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I am currently halfway through 'Gin, Sunbathing and You' priced at a handy 12p.

I am halfway there already.

am currently reading, local press.

Oops Turned two pages, and there I am at the end.

DWNB

Christoph can you not spell magazine.....!

I'm currently reading birthday cards - cos it's my birthday today - hurrah! More than halfway now though - boo hiss.

jillygoat x

tut tut exercise as well - you must have been blogging fast today....

How's Enzo - no daily instalment?

Hugs to Tinsel and Debbie

Hazel you're cracking me up

It's raining outside :(

CLP man - Whatta coincidence - I bought mens 'ealth mag mesen for the first time about 2 months ago!!!!

Ter get a body like that yer must ave ter spend 2+ 'ours in the gym..

and eat a boring diet... i should know as I see a big resemblance ter meself looking at the front photo....

Joking of course!!!!!

My fav mag waz Shares mag but they've just given it a make over...

and ruined it!!!! It used ter be great but they've totally destroyed it...

Seriously Christophe, je vous crois...and I think we are all secretly be hoping that just once, there may be something just different enough, to warrant buying yet another one the same...I've just put some old magazines in my car...just about a half hour ago...to take to the surgery on the way home...where I shall probably read the same ones...only slightly older...

And I expect I shall buy some new ones at the airport to read on holiday...as well as trying to read the seat pocket version of Sky-Hi or whatever the present publication showing the same cuddly bears and model aeroplanes that were available last year...although I may purchase a small vial of parfum...if they haven't got a scratch-off panel...

just hoping no one has been sick in it
love
hazel
x

It's so dull now. A tell yer there buyer numbers will go down BIG...

Shame as it used ter be so bright for a perhaps dull subject - know what am sayin'!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JILLYGOAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HL - thanks lovey xx

jillygoat x

I normally get put off by the amount of advertisements in magazines. More of them than anything else!

Happy Birthday Jillygoat x

Thanks Pheonix x

Love
Debbie

PS. The Abbey down the road (what is left of it) was the last one to be burned down by Henry VIII apparently. Reading all this is working a treat.

Hi all, hope you don't mind me butting in!

I've just started buying Now magazine - no idea why! Don't really do Big Brother or any of that gubbins, and the whole celebrity thang just baffles me....

Been reading the blog for a few weeks now, having a bit of a bad time of it, and you guys just cheer me up no end!

So thanks,

AF xx

ps happy birthday to you jillygoat x

Happy Birfday Jillygoat! Ah it may well be downhill all the way now, but, as James Taylor once said, once you're on the way down, you might as well enjoy the ride :)
xxx

I bought a magazine at the weekend. The fabulous, frivolous, thrilling... Hair. Oooooh the excitement.... But, I did find a style that I liked, and this morning I went out and got my hair cut. And it don't look half bad! Even I might be able to keep it looking halfway decent.

Hugs to Tinsel and Debbie :)

xxxjeni

Afternoon each

Wish I knew what you're all talking about!!
Happy Birthday Jillygoat. xx

I well remember when my oldest son was a teenager and I was cleaning his bedroom. Under his bed was a load of THOSE magazines. Told his Dad, who had a look and then put them back. V. sensible I thought. He still doesn't know we found him out.

Anne x

Alright, flower! :) This blog does have a way of cheering us up don't it :)
xxxjeni

Hi AF, welcome to the blog and 'but in' any time you like. They are a lovely bunch in here x

Me again

AF: Hope life gets better soon. Welcome to the daftest blog in the world.

Anne x

Ah thanks guys, that's really nice.

Yeeeees, you are all a bit, well, bonkers really aren't you. But only in a good way hee hee

AF x

Happy Birthday Jillygoat!!

I'm a real magazine (with a zeeeee) addict. Anything from celeb weeklies, women's weeklies, speshlist muso mags (Classic Rock is a fave as I'm too old for Kerrang! these days), slimming mags that tell you things you know already ... and when I was learning short-hand all them years ago I even subscribed to a short-hand magazine. It had short-hand crosswords in it - they were fun! Oooh - and I subscribe to a country cooking/gardening mag so we can learn what to do with all that stuff off the allotment. Does Private Eye count as a magazine (with a zeeeeeee)? Mr Diva gets that delivered every ish.

