AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

*faints*

Speaking as someone who has spent a lot of time in homewear departments of late, looking at things I can't afford, like pretty table clothes, and non-mouldy curtains (!!)... you can still buy flannelette-type bedding. As to whether anyone can afford it...

Personallly I get kinda passionate about white percale. Not that I can afford that either.

This is kind of and arrrgggh, but isn't worthy of the scream thread...

I can't find any navy trousers. I also can't find a navy skirt to buy instead of trousers. I've tried M&S, Bon Marche, BHS (including the Wallis and Miss Selfridges bits), New Look, Next, Tesco, Matalan and TK Max. There isn't anywhere else to try locally and I don't want to go all the way to Teesside Park without being certain that I could get some there.

It's so infuriating when you think that something will be really straightforward and it isn't I'm surprised M&S don't have any - I bought a plain navy t-shirt in there recently, so I would have thought it was one of their autumn colours.

A picture has just fallen off the wall!

Nope. M&S had navy jeans (as did some of the other places) but I was after something smarter than that. This year's Autumn colours really aren't convincing me and some places have already switched to winter which really isn't my season. New Look had two styles of navy trousers and I tried them on but they were baggy in weird places. I'm a little bit concerned that I might have to wait until Spring...

Is it me or have the fashions suddenly gone very 80s though? I've been trying to find some pieces to restock my work wardrobe, which is getting a little tatty for smartness (alot of it got swapped into my uni-wardrobe for most of this year) but have been really struggling to find things I like. I'm so very pear shaped that all this billowing drapey stuff hangs around making me look like a blob with legs. I need things that show off my small waist, not hide it! I'm also suffering from being Size 11, or rather 10 on the top and 12 at the bottom. I quite like some of the smart little dresses that are fairly work suitable, but they're either too big at the top, or too tight round the bottom.

Just been listening to (a bit of) the new translation of the Catholic Mass... first thoughts are that it may be more similar to the Latin, but it'll take a while to become habit

Suddenly?! It must be a while since you went clothes shopping! You obviously haven't noticed the baggy / bat-wing jumpers, leggings with skirts, leg warmers, fingerless gloves, bright colours, pointy shoes and skinny jeans that everyone under the age of 25 (or possibly 30?) has been wearing for the last few years! Apparently DMs are back in fasion, too.

Sounds familiar, except I'm bigger on top. It's so frustrating! I use belts quite a lot, like with baggy tops to cinch in my waist a bit and stop me looking like some sort of waddling marshmallow. I like those sorts of dresses too, but need to go up about 2 sizes just to accommodate certain things , and then they end up far too big everywhere else.

I turned into a total hermit during the final year of my degree! Didn't see anything but campus, hotels while at assessment centres, my bedroom and the study for months on end. Since that finished, I've been broke...

But yes, I had noticed the leggings. I just wouldn't be seen dead in them. I'll be opting out of being fashionable for the foreseeable future, I think! (Not that I ever was in the first place, but we can overlook that...)

I wish someone would sort out the pound signs that keep turning into question marks.

It's not just pound signs. I keep having to edit any of my posts that contain the 'K' word (which is one or two ) because I automatically put the accent on the 'a' and the stupid program changes it to a question mark..

Bah!

Well done Mo Farah, but I see that the GB 100m relay team dropped the bat-ON (said in my best Michael Johnson style ) again...

I saw Mo Farah win - brilliant race, and I loved the way the silver medallist Lagat congratulated him - the good sportsmanship in these championships is so good to watch.

But then I had to go out, so missed both the bat-ON incident and the Jamaican victory

Damn and blast! I missed the bat-ON moment *cries*...

It seems to be clippity clop bridge time again.

We need Sol to come back with one of his pictures.

Freddie would have been 65 today. I am not a great fan of 'pop', but his music was utterly brilliant in my humble opinion. Somehow he was able to write pop with all the emotion of the best classical music. What a sad loss to the world.

SB

Have just posted my application + fee for LTCL piano recital dip.

*gulp*

Why do two successive posts in the same thread sometimes get merged into one and sometimes appear separately?

If you post in the same thread twice in a row in 10 minutes, the posts will merge (assuming no-one else has posted in between).

Probably in an attempt to keep post counts down

Car Expert

Hasn't worked

It can be confusing if the same member posts several comments one after another, so merging posts together makes it clearer who is saying what; even if the meaning of what is being said can be lost - if that makes sense?

Post merging also encourages people to think about what they are saying, and to say it in one post, rather than just posting one thing after another.

