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  • Spirit_2
    Spirit_2 Posts: 5,546 Forumite
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    I've got a black tie dinner at one of the Inns of Court next month - a Chambers do, being held in one of hte Inns, and a 3-line whip in Chambers.

    Very few of my posh frocks will make it round me by then (I'll be just over 6 months pregnant) so I'm in jewellery design mode, to try to distract attention from the fact that I'm going to be stretching an evening dress far more than it was ever intended to stretch (-:

    No way I'm spending silly money on either a maternity dress, or a bigger size dress, neither of which I'll get more wear out of. So stretch phase 8 dress and bling it'll have to be!

    NDG - what size would be bigger than what you have?
  • lemonjelly
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    Just saw Robert Preston on the news......

    What's happened? He looks twenty years older, very thin. And kinda less geeky?
    His wife passed away...:(
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • Nikkster
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    <soothing stroke for Nik>

    Thanks NDG.

    The nitty gritty will definitely pass, but I think it has shown the ugly side of a few people which probably always lurks.

    I just don't understand why everyone can't just play nicely. Such is life.

    I think I could do with the evenings hurrying up and getting lighter too.Though I did have a good 'coo' over a gorgeous little baby this morning. That helped a lot :)
  • lostinrates
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    lemonjelly wrote: »
    His wife passed away...:(

    Oh !!!!!!. I'll have to ask DH if 'we' knew this

    He's a ex student of fil, (as in personal tutor rather than some one he lectured. he tends to keep close links with many of them )
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    lostinrates wrote: »
    Do you have a friend who is a size up and has a dress you can borrow?

    Sadly, no. All my close friends are smaller or the same size, and my sisters are a size 8, so that definitely doesn't help!
    Spirit wrote: »
    NDG - what size would be bigger than what you have?

    18.

    Instead of just moaning about it, I decided to try the dress on, and at the moment it looks fine (OH says). I look obviously pregnant, but not ridiculous. And it's only a couple of weeks away, so he reckons it'll be fine. I'll still go for some extra bling, though, to be on the safe side!

    It's a dress a bit like this - long, rather than knee-length, and not the same colour, but similar in terms of the tapework over an underdress:

    http://www.phase-eight.co.uk/fcp/product/phase-eight//Paloma-Tapework-Full-Length-Dress/202155351
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Nikkster
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    Oh !!!!!!. I'll have to ask DH if 'we' knew this

    I think she passed away a couple of years ago.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Nikkster wrote: »
    Thanks NDG.

    The nitty gritty will definitely pass, but I think it has shown the ugly side of a few people which probably always lurks.

    I just don't understand why everyone can't just play nicely. Such is life.

    I think I could do with the evenings hurrying up and getting lighter too.Though I did have a good 'coo' over a gorgeous little baby this morning. That helped a lot :)

    I agree, it seems to have been dark and gloomy and raining forever. A bit of cold-and-sunny weather would at least help a bit, until the days lengthen some more!

    I don't get why people waste their time and energy on office politics - but I think you have to try to let them get on with it, and not to allow it to get you down?
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    I think she passed away a couple of years ago.

    Oh, 'we' (as in fil) probably knew then. If I knew I have forgotten. !!!!!!. This is why I have to be so careful. Just as I think I am getting better for memory I'm not sure now........:o:o:o

    Oh well, not likely to run in to him buying chicken feed, and he wouldn't know me even if I knew him and said hi I'm rates senior's dil. :rotfl:
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Have you found FIR yet, LIR?

    Are your remaining chickens recovered from their horrible day?
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Have you found FIR yet, LIR?

    Are your remaining chickens recovered from their horrible day?

    Yes, I'll be leaving to get him in not too long. :).


    The millefleurs won't go out unless I'm there ...I mean out of the house, they won't even potter in the run. They are very sensitive girls! So I spend twent mins first thing with them, which is al they'd do if the were broody. The other little brown hen ( millefleur cross silky) is totally fearless, flies around the garden like a pigeon.

    Shame she won't lay. She's unhandleable, quite feral. I kind of a ire that in her. :o:D
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