*Stop The Cavalry* It's The 2014 Christmas Chatter Thread

fluffysox

Florenceem wrote: »

My Late Fil was asked what he wanted with some kippers - he said custard - exactly what he got dished up!

That reminds me of my dear (late) godfather. He would pick me up from nursery school at lunch time every day and I would ask what's for lunch. The answer was always "Kippers and custard". Always made me laugh.

freespirit66

Evening everyone, hope you have all had a good weekend

RUTH OMG i should write down the titles as well, i have a memory like a sieve and its getting worse! Glad the day wasnt so sad for you thankyou quite a few people on here have said it really helps. My top 10 movies were:
GREASE
DIRTY DANCING
ELF
TOY STORY
SNOW DOGS
QUADROPHENIA
NATIONAL LAMPOONS CHRISTMAS VACATION
HARRY POTTER FILMS
EAST IS EAST
ALIG IN DA HOUSE
these are films i just watch over and over again and they still make me laugh or feel good. Oh that sounds good a week of musicals, i havent seen Rock of Ages yet (the film) i cant make my mind up about it.

FLUFFYSOX oh your bouquet sounds beautiful you lucky lady, oh DS sounds so cute, love the squiggles and then blowing kisses :rotfl: Isnt Jamesons expensive i like it in coffee to make an irish coffee but this xmas i didnt bother i never saw it on offer once.

BETASAM oh that was a near miss with neighbours shed, glad it didnt smash the window, oh no not your car as well the little gits! Have they actually smashed a window on that as well now? Oh so that is alright then if they are from a nice family :mad:
Hopefully now they have had a visit from the police they wont bother you again! Good job on the present wrapping

FEISTY sending DH lots of good luck for starting back at work tomorrow, hope it goes well for him x

OMO in my house i cook 'whatever' a few times a week :rotfl:

FLUFFYSOX/FLORENCEEM that reminded me of my dear old nan, if you asked what was for dinner her only reply ever was Sh*t and Sugar :rotfl:i dont know where the saying came from, she was so cheeky

TODAYS CHALLENGE
Feelings will pass. Depression feels permanent, but its transient. Things will change. Depression comes and goes. Depression and pain distort our thinking. Everything looks different to how it really is. Thoughts are thoughts, not necessarily how things are, although it certainly feels the thoughts are true

1. Complete the daily sudoku challenge
2. Complete the daily record sheet
3. Bake for the Sunday Baking Club
4. The weekly weigh-in

pixtotts

I don't feel like writing proper sentences it seems this morning...
The tree men are back
As is the phone signal at last!! only 1 bar but I'll take what I can get
I have found the prettiest of dresses, but its neoprene so I have no chance in hell of wearing one... but I am tempted to buy one in a smaller size and go on a mission to fit into it for my friends wedding
x

mrs-moneypenny

morning all
hugs to everyone, hope no one suffered too much damage in the storms
and you are all well

had a busy weekend Dh mended the dyson (sucky tube had a couple of splits in but we had a spare in the attic)
had a good blitz of the house and then treated my self to some cross stitch time.
friday had a lovely meal at home with a bottle and a dvd obsessed beyonce was in it it was very good.
saturday DD3 and her fella came round to watch captain philips with us - really good film would recommend it. DS2 spend the day at a knitting museum with his scouts pack he loved it and came home with a 10 foot long scarf he'd knitted on a machine!
sunday DD2 an her fella came round for dinner then we watched deep blue sea.

boys are still in bed (DS1 has the week off on holiday as hes got a few things planned this week) its half term this week so no work for me either
just started drizzling so going bring in the hopefully dry washing and put the kettle on - anyone else want a cuppa?

Betsie2010

I'm up for a cuppa.... trying to pass on the biccies tho

Ruth_honey

fluffysox wrote: »

Favourite films.
Not in any order but I like:
Stardust
Dirty Dancing
Mamma Mia
Practical Magic
Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit
Harry Potter series
The Notebook
Love Actually
Much Ado about Nothing
Labyrinth (my little boy is loving this atm too)
Mary Poppins
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Matilda
I am fond of My Fair Lady as my year did it as our school production when we were all just 14, lovely memories :-)
Love several Christmas films too of course

Labyrinth is up there in my faves too. No idea how many times I've watched it now!

freespirit66 wrote: »

Evening everyone, hope you have all had a good weekend

RUTH OMG i should write down the titles as well, i have a memory like a sieve and its getting worse! Glad the day wasnt so sad for you thankyou quite a few people on here have said it really helps. My top 10 movies were:
GREASE
DIRTY DANCING
ELF
TOY STORY
SNOW DOGS
QUADROPHENIA
NATIONAL LAMPOONS CHRISTMAS VACATION
HARRY POTTER FILMS
EAST IS EAST
ALIG IN DA HOUSE
these are films i just watch over and over again and they still make me laugh or feel good. Oh that sounds good a week of musicals, i havent seen Rock of Ages yet (the film) i cant make my mind up about it.

Rock of Ages was ok. Nothing special, and not as good as the show.