The post editing function on this forum seems to work forever, (which I like), so it would be easier to edit your previous post rather than adding new ones.

If anything needs fixing around here, it is the inability to post certain characters, such as the pound sign (equally the Euro and Dollar signs), which always show up as '?' Thankfully, apostrophes and inverted commas now seem to work most of the time.

SB

No 1 son has just gone off to secondary school... paws crossed!

I've only done it (I think) when I've been quoting two separate people or making two separate points, so it's not a matter of thinking about what I'm saying to make it more concise; the two comments are discrete.

I agree; when quoting different people it is acceptable to post two or more replies, but I have been on forums where one individual rambles on, sometimes posting five or six times in a row, and that can be confusing.

It doesn't help that the forum in question only allows a very short editing time (three minutes I think), so it is next to impossible to add text to a post.

SB

Half day off work and the house to myself for the first time in 6 and a half weeks!

I managed to play the flute without a small annoying person holding the tuner in front of me complaining that I'm "Sharp enough to be flat!" - and have now settled down to a solid hour of 'autumn cleaning.'

Which is, of course, why I'm hanging around here instead.

Nature abhors a vacuum - and so do I.

Hope he has a good day

Love it!

Good day was had by no 1 son. Looking forward to MY half day next week

My 5 month old Hoover gave up the ghost on Monday. Following a rather unpleasant experience with Hoover customer services I'm about to buy a Sebo as replacement. How sad that until it appears I'm unable to do any vacuuming!

This had me in fits of laughter on my journey to work this morning:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/874733-moose-...s-stuck-in-tree

Post yesterday, 7pm ...

That's a ridiculously late time for letters to arrive Makes our habitual mid-afternoon arrival look almost timely.


I suspect it's all part of a Cunning Plan to move to not having a daily delivery any more, but instead having three times a week or suchlike.

I'm pretty sure we already do. If it arrives before 2pm (on the days there is post) I'm surprised!

I'm also pretty sure there isn't a delivery every day. I find it difficult to believe that a dozen people have not been sent any post for several days in a row.

We are a bit out in the sticks here, but we used to get our mail before 8 am every day. (I am sure Postie had a day job somewhere.) It now arrives mid afternoon. Even Special Delivery doesn't arrive until well after the 13.00 Hrs guarantee.

We often seem to go a day or two without any mail, and then get a shedload, including First Class mail from several days previously. So I suspect our daily delivery is long gone.

SB

Was he talking about Royal Mail post or a forum post?

He was talking about the Royal Mail

Okay. I assumed that someone had posted somthing on here which had annoyed you, and then everyone else was talking about the post that (supposedly) gets delivered through your door.

If it was me I was talking about the Royal Mail (I mentioned Postie, Special Delivery and First Class mail).

I made this post in response to barry-clari, katyjay, Maizie and Czerny who all seemed to be having similar problems/concerns with the Royal Mail.

SB

I posted three packages to myself from the UK a month ago. One was via surface mail so I wasn't expecting it to arrive by now but neither of the other packages has arrived!.

Of course it may not be the RM's fault - the US and local postal services don't seem to be faring much better these days.

I think my forum clock is up the spout. According to the main general music forum page, I last posted at 1.53 this morning! It's only if I got into the thread itself that my post shows as posted at 7.33pm yesterday. I thought at first I must have been sleep-posting The clock on my computer shows the correct time, so how has it gone skewiff ?

Hmmm - just tried to post this and was told the server was too busy. At 7 in the morning?

The day after my post arrived at 7pm, it arrived at 7:30am

Was that RM's way of apologising?

I've just been looking things up on Wikipedia, following my current 'what tune is stuck in your head' tune (Days, Ray Davis) and found that he wrote 'I go to sleep' for the Pretenders, which is one of my favourite Pretenders songs.

(I really should get some work done. Where's the procrastination thread?)

I wonder how many of those with birthdays this week were brought into being during New Year revelry?

OH had a birthday yesterday and no matter how much I jam my fingers in my ears and squeeze my eyes shut I cannot rid myself of the vision.........

My aunt's family all have very close birthdays - mum 9th Sep, dad 14th Sep, daughter 10th Sep, son 17th Aug...

Lots of September birthdays in my family too - myself, both of my parents, my aunt and uncle on my mother's side...

My wife and son have their birthdays between Christmas and New Year, and several younger members of my wife's family have their birthdays on and around New Year.

March Hares, perhaps?

SB