Preparedness for when

lucy_lemon

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

A Pashley Bike LUCY I'm so envious, they are the rolls royces of ladies bicycles, enjoy it pet, you're a lucky lady, Lyn xxx.

Thank you! I'm very excited to pick it up on Sunday. Comes with the basket and everything :j

maryb

Didn't GQ get a Pashley recently? I'd love one if we lived anywhere other than on a 1 in 10 hill - with lots of other hills around. But looking at where you live, Lucy, I think you probably have a few hills of your own??

lucy_lemon

maryb wrote: »

Didn't GQ get a Pashley recently? I'd love one if we lived anywhere other than on a 1 in 10 hill - with lots of other hills around. But looking at where you live, Lucy, I think you probably have a few hills of your own??

Yes, we do! Luckily I live right on the coast, so it's pretty flat here. We're right on National Cycle route 5, so there's proper bike paths too. My parents village is a different matter altogether! It's bad enough trying to walk up their hill, never mind cycle up it!

ALIBOBSY

Phew finally caught up with the thread I think lol. Been busy with nativities, and crimbo stuff, plus I passed the exam for a Leapforce web page evaluator so am trying to bang hours in for that .

Talking about WW2 stuff, DD1 and her class are having a "VE day" today at school. They have been doing about the war and so wanted a day to look at the type of foods they ate and clothes they wore. Will be interesting to see what she thinks of the food when she gets back.

Like their school they do some interesting things. The nativity had free tickets but they do, do a collection for 2 charities. One is a local childrens hospice and the other is a school in Kenya. Basically the school secretary sponsored a child a few years ago, then after a few years her and her OH decided as the kids were grown up they would have a change and fly over at Christmas to see the village where the little girl lived.
Basically they didn't get much in the way of charity from the big charities, but the sponsorship money she had sent was helping the whole village.
She loved the people and the local school there, and now they have lots of ties with our primary from penpals onwards. Each year the money the school raise is taken over personally to the village so you know its getting direct to a group of people who really need it without any corrupt officials or charity managers getting their hands on it.

One year the money bought 3 goats to add to the small community herd the village have. This year it is buying uniforms, pen and paper for the small village school. Whats nice as well is during a time of buy buy buy and consumerism is lovely that the kids are reminded that Christmas is about much more than that.

Felt a bit rough this morning so when I felt slightly better around 10 (after pills and stomach powder lol) I bunged the ingredients for a spag bol sauce in the slow cooker so at least if I felt worse it was an easy "done" tea.

Sooooo glad I did that as feel dizzy and a bit sick now, still I hope if I am sick this week I will be fine over Christmas, no way OH can manage a turkey dinner lol.

Ali x

GreyQueen

:beer: Wow, lucy, great news about the Pashley, you must be totally made up. I know I was when Mum gave her's to me a few months ago. The frame isn't quite the right size for me (I'm 5 inches taller than Mum) but I don't bike long distances on it and I'm not looking a gift Pashley in the mouth.

nuatha, ten hours and thirty-two shops; that's cruelty of a high order. You did well to survive it.

I went shopping after work and came in about 10 mins ago in a right strop. Lucy's happy news, plus the T0blerone and mug of tea are helping to restore me to my normal [STRIKE]insufferable[/STRIKE] ooops, I meant, sunny self. Have just over an hour to make myself fit company for my RL friends.........

Having trolled around the shops after w*rk (am part-timer) I now feel like a mutant. Cos Primarche don't do a band size higher than 38, and they have precious few of them and hide them up on the lowest shelves as if they are something shameful.

I tried one on. I can fit a 38 * band in the same way that an arm fits a blood-pressure cuff. No way is that feasible for more than a few seconds.

So I went to Marcus and Spencius, which should be obliged to cater for my every whim, as a free-born Brit. Only their band sizes stop at 40, they hide them on the lowest shelves, I tried one on and repeat from * above to save my typing fingers.

Hokay, so I ask if they do larger sizes like a 42 or 44? They do some, rather randomly, but they are so hidden that they had to summon a native guide to Lingerie-land (a outer circle of Hell, imho) to unearth them for me.

She couldn't have been lovelier but the 42a and 44s have a minimum cup-size of DD. :wall::wall: Because, obviously, if you have a big rib cage it's not just because you're nearly 6 feet tall and big-boned, it's because you're Rubenesque all over and therefore have mahoosive boobage.

I am apparently the only female in the land with a rangy build and relatively-small rack. And no one is making under-pinnings to fit me because I'm obviously a mutant - arrrrggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

I went to Ev@ns. The assistant was lovely but it seems that if I try on every bra in store it might be possible to get one approximately to fit. With panel-beating, probably. She was a sweetheart but by that point I was a hypo strop-monster on the inside although pleasant on the outside and knew I had to get outta there before I did something I'd regret (crying or screaming in fury being the chief options).

At this point I am considering a diet. I could probably shave my ribcage down from 37" to 35" with a diet of gruel. Which would then, with the +5 formula, see me fit into a 40 band. Only the boobs would shrink too, so the bra would then be redundant. This is beginning to look increasingly attractive as an option, and I say that as a chocolate lover.:rotfl:

Other than that, it's a really big tubi-grip/ a burka/ a coupla elast-o-plasts.

Thank you for sharing this rant. I shall be out all evening so you'll be spared further grim details of how a trip to buy several bras caused me to return with a 4 pinter of milk, a T0blerone and a tension headache.

As you were.

mardatha

Very broad crepe bandage???

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Very broad crepe bandage???

Don't tempt me!

This afternoon's experiences were almost as fun as buying shoes, but at least with shoes, you can cop-out and come back with a pair of trainers.

I just think I'm a bit rubbish at this femininity malarkey. I was 20 inches long at birth, FGS. Is there somewhere I can apply to, so's I can have a special pass in order to be allowed to wear yoga pants and a baggy shirt on all occasions?

Anyone else here prepared to admit that, on receipt of an invitation requiring smart attire, they immediately start to think of excuses not to attend, purely based on wardrobe isshews?

elona

GQ

Could you get fitted at Bravissimo if there is a store you can get to?

Also have a look on the brastop website.

jk0

Poor GQ. Sorry to hear about your bra buying stress. Is it possible to get bras tailor made for a reasonable amount? (A number of firms came up when I googled it.)

Today, I thought I might share another energy saving measure. Now the reason I did this originally was because my freeview box gives me a headache. (Don't ask.)

I needed to arrange it that the freeview box shut off automatically when I was in bed. I found this timeswitch on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Timeguard-TS800B-Compact-Plug--Controller/dp/B0036OXD0G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1386866873&sr=8-2&keywords=timeswitches

If you only put the pegs in the 'off ring', you can switch it on manually, but it will always remember to shut itself off.

Since then it has occured to me that my TV, VCR, & DVD player could all go in a power strip attached to the timeswitch, and then they wouldn't use current when I wasn't viewing. I have also set some extra 'off times' during the day. One after 'Homes Under the Hammer', and one after 'Countdown'.

My items use around 11 Watts when plugged in but switched off, and the timeswitch uses 1.8 watts. Therefore as long as they remain 'unplugged' for over 4 hours per day, I am making a saving.

Actually they are off around 20 hours per day, so save around 64 units a year. At 15p per unit, I paid for the timeswitch in one year.

GreyQueen

Thanks, elona.

Just looked at their sizing guide and they don't have 42s any smaller than a DD. Not sure about whether we have a Bravissimo store here, may check next week. Am too stropped about it to do something tomorrow or on Saturday.

I might want to do something fun like, oh, a root canal filling.