My top 10 films (subject to change in the future!!!)
Labyrinth
Dirty Dancing
Thelma and Louise
Pretty Woman
Mermaids
How to make an American quilt
The Holiday
Love Actually
The blind side
PS-I love you

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

morning all
hugs to everyone, hope no one suffered too much damage in the storms
and you are all well

had a busy weekend Dh mended the dyson (sucky tube had a couple of splits in but we had a spare in the attic)
had a good blitz of the house and then treated my self to some cross stitch time.
friday had a lovely meal at home with a bottle and a dvd obsessed beyonce was in it it was very good.
saturday DD3 and her fella came round to watch captain philips with us - really good film would recommend it. DS2 spend the day at a knitting museum with his scouts pack he loved it and came home with a 10 foot long scarf he'd knitted on a machine!
sunday DD2 an her fella came round for dinner then we watched deep blue sea.

boys are still in bed (DS1 has the week off on holiday as hes got a few things planned this week) its half term this week so no work for me either
just started drizzling so going bring in the hopefully dry washing and put the kettle on - anyone else want a cuppa?

I'll have one, please. And one of those 37 calorie brownies if anyones got any left...

I watched Captain Philips over the weekend too. Very good film. Tom Hanks is such a great actor.

Went to the bike show at the Excel yesterday. I'm not going again. :mad: We had press passes as hubby runs a motorbike website and also writes P/T for a magazine. Never been treated so poorly by the staff there and we've been going for years. On the plus side, I've got a lovely new helmet. I want to keep my old one (pale blue with flowers and butterflies on) but I've had it a while and you do need to replace them every now and then. I was tempted by a black and red matt effect one for £90, but then found a cute pink one with a bit of blue glitter for £50, so I got that instead. Totally clashes with my red/cream bike, but never mind.

Not got much done so far today. I always find that Mondays are like that. I can't seem to get going.

picnmix

Hello my luvlies, Happy New Year - somewhat belated I grant you and can't believe where the time has gone, haven't managed to get on since Xmas!!!

Have not read back but will try to catch up on recent events, but believe it or not this is my first opportunity to sit down. Mainly due to the bad weather and storms we have had here in the South West, have lost and had replaced half of our roof - not the start to year we wanted, but hey ho, no-one was hurt and possessions can be replaced, however you don't realise how many sentimental items you keep in your loft that can't really be replaced. That has been the hard thing to deal with.

We had a good Xmas, in-laws came and went and I have to admit to get through it I did have a 10 o'clock (am) drink every day, hope they didn't realise!

Didn't get out to buy anything in the sales so no paper, cards etc and the stock pile that I had from previous years along with pressies was - yep you guessed it - in the loft!

Will get onto trying to catch up hope everyone is well and hoping that life is going to start getting back to normal now. Take care and big hugs x

mrs-moneypenny

picmix so sorry to hear what a bad start to the year you had, i really hope things improve for you and the rest of the year is good

blue_eyed_girl

picnmix - hope your luck is changing now and you don't suffer any more damage.

Mrs M. - picked up First Phone Call From Heaven this morning from library so I will let you know how I get on. Wondered about ordering Book Thief but I don't seem to get much time to read these days and thought that one might be a bit heavier going. Have put the kindle app on lappy but haven't tried it out yet - I like to sprawl out when reading and this might be a bit awkward with lappy.

Feisty - hope Mr F gets on well at work and doesn't overdo things. You will both have to have a lovely relaxing evening with your feet up.

Take care everyone

b_e_g

freespirit66

Afternoon everyone,

pixtotts wrote: »

I don't feel like writing proper sentences it seems this morning...
The tree men are back

I keep thinking of the diet coke advert when i think of you and your tree men :rotfl:

Ruth_honey wrote: »

Went to the bike show at the Excel yesterday. I'm not going again. :mad: We had press passes as hubby runs a motorbike website and also writes P/T for a magazine. Never been treated so poorly by the staff there and we've been going for years. On the plus side, I've got a lovely new helmet. I want to keep my old one (pale blue with flowers and butterflies on) but I've had it a while and you do need to replace them every now and then. I was tempted by a black and red matt effect one for £90, but then found a cute pink one with a bit of blue glitter for £50, so I got that instead. Totally clashes with my red/cream bike, but never mind.

Oh RUTH what a shame you had a bad experience with staff at the excel, you ought to complain my lovely if you have been going for a long time, oh i like all those films on your top 10

picnmix wrote: »

Hello my luvlies, Happy New Year - somewhat belated I grant you and can't believe where the time has gone, haven't managed to get on since Xmas!!!
Have not read back but will try to catch up on recent events, but believe it or not this is my first opportunity to sit down. Mainly due to the bad weather and storms we have had here in the South West, have lost and had replaced half of our roof - not the start to year we wanted, but hey ho, no-one was hurt and possessions can be replaced, however you don't realise how many sentimental items you keep in your loft that can't really be replaced. That has been the hard thing to deal with.
We had a good Xmas, in-laws came and went and I have to admit to get through it I did have a 10 o'clock (am) drink every day, hope they didn't realise!
Didn't get out to buy anything in the sales so no paper, cards etc and the stock pile that I had from previous years along with pressies was - yep you guessed it - in the loft!
Will get onto trying to catch up hope everyone is well and hoping that life is going to start getting back to normal now. Take care and big hugs x

Oh PICNMIX what a horrid start to the new year, im so sorry you have had such a tough time, lovely to see you back on here

NANAMIA i didnt realise Idris Elba was in the Mandela film until just doing nectarads and it came on, oh i want to see it even more now i love him