I'd be lost without magazines. And we wouldn't have half as much in our recycling bin!!

Nearly at the end of another working day - it's like a tardis in here. I feel like I've only been here an hour or so but its been nearly 8 hours. Shucks!

Dinner tonight is roast chicken with basil and lemonbalm (from the garden - the herbs, not the chicken), with my self invented cubed spud things and some roasty veggies. Delish!

Hump day tomorrow.

Mange tout, mange tout!

CtD x x

PS: Why do satellite tv channels have so many blinkin' ad breaks, which are twice as long as ads on normal telly and insist on plugging their own flamin' shows every 15 minutes. Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Hi CtD: And I remember the shorthand/typing college. I used to throw my bag into the house screaming 'Im not going back there' I eventually got a grip on it, so how can I not learn French??

Insomniacs: That's me. Perhaps we should have a night-time help line, we could have a chat/on-line discussion about interesting things while we're all up during the night.

Anne x

back to one line posts!

CtD you got a mention!!!! well done x

debs and tinsel hugs ++++++

I am findin this annoying HELP INTERACTIVE IAN!!!!!!

GGGRRRRRR have we all broken the blog??

AAARGH one liners.....

CtD - have met RB and signed a piece of paper 'russell loves catherine x'

Now i'm really cross aaaahhhhhh

Don't really understand what cathmel and bingo are doing to only get a line at a time posted, very strange as I thought that it was so much better now.

I think a magazine is a great thing to read, I would so miss my Easy Living I get every month, it gets posted through the door and I get excited and can't wait to sit down with a nice cup if tea and waste a few hours, lovely!

Happy Birthday jillygoat, and you have got the best half to come now!!

Love Jenn xxx

Nope I'm getting the one-line treatment now too. Bah

Maybe... we're writing too much and the blog thinks it's spam...

Me again

Just bought Woman magazine. Absolute rubbish but good crossword. How sad am I??

Anne x

Ah Christophe Agneau Pie.

Don't start me off on magazines.

These days I only buy the odd one, I'm sick and tired of the spite and bitchiness that accompanies fashion mags these days.

The fashion industry has always been bitchy and ruthless but these days it seems to me they've slumped to a whole new level and frankly, it disgusts me and makes me rather elated I've left it all behind.

I was discussing just this with my lovely bessie mate only last week and she said I should create my own. It will contain only pictures with captions of lovely people, men, women, kids, hey even dogs, cats, ferrets, all shapes and sizes, every colour and age, but the only criteria is that they are real and interesting. I do believe we dress, consciously or otherwise, in a way which expresses our personalities and it's fascinating to observe. Hence my life-long interest in fashion. People on the street are far more interesting than fashion mags.

I'm not meaning stick-insects dressed in designer gear and carrying handbags the size of a sumo wrestler. I mean lovely people in our midst every day. I met a gorgeous one today in a wheelchair who made me laugh like I haven't done for ages; I can't tell you what about but it involved Jaysus and Midnight Mass. He was fab. Also a woman with 6 kids round her who turned out to be her foster kids. She made me fill up, what a heroine. Thank God for people like these, who bloody cares about Paris Hilton's cellulite or Jordan's boobs.

So. CtD. Debbie. And the rest of yous for that matter. Go watch Gok and be thankful yous is glorious.

Ere listen to me. I'll be in the bath later on, starin' at the humungous spot right on the end of me nose and thinkin' I'm a minger.

Bless me.

Clodagh.xx

Clodagh: On behalf of all our ladies: Bless you indeed.

Lots of love from all of us.

Anne xxxxx

I got a mention??? When? Why? Was it good?? I couldn't put the radio on at 5 on account of boss still being there so missed the first half hour - doh!

PLease, please tell me .......

Cathmel - grrrrrrrrrr. I am now green with envy but well done to you!!

CLodagh - I am a goddess with no need for the Gok, although he is FAB!!!

