun, you buy a hot cross bun.

One of 'The Family' are down to visit tomorrow. Mr 'W' the Managing Director. Cue lots of very busy, and stressed smurfs at work today. To the point that 'words' were had in my office between a few today. Very uncomfortable.

And tomorrow I have to do an analysis of some Health and Safety survey results. Not done anything like it before. Not sure where to start and trying not to let those stupid insecurities set in. Bugger.

Off to give the 5 year old a shower now, back later.

Debbie x

PS: Cheryl, seafood lasagne here tonight. Did I make it? No ;-)

Opted to wait in the end.

See, four weeks tomorrow we are off to the sunshine and seawater, sun and lashings of suncream are not particularly good for a newly healed piece of body art.

So, I'm going to book in the day we fly back.

I missed the discussions on the subject over the weekend, but, as a few said, it is a personal thing that some get, some don't.

Apart from a pierced ear when I was 15 (think mid-eighties, hair-metal, in a band. Need I go on?) I really don't get pierced, ahem, 'body parts'. No sir.

Mind you, given my track record with needles - almost fainting at the thought of a blood test - how I have survived any inking at all is a miracle.

Tally ho.

Peace etc

MfR

PS David Vine. Legend. RIP.

evans your blog was put on when you got up was it?

killers luck warm hit

LOL boleyngirl .....

cruise. not cruit. love typos tho - totally change the meaning of something innocent!

MfR - wise to wait! new tatts and sunshine .... noooooooooooooooooo!

too ouchey to contemplate!

dinner ready already

x x x

now playing this up to the news brighting up all the drivetimers

CtD.

(And any other rockers in the house).

Just finished 'Watch You Bleed', another G 'n R biog. It is worth a read, albeit simply a variation on a well worn tale, but it does seem to rely heavily on third hand information and, at times, plain speculation. But hey, it was written by the guy who penned Hammer of the Gods - the Led Zep 'unauthorised' story, which in itself is worth a read. Just remember to take a large pinch of salt with it.

So I'm now just about to launch into When Giants Walked The Earth. No, not a potted history of dinosaur existence, yep, you've guessed it, another rock biog. This time Led Zep again.

So. On the subject, best rock biogs?

(I'm sure we've done this before, so apologies for repetition and tedium)

Careless Love/Last Train to Memphis - Peter Guralnick. The definitive Elvis tomes.

The Dirt/Heroin Diaries - Motley Crue/Nikki Sixx. Why would you do that? Want to know what?, read and find out. Don't lend either to your mum though.

Eric Clapton, the autobiography. My new mate from the petrol station tells all. And drinks everything in sight along the way.

Slash - by Slash. Probably the best G 'n R book by someone who was there. Even if he can barely remember anything that happened.

Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis. The RHCP story. This was a real surprise. Well written by someone who barely deserves to be still alive.

Morrissey and Marr The Severed Alliance. Moz may not be fond of the author, Johnny Rogan, but the story is gripping as the egos inflate.

Sinatra The Life. There are probably hundreds of books about 'ol blue eyes, but I chanced upon this one on holiday and found it fascinating.

Walk This Way. The Aerosmith story by our friend Stephen Davis of Watch You Bleed and Hammer of the Gods fame. A bit of a corker this one, if only for the gargantuan drugs intake by Tyler and Perry, who somewhat unsurprisingly obtained the nickname 'The Toxic Twins'.

So there you have it. My authoritative guide on what to read if rock and pop is your religion.

Off to push record for 24 - for the first time we have caught up with Jack having trawled through the DVDs - and watch our mates shout alot about 'EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD FOOD!!!!!'

Love

MfR

PS Charlie don't surf.

jaguar now bring out 2 new cars xfr and xkr.sat in the garage with the doors open drinking with my mate paul .standing on the jags doorstep with the drinks on the roof 19million candle light tourch .ran out of vodka paul said to me lets go to the shop .............sat in the car moved it out of the garage a short drive of a 18 feet to step out and walk the rest of the way. drive was short yet seemed to take ages.returned back to the jag with a larger vodka bottle drove back inn the garage music ,torch on now cups filling up .first trip to the tollet so backing out jag crack someting under the wheel.whot was it ....................
fixed it somehow and i really dont know how this happened #the cover of the mirror had scaped agianst a trye #pissed in the bucket drove back in paul put in the palm of my left hand some hand wash smelt fresh .
night carry'd on a guy turned up knows x-bow just come back from his night out kept looking at the car ,we wre having plentyful amount of fun vodka ran out 12:30hrs went to asam 's indian returned with a bells wisky knew this was going to be the killer but reached a stage where i was nt bothered about leaving
checked the car sunday morning and can conform wisky was spilt on the seat and smelt the drinks on he roof however when 1 gets knocked over it runs down the windsceen or the drains around the doors this in all makes it perfect bar,club,if i was rio id move the farrari he crashed last week into the garage and call his mates round to wet the babies head

Crumbs.

I'll have one of whatever he's drinking.

Actually I won't. I'm on Day 12 and going great guns.

Thinking about it, I'd advise against having one of whatever he's on.

MfR.

LOL Matt - you're on form tonight!

Scar Tissue was an amazing book. Definitely one of my favourite books ever.

Really.

I've got a couple of music biogs on the shelf awaiting my attention - namely Lennon by Philip Norman (thanks Tiggs xx), also got one on Dean Martin and one on Sammy Davis Jnr. Hopefully 2 weeks on a Greek Island around July time will see them read, and me probably red!


Deb - I love the mental image of loads of panicky smurfs running around - hilarious!

And have self-belief: remember our chats last week ...

And also Deb, I felt oh so guilty this morning. Almost as if I'd been infaithful to you .... there was none of "your" bread in the supermarket so I had to buy a load from a competitor!!! I'm so sorry!

;-)

Chezza x x