Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

Lemon_Tree

Cheery i think i'm going to face my nemisis tonight and go online bra shopping. Wish me luck!

Cheery_Daff

Do it LT :j :j :j :j Have you been measured properly?? Hope so Enjoy it

EssexHebridean

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

hope the wind settles down soon Pippi, not nice if you have to be tied down when you go outside.

Thanks for all the advice on how to get to stripey land, one day we will make it, i just love the idea of going via the sleeper train, though i'd already started panicking that i wouldn't sleep, the bed would break, do i put night clothes on etc so i'm sure it wouldn't be a good idea for my sanity.

OK, in order, you would, although you'd wake up a few times undoubtedly, and there is the odd point in the journey when the train goes round a sharp corner when you wake to find yourself sliding gently down the bed......! If the beds on the sleeper can take MrEH (6'1" and built like a rugby second row....which is handy as that's the position he plays!) then I feel they will have no problem with you. And yes to the night clothes - although probably better if they are of the sturdy pyjama-y persuasion rather than anything too alluring! The sleeper is FAB, everyone should travel north via that route at least once - preferably more as it is a truly excellent adventure! (Don't know if they still do, but Scotrail used to leave a little purple nylon bag with a toothbrush, muslin cloth type flannel, soap and toothpaste (and a sort of mini bathmat thing IIRC) on each berth - we still have several of them with many of the component bits in use - the flannels are now my regular travel flannels as they pack so small!! )

Glad your wind has dropped a bit Stripes - I'm not at all sure you haven't sent some of it down here though! What's up with the TV? Just no signal? Or has the aerial had it?

lucielle

Thanks Stripes, you can have the wind and sideways rain back. Been slaloming (sp) my way into work avoiding the debris. Have a good weekend.
L

gallygirl

2 fence posts down here

Kittikins

Dr Cheery - hope the champers was like nectar

Yay, feeling all bubbly (excuse the pun) and chirpy this morning, even though DD has been doing her little starfish impression in my bed again, snoring like a kitten and whimpering a bit as I think she has a big tooth breaking through at the back (doesn't bode well for someone else being able to share my boudoir in the reasonably near future...hmm!).

My dinner was scrumptious and thankfully ended up costing only £30, yay Had great chats, not too much wine and got a lift home so didn't have to get blown around the village.

Pippilongstocking

All this talk of exciting train journeys I went on the sleeper when I was little loved it.

Uni (()), cheery well done! EH now I'm wondering if they do those bags too. We have freesat I think the aerial has been moved or damaged ......

L - sorry to hear you have our weather, if it's any consolation it's still here.

Today - OH gone sooth, rather him than me on that boat
Meal plan
Eggs to drop off - sold 4 doz this week (£8)
Hens to clean out
Work to do
Need plan a journey to north England see lovely but v poorly rellie (adopted mum)
Ds to dentist
Drop off a mattress to local recycling place
Tidy up!!
Talk to lovely german lodger about visit
Banks to check
Cc to pay something too
Update spreadsheet
Go through fridge inspired by troglodyte to find wonderius treats?!?
Make some soup
Fantasise about seeds
Check couple websites

Lying in bed with cup coffee - how lazy!!

Hope you are ok bit flat here think it's just the time of year and oh going home from his holiday

Pippilongstocking

Galley girl I hope you ok! Xx dunno what damage here - not looked yet.......

Kk - introducing new bedfellows takes a bit of subdefuge - you'll get there my kids were 6&7 when I started seeing OH we had a lot of adventures camping indoors and alike altogether until it was normal he was about more and stuff - xx hope tooth ok xxx yay to nice dinners and not being blown about.

Kittikins

(((hugs))) Pippi, know what you mean about the time of year, glad I've got MrA to take my mind of my traditional SAD feelings

Dating was much easier when she was tiny.....!!

Pippilongstocking

Kk - excuse the introspective ramble - xx For years I did my dating when kids at dads. I kept penguin chops and kids very separate, was a bit weird and didn't quite work.

Only with this mr stripes did I think ok you want into this life here it is with bells on. Oddly it kind of worked our 'dating' revolved around adventures for all of us and soon enough he was a part of those, then a part of normal adventuring then really a part of furniture. So to speak. We do sneaky nice grown up dating when kids away and a bit of daytime dates when they are at school - somehow it just kind of fell into place.

It will be an adventure for you - star fishes in bed are just adorable!