CtD x x x

Just been for a lovely run in the rain. Love to tell you about it, but.......
.....the blog ain't gonna let me........

....'cos I got Bingoitis, and man, it'sa spreadin'.........

Mrs MfR and I realised the other day just how much we were spending on mags....

A small bloomin' fortune. So, we've canned them, with one or two special exceptions. As this is the Beeb I guess I can plug Olive......

...and I've been buying Q since year dot. I even had Mother of MfR shipping them out to me in NZ a few years ago.....

..mind you the writing in there isn't quite the same as when a certain Sir Stuart of Maconie was on the payroll.......

Anyhow. As a fully paid up member of the 'CLP Blog Three', I feel it is my duty to liberate a beer from the fridge.....

MfR: I still buy Q for the nostalgia!

Anne x

Cheers Annie-G!

You can take my blogs, but you'll never take my freedom.

MfR

CtD.

Good girrdl!! Me too. Hurrah.

Even if the ex-hubby did once say if I'd bin a pigeon I'd 'ave 'ad me neck wrung.

I think 'e was meanin' get summat down me neck that 'ad looked over a gate with a nice pie crust on it.

I may be wrong...

hahaha bless 'im.

Clodagh.xx

MfR: And they never have Cliff Richard in Q!!!

Anne x

hope enzo s okay....the sleep guy was great on the show.....chris your impressions are geting better.....rafa and avram very funny....

Love the show. It's Brilliant

Keep it going

Graham, Warrington

www.livehealthybewealthy.com

Clodagh, you are so lovely! I love the way that Gok shows real women although I don't think I could show my bum through a shop window for him!

I thought I shook off this stupid anxiety today but I'm finding it really hard. I love coming here because I know that you guys will make me smile.

I just want to say thank you, and sorry for going on when I know that so many of you have much worse on your plate than me. What on earth do I have to worry about really.

CtD caught up on some posts earlier and tried to think which hotel that I know is near a organic farm shop. Not too sure, we are surrounded by farmland here to be honest.

Must go now and chill
Love
Debbie x x

Chris please, at least, begin to use that dictionary that was, supposedly, on your new desk. Magasine? And invest in a French-English dictionary if you insist on trying to use French. Increable?

Bobby

Debbie

Always come here and tell us how you feel.

It is a great place to find your river.

MfR

Hi Debbie, sorry you're not having such a good day.

For the past few weeks I've been reading the blog, everyone's lovely (including you!) and a lot of them (us?) have issues. But don't think that yours are less important than anyone else's - they're important to you, so they matter.

Sorry, my doctor put it so much better, but I hope you know what I mean :o)

Take care,
AF x

ps I find wine helps greatly with the chilling hahaha

AF x

Well put AF.

You are right about the wine too!

MfR

MfR - is that an REM reference I see before me??

AF xx

Yup.

Probably my favourite REM tune. Helped me come to terms with a friend who chose to leave us. Fab stuff.

MfR

I'm a Nightswimming fan myself. Student days, coming home from Belfast on the coach in the wee hours, nothing but dark Scottish wilderness outside...

The rest of the world could have fallen off the edge and in our little dimly lit cocoon we would never have known.

Then I got a job and now I can fly (damn, these wings sure do get in the way though!).

AF x

Without wishing to dwell too much on this, I find the two songs knit really well together. One about freedom, one about mortality. Or maybe it's just me?

MfR

Hi All

Wot a lot of posts and new people since I was last visiting. I've been stuck in every M6 traffic jam our Sal has been telling us about - so working lots to catch up and missed checking on the blog. Good to see Bingo is back! (Sounding so slinky too with the weight loss!)

Just bin 'n' bought a hair mag to take to the hairdressers on Saturday. Will show him the photos of the hairstyle I want - when he has finished laughing and picked himself off the floor, he'll cut my hair and I will leave with exactly the same style as usual. Why do I do it...........I'm a fool who keeps dreaming!! I think i'm a frustrated Farrah Fawcett Majors ( slightly younger version).

Wimmins minute - Midge Ure, avec hair, one hell of a first poster to have on the wall!! God it takes me back.........I thought it made me more sophisticated than your average 12 year old. Wanted to grow up faster then...........complete opposite of now.

TTFN Folks

LadyP

PS. Happy Birthday Jillygoat.......it ain't over yet!!

PPS.Anyone else disappointed in the death toll in the new midsommer murders. 3!! It used to be 3 in the first five minutes!!!

PPPS. Isn't shenanigans a lovely word!

LP

Debbie lovely, I suffered really badly with anxiety after wee man was born and it does get better but it takes time, I was prescribed medication, which despite my initial reservations (huge ones!) they really did help I also had some sessions with a nice lady who taught me to relax by concentrating on relaxing one part of you at a time, bless you hon, youll get there.
xxxxx

"I love it, I don't know why, I just love it."

You're starting to sound like wor Kevin Keegan there mate!

testing testing testing

CtD - CLP was reading our entries on the blog about posters we had on our walls in our youth - and he read out your post

Hey,
Jilly...... h a p p p y

b i r t h d a y

Is Mine Tomorrow!

betcha, I'm older!

DWNB

DWNB

happy birthday to you
happy birthday to you
happy birthday dear helcruse/dwnb
happy birthday to you (for tomorrow)

x x x

Blimey 6 whole lines in one go!!

Debbie I'm sure you will have a better day tomorrow, things will change and get easier, I know it's not easy living with teenagers (I have had four of them and still got the 16 year old at home) so I understand what you are going through, just try and keep you sense of humour, keep listening to drivetime,and telling us your problems on the blog and you will be fine!!!

love Jenn x

DWNB - happy birthday!!
:O)
xxjeni

Did anyone else in the sussex area get thunder and lightning (very very frightning) last night?

Was all safely tucked up in bed at 11.30pm, eyes closed, when huge blue flash made me open eyes wide thinking, "was that...." CRACK BOOOOOOMMMMMM

Blimey was wide awake again then. Am shattered this morning, although I am pretty sure I slept all night through, which is very unusual for me these days.

Roll on November. I shall be able to join Hazel in reading Gin, Sunbathing and You....

I shall light the fire, pretend to sunbathe,

...and join in the reading while...

...hubby puts baby to bed.

Blimey.

jillygoat and Hel....HAPPY BIRTHDAY x x x

Debbie - your thoughts are no less important than anyone else's, I have found that a quick type on this blog can really help (and boy it does too), keep typing and you know the lovelies on here will help.

AF - welcome aboard, you don't even need to fasten your seatbelt, just enjoy the ride, look forward to reading your posts x

I have to admit to buying FHM most months but I have to say it's getting a bit 'samey' and thinner too?

Well done to ManU last night, you can always rely on a gingembre to save the day!!!!!

Bonnet de douche

KWx

This is really getting on my nerves.

Meanwhile, the rain persists.

Happy Hump Day all.

Nil carborundum etc etc.

xxxjeni

Can I but in too? What happened to the blog yesterday then? I miss reading it for one day and it's all gone mad! One liners and people getting stressed. Let's all chill out, the rain is raining and the sky is grey. At least it's hump day!

So magazines - well i have rediscovered them by going to my local library that lend them out for a week at a time.

So once again I can get my hit of film and music mags (if anyone got the Q magazine with Damon on the front can i have it please?) and wedding magazines which not only are samelty cotradict themselves over what is good and not good - if they don't know how am I meant to know?

always get a girlie glossie when i go on holiday and TLOML likes to get puzzle rags

is the rain going to clear up by the weekend - thats the question as going into London to Dr Who exhibition and my intended's birthday celebrations.

bp x

ps hi to all - missing the great show at the mo due to work - doh

Matt, thank you. Checked out those lyrics before I went to bed, beautiful.

AlrightFlower, so sweet of you and yes I did have a few glasses of wine I'm afraid!

Hey Fairlyoddmother, hope that you are doing ok. I have an appointment with my lady tomorrow, talk about good timing.

Jenniferferfer, four of them! Blimey, I do count Mr Debbie as my third child sometimes though.

Gingembre, thanks as always.

Must force myself to 'be happy' today. Little man has just finished drawing on the cream, leather furniture and wooden floors with a biro however. Must find something to do with him while this weather is dismal.

Love to all
Debbie x

Thought I'd try a different login name, see if that beats the one-line police!

Debbie I hope you do have a better day today, what fun trying to get biro off the sofa :(

I used to buy a supermarket magazine nearly every month, mainly for the recipes. Found some brilliant ones, I've tried my hand at icecream (incredible) and chocolate mousse (soooo rich and yummy) and all sorts of other things that are far too sweet for me. Hopefully I'll find some energy again soon and will be able to get baking again, hubby is missing his weekly dose of fresh bread and I feel like I'm missing out on decent food at the moment! Looking forward to making some yummy soup again.

What to do while the rain falls... I'll keep thinking.

I'll be pretty happy if this goes through :O)

xxxjeni (formerly known as weetomonster)

Morning all, how's everybody diddlin'?

In work, as usual with nothing to do. Ho hum, it's a good job I've got you lot!

No thunder oop north, but the rain was so heavy it woke me up a couple of times. I'm going out on Friday night so I hope to god it goes away before then - the drowned rat look is soooo not me!!

Have a good day,
AF x

ps DWNB, happy birthday - is it a milestone, and have you bought cakes for everyone?

Morning all.

First off - Hello Alright-flower - I love your name!!!

You're absolutely right about problems - everyone's problems are important, just because they're 'big' or 'little' doesn't make them any more difficult to deal with.

DWNB Happy Birthday to you
Jillygoat - Happy Birthday for yesterday
CtD - It was your first poster that got a mention!! Lucky you!!

Clodagh - isn't gok fab??? I cried at the end of the show yesterday, that lady looked so happy and AMAZING!

Have lovely days all
T xxx

Re problems - I meant to say doesn't make them any EASIER to deal with d'oh!!
T xxx

Lotta birthdee's at present... it was me balllet damcers 30th Sundee...

Gingembre's daughter's Mon.... Jillygoat ysterdee - 'appy birthdee JG....

And DWNB terdee - 'appy birthdee DWNB!!! Alotta taureans about......

Debbie your a taurus.... be yours very soon!!!!!

Ukrainian Trip Day 1 - I flew with Alitalia ter Kiev via Rome.. Fisi's 'ome city!!!

Are you the CLP blog official birthday keeper Bingo? If so, mine's in November!!

AF x

Brilliant Airline, all on time, good leg room, baggage not lost...

And cheaper than it's competitors!!!!

Bobby.

Relax mon cheri.

I think you'll find that those of us here on this blog who like a bon larf now and again much prefer le Francais a la Rene Artois to Monsieur Sarkozy.

Besides. I well remember my disastrous French lessons at my grammar school back in the days of the French Revolution, when our teacher, a renowned psychopath with a squint ike a basket of whelks and a terrifyingly accurate aim with the board duster used to declare lividly that her cat could speak better french than us lot; it was the embarassing moments that stick in my mind to tis day and render me undyingly fond of le francais.

And who else had a science teacher whose experiments used to fail on a regular and spectacular basis? I bet yous all remember them and therefore have retained some knowledge.

I also remember when I used to teach myself, demonstrating the art of using an industrial overlocker to a bunch of less than riveted students, when I stitched me finger and remained attatched to said machine by said digit until help arrived. I tell you what. None of my students ever had an accident after that, hurrah.

And on that note. Achtung to anyone using a swing-needle embroidery machine. My friend was biting the thread at the back of the thing, having finished her lovely if pointless creation, with her foot still on the control. Yes, it writes itself. 2 hours in casualty followed while she had the needle rempoved from her lip.

Don't talk to me about body-piercin'.

Ok that's me.

By the way thanks to all of yous for your good wishes to Renee. She's off wit the sisiter today for her meeting with the consultants so fingers crossed.

Clodagh.xx

Only problem I goot mesen inter a BIG mess at security at Rome...